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Agencies within the Trump administration have flagged hundreds of words to limit or avoid, according to a compilation of government documents. These terms appeared in government memos, in official and unofficial agency guidance and in other documents viewed by The New York Times.
Some agencies ordered the removal of th... See more
instagram.comNEW: Trump's CDC has instructed its scientists to retract or pause the publication of any research manuscript being considered by any medical or scientific journal.
The move aims to ensure that no “forbidden terms” appear in the work. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
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none who protested the production of these men as twenty-first century sex deviants, or the almost extralegal management of their behavior by a local news station.9
Shaka McGlotten • Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality
As Hamer and her associates prepared to leave, they saw that police officers had surrounded the old school bus in which they had traveled to the courthouse. Hamer later described the scene in vivid detail: “By the time the eighteen of us going in two by two had finished taking the literacy test—now there’s people, mind you, there that day with guns
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The government HAS NO CAPS ON CHOLESTEROL..for ten years now.
So why didn’t they tell you?
The U.S. government quietly dropped its cholesterol cap in 2015 (the American Heart Association did the same in 2013), yet most people still think dietary cholesterol is something to fear.
Why? Maybe because our government is too afraid to publicly correct its... See more
So why didn’t they tell you?
The U.S. government quietly dropped its cholesterol cap in 2015 (the American Heart Association did the same in 2013), yet most people still think dietary cholesterol is something to fear.
Why? Maybe because our government is too afraid to publicly correct its... See more
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Early Internet users used alternate spelling or “leetspeak” to bypass word filters in chat rooms, image boards, online games and forums. But algorithmic content moderation systems are more pervasive on the modern Internet, and often end up silencing marginalized communities and important discussions.
Taylor Lorenz • Internet ‘algospeak’ is changing our language in real time, from ‘nip nobs’ to ‘le dollar bean’
