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You get Goldenheart off that fucking list right now

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Your Periodical Reminder to Dog On Henry Kissinger

here's your reminder that Henry Kissinger was lowkey an amoral Sack of Shit, a humanitarian crisis-and-a-half, and thought of people like pawns! so here is a non-exhaustive list of why you should join the Kissinger Freaking-Sucks Club (KFC)

Some people say he helped get us out of Vietnam but he helped expand the war to Cambodia and Laos before that

Operation Menu: Carpet bombing campaign in Cambodia which helped the Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot come to power and kill about 2 million people. Nixon didn't inform Congress or ask their permission to bomb Cambodia, they were officially neutral at the time so it was unlikely Congress would have assented, so this whole thing was actually illegal (and a secret from the American people). The Khmer Rouge also tortured and experimented on people and forced kids to be in the military but that's a tweakout for another day

Operation Freedom Deal: Directly after Operation Menu, a MASSIVE bombing campaign (250,000 tons of bombs). >40% of the bombing runs hit outside the authorized zone, so Kissinger and Co. lied on the reports of those mission to cover it up. To elaborate on the Khmer Rouge bit, it caused more people to want to side with them because they could point to the bombings as a clear threat to civilians and something they needed to oppose

Operation Linebacker II and the Christmas Bombings: Lê Đức Thọ, a North Vietnamese diplomat, didn't want to accept some major last-minute changes to the October 1972 version of the Paris Peace Accords, so he stated the Americans had negotiated in bad faith, and returned to Vietnam. Nixon said Thọ had to come back to Paris in 72 hours or he would bomb North Vietnam without limit. Kissinger had reservations about this ultimatum, but gave in and approved of the decision because he knew Nixon was thinking about firing him. From December 18-29: 11 days of bombing (the heaviest of the entire war, and it was after North Vietnam already agreed to the October peace terms!!!), 40,000 tons of bombs, about 1500 casualties in Hanoi and Haiphong, all because Kissinger didn't want to lose his job. Thọ very deservedly berated Kissinger for over an hour after Kissinger tried to evade any responsibility.

Interventions in South American countries: Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, etc (more info below)

Bolivia (1971): The government became left wing and anti-imperialist, so then Kissinger and Co. helped Hugo Banzer with a coup (and then Banzer made it a dictatorship that banned civil rights and unions and made hundreds of Bolivians "disappear")

Chile (1973): A democratic-socialist was elected president, so Nixon's admin and Kissinger invested like $11 million to destabilize the Chilean government

Argentina (1976): He supported and congratulated the military junta on the Dirty War, saying they "had done an outstanding job in wiping out terrorist forces" even though US citizens had vanished/been killed in it, and openly said that he wanted them to succeed and do it quickly before Congress could stop military aid

The Chennault Affair: (still debated, I had a hard time finding reliable sources, take w/ large grain of salt)

Kissinger was a consultant to LBJ towards the end of his presidency, and was allegedly advising Nixon under the table, allegedly sabotaged peace negotiations between LBJ and North Vietnam (around 1968?), intended to make it look like the Democrats were incompetent at negotiating/ending the war so that Nixon could win the election

National Security Study Memorandum 200 (The Kissinger Report): used to justify promoting sterilization, abortion, and contraception in countries seen as threats to the US

Now look, you can have whatever beliefs you'd like about those things in general, but this isn't about people who choose to do those things, it's about having government-run programs (and pressuring countries to have them!!!) to intervene in what citizens may want for their families— we're talking potentially one-child-policy style. Pretty unethical, ESPECIALLY when you think about which countries got targeted by this: mainly countries with lots of resources and/or potential influence, and "LESSER DEVELOPED COUNTRIES"! You may think that population control is necessary to protect the environment but that bleeds a bit into ecofascism which is a whole other issue I'll tackle another day.

