diversity

🤦🏻‍♀️House passes $895 billion defense policy bill that targets #abortion access and #diversity protections, advances other #GOP priorities - WaPo

Don't You Know? (Life Is Colourful) by @lehto, Renegades Of Jazz & The Motion Orchestra ✨

Life is colourful; we believe deeply in that. For 'Don't You Know?', three projects unite to underpin this attitude with a song.

A beautiful, classical intro drops into a hip-hop beat with grooving brass, and jazz, funk and electronic elements.

https://lehto.bandcamp.com/album/dont-you-know-life-is-colourful

#musodon #music #musik #ElectronicMusic #HipHop #classical #diversity #FreeDownload #Bandcamp #funk #hip-hop #jazz #soul #Germany

Know what that is in that photo?
It's a dumpster full of books —mostly LGBT stuff but others too— heading to the landfill.

Know what *that* is?
It's goddamned fascism.

This is what hate looks like.
This is what hate does.

#USpol #USnews #DeSantis #Republicans #GOP #ChristianNationalism #Fascism #BookBurning #LGBTQIA

https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/education/2024/08/15/new-college-of-florida-throws-away-hundreds-of-library-books-diversity-lgbtq/74814756007/
#NewCollege of #Florida tosses hundreds of #library #books, empties #gender #diversity library

h/t to @alexwild and @futurebird

#IAmDB

“They don’t want to be seen with you in public. They don’t want to be on the record as sympathizing with any of your positions because they’re afraid that it will be used against them.”

Out today, from me, in LGBTQ Nation: Dallas-area town Frisco, #Texas supported #Pride ... but only when it was politically convenient. Now they're changing the rules to avoid honoring their #LGBTQIA+ community.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/08/a-texas-town-killed-off-its-diversity-committee-after-proud-boys-marched-against-it/

#NorthTexas #politics #homophobia #extremism #USpol #news #DEI #diversity

In amusement parks, I see kids of all ages, nationalities, and religions enjoying themselves together. They become friends and share moments of joy. Meanwhile, I read about wars and attacks, hatred and intolerance, and I can’t help but wonder: how wonderful would it be if we spent money on amusement parks to bring young people together instead of missiles to kill each other?

#Unity #Peace #Joy #SpreadLove #Diversity

ICYMI, Adam Serwer’s “The REAL DEI Candidates”

“…Many *#conservatives* have focused on #DEI not because of their moral & sometimes practical objections to #diversity efforts…but because it allows THEM to express underlying assumptions about the inherent inferiority of #Black people & #women implicitly, w/o sounding like THEY are making those assumptions themselves.“

#racism #CultureWars #BS
#VoteBlue #HarrisWalz2024
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/09/real-dei-candidates/679880/

I haven’t posted in a while, but thought I’d share my latest mosaic. It’s called “The American Scream” 15”x25” cut paper and block printing on illustration board. #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter
#BlackFediverse #BlackFedi
#BlackAcademics #BIPoc #diversity #DiversityEquityInclusion #mastodon #racism #antiracist #art #artist #TraditionalArt #art

As there's many new users joining today and in the future, here's a re #introduction #introductions refresh for those new or want to get a reminder of who I'm about:

Here's some hashtags for reference, and if you relate to any of these and more, I would love to interact with you all!

#film
#culture
#tech
#coding
#programming
#podcasts
#software
#opensource
#fandom
#diversity
#windows
#linux
#gaming
#retrogaming
#hardware

And many more, just ask!

#Introduction

1. Reality is the only morality. I reject all symbolism and emotion.
2. I know good people from every religion, tribe, race, culture, ethnicity, and social class. To protect each group, ethno-nationalism is required.
3. All of our environmental problems can be cured through Half Earth.
4. Natural Rights > (human | civil rights).
5. Eugenics is necessary to ensure genetic health.
6. People need some positive transcendent goal or they are merely reacting to fears and appetites.

I oppose #DEADS:

* #Democracy
* #Equality (#individualism)
* #Atomization (#dualism, #multiculturalism)
* #Diversity
* #Socialism

You can find my writings at https://www.amerika.org/.

