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We start with the death of Robin Williams, actor and comedian, at 63 years of age. Mr. Williams was known for comedic and dramatic roles through his career, and was apparently battling the beginnings of Parkinson's disease at the time of his death. There are lessons to be learned from this, and many of them are not what the media says they are.
When Robin Williams' daughter went to Twitter to grieve, she was beset by harassers. So much so that she swore off Twitter, and Twitter actually decided to take notice and plans on doing something about it. Maybe this time, they will, unlike so many other women who have complained about their harassment to Twitter. Because experience is almost the only way to truly understand. But others posting about their experience of depression sometimes helps others to the necessary empathy.
The Smithsonian Institution needs volunteers to help transcribe digitized documents in its collections, because what they have is far too much for their own staff to get done in any reasonable time.
Breakfast on the morning after a sexual assault - because it was thought that breakfast could erase what happened. It doesn't. And when you have Anita Sarkeesian forced by a stalker to leave her house over death and rape threats that included the address of her residence, it makes the truth even more plain - feminists are persecuted for their beliefs.
Casual racism at heavily-accented English drives the children of immigrants to develop a perfect-sounding, broadcast-style English. And then, at least for Arthur Chu, voice actor and Jeopardy! champion, his acting jobs want him to go back to the accent he spent so much time getting rid of. For "authenticity". As one might guess, there really is no way to win when the -ism cuts both ways. And when movies about the blackest of black entertainers have an all-white creative team. Because Hollywood will happily appropriate anything it can, but it won't actually put minorities in charge of what's being appropriated. They might actually do it authentically, and that would make the audience uncomfortable. Also on the topic, what you consider to be the prototypical example of a category also establishes what you believe is not, even though the real boundaries of a category are far fuzzier than anyone believes. That's what makes erasure easy to do, and it helps establish the points where the hedges happen - where X is technically Y, but it's not prototypically so, so difference in treatment is justifiable (even though it isn't).
Maine authorities captured a man who had been living outdoors and stealing from the cabins for nearly thirty years - and a GQ reporter tries to get his story.
In the "governors under federal indictment" department, Governor Bob McDonnell is defending his bribery and corruption charges by saying it was his wife that accepted the gifts, and his marriage was falling apart when he stepped into the Governor's Office.
Governor Cash and Prizes is not the only member of the club any more. Governor Rick Perry was inducted on an abuse of power charge after he zeroed the funding for the state government ethics watching office after its Democratic head refused to resign after a DUI charge. The governor claims that he's just doing his governor thing and there's no retaliation or intimidation, but his case is harmed significantly by Governor Perry not doing anything about the other persons of the same level who were also charged with similar offenses.
The citation of sources in works is a fundamental tenet of academic rigor and honesty - allowing people, especially children, to claim other works as their own tacitly says it is okay to cheat in other places as well. (One of the examples cited could be swapped out with , considering that the possible scientific plagiarism involving lionfish appears to have been the result of a bad headline, but even then, proper citation and attribution can help remove even the appearance of impropriety.)
The nature of social justice is such that it becomes too easy to be swamped by all the things or to fight on past exhaustion. It is a marathon, not a sprint, and long-term care and thinking will help avoid the burnout. Because you can find plenty of examples. The Advocate, for example, noted a piece written on a website that seems designed to be as retrograde as possible.
People making categorical statements about others often do so with an eye toward reinforcing their own privileges or in trying to avoid thinking about and working through something that upsets them. That also means intersectionality will remain a thing forever - even in places where the definitions tend to run "not this, not that", there are those seeking to remove the ability to define oneself away from images and definitions, instead of toward them. And it also means finding clothes that fit the definition can be a nightmare. It can also lead to a realization of how easy it is to become complacent about one's privilege, even if that privilege is manufactured.
But it also means pay attention to the messages that posit deities as interested in sustaining life, instead of the ones that insist the deities are interested only in destroying it. I much prefer those who see the Being Represented By The Tetragrammaton as one interested in life, who can be persuaded, either by the humans or by the satans, that his violent impulses should be contained and that occasionally, he's being a jerk and needs to stop. The ones who see him only as a destroyer to be wielded against their enemies have failed to notice the context. Those people are dangerous.
Numbers from a survey conducted with regard to harassment experiences and the American Library Association's Code of Conduct. Which are then accompanied by stories of harassment experiences from attendees and the standard bevy of the clueless and the trolls to someone pointing out harassment happens. Thing is, there's a lot you, as conference attendee, concom, or otherwise can do to curb harassment. (If you don't like text, it also comes in pictures.)
