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"I've had to work as a fixer..where I completely did not get a byline, even when...I had contributed at least 60 to 70% of the work...Erasure is taking me out, and saying: ‘I do not exist’. Guess what, I exist." @AbangMercy@twitter.com @Info_Activism@twitter.com.
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Exposing the Invisible talks to journalist Mercy Abang about collaboration as the key to impactful crossborder journalism, about addressing historical bias and access flaws in the media and what it takes to unbias the news as we move forward.exposingtheinvisible.org
Did you know Monopoly was invented by a woman named Elizabeth Magie in 1903?
Originally ‘The Landlord’s Game,’ it was designed as a protest against the big monopolists like Carnegie & Rockefeller.
But it was Charles Darrow, an unemployed salesman, who eventually sold it to Parker Brothers after playing a version.
Parker Brothers credited Monopoly with saving their company. Magie died in 1948 without recognition. Darrow became very wealthy & his legend lives on. #history #women #HistoryRemix
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Tio from TROM explains concept of our trade-based society using Monopoly Game as an example. Video made by Dima.videos.trom.tf
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I knew, well.
Bourgeois gonna be bourgeoising!
for those who understand #german, there will be a docu pic about Elizabeth Magie on arte.tv on Dec12.
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Better get it from mediathekviewweb.de/#query=gen… when it's online. Broadcast time will be at 5am.
Lange Zeit galt Charles Darrow als Erfinder des beliebten Brettspiels Monopoly, das ihn zum Millionär machte. Allerdings war seine „Erfindung“ lediglich eine Kopie des 1903 von Elizabeth Magie (1866-1948) patentierten The Landlord’s Game.ARTE
„Монополи" Томас Едисън Коледни ястия Археология по време на война Свети места Хлябът История на красотата Маската Ледения човек Викингски фестивал Диляна Гергова и фотографията Колко е важен сънят? Нетрадиционни зимни спортове Руският север Мисловно…https://inglobo.bg/author/admin-dk/#author (InGlobo)
As those of you who’ve seen my post about “ New Monopoly ” know I hate the classic board game Monopoly. So I when I see themed adaptations...kirknoggins.blogspot.com
And Elizabeth Magie was a proponent of Georgism, which the game was meant to illustrate.
incredible that a game used in my middle class family as a way to bond has this poignant history.
I wish we had known this as kids. It would have enriched the experience and been such a teaching moment.
Monopoly is one of the best-selling board games in history — sales went up during the COVID-19 pandemic. The game is built on powerful American lore: anyone can rise from rags to riches.NPR
There's all this herstory behind household products, science, medicine, even piracy that men have tried to erase.
We also know FLOTUS Edith Wilson ran the presidency after Pres Wilson's stroke, FLOTUS Eleanor Roosevelt's ideology greatly influenced FDR, and Lady Bird Johnson far exceeded LBJ in all things presidential. But no FLOTUS ran the country like Hillary Clinton.
Imagine all women have been responsible for that men have taken credit for throughout herstory. The cheats.
Landlords hate him! This guy found out a solution to the world's problems with one simple tax....twatter: https://twitter.com/_britmonkeyYouTube
From rock-paper-scissors, to tennis, to Mario Kart, every game is a designed system and all games are grounded in the same design principles. One popular game in particular has a mixed reputation with game players and designers alike: Monopoly.99% Invisible
This study, which appeared as Chapter 4 in Volume 12 of the Cambridge Ancient History [The Imperial Crisis and Recovery A. D. 193-324] (Cambridge, 1939), was...Internet Archive
for those who understand German, there's an excellent episode about this story on the podcast "Geschichten aus der Geschichte", @GeschichteFM
Wir springen ins Jahr 1904 in die USA. Elizabeth Magie bekommt ein Patent für das Brettspiel „The Landlord’s Game“, mit dem sie nicht nur den Kapitalismus ihrer Zeit kritisiert, sondern auch eine andere Wirtschafts- und Gesellschaftstheorie verbreite…Geschichten aus der Geschichte
The first I learned about this was when Throughline did an episode about Monopoly (and/or The Landlord's Game) just this past summer.
npr.org/2022/06/29/1108728257/…
There's more to Monopoly than you might think. It's one of the best-selling board games in history — despite huge economic instability, sales actually went up during the pandemic — and it's been an iconic part of American life at other pivotal momen…NPR
Wow. Monopoly originally showed both the dangers of monopoly power AND had *secret rules* called “Prosperity”!
She sold rights for $500 on condition Parker Bros publish both sets of rules.
They did, but ONLY SOLD ONE with the game. It’s like they didn’t want the thought experiment out there..
