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Let's start this time with women cartoonists drawing naked women's bodies, along with quotes from the cartoonists about bodies.
Continuing, a letter, from one guy to another, containing many of the mistakes and assumptions made about women, their experiences, and feminism, asking whether or not his views are sexist. (They are.) Notice this - calling for more male YA authors ignores that there are plenty there already, and that they're actually showing up a lot on the award and bestseller lists. Which suggests a very different thing than "the aren't enough male YA authors". More like people are of the opinion that women can't be too successful, or that women who have written bestselling books shouldn't try their hand at film adaptation, or that no woman could possibly understand video games enough to talk about their tropes. These and other claims leveled against Anita Sarkeesian are baseless and do not actually address what she is talking about, but all the same, they are waved about as "proof" that women are fundamentally incompatible with things that men used to keep as their exclusive property.
Or that women are meant solely to be objects, with their nude bodies traded in pictures, with no hack too low to score such pictures. And that's before even the threat of violent possibilities dissuaded women from making complaints in places that have codes of conduct.
And even though progress is painfully slow on these fronts, the arc of the future also bends toward justice, turning what used to be effective attacks into kindling for a much bigger pushback.
Calling a person exotic is not a compliment, because it places them outside the boundaries of conventional words and descriptors. For people, and especially women, of color, there's a long history of bad things that come with being outside the mainstream. It piss up in other places, too, like how the systemic exclusion of women from STEAM means many of the things we expect from The Future aren't here yet because we're not devoting all the brains we can to those problems.
Cards Against Humanity, and many other forms of satire, often rely on us laughing at something because we think it's obvious how wrong it is, and how laughable the people are who would take it seriously. And then there's Poe's Law.
One might suggest that the entirety of the Congress be arraigned on charges, possibly including treason, as they continue to refuse to do the duties regarding War mandated to them by the Constitution.
Insanity is famously defined as doing the same thing and expecting different results. United States war policy and invasion policy has not been sane since Vietnam, if not earlier, even if the current incarnation is the return, yet again, to Iraq, now expanded to Syria as well.
Consumer debts from a variety of sources are ending up in court, where creditors will attempt to manipulate the situation into summary judgment against the debtor, allowing for garnishment of wages up to 25 percent of the paycheck. Additionally, any money in a bank account could be seized to attempt to pay the debt, immediately denying access to banking services and likely forcing overdraft fees and other additional costs of being poor on someone so manipulated. About the only thing not being done is putting them in debtor's prisons and forcing their families or friends to pay their debts.
The state of Tennessee (and possibly others) forbid parents from giving their children surnames other than a parent's surname or a combination composed of the entire surnames of the parents. The article doesn't adequately explain why, other than a vague wave at genealogy, which should mean nothing at all.
Abusers and the abuse cycle destroy the very things their victims need to be able to leave confidently, things like judgment, confidence, and the ability to leave someone without the guilt keeping someone there.
An interview with the librarian for Ferguson, Missouri, and how the library fared during the unrest and protests in the city over the death of Michael Brown.
A meditation on the idea of the librarian as educator, to help people develop their interests, and to provide resources to people to take those interests and go very far with them. Which works, even for those who work primarily with kids, babies, and parents - we just tend to have more structured opportunities for people to find and develop interests before we turn them loose in the resources.
And sometimes we get to go to nice places - like putting a library on a boat out in the middle of a lake.
Or giving more than twenty thousand dollars to the Ada Initiative, meeting a match goal on the first day it was offered, and then beating a second stretch goal fairly quickly, and then one more, and even one more, all within a seven day time period.
Copyright law has some interesting complexities with regards to both use and access of materials, including that contacts you or others sign may limit your ability to use both copyrighted and non-copyrighted material. Not under the law, but under the contract.
The top court in the European Union has ruled that libraries are allowed to digitize works without seeking permission from copyright holders, but that those digital works cannot be downloaded to a personal digital drive or printed without appropriate recompense to rights holders. So, if you want to read works at a library terminal, that's okay. But actually copying the digital copy would violate the law. This has interesting implications - I wonder whether such things could be made available with proxy access or VPN with appropriate authentication, such that the data was never moved from the dedicated terminal, but that would open up access.
In trying to scrub negative mentions of their company from the Internet, Sundance Vacations forged court documents and presented them to MetaFilter. The company denies doing so, but someone certainly did, and I wouldn't be surprised if they worked for the company.
Facebook gets wise, releases tool to help users make sure their privacy settings are set correctly.
Researcher danah boyd riffs on how those who want to surveil or data mine will use the excuse that your data is public (in that it is published) to attack your desire to be private (because your data is only intended for certain contexts and people). That assertion, and the contracts and courts that will validate it, is how many people are both unaware of what they are sharing, and entirely aggravated when that data appears outside of their desired context.
Devices meant to capture bank card information have undergone a swift evolution to become incredibly common. There's some things you can do to be aware of whether your ATM has been compromised, but that's not the only point where thieves can steal your information - your payment processors are tempting targets, for example. The Goodwill breach, for example, was 18 months long before anyone reported anything.
