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I think this is an anti-capitalist framing that fails to really engage with intersectional feminism. (Now, please call me out if I'm wrong on this, because I'm still figuring a lot of shit out but...) Racism, misogyny, transphobia, and other forms of bigotry are not distractions that allow capitalist exploitation. They are interlocking systems, of which capitalist exploitation is a part.
The standard framing fails to engage with *what power is.* Impoverishing communities is not the goal. The goal is power. The goal is to create more coercive relationships, which interlock with all the other forms of coercion.
When you understand what the #Epstein class was doing, when you understand the way he specifically leveraged transphobia, misogyny, and economic power *together* as part of his sex trafficking, you realize there's actually something else going on here.
The anti-capitalist framing misses one of the the most important opportunities we have in this moment: the ability to permanently tie this structure to the natural repulsion we all feel towards coercion (especially as it manifests as sexual violence against children).

Scientists warn UK biodiversity report may distort evidence with security framing #UnitedKingdom

Scientists warn UK biodiversity report may distort evidence with security framing
Scientists have warned that a new UK Government report on global biodiversity loss and national security risks distorting evidence and driving ineffective policy by framing ecological degradation and its impacts on migration as a security threat. The report, "Global biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and national security," was published in early 2026 and argues that accelerating biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse pose mounting security threats to the UK.

I won't debate people on conforming with the moral standards set by the far right, because every time a moderate feels the need to condemn a statement that was “inciting violence”, the truth comes out that their so-called violence was a media framing oddly applied to them with a bad-faith reading of their words.

"Encouragement boosts people’s likelihood to take climate action"
#Climate #ClimateChange

Encouragement boosts people’s likelihood to take climate action
Framing climate action as “doing more good” instead of “doing less bad” makes people more willing to act and feel better about it, a study finds.

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US Military Leaders Accused of Framing Iran War as Biblical Mandate, Jesus' 'Return' (Nick Mordowanec/Military and Veteran Benefits ...)
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2026/03/03/military-officers-accused-of-framing-iran-war-biblical-mandate.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260303/p140#a260303p140

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As Christians around the world celebrate Easter Sunday,
we go to Palestine to speak to Reverend Munther Isaac,
pastor of the Lutheran Church in Ramallah and director of the Bethlehem Institute for Peace and Justice,
located in the city of Jesus Christ’s birth.
This year’s Easter preparations come against the backdrop of the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran,
which many Christian nationalists in the U.S., including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth,
are framing in ext…

“Two Versions of Christianity”: Pope Leo Calls for Peace as U.S. Uses Religion to Justify Iran War
As Christians around the world prepare to celebrate Easter Sunday, we go to Palestine to speak to Reverend Munther Isaac, pastor of the Lutheran Church in Ramallah and director of the Bethlehem Institute for Peace and Justice, located in the city of Jesus Christ’s birth. This year’s Easter preparations come against the backdrop of the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran, which many Christian nationalists in the U.S., including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, are framing in extremist religious terms. R…

Here’s some good, humane framing from @…. https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/116019153564097904

“How may the compulsive programmer be distinguished from a merely dedicated, hard-working professional programmer? First, by the fact that the ordinary professional programmer addresses himself to the problem to be solved, whereas the compulsive programmer sees the problem mainly as an opportunity to interact with the computer. The ordinary computer programmer will usually discuss both his substantive and his technical programming problem with others. He will generally do lengthy preparatory work, such as writing and flow diagramming, before beginning work with the computer itself. His sessions with the computer may be comparatively short. He may even let others do the actual console work. He develops his program slowly and systematically. When something doesn't work, he may spend considerable time away from the computer, framing careful hypotheses to account for the malfunction and designing crucial experiments to test them. Again, he may leave the actual running of the computer to others. He is able, while waiting for results from the computer, to attend to other aspects of his work, such as documenting what he has already done. When he has finally composed the program he set out to produce, he is able to complete a sensible description of it and to turn his attention to other things. The professional regards programming as a means toward an end, not as an end in itself. His satisfaction comes from having solved a substantive problem, not from having bent a computer to his will.”
—Joseph Weizenbaum, Computer Power and Human Reason, 1976

I wanna jump one more time on the whole "distraction" framing, because this is a point that needs to be hammered home (and I need a reminder to write something longer).
Attacks on trans youth are not a distraction from other types of coercion, they are central to it. Attacks on trans youth come from a conceptualization of children as property, which is literally patriarchy in the Roman sense of the legal objectification all people who share a household as belonging to a man. This legal structure, Roman slave law, continues to be the root of property rights and therefore the foundation of capitalism.
But colonialism also extends from it through the infantalization of colonized people as a justification for oppression. This can also be turned inward again manifesting as the justification for police (that is, some people "can't handle themselves and need external authority to act right").
The #Epstein stuff isn't some weird thing that rich people get away with, it's core to how wealth works. Money isn't useful by itself, it's a proxy for power. One manifestation of power is being able to violate laws that constrain others (this is the "freedom of the monarch" that Graeber talks about in Dawn of Everything). The war in Iran, especially the threats of nuclear weapons and genocide is not a distraction from the #EpsteinFiles, but rather a manifestation of the same thing.
Power must be demonstrated to affirm that it is real. War is a demonstration power. Violating the law without consequences is a demonstration of power. The most taboo things are using nuclear weapons and child sexual abuse. He has already done one of those, and he is going to do everything he can to do the other.
These are not distractions, these are all manifestations of the underlying thing that we need to fight. But we need to make sure we're fighting it as a single thing. We have to tie these things together, because if we do not then we risk reproducing the same thing again but worse.