(I hope @pluralistic knows this.)
stephenhinton.org/2014/09/04/t…
The original board I am utterly astonished. We have heard of the DaVinci code, but there is a MONOPOLY code. The secret rules of the game from the early 1900s show how, by changing the rules, every…Stephen Hinton Consulting
Monopoly’s roots begin with a woman— a progressive named Elizabeth Magie.National Women's History Museum
I did - and thank you for the reminder. 😘
This is one of my favourite bits of social history.
Ver la película con subtítulos en español For generations, Monopoly has been America’s favorite board game, a love letter to unbridled capitalism and — for better or worse — the impulses that make our free-market society tick.americanexperience
@Faiz Hussain 律雄風 @Sheril Kirshenbaum Another variant!
I've heard of #WorldControl and #AntiMonopoly. Will look up #CoOpoly.
#världskontroll #monopoly #MonopolyGame #MonopolyAlternatives
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Okay~ *deep breath* Big news! It's taken about twenty hours over the past week, but I think we've pretty much finished setting up our new #OutcastCreatorCollective #discord server, where #contentcreator and their supporters can commiserate, collaborate, share resources, or otherwise form a #community of supportive friends who are interested in lifting each other up so we can keep up the fight. The server is especially intended for those who are fighting against #thepatriarchy, standing up for #racialjustice, #feminism, #lgbtqia rights, #disability activism, #mentalhealth , #normalizenudity, #sexworkers , #houseless advocacy, and so much more.
Please note that we are NOT welcoming to those who often complain the most about "having their free speech suppressed"--you don't have to be a #progressive #activist to join, but you're unlikely to enjoy yourself if you aren't at least left-of-center.
You don't have to be an "outcast creator" or their supporter to join, but be aware that our focus is to be a safe place for those who are, so respectful behavior is mandatory! If you're not yet a content creator but you would like to get advice and encouragement from others who are, you may be interested in joining as well. :)
While we're still testing out anti-trolling safety measures (that's what took up so much time this week 😅 ) we're keeping the link direct-invite-only, so if you'd like to join, please DM me and I'll give you the link. Also please let anyone you know who might be interested in joining about our new server!
Sorry for all the exclamation points, I'm just really excited 😁
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My team at work just launched new research on the #TwitterMigration: We analyze which platforms are growing - especially #Mastodon, #Tumblr & #Post.
We look at which sites users are adding to their Twitter bios, posting to their friends about & downloading apps for.
Please do boost this, and love to hear any comments or feedback on it!
Download it here:
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DSG helps businesses, non profits, campaigns and causes achieve their public affairs goals by winning the support of opinion leaders and the public.Dewey Square Group
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Very interesting at the peaks - lots of normal folk leaving when the layoffs happened trump ban was lifted says a lot about trust in the platform.
My only comment about the chart - some of the colours won't be visible to those who are #ColourBlind. Might be useful to include patterns?
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yeah the #hive hashtag has lots of references to good articles on their #security problems.
Though as soon as I saw a (long lost) post warning about the dangers of a social media platform with a proprietary **APP-ONLY** model, it was it was obvious to me that #hive was not a platform for me! They were either going to be evil, a security disaster or both, which seems to have planned out. 🙁
thanks for the invite. 💚
You definitely have the most comprehensive policies of any of the Mastodon sites I've checked so far.
I picked @indieweb.social because it matches my sensibilities even better than @fosstodon.org does or @mastodon.technology ever did and has performed wonderfully (I definitely need to make a donation, but can't find the post that suggested a better way than Patreon).
If I migrate elsewhere, it will likely be to a personal instance.
BTW, I would like nothing better than if #IndieWebSocial acted as a half-way house or a "gateway drug" that lead dozens of folks to start their own instances.
Two users here (at least) already have.
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100 votes and 10 comments so far on Redditreddit
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This from @stokel gels with what we saw but adds very useful quantification: a small subset of users talking about leaving Twitter (1.6 percent) have "wholly abandoned the platform," but many are creating lifeboats on other platforms in case they need them - but not leaving entirely. Taking the first steps out the door but not out fully (not yet, anyway.)
newscientist.com/article/23496…
Of more than 140,000 Twitter users who announced they were moving to Mastodon, just 1.6 per cent have actually quit Elon Musk’s social media platformChris Stokel-Walker (New Scientist)
I uninstalled from my phone and the only thing I post over there is instructions and suggestions to come to mastodon. I do not read, comment, or like other folks posts.
But I still probably get counted as a daily active user.
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I explicitly chose *not* to delete my account because I wanted to direct folks here. I.e. I updated my profile with my masto account, pinned a tweet saying I'd moved, and then locked my profile.
So I wouldn't be counted in this article despite no longer using Twitter.
I'd love to measure relative use on the platforms but that's a lot more difficult. Maybe take a good sized representative sample of accounts and dig into their activity?
