More, yet. - 28 July - 12 August 02014
Aug. 12th, 2014 08:15 amPatriarchy is an impossible game to win - and women playing well according to the rules will likely die, with the choice of "slowly or swiftly?" as the only option.
If you wish to be conscious about your purchasing, Good Books is a used book store that donates their profits to OxFam. For not-books, Buycott will tell you whether a particular brand mark supports causes you oppose.
WisCon made a decision about a retired case of harassment - provisional, appealable ban - after a year of appearing to do nothing. The official explanations aren't that great, either. The committee then came back and made a stronger decision - a permanent ban.
The Book Of Jubilation offers an insight into the mind of the Nice Guy (TM) and how easy it is to crush someone, intentionally or otherwise, who already believes their worth to potential partners is near nil.
When you fight with others, do you sling truths as weapons, or do your fire cutlery from your broadside cannons?
Stereotypes about women being less competent in certain affairs lead others to lie to them in negotiations more. Isn't that...peachy. Presumably, appearing competent from the start helps with this, but it also produces other stereotypes about women being cold and bitchy, so there's no real easy for any woman to be treated well, or like how men are treated, by others.
A school fired one of its instructors after his supervisor told him that a blog post on homophones made it sound like the school was talking about gay relationships. There is not nearly enough facepalm in the universe for this, but then there are the other comments allegedly made that seal the deal about the boss being an ass. On the opposite end teaching children sex-positivity early, with age-appropriate phrases and words.
Amazon believes self-publishers are the key leverage point needed to make the Hachette Book Group accede to Amazon's wishes on electronic book pricing. As one might suspect, if one stopped to think about it for a bit, Amazon's tactics are poor, at best.
It's not always obvious, but being able to cook on your own carries with it a lot of unstated assumptions about privileges, when cooking should be a much more democratic affair. And fraught with less fear, as well. You may also want to look skeptically at cardiothoracic surgeons with television programs.
Scientists are interested as to whether a gene mutation detectable in the blood could be an accurate predictor of whether someone will have a high suicide risk.
Nicola Griffith points out that a genre that constantly asks questions about what could be will eventually begin to apply those questions to itself, much to the consternation of those who set themselves up as its leaders and most important people. If your primary question is What If..., at some point the question will turn internally...
Published authors talk about the Suck Fairy and how they deal (or don't) with its presence. On a different topic, published authors on the reasons they continue to write. And, for your edification, a list of 101-level discourse on queer intersectionality, courtesy![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
skud.
If you do things with privacy and security in mind, the US National Security Agency is alerted to your actions so that they can study you more and make an arbitrary decision about you. To that effect, they may record the audio of your telephone conversations. And all of this warrantless, baked-into-infrastructure spying is costing the United States many billions of dollars in lost technology contracts, credibility in the international sphere about promoting freedom on the Internet, and several alliances and good will from other countries.
Slightly less doomy, there's also the site that teaches you about geotagging in digital pictures by plotting where your cat lives.
An investigation into the FBI's forensics unit revealed flaws in their process spanning two decades into the past, affecting more than 2600 convictions. Not to ask the obvious question, but why did it take two decades to notice this?
As with other things that are built with the ideal of people being nice to each other, USB controller firmware can be hacked and rewritten to do any sort of malicious task thought, and there's no easy way to detect compromise or to reverse it. Which would cement the idea of USB devices as disposable at best...and hurts libraries a lot, since we encourage people to bring and use their own devices, since we wipe sessions after they're finished.
Security and encryption for remote access and administration tools of cellular phones can be broken, putting a lot of phones at risk for malicious OTAs and device usage.
It may seem like a good deal to have unlimited app access, but what you're trading is unlimited access to everything, not just a carrier's preferred apps.
The Jimmy Johns sandwich chain is investigating a security breach at a payment processor used by many of their franchisees.