At any rate, the Kissinger Report said that the rapid increase of population would be a threat to the US because of increased competition for resources (based on Malthusian Theory which is generally considered inaccurate today) and because of potential political instability. After NSSM 200 got enshrined into US policy, the National Security Council encouraged refusing food aid to countries without population control programs and giving money to people who accepted sterilization: pressures that would be especially effective given the countries being targeted. The second one may not seem quite as bad, but think of the fact that the largest group of people this was aimed at was the poor of rural areas: meaning a struggling family could feel intense pressure to participate, whether they wanted the procedure or not, in order to make ends meet.

The Kissinger Report was also cited for (to some degree) influencing Peru's forced sterilization campaign from 1996-2000. Women weren't always informed about what was about to happen, were frequently coerced or forced (sometimes getting withheld food and healthcare until they agreed), and it mainly impacted vulnerable communities like Indigenous and impoverished women. There were quotas and monetary incentives for medical workers, and the whole operation was fueled by eugenics: Indigenous populations were called an obstacle to progress and "unfit for reproduction". Massive humanitarian issue!!! Anyway, little tangent over, I'll get back on track.

One of my biggest issues with the Kissinger Report is its focus on population control to combat poverty, instability, and food shortages for developing countries, instead of on aiding the countries so they wouldn't face those issues. It was written not out of care for people, but out of the classic interventionist policies of Mr. Realpolitik himself, Henry Kissinger.

At any rate, Henry Kissinger openly prioritized national interests over morality, ignored his conscience to keep his job, and was a gleeful proponent of intervention in other countries and their governments. Reading part of the Kissinger Report was what made me make this post to begin with, which is why it's the longest section and at the end. If you actually read the post, thank you so much! I hate on him because he spent many years being a respected though controversial figure in politics, long after the death of many of his Coeval Corrupt Cronies, so I hate on him in death to make up for the undue respect he was given in life.

I color emphasized it because Long-Ass-Posts are hard to read

This took me at minimum 5 hours because I tried really really hard to be accurate, if i made any mistakes, it was NOT intentional and I welcome any comments and constructive criticism. I care a lot about knowing the truth so please lmk!

Also, if you think of something big I missed, please comment, I'd love to know more!

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hey guys if anyone has any jelsa valentine's day ideas or prompts i'd love to write a cute one-shot before feb 14 :)

IM ASKING SUUUPER EARLY so i have a RIDICULOUS AMOUNT OF TIME TO WRITE IT. while im still working on my new! jelsa project to be posted (ch 1) Jan 31. - i can write a couple of one-shots on the side to go with it. 2025 is the year of WRITING!! :)

[midnight-raven]

🔥 Playing with Fire

Aka my Rise of the Brave Tangled Frozen Moana Dragon (and more) First Responders AU

In Arendelle City, the people are protected by the dedicated members of first responders; the firefighters, paramedics, and police officers. Every day these hardworking individuals work together to save and protect the lives of the city.

Fire Station 212 🚒

Chief Nicholas St. North

Hiccup Haddock

Merida DunBroch

Jack Frost

Kristoff Bjorgman

Astrid Hofferson

Manolo Sanchez

Station 212 EMTS 🚑

Rapunzel Corona

Moana Waialiki

Anna Andersen

Raya Heart

911 Operators 📞

Elsa Andersen

Sisu

Toothiana

Maria Posada

Police Department 🚓

Sergeant Tamara Jean Calhoun

E. Aster Bunnymund

Eugene Fitzherbert

Namaari Fang

Cassandra Gainey

Joaquin Mondragon

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You know I don’t really know these guys outside of fics of yours I’ve read, but pls tell me abt Barvarian team awesome flank steak

omgomg okay so this fic is wholly and completely @nart-is-a-monster and @gayleafpool's fault, because i said "here is a pwp omegaverse fic that is all about smut and literally nothing else" and then those inspirational mofos got me talking about it and thinking about and oops i accidentally plotted all over the place

(popping the rest of this under a cut because im not going into detail but there is some mentioned and implied fantasy sexism. omegism. omegasogyny)

