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While the law is set to go into effect Jan. 1, many of Texas’ public universities have already begun ramping down their DEI practices and programs after the governor’s chief of staff sent a memo in February calling DEI hiring initiatives illegal.

Did you know Monopoly was invented by a woman named Elizabeth Magie in 1903? Originally ‘The Landlord’s Game,’ it was designed as a protest against the big monopolists like Carnegie & Rockefeller. But it was Charles Darrow, an unemployed salesman, who eventually sold it to Parker Brothers after playing a version. Parker Brothers credited Monopoly with saving their company. Magie died in 1948 without recognition. Darrow became very wealthy & his legend lives on. #history

Filipinos endure more expensive but slower internet in Southeast Asia. "In fixed broadband, Philippines' average speed is 92Mbps. That’s lower than Singapore’s 264Mbps, Thailand’s 216Mbps, Malaysia’s 112Mbps, Vietnam’s 105Mbps, and Brunei’s 94Mbps." #Philippines #Asian #Filipino #Balita #ABSCBN #WorldBank #Internet #Mobile #TootSEA #ASEAN #Asia #InternetSpeed

Peterborough restaurant provides free meals on Easter for less fortunate On Easter Sunday, the Original Spaghetti House Restaurant served hundreds of free meals to individuals in need. The meals are provided each Christmas, Easter and Thanksgiving. #globalnews #Canada #EasterSunday #Homeless #MealGiveaway

I am sad to not be able to safely attend FOSDEM this year. There are so many people I want to spend time with. However, as is the case with hundreds or maybe thousands of us past attendees, our immune systems can't handle the risk of such a crowded event that makes no effort to implement a health and safety plan. SARS-CoV-2 viral load levels in Belgium this January were 43x what they were in July, as indicated by highly reliable wastewater sampling. Safe events can still happen: @phpledge

The most bizarre thing about being in an MNC is when the goras come to visit your office branch and start giving speeches and cracking jokes, and all the Indians laugh and giggle as if their crush just made a joke We gotta stop this fetishization of whiteness man

Myself, am old enough to remember when we all had to learn that liking and trusting someone was not a prophylactic… A lesson that too many have yet to learn again now—when air has become a more taboo topic of discussion than sex. Which means am also old enough to remember how the CDC handled HIV/AIDS. Liking and trusting white supremacist (thus health supremacist), organizations that operate within a white supremacist nation-state is not a prophylactic. Nor is prepending the word "People's".

An interactive and highly illustrated story that investigates the historic rubber industry in Malaya, and its discriminative practices.