🇨🇦 Our Shared Future 🇨🇦
Upholding Canadian Values in the 2025 Federal Election

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bmrrFxNnX6YhDsgo_44Roq-Qgdjd3UxueaGTqIAYcVw/edit?usp=sharing

CAVE: collaborate, advocate, vote, educate

#CalPol #CanadaVotes #2025CdnElection #democracy #CanadianValues #diversity #multiculturalism
#ElbowsUp #never51
#populism #conservatism #housing #FoodSecurity #inflation #unions #solidarity

(To my US followers 🤫 ) I wrote: "Obviously, the immensely rich #diversity of choices offers evolutionary advantages for a wide variety of environments." I'm just writing about #moss sex. 😁 Without Newspeak. 💪

I'm proud to use the so-called "flagged" words ▶️ https://steadyhq.com/en/naturematchcuts/posts/00aabadd-63c5-4f3d-93a9-e93ebda61377

Yes, my podcast comeback episode will be about #Moss!

#mosstodon #NatureMatchCuts #podcast #DEI #forbiddenWords #NFI #biology #bryology #ecology #biodiversity #ReconnectWithNature #fascination

The decision to strip chapters from books that had already won the approval of the state’s Republican-controlled board of education represents an escalation in how local school boards run by ideological conservatives influence what children learn.
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-cypress-fairbanks-removed-textbook-chapters?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Texas #Education #School #Diversity #DEI #Books

More of this please:

The #NY State #Education Dept issued a defiant response to #Trump’s threats to pull federal #funding from #PublicSchools over #diversity, #equity & #inclusion programs, a remarkable departure from recent conciliatory approaches of other institutions. A day earlier, the federal govt issued a memo to education ofcls across the nation, telling them to confirm the elimination of all programs it argues *unfairly* promote #DEI.

#law #democracy #FreeSpeech
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/us/politics/new-york-trump-dei-order.html?smid=url-share

🤬 #SCOTUS allows #Trump officials to freeze #teacher training grants over *#DEI*

A divided #SupremeCourt on Fri cleared the way for the admin to at least temporarily freeze up to $65M in #educational grants designed to address #TeacherShortages, which the govt says fund programs that promote #diversity, #equity & #inclusion [as they should, though the Trump admin’s definition of DEI is humanity].

#law #ActivistCourt #PartisanCourt #indoctrination #education #idiocracy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/04/supreme-court-trump-teacher-training-grants-dei/

What you say vs. How you sound 🧐

#Diversity
#LGBTQIA
#ThrowbackThursday

Exit, stage left: X, formerly Twitter.

10th January 2025: https://www.uni-weimar.de/en/university/news/bauhausjournal-online/titel/universities-and-research-institutions-leave-platform-x-formerly-twitter-united-for-diversity-fr/

"Universities and research institutions leave Platform X (formerly Twitter): United for diversity, freedom and science

"Over 60 German-speaking universities and research institutions have decided to take a stand and collectively announce their decision to cease activities on Platform X (formerly Twitter). This withdrawal comes in response to the platform's current direction, which is incompatible with the core values of the participating institutions: openness to the world, scientific integrity, transparency, and democratic discourse. …"

23rd January: https://www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-universities-2025-1-university-of-leeds-first-russell-group-institution-to-quit-x/

"Leeds becomes first Russell Group university to quit X … Elon Musk’s social media site “no longer aligns with our university values” …"

27th April: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/grahamperrin_university-of-brighton-university-of-sussex-activity-7322162293465649152-t2-R

"University of Brighton, University of Sussex, and other like-minded institutions should – now – be at the UK forefront of what began in Germany. … Now. Do the right thing. Please."

#diversity #freedom #science #integrity #transparency #democracy #discourse #openness #universities #research #UK #Leeds #German #Germany #Deutschland #ElonMusk #X #Twitter

When Trump took office, the administration set up a tip line for employees to identify and assist in slashing programs focused on diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility.