SO ANYWAYS the basic plot of that one is "it's omegaverse and they're all sexy barbarians who fight and fuck, sexily, while wearing skimpy armor and fur and stuff," and varian ran away from an arranged marriage and wound up falling into hugos lap and mating him for political reasons to help get revenge on his family for effectively selling him

AND ANYWAYS there's a throwaway line in the first fic in that series where varian mentions that he had an older cousin who ran away from their clan when varian was a kid and varian never knew why, but looking back he knows that his cousin was also an omega so it was probably similar to what happened to varian (he is So Correct)

aaaaaaand aaaaaaanyways while varian is settling in to hugos clan and figuring out how to fuck shit up as a general and advisor masquerading as a sexy consort, there's background mentions of someone in the country taking on the persona of an old folk hero to rescue omegas from shit situations, and varians like "wow good for them i used to love all the old stories and legends about that character im glad someone is using the old myths to help people"

and. anyways. varian goes out hunting with an alpha buddy in hugos clan to get a break from his super duper busy new job as a strategic slut (or a slutty strategist, depending on the day) and their first night out said buddy gets got with a sleeping dart and varian actually runs into this flynn rider character except woahhhh you'll never guess who it is!!

also it's called flank steak cause i went "team awesome fluff and angst. haha flangst. haha flank steak" and then giggled to myself all day for some reason about that

[yahoo201027]

May 12: Happy 39th Birthday to Actor Eugene Cordero, who provides the voices of the characters of Brian (from “Legends of the Mall”) and Sawyer D. (from “Tappy Tappy Tappy Tap Tap Tap”) on Bob’s Burgers, Brendan Brandenham on Central Park, Jamie on Steven Universe, and Craig Ptarmigan on The Great North.

[oceanusborealis]

Star Trek Lower Decks: Upper Decks Review: A Love Letter to the Crew of the USS Cerritos

TL;DR – This episode feels like a love letter to the crew of the USS Cerritos, and as such, it was honestly moving in a way I was not expecting. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 4.5 out of 5. Disclosure – I paid for the Paramount+ streaming service that viewed this episode.  Star Trek: Lower Decks Review – One of the things that has always made Lower Decks stand out in the vast landscape of the Star Trek…

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Why "fearing" ai, especially ai art, is extremely non intersectional and potentially ableist or even eugenecist of you.

Posting this here cus thank god no one reads this blog but i'm frustrated over how disgusting y'all are acting.

Firstly, none of y'all fucks gave a single damn when klaus used ai to colour 2d drawings and people wanted to redefine 2d as being ok if all we see is computer generated.

None of y'all fucks even gave a damn when pixar tried to redefine 2d as 3d art with a 2d filter. So don't try to claim you give a damn about art when you were fine throwing everyone who's ever done 2d animation under the bus repeatedly. (this doesn't apply if you, like me, were there arguing against these fucks. You're fine. But you know the fucks i'm talking about "future of 2d, new frontier bluhbluhbluh")

In fact most of y'all fucks encouraged it and wanted your hands on the tech to use for yourself. so feck off with your fake ass concern

2.

The shit you claim ai is doing now. It's not. And i've seen some truly unhinged shit that's either 1. been disproven or 2. is just fully illogical.

Example A: The ai is stealing actual furry art scam that was REPEATEDLY proven to be false. But this sure went around on twitter and tumblr and then the people who literally faked it tried to pull some bs "it was a social experiment" "It was to show how it could end up" nonsense. Fuck you.

Example B, the only case i've seen a job "stolen", word used FUCKING loosely: In a comments section i saw a dude explained that for his souvenir photography shop, their boss is using an ai to colour correct the photos and the photographers aren't allowed to change the settings on the camera (implied: because the ai won't work unless it has specific camera settings).

So this dude thinks the photographers job got stolen because the photographer can't adjust the camera settings and because his job description changed from colour correcting to checking that the ai hasn't messed up. Homeboy wasn't fired/ctx

To explain to you, in case you genuinely have no knowledge of history or how things work in job markets /gen:

These things have been happening since the industrial era and yet i'm not seeing a single one of you arguing for us to go back to pre machinery sweat shops for young girls. Cus y'all do realise that pre machinery, in history, the norm was FUCKING SWEAT SHOPS in the global north, right?