Confirming what was already suspected, minority defendants are much more likely to receive worse outcomes, even in plea bargains, than white defendants. How unsurprising it is, when cultural stereotypes still exist that paint minorities as dangerous and requiring exclusion from proper white society.
After it was pointed out to him as an ablist slur, Weird Al Yankovich apologized for the use of "spastic" in Word Crimes. As a professional satirist and parodist, he is interested in making sure he always punches up. George Takei provides an example of why intersectionality is important - it does no good tip advocate for yourself and not for everyone else, as well.
Coping with brainweasels and life is easier when you have someone who can manage the small things and details. Because even the small things take energy and spoons, yo.
Cultural context may influence the demeanor of heard voices, according to a Stanford study. Cultures that view hearing voices as a sign of pathology tend to report angrier, harsher voices than those who don't.
Learning new languages also learns new ways of looking at the world, because languages reflect the environments they came into existence in. So it's possible to describe certain concepts more easily or in greater detail in other languages, because they evolved the need to do so.
A significant number of cultures in the world find the pursuit of happiness counterproductive, and many who are happy have anxiety about when it will end.
Doctors who work in edge cases and doctors who work in conventional cases need to talk with each other better - and the people who swear by one or the other need to put down their pitchforks. Also, people who make money by making edge cases health fads should be stood in front of effective methods for convincing people past behavior is bad.
A rumination on how the Federation of Star Trek manages to exist as a money-less society - because they changed the medium of exchange.
The Museum of Online Museums - providing indexing and exhibition of collections worldwide that are on the World Wide Web.
An Austrian park switches from being a place to take a stroll to a place to take a dive when the spring melt and rains arrive.
NASA has decided on what it wants to send to Mars on the next mission. The question is whether they'll have enough budget to send it there.
Last for tonight, a secret operation that got silly fast, even though the misinformation campaign apparently worked, a library of wildlife sounds, the cookies of the Dark Side, learning to swim like a merperson, the illustrations of T.S. Eliot, the chemistry of book odors, soap bubbles that look like alien planets, high-magnification pictures of life at work, and fabric that detects changes in the environment and adjusts its coloration accordingly.
If you wish to be conscious about your purchasing, Good Books is a used book store that donates their profits to OxFam. For not-books, Buycott will tell you whether a particular brand mark supports causes you oppose.
WisCon made a decision about a retired case of harassment - provisional, appealable ban - after a year of appearing to do nothing. The official explanations aren't that great, either. The committee then came back and made a stronger decision - a permanent ban.
The Book Of Jubilation offers an insight into the mind of the Nice Guy (TM) and how easy it is to crush someone, intentionally or otherwise, who already believes their worth to potential partners is near nil.
When you fight with others, do you sling truths as weapons, or do your fire cutlery from your broadside cannons?
Stereotypes about women being less competent in certain affairs lead others to lie to them in negotiations more. Isn't that...peachy. Presumably, appearing competent from the start helps with this, but it also produces other stereotypes about women being cold and bitchy, so there's no real easy for any woman to be treated well, or like how men are treated, by others.
A school fired one of its instructors after his supervisor told him that a blog post on homophones made it sound like the school was talking about gay relationships. There is not nearly enough facepalm in the universe for this, but then there are the other comments allegedly made that seal the deal about the boss being an ass. On the opposite end teaching children sex-positivity early, with age-appropriate phrases and words.
Amazon believes self-publishers are the key leverage point needed to make the Hachette Book Group accede to Amazon's wishes on electronic book pricing. As one might suspect, if one stopped to think about it for a bit, Amazon's tactics are poor, at best.
It's not always obvious, but being able to cook on your own carries with it a lot of unstated assumptions about privileges, when cooking should be a much more democratic affair. And fraught with less fear, as well. You may also want to look skeptically at cardiothoracic surgeons with television programs.
Scientists are interested as to whether a gene mutation detectable in the blood could be an accurate predictor of whether someone will have a high suicide risk.