Not one of the EPA’s more than 15,000 employees used it, ProPublica learned via a public records request.
https://www.propublica.org/article/epa-diversity-initiatives-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #EPA #Trump #DEI #Diversity #Government

Dismissed by DEI: Trump’s Purge Made Black Women With Stable Federal Jobs an “Easy Target”
—

The president’s attack on diversity efforts has derailed the government careers of highly educated civil servants — even though the jobs some lost were not directly involved with any DEI programs.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-dei-black-women-minorities-careers-jobs-dismissed?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #DEI #Diversity #Government #Trump #BlackMastodon

Judge deems #Trump's #NIH grant cuts illegal

A federal judge in Boston on Monday said the termination of National Institutes of #Health #grants for #research on #diversity-related topics by Trump's admin's was "void & illegal," & accused the government of discriminating against minorities & #LGBT people.

#law #science #medicine
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/federal-judge-says-trump-cuts-nih-grants-are-illegal-politico-reports-2025-06-16/

#Pride #DEI #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #Trans #Transgender #Diversity #BLM #Bigotry

#Introduction, or "everyone wants to be Trad until it's time to do Trad shit."

I write philosophy of a practical nature, and my primary concern is avoiding #TheEcocide.

Humanity has to get itself organized and then evolve in order to save Earth ecosystems.

Based on historical data, I endorse the #FourPillars:

1. Culture-rule: remove bureaucracy, have a unified culture=ethnicity=religion. This requires ethno-nationalism or remigration of all foreign ethnic groups. This is more significant than racial nationalism and opposes both civic nationalism and diversity-socialism.

2. Hierarchy and excellence: social classes are genetically different, and higher IQ makes better decisions, therefore we need both (a) a caste system and (b) constant competition in a natural selection context. This avoids getting overwhelmed by deleterious mutations through unchecked gene drift. We also must aspire to a goal of excellence (arete) as part of our pursuit of the transcendentals "the good, the beautiful, and the real." Aesthetics are important for making choices, and reflect our genetics; nature is both relativistic and consistent, which means that we know only what our genetics allow us to know, and this informs the decisions that we make.

3. Positive reward systems: this means no socialism, wealth redistribution, unions, or other negative reward systems; instead of trying to bring people up to equality by pulling down others, we reward the good, remove the bad, and leave everyone in the middle alone. If they do no harm... do as thou wilt. This includes hard eugenics to remove those who are defective and dangerous to normal people -- insane, "homeless," criminal, promiscuous, retarded -- through exile. A rapist at age 15 is not going to change his stripes, so instead of judging by laws we should assess people quality and remove those incompatible with healthy life for our people.

4. A transcendental goal: we cannot allow material goals (means-over-ends) to overshadow our goal of constant improvement in mind, body, and soul as individuals and as a civilization. Transcendental goals mean accepting nature as it is, both "good" and "bad," and finding a way to adapt and thrive by maximizing the patterns of nature. We are not here to avoid suffering or tragedy, but to make sure our lives are moving toward fulfilling ends, and we accept that bad things will happen and every person has a different destiny. Some are born to sweet delight, and some are born to the endless night.

My philosophy involves two novel concepts, #Crowdism and #Parallelism.

* Crowdism states that all human groups bond on the lowest common denominator, which is fear, so they self-censor mentions of what they fear, and by artificially narrowing their mental maps, create a world of #symbolism which drifts farther from reality whether endorsed or opposed through the #HegelianStepladder in which reactions to a first mover idea end up affirming it. This is a form of survivorship bias, since we are reacting to other reactions instead of going back to the roots of perception, analysis, imagination, and intuition to understand our world.

This means that dualism, socialism, and other forms of individualism are inherent to the individual and amplified by the group. There are no evils manipulating us, only our own error; our enemy is stupidity and anti-realism which we are prone to because we get stronger/clearer signals from our own desires and other people communicating through tokens, language, and symbols than we do from the murky and gritty flood of details that is reality.

