How hegemonic powers get away with genocide. — TL/DR: Dehumanization is a serious issue, beyond normal disrespect. It turns off our brain’s empathy centers. Dehumanization is done through rhetoric. Metaphors, imagery, stereotypes. Agenda setting, framing, straw-man caricatures. Stereotyping and dehumanization are most effective when audiences have limited contact with the targeted group. The government of Israel is dehumanizing…

Navigating the modern informationscape — You just witnessed a car crash. You watched a bright red Charger careen across three lanes and smash into a minivan, causing both of them to flip over. And all of this happened right in front of you. It was the craziest thing you’ve ever seen. It’s seared into your…

23 Tech Acronyms You Should Know. — Have you wondered about the difference between bits and bytes, but never took the time to figure it out? Ever mistake LAN for WAN, or confuse vLAN for VPN? Curious why “memory” and “storage” are talked about separately? If it sounds like IT people are speaking a different language, then…

Hate cannot drive out hate, but neither can empty words. — What kind of country do we want to live in? A country where politicians focus on the health and happiness of their constituents? Or a country where politicians threaten to kill other politicians, and get away with it? Violence has become increasingly prevalent in U.S. political discourse. We seem to…

And Christian Nationalism is a disguise for something deeper. — Conflicts of the future won’t look exactly like conflicts of the past. We don’t have to wait for states to secede to call our current conflict what it is: Civil War. This time, states aren’t going to secede. Liberals and Conservatives are fighting for control of the same flag. But…

Where were you when Roe was overturned? — There’s no legal or logical argument to ban abortion. There are only religious ones. The United States has been an unspoken theocracy since our founding. Subtle decisions by our government show that the wall separating church and state is more like the latticed opening of a confessional. We claim to…

Over 10,000 people hit the streets. One month later, we have an agreement — One of the largest strikes of Striketober is finally over. Late Wednesday night, the Union of Auto Workers (UAW) finally struck a deal with John Deere, ending a protest that saw more than 10,000 people walk off the job-site. “A strike that captured the mood of a nation in search…

Big Corporations — not the Fed, not the Treasury, and not the supply-chain bottleneck — seem to be responsible for recent inflation — Corporations are raising prices on everything from milk to gasoline. They claim this is a necessary adjustment to address supply chain issues and the increasing cost of materials. But a closer look at recent financial statements shows that we’re actually just witnessing another neoliberal cash grab — one that could…

Striketober is over, but Strikesgiving is just beginning — During the month of October 2021, we saw over a dozen union strikes throughout the United States — many of which are still in progress today. Virtually all of these protests focus on better wages, benefits, and working conditions for employees. Large corporations have recently started implementing “Two-Tiered Systems” to…