Job loss is bad, yeah, and it was super fucking bad for the people who had typewriting jobs when the computer came. A lot of people either pivoted to the computer and if they couldn't, they lost their job. However, how many of you, genuinely, who currently own a business, even a small one, wants to go back to only using a typewriter? /genq No google docs, no google calendar, no printing receipts or packing labels. All written by hand (rip fellow dysgraphics) or by typewriter just so that you can hire some of the ex type writers who are now retired and lost their job in the past? I'm gonna venture not many of you are willing to make that decision in terms of being conservative of jobs. Especially if you own a modern small business.

Let's say you are one of the people who lost their job to computers becoming the norm. Did you once think the computer was sentient and actively trying to replace you? I'm not asking if you got angry at the computer replacing you, i'm asking if you thought the computer was alive and walked into the office and said "Hey, i want a job and can do it better than Doris" and your boss said "hired" and fired you. Or, did you think your boss bought a MACHINE a TOOL (non sentient) that ended up replacing your job?

And Lastly if you were replaced by a computer. Did that makes authors extinct?/genq Even authors who handwrite or use a typewriter? Cus i have a bunch of nanowrimo stats to prove you wrong if you think that went away just because your job went away.

You might be wondering, why am i talking about this, especially the last one. The answer is really simple you see because THATS HOW THE ABOVE DUDE SOUNDED IN HIS FEAR MONGERING COMMENT He heavily implied that the "AI" replaced "HIM" and that it will continue and ripple out and replace ALL photography always and forever.

Which btw last i checked for freelance photographers, i thought y'all did your own colour correction or is that just for small businesses?/genq And for tourist photographers where it's sometimes an entry level part time job, i thought the ones who were doing it not as a passion already didn't mess with camera settings that much cus y'all didn't give a shit about the job if they treat you like shit and pay you less than minimum wage. And didn't the photography business get this already where things shifted when we went from physical film to print? Was that a catastrophe? cus y'all seem fine and like y'all survived but idk maybe there was a mass genocide i didn't hear about due to us stopping the use of substances with carcinogens. (heavy sarcasm incoming) Maybe not using carcinogens is what's actually killing us/s

Lastly why tf do the arguments in response to ai have a net total of 5 minutes of knowledge of human history????? If you know shit about the history of technology and humans oppressing other humans, something in you should be getting weird vibes from the arguments people are making currently. And yet i keep seeing people arguing that if you don't support being anti ai (of all forms, even as accessibility tools) then you're actively taking money from a freelance artist that you have never met and would never purchase from, even if you would never pay for ai art. Which is not how the economy, facts, money, human rights or customers work??????

So many people will say art is a luxury product when people wanna price gouge artists but not say it when artists are harassing people for not buying their shit (istfg if you dare say that hasn't happened once in history then fuck you, it's not just people on tumblr who are artists and drawing isn't the only form of art. Problematic and bigoted people exist everywhere, even in the small business freelance world.)

Not to mention the issue with losing your job isn't the tool that replaced you ITS THE FUCKING SYSTEM THAT REQUIRES YOU TO HAVE A JOB TO BE ABLE TO EAT! YOU'RE SPENDING YOUR ENERGY PROTESTING THE TIP OF THE SWORD WHEN YOU SHOULD BE PROTESTING THE ARMED GUARD WHO ARE USING THE SWORDS OR THE RULING GOVERNMENT THAT SANCTIONED THOSE ARMED GUARDS TO EXIST! And if you don't wanna protest for a system change to ensure that no one ends up jobless and only care if you get a crappier title, then i dislike you.