Nicola Griffith points out that a genre that constantly asks questions about what could be will eventually begin to apply those questions to itself, much to the consternation of those who set themselves up as its leaders and most important people. If your primary question is What If..., at some point the question will turn internally...
Published authors talk about the Suck Fairy and how they deal (or don't) with its presence. On a different topic, published authors on the reasons they continue to write. And, for your edification, a list of 101-level discourse on queer intersectionality, courtesy
skud.If you do things with privacy and security in mind, the US National Security Agency is alerted to your actions so that they can study you more and make an arbitrary decision about you. To that effect, they may record the audio of your telephone conversations. And all of this warrantless, baked-into-infrastructure spying is costing the United States many billions of dollars in lost technology contracts, credibility in the international sphere about promoting freedom on the Internet, and several alliances and good will from other countries.
Slightly less doomy, there's also the site that teaches you about geotagging in digital pictures by plotting where your cat lives.
An investigation into the FBI's forensics unit revealed flaws in their process spanning two decades into the past, affecting more than 2600 convictions. Not to ask the obvious question, but why did it take two decades to notice this?
As with other things that are built with the ideal of people being nice to each other, USB controller firmware can be hacked and rewritten to do any sort of malicious task thought, and there's no easy way to detect compromise or to reverse it. Which would cement the idea of USB devices as disposable at best...and hurts libraries a lot, since we encourage people to bring and use their own devices, since we wipe sessions after they're finished.
Security and encryption for remote access and administration tools of cellular phones can be broken, putting a lot of phones at risk for malicious OTAs and device usage.
It may seem like a good deal to have unlimited app access, but what you're trading is unlimited access to everything, not just a carrier's preferred apps.
The Jimmy Johns sandwich chain is investigating a security breach at a payment processor used by many of their franchisees.
Confirming what was already suspected, minority defendants are much more likely to receive worse outcomes, even in plea bargains, than white defendants. How unsurprising it is, when cultural stereotypes still exist that paint minorities as dangerous and requiring exclusion from proper white society.
After it was pointed out to him as an ablist slur, Weird Al Yankovich apologized for the use of "spastic" in Word Crimes. As a professional satirist and parodist, he is interested in making sure he always punches up. George Takei provides an example of why intersectionality is important - it does no good tip advocate for yourself and not for everyone else, as well.
Coping with brainweasels and life is easier when you have someone who can manage the small things and details. Because even the small things take energy and spoons, yo.
Cultural context may influence the demeanor of heard voices, according to a Stanford study. Cultures that view hearing voices as a sign of pathology tend to report angrier, harsher voices than those who don't.
Learning new languages also learns new ways of looking at the world, because languages reflect the environments they came into existence in. So it's possible to describe certain concepts more easily or in greater detail in other languages, because they evolved the need to do so.
A significant number of cultures in the world find the pursuit of happiness counterproductive, and many who are happy have anxiety about when it will end.
Doctors who work in edge cases and doctors who work in conventional cases need to talk with each other better - and the people who swear by one or the other need to put down their pitchforks. Also, people who make money by making edge cases health fads should be stood in front of effective methods for convincing people past behavior is bad.
A rumination on how the Federation of Star Trek manages to exist as a money-less society - because they changed the medium of exchange.
The Museum of Online Museums - providing indexing and exhibition of collections worldwide that are on the World Wide Web.
An Austrian park switches from being a place to take a stroll to a place to take a dive when the spring melt and rains arrive.
NASA has decided on what it wants to send to Mars on the next mission. The question is whether they'll have enough budget to send it there.
Last for tonight, a secret operation that got silly fast, even though the misinformation campaign apparently worked, a library of wildlife sounds, the cookies of the Dark Side, learning to swim like a merperson, the illustrations of T.S. Eliot, the chemistry of book odors, soap bubbles that look like alien planets, high-magnification pictures of life at work, and fabric that detects changes in the environment and adjusts its coloration accordingly.
