Reon Hanbaga
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@ReonHanbaga
俺だ、Leon Hamburger。悪い科学者に日本人にされちゃった～
Wore the reversible Chairman Mao commemorative necklace to a show at the anarchist bookstore
all the septa cops have to do is say “hey knock it off” but they’re too busy playing candy crush to even do that
For a third consecutive day, The People’s Republic of China holds public executions, this time in a stadium in Kunming, Yunnan Province.
@RasberryRazz The kill bill movies are super literal "kill your abuser" stories. kills her rapists, the abuser's enablers and the abuser who basically did kill her and probably would have start abusing their daughter.
Jeffrey Epstein didn't just abuse girls and women -- he actively used his power and money to keep women out of the rooms where scientific careers are made. "The women are all weak, and a distraction sorry," Epstein wrote in an email to literary agent John Brockman, demanding that the only two women on the guest list of an elite academic retreat in Connecticut be removed. That email, revealed in a DOJ document release, is just one thread in a sprawling web of correspondence showing how Epstein and the prominent scientists he bankrolled treated women not as intellectual peers but as lesser beings to be excluded, mocked, and dismissed. "I think we all had a sense that the system wasn't super fair, right?" said Nicole Baran, a biologist at Davidson College and member of 500 Women Scientists, a grassroots organization that has worked to confront racism and misogyny in STEM since 2016. "Seeing some of these emails -- and peering behind the curtains of the rooms that we were never invited into -- has really laid bare just how broken and corrupt the system is." As detailed by the nonprofit newsroom The 19th, the emails reveal how Epstein's patronage worked as a career accelerator -- but only for men. He funneled millions into their research, hosted networking dinners at his homes, invited them to his island and his ranch in Santa Fe, and connected them to wealthy funders and Silicon Valley power players working on emerging technologies like AI. These men got well-funded labs, lucrative book deals, and access to an elite network that compounded their influence. Women, meanwhile, weren't just left out of this pipeline -- they were actively derided by the men inside it. AI researcher Roger Schank suggested in one email that it's "hard to be brilliant if you are worrying if you look fat or why another woman hates you" -- dismissing women as too preoccupied with appearance and social anxiety to achieve real intellectual focus. Epstein's response was even more blunt: "No really smart women -- none." The blatant contempt in these exchanges stunned even women who already knew the playing field was uneven. "I think what was most shocking was simply how blatant and explicit the misogyny was," said Lauren Aulet, a neuroscientist and assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts. "We have this narrative that explicit misogyny is something from the '50s and '60s, " she continued, "and what we have now is implicit bias and microaggressions. I think this made clear that explicit misogyny is still out there in science and in academia, it's just perhaps behind closed doors." For some of these men, consequences are finally arriving. Larry Summers -- whose correspondence with Epstein revealed a deeply personal relationship with the convicted sex offender long after his 2008 conviction -- announced in February that he was resigning from Harvard at the end of this academic year. He'd already been on leave since November and had stepped down from the OpenAI board and other public positions as the fallout mounted. The interactions revealed in the files are "very dehumanizing" for women, Baran said. "These are men who had colleagues and mentees that were women. And I think what was so clear is the way in which women in particular were just not spoken about as people with equal intellectual capacity and power." As a professor, the revelations have made her think about the young women she sees entering the sciences today. "Will their ideas be taken seriously?" she wonders. "Will their creativity, brilliance or ingenuity be taken seriously? Or will it be dismissed or ignored?" © A Mighty Girl #drthehistories
it's crazy how if you're trans basically your entire life is decided by how early you get on hrt and yet there's almost zero urgency to do so outside of 4tran spaces
I'm so tired of lateness being viewed as a moral failing. I've been shamed for it my whole life because it's framed as "disrespect" (and no, it hasn't helped me be more punctual) and if I lost out on a major life opportunity because of it I don't think I could have ever recovered
You know sometimes I think I’m an anxious person, but then I encounter the headspace of an actual anxious person and I feel so light, free and empty headed by comparison