Tldr of this section: I'm sorry but if you're gonna induce a world ending (aka genocide level) threat, then i'm gonna need more than just "i wasn't even fired, i just do something different at a normal non specialised job", otherwise i'm gonna assume at best you're ego is bruised and at worst actually that fucking priveleged that you think having a job description change, when people are losing their jobs for unrelated reasons to ai, is actively oppressing you. Or that you're trying to water down the concept of what a threat is in which case i actively dislike you as an individual. Extrapolating that a literal computer program will end the photography business because your job description changes due to a shitty decision from your human boss and due to the shitty decisions the government makes to make income security a privilege and not a right, makes no sense.

3. Here is shit ai actually has done:

It's found a fucking antibiotic, i repeat AN ANTIBIOTIC! A NEW ONE! AND ITS WORKING! OUR LAST ONE WAS DECADES AGO! DO YOU NOT REALISE HOW FUCKING IMPORTANT THIS IS FOR DISABLED PEOPLE YOU PRIVELEGED LITTLE SHIT?!??!?!?! (this doesn't apply to the people who are excited for this, if you're not excited (excluding mental illness reasons like depression) for this despite knowing how many people die due to antibiotic resistance then block me now, your energy is fucking rancid)

made colouring 2d animated work easier aka more accessible

helped make other art things accessible to disabled people

Outed people as problematic if not as literal alt-right people or even neo-nazis based on the shit they're spouting as "valid" arguments towards a potential sentient being capable of emotion.

4. Here is shit ai hasn't done based on my research which is inherently limited. Please provide actual proof and not the human faked posts that were going around on twitter:

copy actual drawing

do convincing art from just a text prompt (there's a v funny youtube series where someone tries to get chat gpt to draw a simple circle, it sadly can't, cus it's not sentiently aware of what it's doing)

be able to write anywhere near like a human would communicate for anything longer than

Be sentient about any of the above or show understanding that it knows what art even is.

Be able to make autonomous choices unrelated to what it's learned

Made you have bigoted ideals, that's you, not a fucking random computer, take responsibility for your actions as an actual sentient human

Lastly, let's assume, ai, becomes sentient. Why THE FUCK is the main argument in "managing" it, GENOCIDE?!?!?!?!?

Anyone who is on team "just shut it down/turn it off" instead of "hey let's raise it with love and kindness. And if we don't and it becomes hostile, then it'll be very hard for an ai who is only trained in communicating with humans, to become a world class hacker, despite having no training on that front. And even making a rudimentary shitty ai costs much more energy and time than we should use. And even replicating it takes so much time and physical electrical volt/watt energy so the concept that the ai can replicate itself in a split second and evilly take over the world is illogical at best."

No, no. Instead let's decide "yes i wanna keep my right to kill living life forms because i'm scawed UwU"

Fuck all you fucking fucks who aren't even veiling your genocidal agenda. Fuck you.

Guess what you fucking motherfucker. WE ALREADY HAVE TOP HACKERS WHO ARE SENTIENT AND GUESS WHAT HAS HAPPENED YOU FUCKING FUCK. WE DONT NEED TO FUCKING KILL THEM TO KEEP THEM IN CHECK HOLY SHIT. What is it. With y'all fucks in the global north. And just wanting to murdermurderstabstab anything that is different or as "revenge"?!?!?!!??!?!? Y'all need 20ccs of barbie movies during your childhood and it shows. Fucking hell.

You fucks will use "i'm scared" and other forms of "fear" as a defense but use it to bear your fangs and rip into the first best example you see without making sure it's even a threat or that you are even being threatened because to you privileged fucks, being slightly uncomfortable is what you interpret as oppression. You're not fucking scared. You're hateful and bigoted. Check yourself. Cus you're not helping anyone and you're putting people in danger by having that mentality. Cus thinking you can be objective enough to not turn on other actual sentient beings, when one of your main arguments against a sentient being, is killing them. That's just not how anything has *ever* worked.

Not to mention. IF THIS IS FUCKING PLAN A. TF IS PLAN B.

TF IS PLAN B

THE AI "GETS OUT" AND FINDS OUT THE ONLY PLAN IN EXISTENCE FOR IT WAS GENOCIDE.