An Iranian woman, Dr. Maryam Mirzakhani, will be the first to receive the Fields Medal, an impressive achievement in mathematics, for her body of work in relation to hyperbolic geometry. Imagine what maths, or many other disciplines, would be like if all women were able to persist in their passions.
One of the most infamous Chick Tracts has received a movie treatment that tries to stay faithful to the original material as much as possible. Since it's a Chick Tract, Hilarity Ensues.
Using the Chronicles of Narnia, problems and all, as a touchstone for seeing the world and its magic.
Google Translate used to have many different meanings for the placeholder text phrase "lorem ipsum" and its different parts and pieces. Some of those phrases made it look like someone could have used the Translate function to pass along secret messages. It's also likely that this was machine learning trying to make sense of nothing. On the other side, strategies on using the connedtions in mythic poems and stories to learn more about them and reconstructing a song from very, very long ago.
Advice for those entering school - geared to community colleges, but applicable everywhere. And a very short list of technologyblearning resources.
More credit card numbers stolen, this time from the parent company of Albertsons or Jewel-Osco - and an assertion that the market for such things may be saturated because of all the mass stealing of data. Speaking of security, people who work in cybersecurity offer advice on how to keep kids safe on-line, and it runs the gamut from trusting kids to spying on them.
An agent of the London Metropolitan Police charged with infiltrating protest groups had a son with one woman he was supposed to infiltrate...and at least two other relationships while he jilted the mother of his son. That is compared with the pain and grief of losing a mother to cancer, and all the pain and grief of your mother still being dead.
Pregnancy, at the cellular level, is a pitched battle between mother and fetus, both trying to maximize their own health and development. This conflict may also be part of the reason why ape brains are bigger than many other animals.
And yet more with pain - At The Will Of The Body, which is a series about what happens when the pain finally gets so great a doctor has to become a patient, pushing a person who normally lived in the mind firmly back into the body, the ways in which modern medicine reduces people to bodies, the conscientiously maintained illusion that doctors do not need medicine, only give it, and a reason, perhaps, why doctors do not make good patients at all.
Last for tonight, determined animals that are cute while they are determined, anxious dragon stickers, children in meticulously-constructed vintage-type photographs, the stories that tattoos tell, scissors throughout history, the language in Webster's dictionary, compared to the drier successors, and the utter success of the Discordians in their practice.
When Robin Williams' daughter went to Twitter to grieve, she was beset by harassers. So much so that she swore off Twitter, and Twitter actually decided to take notice and plans on doing something about it. Maybe this time, they will, unlike so many other women who have complained about their harassment to Twitter. Because experience is almost the only way to truly understand. But others posting about their experience of depression sometimes helps others to the necessary empathy.
The Smithsonian Institution needs volunteers to help transcribe digitized documents in its collections, because what they have is far too much for their own staff to get done in any reasonable time.
Breakfast on the morning after a sexual assault - because it was thought that breakfast could erase what happened. It doesn't. And when you have Anita Sarkeesian forced by a stalker to leave her house over death and rape threats that included the address of her residence, it makes the truth even more plain - feminists are persecuted for their beliefs.
Casual racism at heavily-accented English drives the children of immigrants to develop a perfect-sounding, broadcast-style English. And then, at least for Arthur Chu, voice actor and Jeopardy! champion, his acting jobs want him to go back to the accent he spent so much time getting rid of. For "authenticity". As one might guess, there really is no way to win when the -ism cuts both ways. And when movies about the blackest of black entertainers have an all-white creative team. Because Hollywood will happily appropriate anything it can, but it won't actually put minorities in charge of what's being appropriated. They might actually do it authentically, and that would make the audience uncomfortable. Also on the topic, what you consider to be the prototypical example of a category also establishes what you believe is not, even though the real boundaries of a category are far fuzzier than anyone believes. That's what makes erasure easy to do, and it helps establish the points where the hedges happen - where X is technically Y, but it's not prototypically so, so difference in treatment is justifiable (even though it isn't).
Maine authorities captured a man who had been living outdoors and stealing from the cabins for nearly thirty years - and a GQ reporter tries to get his story.
In the "governors under federal indictment" department, Governor Bob McDonnell is defending his bribery and corruption charges by saying it was his wife that accepted the gifts, and his marriage was falling apart when he stepped into the Governor's Office.
