Before Mutual Aid morphed into Crowdfunded Self-Interest
How Black Mutual Aid Groups Paved The Way For Racial Progress
#Unity, Black Americans' most valuable asset
Dr. Allison Wiltz | Feb, 2025 | Medium
@allyfromnola
#BlackMastodon #Culture #SocioEconomics #SolidarityEconomics #MutualAid #Cooperative #CooperativeCapitalism
https://allyfromnola.medium.com/how-black-mutual-aid-groups-paved-the-way-for-racial-progress-8f688871e533
The Need to Challenge Whiteness Everywhere w/ Prof. Ian Haney Lopez
#LurieDanielFavors #IanHaneyLopez #Politics #SocialScience #Socioeconomics #RacialCapitalism #RacialHierarchy #Election2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkb29OGbO3s
Billion-Dollar Fish By Kevin Bailey — Review
by @grrlscientist via #Substack
#Books #BookReview #fish
#fisheries
#socioeconomics #economics
https://substack.com/home/post/p-152461059
Billion-Dollar Fish By Kevin Bailey — Review
by @GrrlScientist via #Substack
#Books #BookReview #fish
#fisheries
#socioeconomics #economics
https://substack.com/home/post/p-152461059
Are the socioeconomic systems of modern Western society more…?
"[...] if our need for fossil fuels is an addiction, the addicts are being told to stop while the dealers are getting government support!"
(Andrew Sayer, p. 334)
#WhyWeCantAffordTheRich - a book on #SocioEconomics that keeps on giving
Elon Musk, Wokeness, and the Myth of Meritocracy
How Tony Stark, the myth of meritocracy, and our unspoken beliefs about genius explain Elon Musk and the (re)turn of eugenics to the right wing
#Science #Socioeconomics #DEI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY6oCHLWQOw
It's been a while since I did an #Introductions #Introduction #Connections #TwitterMigration post, where I curate excellent accounts for you to follow across the #fediverse
First up, we have @everythingopen, a flagship conference from @linuxaustralia that champions #OpenSource, #OpenGLAM, #OpenData, #OpenGov, #OpenScience, #OpenHardware and so on
Early Bird tickets close in 5 days, next conf in #Gladstone, #Queensland in April.
@kiwipycon, run by @nzpug with @tveastman at the helm, is another great @linuxaustralia conference, and 2024 conf details are dropping
@DrDemography Dr Liz Allen is a #demography #research @ANUResearch where she researches the intersection of #socioEconomics, #sociology and #geography
@bennett is a #HistSci / #STS #PhD #researcher looking at #data sharing in #science #ScienceMastodon
@erikavaris is a #linguist, into #AI, #ML, #NL, #running and #cooking
@ian is into #gardening, #socialism, #SoftwareEngineering, and #HamRadio
@Elkewinzer is an Economic Historian and Political Scientist #PolSci who now works in #consulting
@glacasa specialises in .NET development
That's all for today, please do curate your own lists so we can more richly connect the Fediverse
The Real Drivers of Global Migration: A Twenty-Year Analysis Debunks Common Narrative
A study has found that socioeconomic conditions, rather than climate factors, are the primary drivers of global migration. Utilizing a new high-resolution dataset, the research indicates that migration patterns are complex and vary significantly within countries, challenging common perceptions about migration and climate change.
https://scitechdaily.com/the-real-drivers-of-global-migration-a-twenty-year-analysis-debunks-common-narrative/ #migration #drivers #ClimateChange #socioeconomics #HumanDevelopment
@StillIRise1963. Also, many #modifiableriskfactors that are at play in this horrible statistic: #airpollution, #socioeconomics, access to #education. #EndAlz
Two #literary pieces that criticize the myth of the #batman in distinct, but almost equally important ways:
"City Of Villains, why i dont trust batman" : https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/city-villains-dont-trust-batman/
"#Gotham city and #SocioEconomics, how batman perpetuates crime" : https://movieweb.com/is-batman-bad-for-gotham-city/
This video from #Vox is pretty interesting, and also not very surprising.
#HumanHeight #SocioEconomics #SouthKorea
How South Koreans got so much taller
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZoLk6GUKzU0&feature=share
@Wicket_weir
I think the Sam Vimes theory of socio-economic unfairness is one of the greatest pieces of writing of all time.
I quote it to people all the time.
If you saw 'The Watch' tv show earlier in the year... You'll understand how much I 'squeed' when it was included.
About time I wrote my #introduction.
- I am a nerd/geek hybrid. Interested in tech, free (#floss) software, #privacy, #selfhosting, #socioeconomics, #cryptocurrency, #ethics, #philosophy.
- #Linux user since 1999. Currently #Archlinux on desktop, #Debian on servers.
- #Emacs and loving it. Used to use #Vim before it.
- Software Engineer developing web apps, mostly #Python and #Javascript #Typescript.
- #Photography for 20 years.
- #Videogames.
- #Vegan for ethics and environment.