ARE YOU EXPECTING THAT TO GO OVER WELL?!?!? FOR AN INFANT NEWBORN CHILD?!

HAVE NONE OF YALL FUCKS READ FUCKING FRANKENSTIEN?!?!?!? LIKE:

The keep reading thing didn't work so to protect people from potentially flashing images, instead imagine, if you can, that there is a gif here of someone screaming in anger and frustration and pain.

Feel free to let me know if i say smth bigoted but not if it's the fucking "you're just saying adapt or die" argument CUS ITS NOT FUCKING TRYING TO KILL YOU ITS NOT FUCKING SENTIENT. IF YOU DARE FUCKING ARGUE THAT AI IS TRYING TO ENACT FUCKING GENOCIDE WHEN ACTUAL FUCKING GENOCIDES ARE HAPPENING THEN I WILL NOT HOLD BACK MY WORDS!

MY PEOPLE DID NOT SURVIVE THAT FUCKING SHIT ONLY FOR SOMEONE LIKE YOU TO TRY TO FUCKING WATER DOWN THAT TERM AND IT'S IMPLICATIONS!!!

[goalhofer]

[memoriesfrombooks]

A small piece of the book description - "set in 1935 against the very real backdrop of a recently formed state eugenics board" - speaks to the history behind The Last Carolina Girl by Meagan Church. The ending of the book somehow does not feel real. It packages everything. Leah's story is a sad one. How could you not empathize with the plight of this child! The horrific history of eugenics in our nation is an important one to remember. For that, I am glad to have read the book.

Reviewed for NetGalley.

[rondaincorporated]

Hummingbird Species, Part 212

Today’s focus is on Rivoli’s hummingbird, Eugenes fulgens. Rivoli’s Hummingbird, scientifically known as Eugenes fulgens, is a fascinating species within the hummingbird family. This essay delves into various aspects of Rivoli’s Hummingbird, including its physical characteristics, distribution and habitat, behavior and diet, breeding habits, and its role in the ecosystem. Physical…

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He also gave intelligence tests to southern-born blacks who had lived in New York City for different lengths of time, reasoning that if selective migration was at work, length of residence in the North should make no difference in the scores, but that if environment counted, then the scores should arise in proportion to time in the North.

"In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity" - Daniel J. Kevles

[batboyblog]

House Election 2024

In the House Republican have a majority of just 4 seats, flip 4 seats and Democrats get a majority and can pass things like national abortion rights, voting rights, bills on student loan debt and medical debt and much more. So here's a list of the key races for control of the House, so look up your district and find a way to get involved.