RE: https://mastodon.de/@ErikUden/116182689222868454
A liberal is someone who can oppose today's war and support today's civil rights movements, but only by continuing to use the framing, the methods, and still adhering to the morality of our oppressor.

Executives don’t want to just sell juice. They want to empower you with an agentic, customizable, and seamless juice experience.
But no one has stopped to think about what any of that actually means. Before designing a "solution," you need a good, *shared* problem definition. If the beautiful clarity within the design team shatters on contact with any handoff, you didn't finish the job.
Read more in this week's Product Picnic:

Your problem framing is sabotaging your strategy
Skipping to designing the solution before you have adequately designed the problem is not speeding you up, but slowing you down.

1959 was just such a great year for jazz
released in 1960; this is a 1962 mono repress
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We've been out a bit. We hiked up the #wallberg near #tegernsee.
First half was without snow, second half was snowy. But as it is a very frequented route, it wasn't a problem at all. Near the top there were really a lot of people (thanks to the rope way 🚡).
Together with brig…

RE: https://mstdn.social/@watson_news/116016367583077072
Dieses Framing 🙄 Das wollte er schon von Anfang an, er musste nur zuerst die Grundlage dazu herbeiführen

"Personal Knowledge Management is for Life, Not Just for Work"
#PKM

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/116337385332834177
And even this: It's not a _purpose of genAI_, it's a _purpose of using genAI this way_. There are people doing this, and even this framing struggles to keep them in focus because of the effect. It's super effective way to wash accountability.
There's a reason I bang the 'these are tools' drum. Tools have users and operators. There are people with names and addresses who are doing this.

A critique of a large UK social media study that suggested measures like social media bans are unlikely to have an effect on teens' long term mental health (Casey Newton/Platformer)
https://www.platformer.news/social-media-screen-time-manchester-study-haidt/<…

What a big study of teens says about social media — and what it can’t
The “moral panic” framing misses how platforms actually harm kids. PLUS: Newsom investigates TikTok over Trump, and the Clawdbot frenzy

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“Mike Johnson, House Republican extremists, and Donald Trump are why people missed their flights on Saturday.”
https://bsky.app/profile/chrisgeidner.bsky.social/post/3mi6bs2svuk26

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This “lawmakers remain at a stalemate” framing is all over the place and is so bad. While technically accurate, it’s misleading and a disservice to readers. If Senate Rs, Senate Ds, & House Ds agree to something, but House Rs keep that deal from getting to Trump, the framing should reflect that.

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RE: https://todon.eu/@meanmicio/115938212384332293
Heck, I even made a house call to their parliament but I might as well have stayed at home for all the good it did so I wouldn’t hold my breath. It’s not that they don’t know, it’s that their whole framing is t…

@… Der USA droht ein zweites Vietnam? Sie drohen in eine Falle zu laufen?
Das kann nun wirklich niemand wollen. Das schlimmste am Vietnamkrieg, war ja auch, nachdem die US-Armee das Land flächendeckend zerbombt haben, sie trotzdem verloren haben.
Welchen Knoten im Kopf muss man eigentlich für so ein Framing haben

Selbst wenn so eine Frage rhetorisch gemeint sein sollte - was sie hier nicht ist - beinhaltet dieses Framing "vielleicht hat Trump ja doch an einigen Punkten Recht. Das nehmen wir für uns zum Anlass zur eigenen Recherche." eine massive Normalisierung des Absurden und Gefährlichen, die hier ohne Not vollzogen wird.
Jemanden, der permanent lügt und offensichtliche Fakten zu seinem eigenen Vorteil frech wegleugnet, kann man nicht mit "Hat er recht?" zum Aufhänger eine…

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"When every student in a class processes information through the same language model, they are learning to reason through the same system. This introduces a new threat vector on the developing mind.
The model's statistical biases become the student's default framing. The model's reasoning structure becomes the student's reasoning structure. LLMs homogenize not just language but also perspective and reasoning strategies. "

Adults Lose Skills to AI. Children Never Build Them.
Discussions of cognitive offloading often miss a critical distinction: What AI does to a 45-year-old's brain is categorically different from what it does to a 14-year-old's.

