John Emerson

@backspace

Design, code, human rights. He/him.

Brooklyn, NY
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Joined January 2009
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    A lot of NYC covid cases are NYC schools covid cases.

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    9 hours ago

    In ten days, workers in Connecticut will vote to become what appears to be the only unionized Dollar General store in the country. Almost no one is paying attention.

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    Oct 11

    wanted to share this incredible story on how to engage people with dementia — “enter into their reality”

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    Oct 11

    Columbus was arrested and stripped of his titles in 1500 after widespread reports of his brutality

    “Holding historical figures to modern standards of morality is a method of antihistorical political control—much like the pseudohistory I grew up being taught in the Soviet Union.”
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    Oct 11

    Clever librarians. You don’t have to ask.

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    Oct 11

    NEW: people obsess over vaccine uptake stats, eagerly comparing one country to others to see which has jabbed the highest share of its population, but what if I told you many — perhaps most — of those stats are wrong? Time for a thread on bad Covid data and how it can cost lives

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    Oct 11

    The main thing I learned from being married to a history writer is that whatever American tradition I think is set in stone and passed down from time immemorial is usually the work of like one businessman in the thirties.

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    Oct 8

    A group of cab drivers have protested outside City Hall every night for the past few weeks. Many owe over $100,000 in taxi medallion debt and need help from the city. Activist and photojournalist Daniel Efram collected some of their stories:

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    Oct 10

    ive been photographing the Mississippi River for over a year but my mind is still blown when I see a map of its watershed (41% of the continental US) and how all of that water flows through Louisiana

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    Oct 10

    "Ms. Rothwell is one of a growing number of parents who are sneaking CO2 monitors into schools in a clandestine effort to make sure their children’s classrooms are safe."

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    Oct 10

    Reading this and thinking about how uncritically "the tragedy of the commons" was taught in college, while there existed an entire body of work refuting it in real life.

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    Oct 9

    The hill I will die on is that THIS is 100% a bigger factor than all anti-vaxx propaganda combined. This is the reason anti-vaxx propaganda is even able to gain a foothold in the first place.

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    Oct 10

    Can you imagine if we subsidized clean nuclear, solar, geothermal, storage systems, & hydrocarbon-free supply chains at *$11 million a minute*?? All the whingeing about solving the being too costly is pure bulls—t. We can just stop subsidizing our extinction

    The IMF just released their updated report into fossil fuel subsidies. It makes for grim reading. Conclusion: The fossil fuel industry benefits from worldwide subsidies of $11m every minute. So every minute, we pour $11m into making the much worse THREAD
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    Oct 9

    Ok I’m gonna stop contributing to Squid Game discourse soon but the reason the apolitical consumption of it is so disturbing is that the show’s premise of mass killings being hidden from society isn’t fictional for south Korea. It’s a huge feature of our modern history

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    Oct 9

    What are the drivers of progress in social indicators? Does it emerge spontaneously from the forces of capital accumulation, or is it won by progressive social movements? Three classic studies from the '80s and '90s reveal interesting results:

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    Oct 8

    Free South Africa, 1985

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    Oct 8

    Rights groups to : End discrimination against Palestinians via

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    Oct 8

    Really shocking numbers on jail suicides in a new BJS report out this week: More than 75% of jail suicides involve people who had not been convicted of a crime. Almost half had been held for a week or less at the time they died.

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    Oct 8

    It never feels good when you use a product that offers a free plan, but to have accessibility features, you have to upgrade to a pro plan. Currently pointing a finger at and Live Transcript/Captions should be free.

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    Oct 8

    On January 1st non-disclosure agreements, which have kept a lid on quite a lot, will become illegal in California for workers speaking out about harassment, discrimination, or other illegal activity.

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    BREAKING: signed / Act! Workers should always be able to speak out—if they so wish—when they are a victim of any type of harassment or discrimination in the workplace. Release:
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