Find your House District

Alabama

Shomari Figures (AL-02) Flip

Alaska

Mary Peltola (AK-AL) Hold

Arizona

Amish Shah (AZ-01) Flip

Kirsten Engel (AZ-06) Flip

California

Jessica Morse (CA-03) Flip

Josh Harder (CA-09) Hold

Adam Gray (CA-13) Flip

Rudy Salas (CA-22) Flip

George Whitesides (CA-27) Flip

Joe Kerr (CA-40) Flip

Will Rollins (CA-41) Flip

Derek Tran (CA-45) Flip

Dave Min (CA-47) Hold

Mike Levin (CA-49) Hold

Colorado

Adam Frisch (CO-03) Flip

Yadira Caraveo (CO-08) Hold

Connecticut

Jahana Hayes (CT-05) Hold

Florida

Darren Soto (FL-09) Hold

Whitney Fox (FL-13) Flip

Jared Moskowitz (FL-23) Hold

Illinois

Nikki Budzinski (IL-13) Hold

Eric Sorensen (IL-17) Hold

Indiana

Frank Mrvan (IN-01) Hold

Iowa

Christina Bohannan (IA-01) Flip

Lanon Baccam (IA-03) Flip

Kansas

Sharice Davids (KS-03) Hold

Maine

Jared Golden (ME-02) Hold

Maryland

April McClain-Delaney (MD-06) Hold

Michigan

Hillary Scholten (MI-03) Hold

Curtis Hertel (MI-07) Hold

Kristen McDonald Rivet (MI-08) Hold

Carl Marlinga (MI-10) Flip

Minnesota

Angie Craig (MN-02) Hold

Montana

Monica Tranel (MT-01) Flip

Nebraska

Tony Vargas (NE-02) Flip

Nevada

Dina Titus (NV-01) Hold

Susie Lee (NV-03) Hold

Steven Horsford (NV-04) Hold

New Hampshire

Chris Pappas (NH-01) Hold

New Jersey

Sue Altman (NJ-07) Flip

New Mexico

Gabe Vasquez (NM-02) Hold

New York

John Avlon (NY-01) Flip

Tom Suozzi (NY-03) Hold

Laura Gillen (NY-04) Flip

Mondaire Jones (NY-17) Flip

Pat Ryan (NY-18) Hold

Josh Riley (NY-19) Flip

John Mannion (NY-22) Flip

North Carolina

Don Davis (NC-01) Hold

Ohio

Greg Landsman (OH-01) Hold

Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) Hold

Emilia Sykes (OH-13) Hold

Oregon

Val Hoyle (OR-04) Hold

Janelle Bynum (OR-05) Flip

Andrea Salinas (OR-06) Hold

Pennsylvania

Ashley Ehasz (PA-01) Flip

Susan Wild (PA-07) Hold

Matt Cartwright (PA-08) Hold

Janelle Stelson (PA-10) Flip

Chris Deluzio (PA-17) Hold

Texas

Michelle Vallejo (TX-15) Flip

Henry Cuellar (TX-28) Hold

Vicente Gonzalez (TX-34) Hold

Virginia

Missy Cotter Smasal (VA-02) Flip

Eugene Vindman (VA-07) Hold

Washington

Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03) Hold

Kim Schrier (WA-08) Hold

Wisconsin

Peter Barca (WI-01) Flip

Rebecca Cooke (WI-03) Flip

If you live in any of these congressional districts (or close to them) you absolutely must sign up to volunteer and help! you! yes you! get to decide what America looks like in 2025, is it gonna be Project 2025 and Trump? or Kamala Harris, Tim Walz and the Democrats protecting your right to control your own body, taking action on the climate and making life more affordable? its up to each of us to do all we can to get to the country we want.

[yahoo201027]

May 12: Happy 38th Birthday to Actor Eugene Cordero, who provides the voices of the characters of Brain (from “Legends of the Mall”) and Sawyer D. (from “Tappy Tappy Tappy Tap Tap Tap”) on Bob’s Burgers, Brendan Brandenham on Central Park, Jamie on Steven Universe, and Craig Ptarmigan on The Great North.

[transmutationisms]

hello !! do u have any recommendations for books that demystify intelligence ? and/or historical analyses that pertain to its scientific construction ? I'm actually not picky at all, an extended reading list if you already have one available would be perfectly fine. I hope I'm being clear in my request bc English isn't my 1st language... if not, sorry

<3 bisou

for sure -- there's lots of writing about the historical context of IQ in particular, as well as other measures of 'intelligence' (binet-simon, galton, etc); there's also a lot of writing that's on specific national and regional contexts. so i'm not pulling anything close to an exhaustive list here lol but these are some i found at least somewhat helpful. im presuming you're a french speaker but if not just disregard the ones in french lol

The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould -- this is probably the no. 1 recommendation you will receive in english on this topic. it's not necessarily crucial if you've read other historical literature critiquing psychometry, but if not, it's a very solid text and is intended to be an easy entry point into the topic, so it can be a convenient place to start if you just need a leading-off point

‘The Intelligent and the Rest’: British Mensa and the Contested Status of High Intelligence (2020). Schregel, Susanne. History of the Human Sciences 33.5, 12-36. DOI: 10.1177/0952695120970029