Governor Cash and Prizes is not the only member of the club any more. Governor Rick Perry was inducted on an abuse of power charge after he zeroed the funding for the state government ethics watching office after its Democratic head refused to resign after a DUI charge. The governor claims that he's just doing his governor thing and there's no retaliation or intimidation, but his case is harmed significantly by Governor Perry not doing anything about the other persons of the same level who were also charged with similar offenses.
The citation of sources in works is a fundamental tenet of academic rigor and honesty - allowing people, especially children, to claim other works as their own tacitly says it is okay to cheat in other places as well. (One of the examples cited could be swapped out with , considering that the possible scientific plagiarism involving lionfish appears to have been the result of a bad headline, but even then, proper citation and attribution can help remove even the appearance of impropriety.)
The nature of social justice is such that it becomes too easy to be swamped by all the things or to fight on past exhaustion. It is a marathon, not a sprint, and long-term care and thinking will help avoid the burnout. Because you can find plenty of examples. The Advocate, for example, noted a piece written on a website that seems designed to be as retrograde as possible.
People making categorical statements about others often do so with an eye toward reinforcing their own privileges or in trying to avoid thinking about and working through something that upsets them. That also means intersectionality will remain a thing forever - even in places where the definitions tend to run "not this, not that", there are those seeking to remove the ability to define oneself away from images and definitions, instead of toward them. And it also means finding clothes that fit the definition can be a nightmare. It can also lead to a realization of how easy it is to become complacent about one's privilege, even if that privilege is manufactured.
But it also means pay attention to the messages that posit deities as interested in sustaining life, instead of the ones that insist the deities are interested only in destroying it. I much prefer those who see the Being Represented By The Tetragrammaton as one interested in life, who can be persuaded, either by the humans or by the satans, that his violent impulses should be contained and that occasionally, he's being a jerk and needs to stop. The ones who see him only as a destroyer to be wielded against their enemies have failed to notice the context. Those people are dangerous.
Numbers from a survey conducted with regard to harassment experiences and the American Library Association's Code of Conduct. Which are then accompanied by stories of harassment experiences from attendees and the standard bevy of the clueless and the trolls to someone pointing out harassment happens. Thing is, there's a lot you, as conference attendee, concom, or otherwise can do to curb harassment. (If you don't like text, it also comes in pictures.)
An Iranian woman, Dr. Maryam Mirzakhani, will be the first to receive the Fields Medal, an impressive achievement in mathematics, for her body of work in relation to hyperbolic geometry. Imagine what maths, or many other disciplines, would be like if all women were able to persist in their passions.
One of the most infamous Chick Tracts has received a movie treatment that tries to stay faithful to the original material as much as possible. Since it's a Chick Tract, Hilarity Ensues.
Using the Chronicles of Narnia, problems and all, as a touchstone for seeing the world and its magic.
Google Translate used to have many different meanings for the placeholder text phrase "lorem ipsum" and its different parts and pieces. Some of those phrases made it look like someone could have used the Translate function to pass along secret messages. It's also likely that this was machine learning trying to make sense of nothing. On the other side, strategies on using the connedtions in mythic poems and stories to learn more about them and reconstructing a song from very, very long ago.
Advice for those entering school - geared to community colleges, but applicable everywhere. And a very short list of technologyblearning resources.
More credit card numbers stolen, this time from the parent company of Albertsons or Jewel-Osco - and an assertion that the market for such things may be saturated because of all the mass stealing of data. Speaking of security, people who work in cybersecurity offer advice on how to keep kids safe on-line, and it runs the gamut from trusting kids to spying on them.
An agent of the London Metropolitan Police charged with infiltrating protest groups had a son with one woman he was supposed to infiltrate...and at least two other relationships while he jilted the mother of his son. That is compared with the pain and grief of losing a mother to cancer, and all the pain and grief of your mother still being dead.
Pregnancy, at the cellular level, is a pitched battle between mother and fetus, both trying to maximize their own health and development. This conflict may also be part of the reason why ape brains are bigger than many other animals.
And yet more with pain - At The Will Of The Body, which is a series about what happens when the pain finally gets so great a doctor has to become a patient, pushing a person who normally lived in the mind firmly back into the body, the ways in which modern medicine reduces people to bodies, the conscientiously maintained illusion that doctors do not need medicine, only give it, and a reason, perhaps, why doctors do not make good patients at all.
Last for tonight, determined animals that are cute while they are determined, anxious dragon stickers, children in meticulously-constructed vintage-type photographs, the stories that tattoos tell, scissors throughout history, the language in Webster's dictionary, compared to the drier successors, and the utter success of the Discordians in their practice.