* Parallelism says that nature creates in parallel between all possible forms. Notably, thought, material, energy, and pattern are parallel, which means that changes in each reflect the other. Past and future are parallel (cyclic). Different groups evolve in parallel but unevenly because they are relative to one another and also to the whole, which means that a condition like "objectivity" but more accurately described as logical consistency exists. Different individuals learn about life in parallel, a process known as esotericism, and until they have learned the precursors for an idea, it is invisible to them and they will oppose it through a variation on the #DunningKrugerEffect.

In politics, parallelism means that each ethnic group seeks its own autonomy, homeland, and self-determination of its composition and future. That negates the assumptions of goodness behind both colonialism and anti-colonialism. Each group must follow its own path, which only it can define, and dwell alone, so that it can pursue its unique destiny. We see the proof of this in constant friction created by diversity (having more than one ethnic group in a society) in areas like Kosovo, Northern Ireland, Catalan, and Rwanda. Parallelism and culture-rule state that only mono-ethnic societies have a change to survive; diversity forces each group to act for its own interests against the other groups, and will eventually destroy them through #traceadmixture which replaces the original group with a hybrid. Ethnic diversity is genocide.

I offer up further observations:

1. Reality is the only morality. "Might is right," sure, but strength does not determine what thrives in the long term. I reject all symbolism and emotion as parts of the analysis or decision process. Reality alone is consistent and whole (and we are relative to the whole as well as each other) and so the only moral decisions that can be made are based in #consequentialism or measuring the effects on reality instead of our judgments, desires, and sensations in reaction to it.
2. While I am a flaming ethno-nationalist who endorses mono-ethnic societies to avoid genocide, I know good people from every religion, tribe, race, culture, ethnicity, and social class. To protect each group, ethno-nationalism is required. My position is not adversarial to these groups, but nor is it opposed to recognizing #humanbiodiversity (#hbd) and the variations between groups, which are genetic in origin and not "culture" in the sense modern people use the term (political culture, laws, and conflict-avoiding socializing strategies).
3. Half Earth cures all of our environmental problems and nothing else does a damn thing, so all other environmental activism should be discarded.
4. Natural Rights are much better than civil rights (called "human rights" in an international context) because civil/human rights create a government interest in all interactions public and private. That leads to big government, then scientific management, the managerial-administrative state, and finally tyranny when the bureaucracy represents its interests against those of its population.
5. Eugenics is necessary to ensure genetic health. This continues #naturalselection in a civilizational context by removing threats to those who will thrive. It cannot exist in a poly-ethnic context because standards are not common to multiple ethnic groups, and this will unfairly and unwisely disadvantage (a) whatever group gets the worst of this and (b) both groups by forcing an averaging of standards.
6. We seek proaction not reaction as individuals, tribes, and species. We need transcendental goals or we are merely reacting to stimulus including solipsistic stimulus from our own brains including emotions, judgments, peer pressure, and desires. Humanity is evolving out of a monkeylike past in which individualism ruled and people did whatever triggered the strongest stimulus-response, to one in which we "think of as all" per Roky Erickson.

I build my political construct within the work of Plato and Fred Nietzsche. It is parts libertarian, monarchist, traditionalist, and futurist, hence the term #futuristtraditionalism that I use to describe it.

I oppose #DEADS:

* #Democracy (one form of #demotism which prioritizes number of responses over quality of responses; #aristocracy and #monarchism are the only functional forms of leadership, since the State -- oligarchy, democracy, dictatorship, junta, military rule -- is based on methods not goals, and finding agreement on those goals and moving affirmatively toward them as individuals & group is the foundation of all human thriving)
* #Equality (as well as #equity, which is a form of equality: a condition of equality is only "proven" to egalitarians when equity exists, and nature does not "do" equity, instead prefers infinite textural variation as a way to maintain a cycle of selectionism that favors quality over repetition)
* #Atomization (#individualism, #deracination, #socialmobility, bureaucracy dominating over culture; when culture is deposed, ideology/government, bureaucracy/management, commerce, and peer pressure take over).
* #Diversity (it is genocide through Rotherham-style rape as a weapon of warfare, constant ethnic conflict, and eventually genetic replacement through outbreeding).
* #Socialism (and all wealth #redistribution programs, which take from the capable and give to the incapable, who then per the #DunningKrugerEffect (#DKE) are unable to wield that power, wealth, energy, and focus and waste them on trivialities.

