HeyJaredShay’s Cogitations:A Detour From Black Girl in Maine
Nonprofit extraordinaire, anti-racist, Executive Director of Community Change Inc-Boston, TedX speaker, raconteur, creator of Black Girl in Maine, and professional troublemaker.
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The decline of literacy and who is to blame (opens the original)
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Last post, I talked about nuance and mentioned in passing declining literacy, but I haven’t really tackled literacy in a couple years, so let’s get back to it. And you know, it’s kind of like that phrase “speak of the devil.” You speak the name of an evil (and I brought up literacy) and something is summoned into existence—in this case, in the form an article titled “Literacy Is Another Casualty of the Decline of Democracy<
Nuance may not be dead, but perhaps it's in hospice (opens the original)
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Literacy and nuance—a skill we need and a form of discernment we do, too—are slowly fading away, which is ironic considering how much information we have access to and how readily we can find it compared to the pre-internet days.I’ve talked about the problem of illiteracy in this country, which is growing rather than waning, many times. And I don’t just mean the literal inability to read or write, though that remains a stubbornly too-common problem as well. I usually mean things like cultural an
Fly the furry skies? (opens the original)
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Not to scare y’all, but your next pilot will likely be a kinkster who likes dressing as an anthropomorphic animal. Well, at least that’s what I hear from Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville, and why would a MAGA-friendly Republican senator lie about something like that, especially since he’s warned us about the evils of transgenderism before?Tuberville—and I think a man with a name like that shouldn’t be so quick to make snide comments about what goes on between a person’s legs—who is running for gove
It's a big flocking problem...and growing (opens the original)
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It wasn’t long ago that I talked about the burgeoning surveillance state, but as with so many things I talk about, more bad news always seems to follow. And yeah, Flock is top of mind again in this discussion, because they have spread farther than they say, and they don’t want people to know that apparently.And if you thought it was bad that the government might misuse these ubiquitous cameras to do harm to those who resist authoritarianism and related atrocities, it might not just be our own re
Uncertain times and an unknowable timeline (opens the original)
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Something I have to remind myself in anti-racism work is that many white people “don’t know what they don’t know” and something similar is at play in resistance to our unhinged regime. We can’t know “when now is gonna be” nor what will happen when the defecation fully hits the rotary oscillator.More and more each day, it’s not so much “if” there will be a coup attempt or something of similar horrific scale. The increasing probability is that something supremely bad is going to happen. And the wo
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