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We start with Libba Bray, published author, talking about the depths of depression. And, for juxtaposition, The story of the Dalai Lama going to a ski resort, and the experiences gained there, and how an author about sexuality ended up not doing a whole lot with it after they'd achieved a state that threatened to overwhelm them.
If you were looking for where the Workers of the World Wide Web are going to come from, Amazon's Mechanical Turk would be a really good place to look - most of its work pays far too little, offers no employee anything, and allows people posting tasks to keep the result regardless of whether they pay up or not.
Even in a contest that nominally professes a free press, censorship is easy - whatever the advertisers say, goes. Because they're the only ones with the money the newspaper needs to survive. Because media had been conglomerated to the degree that it requires that kind of money to survive. And yet, those same conglomerates will find new ways to make money off fannish expressions.
danah boyd talks about how to be a well-read author, you often have to be a well-sold author, and that means going against your instincts to give things away on day zero. This is in relation to her new book, It's Complimented, about the social lives of today's teenagers, which is available for download as will as purchase. On the other side of that, writing appears to be the only discipline of the arts where people complain that someone is building their skill by emulating successful artists. Even Kurt Vonnegut points out that you have to start somewhere.
There are also old problems that require dealing with - like how science occupations have a culture that is completely toxic to keeping diversity, starting with the educational institutions that are supposed to be training them.
And an attempted compliment that chooses to do a whole lot of fat-shaming instead. If you haven't figured out all the reasons why that would not be as complimentary as someone apparently thought, then there's a lot of reading to do. Also, it is unlikely your corporate wellness program is going to be any help for whatever outcomes you want, despite how they tout the program.
The manufacturers of the Samuel Adams brand of beer are withdrawing their participation in the St. Patrick's Day parade in Boston because the parade excludes openly LGBT individuals from participation.
Shifting from maximizing happiness to satisficing changes some things, but it draws snark from the columnist as well because they can't necessarily satisfice without trying to maximize the satisficing.
If you're in San Fransisco and need a ride, especially if you're someome the cabbies aren't going to take, going somewhere they don't want to go, consider Homobiles, a donation-run car service that exists because people can't always afford a car, or because some cabbies don't want customers.
Unsurprisingly, if you want to end poverty and homelessness, you have to be able to address issues like mental health care, to find people jobs, and to get them into housing that works with their needs and opportunities.
Conceptions of sexuality that place people in a binary that only moves in one direction (e.g. virginity) leave out the language and importance of consent and are instrumental in perpetuating ideas that reduce women to property or things to be used. As a perfect example of this, check out this "game" that shows the failings of the virginity concept, as well as being highly sexist.
The inability of a school to recognize a disability led to the accusation of a first-grader of sexual behaviors, their eventual suspension, and the investigation of the family by a social services organization. All while the family of the child was providing proof of what the behavior was stemming from (anxiety) and trying to work with the school.
The FDA approved a hydrocodone pill whose dose is sufficiently strong that two pills is an overdose. Because we need more pills like that on the market.
If you are a politician, the words you choose had better mean what they actually mean. Otherwise, expect to be made fun of and not taken seriously.
Computer and technology terminology are not always universally known, even in high-tech societies, which speaks to the need for all people to have instruction available to them, should they need it. Most people, if they don't have relatives who will walk them through it, will get their instruction from the public library. Think about that for a moment.
Then contemplate the ease in which someone was able to access personally identifying information for the purposes of fraud by posing as a private investigator and purchasing access to the data brokers who keep that information warehoused.
Additionally, both Sally Beauty and Target corporation did not act on alerts that would have allowed them to stop credit card number theft.
And then go play the updated version of the Hitchhiker's Guide Interactive Fiction, still as difficult as ever.
Last for tonight, Louis Armstrong cultivated a personality that made it seem like he didn't care about politics or racial equality. The opposite is the truth.
And if you want a more diverse crowd of fans for your sport, sell the sport, not stereotypes you think will attract the minority.
If you were looking for where the Workers of the World Wide Web are going to come from, Amazon's Mechanical Turk would be a really good place to look - most of its work pays far too little, offers no employee anything, and allows people posting tasks to keep the result regardless of whether they pay up or not.
Even in a contest that nominally professes a free press, censorship is easy - whatever the advertisers say, goes. Because they're the only ones with the money the newspaper needs to survive. Because media had been conglomerated to the degree that it requires that kind of money to survive. And yet, those same conglomerates will find new ways to make money off fannish expressions.
danah boyd talks about how to be a well-read author, you often have to be a well-sold author, and that means going against your instincts to give things away on day zero. This is in relation to her new book, It's Complimented, about the social lives of today's teenagers, which is available for download as will as purchase. On the other side of that, writing appears to be the only discipline of the arts where people complain that someone is building their skill by emulating successful artists. Even Kurt Vonnegut points out that you have to start somewhere.
There are also old problems that require dealing with - like how science occupations have a culture that is completely toxic to keeping diversity, starting with the educational institutions that are supposed to be training them.
And an attempted compliment that chooses to do a whole lot of fat-shaming instead. If you haven't figured out all the reasons why that would not be as complimentary as someone apparently thought, then there's a lot of reading to do. Also, it is unlikely your corporate wellness program is going to be any help for whatever outcomes you want, despite how they tout the program.
The manufacturers of the Samuel Adams brand of beer are withdrawing their participation in the St. Patrick's Day parade in Boston because the parade excludes openly LGBT individuals from participation.
Shifting from maximizing happiness to satisficing changes some things, but it draws snark from the columnist as well because they can't necessarily satisfice without trying to maximize the satisficing.
If you're in San Fransisco and need a ride, especially if you're someome the cabbies aren't going to take, going somewhere they don't want to go, consider Homobiles, a donation-run car service that exists because people can't always afford a car, or because some cabbies don't want customers.
Unsurprisingly, if you want to end poverty and homelessness, you have to be able to address issues like mental health care, to find people jobs, and to get them into housing that works with their needs and opportunities.
Conceptions of sexuality that place people in a binary that only moves in one direction (e.g. virginity) leave out the language and importance of consent and are instrumental in perpetuating ideas that reduce women to property or things to be used. As a perfect example of this, check out this "game" that shows the failings of the virginity concept, as well as being highly sexist.
The inability of a school to recognize a disability led to the accusation of a first-grader of sexual behaviors, their eventual suspension, and the investigation of the family by a social services organization. All while the family of the child was providing proof of what the behavior was stemming from (anxiety) and trying to work with the school.
The FDA approved a hydrocodone pill whose dose is sufficiently strong that two pills is an overdose. Because we need more pills like that on the market.
If you are a politician, the words you choose had better mean what they actually mean. Otherwise, expect to be made fun of and not taken seriously.
Computer and technology terminology are not always universally known, even in high-tech societies, which speaks to the need for all people to have instruction available to them, should they need it. Most people, if they don't have relatives who will walk them through it, will get their instruction from the public library. Think about that for a moment.
Then contemplate the ease in which someone was able to access personally identifying information for the purposes of fraud by posing as a private investigator and purchasing access to the data brokers who keep that information warehoused.
Additionally, both Sally Beauty and Target corporation did not act on alerts that would have allowed them to stop credit card number theft.
And then go play the updated version of the Hitchhiker's Guide Interactive Fiction, still as difficult as ever.
Last for tonight, Louis Armstrong cultivated a personality that made it seem like he didn't care about politics or racial equality. The opposite is the truth.
And if you want a more diverse crowd of fans for your sport, sell the sport, not stereotypes you think will attract the minority.