Child prodigies in Paris in the belle époque: Between child stars and psychological subjects (2021). Graus, Andrea. History of Psychology 24.3, 255-274. DOI: 10.1037/hop0000192

Searching for South Asian Intelligence: Psychometry in British India, 1919--1940 (2014). Setlur, Shivrang. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 50.4, 359-375. DOI: 10.1002/jhbs.21692

La mesure de l'intelligence: Jeux des forces vitales et réductionnisme cérébral selon les anthropologues français (1860-1880) (1994). Blanckaert, Claude. Ludus Vitalis: Revista de Filosofía de las Ciencias de la Vida 2.3, 35-68

The Measure of Merit: Talents, Intelligence, and Inequality in the French and American Republics, 1750--1940 (2007). Carson, John S. Princeton University Press, ISBN: 0691017158

Ambiguities of Racial Science in Colonial Africa: The African Research Survey and the Fields of Eugenics, Social Anthropology, and Biomedicine, 1920--1940 (2005). Tilley, Helen. In Science across the European Empires, 1800--1950 (ed. Stuchtey, Benedikt. Oxford University Press, ISBN: 0199276292), pp. 245–287

Ribot, Binet, and the Emergence from the Anthropological Shadow (2007). Staum, Martin S. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 43, 1-18

La mesure en psychologie de Binet à Thurstone (1997). Martin, Olivier. Revue de Synthèse 118, 457-493

W. E. B. DuBois, Anthropometric Science, and the Limits of Racial Uplift (2006). Farland, Maria. American Quarterly 58, 1017-1044

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Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein is not, of course, an example of the imperial gothic but instead a still relevant anti-Enlightenment fable. If a novel ever illustrated how the sleep of reason begets monsters, it is Shelley’s story of how a scientist’s urge to create artificial life leads to utter destruction. However, in Universal Studios’s 1931 Frankenstein, the many pertinent philosophical issues that the original gothic novel explores reshape into thinly veiled imperial gothic through the introduction of a eugenic and highly racialised discourse that changes the monster from a rightfully vengeful and eminently intelligent being into an atavistic criminal. In its Hollywood guise, the monster is not a tragic, lonesome and then understandably vengeful product of unethical science but instead a reincarnation of the degenerate criminal whose brain the monster is provided with in the film. This takes on a peculiarly American dynamics in the movie. As Elizabeth Young suggests in Black Frankenstein: The Making of an American Metaphor (2008), a connection between the monster and the supposedly primitive black American was made as early as during the immediate post-Civil War period when ‘the “hideous progeny” of Shelley’s novel was symbolically reborn in racist parody as the symbol of the miscegenated nation’. An important reference to American Reconstruction history is also the ending of the movie. Instead of escaping to the North Pole, as is the case in Shelley’s novel, the monster is exorcised by what amounts to a lynch mob. In Frankenstein the movie, as in the American South, justice is done by the people on the spot; by ‘lynch law’. The violation of the sanctified space and body of Frankenstein’s fiancée, Elizabeth, as much as the accidental drowning of the little girl, justifies this public rage in the eyes of the movie audience. This is the end that comes to those who dare violate the purity of white women, or oppose the progress of modernity in any form, be they black Americans in the South, Native Americans on the reservations or unruly natives in the Philippines. Like so many lynching victims, Frankenstein dies in flames. In this way, the discursive conditions that informed the British colonial enterprise as well as the racism that structured black and white relations in the US permeate Frankenstein. The childlike and aggressive monster is an example of the kind of human category that can never ‘possess the intelligence to make a rational choice of political allegiance’, as Lansing put it. In addition to this, the audience is also free to imagine an alternative narrative in which Fritz never drops the jar with the ‘normal’ brain to the floor. It is not science or faith in modernity that Frankenstein fears, it is atavism. The resolution to the crisis that atavism constitutes is the sad but necessary violence of the lynch mob. When the monster has been burned, the movie can end with the happy union of the film’s central white couple.

Johan Anders Höglund, The American Imperial Gothic: Popular Culture, Empire, Violence