I reject the following as well

* #APE (#altruism, #pacifism, #empathy: methods used by sociopaths and psychopaths to manipulate us)
* #Individualism (in philosophy, the "ism" means "this thing above and before all else," and implies a centrality of it to thinking, which means a rejection of reality in favor of the individual; neurotics seek to dominate and destroy nature, culture, and others who rise above the mediocre minimum because those things are threats to their #solipsism or unwillingness to change #mentalmap based on new stimulus or analysis)
* #MeansOverEnds thinking (if per consequentialism something produces better results, "by any means necessary" #EndsOverMeans analysis is required; #MeansOverEnds produces the problem of Crowdism, or bonding on the lowest common denominator of negativity and therefore, to maintain a pleasant mental state, excluding those ideas by disallowing methods related to them, for example in pacifism refusing to fight to save your family or nation)
* #Consensus reality (as a nihilist -- "Nihilists decline to accept the consensual collective hallucination that there exist objective, universal, and absolute/categorical forms of truths, values, and communications" -- I find it to be illogical)

Influential thinkers:

Francis Galton, Charles Darwin, Madison Grant, Arthur Schopenhauer, Marcus Aurelius, Michel Houellebecq, Friedrich Nietzsche, Julius Evola, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Plato, Pentti Linkola, Ted Kaczynski, Mike Davis, W.S. Burroughs, Aldous Huxley, Lothrop Stoddard, Carleton Coon, Barbara Pym, Fred Nietzsche, Marcus Aurelius, Paul Gottfried, Richard Spencer, Peter Brimelow, Jared Taylor, Jane Austen, John Muir, John Zerzan.

Popular Culture:

1. "Be excellent to each other." - Bill and Ted
2. "Sodomize the weak." - Blood
3. "Think of as all." - Roky Erickson
4. "You get what you give." - Deicide
5. "There are no easy answers to the problems that we face, history's a lesson, let us learn by our mistakes." - Kurt Brecht
6. "One law for the ox and the raven is tyranny." - William Blake
7. "The sick must die." - Nguy Lamont Hughs
8. "With every mistake, we must surely be learning." - George Harrison
9. "Life is suffering." - Siddhartha

If you combine these, you end up with a reasonable realistic and yet optimistic outlook on imperfect life. As Paul Ledney says, there is no perfection or purity because these would be boring, like eating an infinite donut on a soft fluffy cloud in the "prosperity gospel" vision of Heaven. Heaven is more appropriately Nibbana, a state of mind which carries between before-life, current life, and afterlife, but requires effort and escaping solipsism.

Religion

To my mind, religions are vocabularies for discussing philosophical concepts about the interaction between physical and metaphysical dimensions of our reality. As a result, I embrace #perennialism, which says that religions share a common understanding of the metaphysical; it does not say that all religions are the same, are "equal" (equality does not exist in nature because equality is the opposite of quality, or degree of texture to reality) or any other such Unitarian or universalist dogma. It says they found the same truths. Religiously, I am a Platonist who borrows extensively from Greco-Roman beliefs, occultism, and Luciferian ideals.

Mission:

I seek a traditional society in unison with parallels between nature, biology, and the divine.

Metal:

I also write about a variant of heavy metal music known as "underground metal," splitting into subgenres like death metal, black metal, grindcore, doom metal, speed metal, and thrash. The creator of the oldest and longest-running metal website, Death Metal Underground, as well as its precursor from early web, BBS, and FTP days, the Dark Legions Archive, I have been writing about metal on AEs through the internet since the late 1980s. I endorse a philosophy called "hessianism" which bases an aesthetics of affirmative, positive realism upon recognition of the necessity of entropy and therefore, a #hedonicimperative to make life pleasurable and epic instead of trying to avoid suffering.