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Really good point Justin.
We pretty much bunched them into "emerging = new to most Twitter users" versus "Legacy" - once many Twitter users would already know.
Could have made that clearer than I did in the article.
I mean technically Mastodon launched in 2016, so it's defintely "legacy" and not "emerging," by that count -- but I suspect relatively few Twitter users knew it 10 weeks ago.
The Holocaust did not begin with killing; it began with words.
Genocides do not start with mass murder. That's where they end up.
Genocides & other mass atrocity crimes begin with words - specifically, with powerful people dehumanizing a minority.
Once they are seen as less than human, anything is possible, even mass murder.
👉 You can speak out loudly today for the rights of others, or you can stay silent & wait for tomorrow, when your rights will be taken away too.
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I'd like to think it is a foregone conclusion that they will give them to Justice instead, to keep open the investigation of felony irregularities in those returns, even after the House investigation is closed by the new R House. All they need is the first felonious thread...
Did someone say Alito? The SC is gonna SC badly, until he self-demises, so f... him.
Hahaha
These m*therf^ckers
Are you suggesting Alito is a bit "leaky"? :P
LMAO!!
it's probably like the damn DaVinci Code. Let's get Tom Hanks on them.
For months, #Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has pushed a controversial plan to turn over public housing land to a professional #soccer team owned by an influential billionaire.
In mid-November, that billionaire owner of the Chicago Fire Football Club, Joe Mansueto, donated $25K to the mayor’s reelection campaign.
#ChicagoFire #PublicHousing #LoriLightfoot
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After the donation from Joseph Mansueto, owner of the Chicago Fire soccer team, a city alderman asked for an independent investigation.ProPublica
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Hell no.
Just hell no. Privatization is criminal.
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Half of all Americans now die in #hospice care.
Easy money & a lack of #regulation transformed a crusade to provide death with dignity into an industry rife with fraud & exploitation.
The most audacious hospice firms enlist family and friends to act as make-believe clients, lure addicts with the promise of free painkillers, or sign up “phantom patients” by stealing personal information.
Endgame: How the Visionary Hospice Movement Became a For-Profit Hustle:
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Half of all Americans now die in hospice care. Easy money and a lack of regulation transformed a crusade to provide death with dignity into a $22 billion industry rife with fraud and exploitation.ProPublica
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Orpea Group, the second largest operator of eldercare homes in Europe, has attempted to repair its image after a national scandal swept France over a book that alleged widespread abuse of its residents.www.corpwatch.org
Been trying to keep an open mind about Post but, yeesh, it has a lot of warning signs right out of the gate, and I don't mean beta bugs. Comments run by OpenWeb? Investment by Marc Andreessen? No way to know who is reposting your content? No way to moderate comments on your posts?
It doesn't seem buggy, it seems structurally unsound in ways that will be hard to fix.
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wait, wut? yeah that solidifies my never going there.
Clearly this isn't for normal people, it's for media types. Seems like a desperate grab at the ring of info control from news rooms of yesteryear
Really has the feel of that. Get enough journalists and public figures on it to sell it off to... Musk or Zuckerberg.
Oof.
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I understand growing pains and am trying to keep an open mind, but so far the site does not inspire confidence.
Is it for commoners to interact with journalists? Is it just generating a user base to sell it off? Is it a real “free speech” alternative that just builds in a content-agnostic platform for micropayments to trusted accounts?
I can’t tell, and that seems like an issue.
Doesn't it feels like tech billionaires are herding newly fragmented audiences?
Andreesen is my hard limit. Nope.
It comes off as *very* hacked together, from what I've seen of it.
Almost like a weekend #hackathon project instead of a multimillion dollar unicorn.
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Marc "I stole all the credit for NCSA Mosaic" Andreessen?
That explains the "no wealth shaming" policy.
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Oh man, there is no redder red flag than investment by marca.
"None more red" as Spinal Tap would say.
@BrentToderian@mastodon.online Replying here (not on post.news) to make a quick case for Post. The biggest difference as folks here pointed out is that it's a private platform not a public protocol.San Diego Urbanists
Agree--though my additional concerns have to do with the influx of platform manipulators on the platform (some of whom were suspended from Twitter for it--and it was *hard* to get suspended for it). It's a bad actor haven currently.
I should note: giving them your other social media info is optional. I did not---for the very reason you stated.
“To the extent that people remain active on Twitter, they preserve the viability of Musk’s gambit. The illusory sense of community that still lingers on the platform is one of Musk’s most significant assets. No matter which side prevails, the true victor in any war is the person selling weapons to both sides.”
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Jelani Cobb writes about his recent decision to quit Elon Musk’s Twitter, a social-media platform that once represented the new frontier of digital democracy.Jelani Cobb (The New Yorker)
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Fair point re: 100%. Majority owner but not 100% owner - fair enough.