Enjoying the framing of Le Carré's Agent Running in the Field, where it's clear from the beginning that the main character has already confessed his sins to 'the Office'.
I did pause reading once I saw how it might all end in calamity, but I'm glad I picked it back up #Bookstodon #LeCarré #AmReading

"Politische, öffentlich ausgetragene, ausgewogene Diskussionen in sozialen Medien sind heute weitgehend unmöglich. Es besteht jederzeit die Gefahr, dass solche Debatten von gut organisierten Aktivisten gekapert und durch massenhaftes, systematisches Framing thematisch beherrscht werden. Als einzelner dagegen anzudiskutieren ist sinn- und wirkungslos."
Wie man Social Media kapert und Kommunikation zerstört | @…

Wie man Social Media kapert und Kommunikation zerstört
Im Kommunalwahlkampf brennt ein Wahlplakat. Was dann auf Facebook passiert, ist interessant. Ein Lehrstück über die Unmöglichkeit politischer Debatten im virtuellen Raum …

Mohammad Javad Zarif’s new Foreign Affairs essay is being read as a peace overture.
It is better understood as an attempt to convert Iran’s battlefield losses into a narrow U.S.-Iran bargain:
nuclear limits and maritime access in exchange for sanctions relief and regional reintegration.
Beneath the triumphalist framing lies an offer to cap enrichment below 3.67 percent, ratify the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Additional Protocol, transfer all enriched material to…

How Iran Should End the War
A deal Tehran could take.

I’m a bit concerned that the OP’s framing takes scenario 1 as a given (or at least is likely to be understood that way). The history of the current AI bubble is full of warnings about AI that are secretly •advertisements• for AI, and I want to be careful not to fall into that trap.
(I doubt that’s the OP’s intent! But regardless of intent, it’s a danger, something to watch out for.)
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Medienkompetenz ist wichtig, da Parteien wie die AfD sich immer gegen Ereignisse positionieren und in jeder Darstellung ihre Ansicht als selbstverständlich, rational, oder normal darstellen, anders als alle anderen welche „ideologisch” oder „politisch” sind. Die AfD doch niemals!
Dabei haben sie über ihr Framing diese unreale Situation lediglich erst geschaffen, um sich dann über ihre selbst konstruierte Welt aufzuregen.
In ihrer öffentlich ausgetragenen Wut wird demnach nicht…

Hierarchy and Egality in South Asian Traditions
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Hierarchy and Egality in South Asian Traditions
What roles do ‘hierarchy’ and ‘egality’, as values and practices, play in the everyday lives of South Asian traditions? Hierarchy as a value in the social life of Hinduism has been much discussed. Scholarship has tended to contrast a transhistorical Hindu hierarchy with egalitarian elements of Muslim, Christian, Buddhist and Sikh thought in South Asia, framing ubiquitous caste-like social forms among the latter traditions as anomalous. Yet careful studies of everyday life in the religio…

Framing the Possibility Space for Technosignature Searches
Jacob Haqq-Misra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.17741 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.17741

Gestern eine Doku über die 70er gesehen und mich an die Angst der Zivilbevölkerung erinnert. Seitdem verstehe ich wieder noch weniger, warum #linksextreme Gewalt so verharmlost wird.
Aber ich ahne, warum gerade junge Menschen, die dank unserer "sendungsbewussten" Journalisten und der vielen Schulausfällen wieder vermehrt auf dieses Framing hereinfallen.
Die RAF ist u…

Hierarchy and Egality in South Asian Traditions https://relcfp.com/cfp/religion/south-asia/2026/02/18/hierarchy-egality-south-asia/

Hierarchy and Egality in South Asian Traditions
What roles do ‘hierarchy’ and ‘egality’, as values and practices, play in the everyday lives of South Asian traditions? Hierarchy as a value in the social life of Hinduism has been much discussed. Scholarship has tended to contrast a transhistorical Hindu hierarchy with egalitarian elements of Muslim, Christian, Buddhist and Sikh thought in South Asia, framing ubiquitous caste-like social forms among the latter traditions as anomalous. Yet careful studies of everyday life in the religio…

Hierarchy and Egality in South Asian Traditions https://relcfp.com/cfp/religion/south-asia/2026/02/18/hierarchy-egality-south-asia/

Hierarchy and Egality in South Asian Traditions
What roles do ‘hierarchy’ and ‘egality’, as values and practices, play in the everyday lives of South Asian traditions? Hierarchy as a value in the social life of Hinduism has been much discussed. Scholarship has tended to contrast a transhistorical Hindu hierarchy with egalitarian elements of Muslim, Christian, Buddhist and Sikh thought in South Asia, framing ubiquitous caste-like social forms among the latter traditions as anomalous. Yet careful studies of everyday life in the religio…

Hierarchy and Egality in South Asian Traditions #acrel #Religidons #AARSBL

Hierarchy and Egality in South Asian Traditions
What roles do ‘hierarchy’ and ‘egality’, as values and practices, play in the everyday lives of South Asian traditions? Hierarchy as a value in the social life of Hinduism has been much discussed. Scholarship has tended to contrast a transhistorical Hindu hierarchy with egalitarian elements of Muslim, Christian, Buddhist and Sikh thought in South Asia, framing ubiquitous caste-like social forms among the latter traditions as anomalous. Yet careful studies of everyday life in the religio…