Publications

https://www.brettstevens.org/brett-stevens/writing/
https://www.furious.com/perfect/hackermetal.html
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/21581363.Brett_Stevens

Social media

https://x.com/SODOMGOAT
https://gab.com/groups/63770
https://na.social/@monarchist
https://fsebugoutzone.org/amerika
https://annihilation.social/users/amerika

Mentions

https://www.brettstevens.org/brett-stevens/biography/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_Stevens
https://www.wired.com/2002/03/the-old-mac-that-went-to-pot/
https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hatewatch/american-blogger-praises-oslo-shooter/

References

https://www.amerika.org/politics/what-is-a-1788-conservative/
https://www.amerika.org/politics/restorationists/
https://www.amerika.org/politics/ultright/
https://www.amerika.org/politics/understanding-the-traditional-or-eternal-civilization/
https://www.amerika.org/politics/core-philosophy-of-brett-stevens/
https://www.amerika.org/texts/crowdism/
https://www.amerika.org/politics/a-parallelism-primer/
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1497
https://eowilsonfoundation.org/what-is-the-half-earth-project/
https://fedsoc.org/commentary/fedsoc-blog/how-natural-law-informs-our-understanding-of-the-constitution
https://humanbiologicaldiversity.com/
https://galton.org/
https://www.amerika.org/politics/leftism-egalitarianism-individualism/
https://www.charlesdarwinresearch.org/
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Aldous-Huxley
https://www.juliusevola.com/
https://www.penttilinkola.com/
https://www.amerika.org/politics/selectionism/
https://arxiv.org/abs/0903.5082
http://www.luonnonperintosaatio.fi/
https://www.amerika.org/politics/futurist-traditionalism/
https://www.amerika.org/politics/nihilism-1/
http://nihil.org/
https://www.amerika.org/texts/nihilism/
https://www.deathmetal.org/article/on-death-metal-and-nihilism/
https://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/king_county_files_hate_crime_charges_aga
https://www.amerika.org/texts/the-first-lecture/
https://www.deathmetal.org/article/black-metal-nihilism-and-heresy/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lq30gSOjJ8
https://web.archive.org/web/20240915000000*/https://parvati.tripod.com/perennial.html
https://www.o9a.org/
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1658/1658-h/1658-h.htm
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1656/pg1656.txt
https://www.anus.com/metal
https://www.deathmetal.org/metal
https://www.deathmetal.org/faq/
https://www.deathmetal.org/news/hessian-studies/
https://www.corrupt.org/

Updated from the original here:
https://annihilation.social/notice/Apdv1tpwF2ct37HN5c

US #DOJ to probe hiring practices at #UniversityOfCalifornia

The #Trump *#Justice* Dept will investigate hiring practices at the #University of #California system to examine whether its efforts to boost #faculty #diversity run afoul of *anti-discrimination* laws, the DOJ said in a statement on Thurs.

#law #Constitution #AcademicFreedom #RevengePolitics #WhiteSupremacy #MaleSupremacy #heterosexism #bigotry
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/us-justice-dept-probe-hiring-practices-university-california-2025-06-26/

"Let me tell you a little secret: most New York Jews really like New York’s diversity. We like that it attracts the Mamdanis of the world. We like sharing it with people of lots of different backgrounds. That’s what makes us feel safe and happy here. Especially when they are such a mensch like him: a nice college boy, his parents are professors, he went to Bronx Science, and to a liberal arts school."

~ John Ganz

#Mamdani #NewYork #Jews #diversity #immigrants
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https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/what-it-took-to-win

#AmericanAutocracy

‘Time is running short’: Letters show growing #DOJ ire at #UVA

Over 2 months this spring, *#Justice* Dept officials sent 7 letters to the #UniversityOfVirginia, alleging possible *racial* #discrimination in #admissions & #hiring, inaction to address *#antisemitism* [#FreeSpeech] on campus, & a failure to cleanse #diversity, #equity & #inclusion efforts at the institution.

#law #democracy #Constitution #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #tyranny #Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/07/02/university-of-virginia-justice-department-investigation-letters/