However, staying on Twitter is what makes the platform valuable. It enriches those who own the platform. When (not if) people leave Twitter, the company loses its value; conversely, staying ensures the platform has value. Also, this:
As predicted - Twitter is now the fiefdom of a single person. Everyone should leave Twitter, and here is an explanation of why:
robertsonp.substack.com/p/in-d…
You don’t need to stay on Twitter and ‘fight’Phil Robertson (Phil's Takes)
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I got sidetracked & only made it through the preamble… but I didn’t expect it to be a doc ready for ratification. 😉 In general I love these kinds of exercises. Why should founding dudes have all the fun? (imagining what a “more perfect union” might be)
& of course there’s drafting a wishlist and then there’s trying to get to something that could be adopted… VERY different
Chilean example is fascinating (tried to be all things and ultimately didn’t pass)
FWIW
I see what you mean about that section 7 😬 lost me at “Congress shall build and maintain an economy…”
The indigenous council for bills affecting treaty rights is interesting… agree that calling it a third legislative chamber would not be helpful
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In 1938, kindergarten teacher Helen Hulick wore slacks to court to testify as a witness in Los Angeles, CA. Judge Arthur Guerin was appalled & rescheduled the case, instructing her to “return in a dress.”
The next day, Hulick showed up in slacks again, declaring, “I will stand on my rights…I like slacks. They’re comfortable.”
She was sent to jail. web.archive.org/web/2021031514… #HistoryRemix
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Unfortunately, it took another 30-60 years for women to be permitted to go about their business of the day in practical clothes with their legs covered.
Even as an 8-year old walking to school in January in a dress in the 60's, I knew that everything in life was going to be harder and more uncomfortable simply because I was a girl.
Arbitrary social dictums about women's appearance were enforced by codes and punishments.
Here's more about her:
Helen Louise Hulick Beebe (December 27, 1908 – March 18, 1989) was an American educator and pioneer of auditory-verbal therapy. In 1938, she made headlines when a judge jailed her for wearing trousers while appearing as a witness in court.
I love the etymology of "progress". I think genxers and our parent's gen were "walking forward", now my kids are running. We learnt about the suffragettes in primary school, the lesson was "mission accomplished", not that it was a waystop on a longer journey. Futurists talked about the spike in relation to technology, but we're seeing the same acceleration with culture. The old fart who sent that young lawyer to jail failed to learn what I have in the last few years - that you may as well stand and shake your fist at an incoming tidal wave as resist these social changes. It's not our world anymore, it's theirs.
(And I, for one, welcome our teenage overlords 😄)
Voters of Tomorrow is a non-profit, youth-led organization seeking to engage young people with politics and government.Voters of Tomorrow
Thank you for taking me on a wild internet ride that ended here. Remarkable woman.
Helen Hulick wore a controversial pair of slacks to court while testifying.Nur Ibrahim (Snopes.com)
by today's standards, not wearing slacks doesn't surprise me.
going braless (?) does surprise me.
pick your battles, i guess.
If you're interested in that book I just started reading, "Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America" by John McWhorter (a black linguistics professor) but don't have the time or spoons for reading, here's a podcast interview with him that summarizes his points pretty well: podtail.com/en/podcast/the-ezr… (or search for it on the podcast app/site of your choice)
and here is a list I found of many more interviews he's done, with a variety of hosts (some I'm not particularly fond of, but I guess it's important to diversify your audience) owltail.com/people/Z7A1i-john-…
I know the name of the book is "clickbaity" enough to instantly enrage a lot of people, but I really invite you to at least listen to part of the top linked podcast episode--it's really not what you think. As I said in my partial review of what I've read of the book so far, I don't agree with everything McWharter says, but I think he makes a lot of ironclad points that are really worth listening to, ESPECIALLY if your immediate response to the title of his book is rage.
Listen Now. Latest Interviews. Listen to all 45 interviews on OwlTail. Search & Listen to all the podcasts interviews of anyone on OwlTail.comJohn McWhorter (www.owltail.com)
Its certainly one of the creepiest and sickest things parents engage in.
It smacks heavily of child abuse and very unsavory voyeurism by adults who need to get a life. I've only heard of it happening in the US.
These people who go on about "drag shows" would be apopletic about British parents. Every year, 000's of parents take their children to see a pantomime, which invariably includes several fellas wearing women's clothes and makeup. And let's not go on about Shakespeare's plays, where males played all roles
theconversation.com/why-werent….
It may have had something to do with protecting female purity. No official statute clearly required men to do all the acting back then.The Conversation
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I agree. And dog shows exploit puppies with unreasonable body shapes.
Just pet us. We are all cute! 🐶
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