Lots of helpful links for tools and technology to help with your work or with organization of The Things.
Stress may trigger parts of our biology to attack the parts that deal with mood regulation and memory.
Sagging pants and hoodies may have more in common with zoot suits than at first glance - both appear to be statements made by young people that have been intertwined with criminal behavior and indecency.
We may have just invented computer-mediated telepathy, using brain-computer and computer-brain interfaces to encode, transmit, and decode thought-data. The implications are... many.
Computers and servers using the Bourne Again Shell as their default may be vulnerable to specially crafted attacks settling to take advantage of how the shell handles requests. Patches and fixes are available.
Last for tonight, let's make some great bread, plates with planetary images on them, how narcissistic personality disorder is now like paranoia and other issues where the brain doesn't see the illness as foreign and a problem, take a tour looking for benches based on books, the second part of the tour of book benches, and part three of the book benches tour.
Oh, and ways to stop the procrastination loop - deadlines imposed by others is one good way.
Okay, one more - Chris Hadfield, rock star astronaut, attempts to calm the fears of a five year-old who is worried that the Voyager spacecraft, now beyond the helioshock and truly in interstellar space, is lonely and what will happen if something breaks. The responses are excellent, age-appropriate, and qualify as heartwarming. Listen to the full conversation, recorded by the CBC.
Continuing, a letter, from one guy to another, containing many of the mistakes and assumptions made about women, their experiences, and feminism, asking whether or not his views are sexist. (They are.) Notice this - calling for more male YA authors ignores that there are plenty there already, and that they're actually showing up a lot on the award and bestseller lists. Which suggests a very different thing than "the aren't enough male YA authors". More like people are of the opinion that women can't be too successful, or that women who have written bestselling books shouldn't try their hand at film adaptation, or that no woman could possibly understand video games enough to talk about their tropes. These and other claims leveled against Anita Sarkeesian are baseless and do not actually address what she is talking about, but all the same, they are waved about as "proof" that women are fundamentally incompatible with things that men used to keep as their exclusive property.
Or that women are meant solely to be objects, with their nude bodies traded in pictures, with no hack too low to score such pictures. And that's before even the threat of violent possibilities dissuaded women from making complaints in places that have codes of conduct.
And even though progress is painfully slow on these fronts, the arc of the future also bends toward justice, turning what used to be effective attacks into kindling for a much bigger pushback.
Calling a person exotic is not a compliment, because it places them outside the boundaries of conventional words and descriptors. For people, and especially women, of color, there's a long history of bad things that come with being outside the mainstream. It piss up in other places, too, like how the systemic exclusion of women from STEAM means many of the things we expect from The Future aren't here yet because we're not devoting all the brains we can to those problems.
Cards Against Humanity, and many other forms of satire, often rely on us laughing at something because we think it's obvious how wrong it is, and how laughable the people are who would take it seriously. And then there's Poe's Law.
One might suggest that the entirety of the Congress be arraigned on charges, possibly including treason, as they continue to refuse to do the duties regarding War mandated to them by the Constitution.
Insanity is famously defined as doing the same thing and expecting different results. United States war policy and invasion policy has not been sane since Vietnam, if not earlier, even if the current incarnation is the return, yet again, to Iraq, now expanded to Syria as well.
Consumer debts from a variety of sources are ending up in court, where creditors will attempt to manipulate the situation into summary judgment against the debtor, allowing for garnishment of wages up to 25 percent of the paycheck. Additionally, any money in a bank account could be seized to attempt to pay the debt, immediately denying access to banking services and likely forcing overdraft fees and other additional costs of being poor on someone so manipulated. About the only thing not being done is putting them in debtor's prisons and forcing their families or friends to pay their debts.
The state of Tennessee (and possibly others) forbid parents from giving their children surnames other than a parent's surname or a combination composed of the entire surnames of the parents. The article doesn't adequately explain why, other than a vague wave at genealogy, which should mean nothing at all.
Abusers and the abuse cycle destroy the very things their victims need to be able to leave confidently, things like judgment, confidence, and the ability to leave someone without the guilt keeping someone there.
An interview with the librarian for Ferguson, Missouri, and how the library fared during the unrest and protests in the city over the death of Michael Brown.
A meditation on the idea of the librarian as educator, to help people develop their interests, and to provide resources to people to take those interests and go very far with them. Which works, even for those who work primarily with kids, babies, and parents - we just tend to have more structured opportunities for people to find and develop interests before we turn them loose in the resources.
And sometimes we get to go to nice places - like putting a library on a boat out in the middle of a lake.
Or giving more than twenty thousand dollars to the Ada Initiative, meeting a match goal on the first day it was offered, and then beating a second stretch goal fairly quickly, and then one more, and even one more, all within a seven day time period.
Copyright law has some interesting complexities with regards to both use and access of materials, including that contacts you or others sign may limit your ability to use both copyrighted and non-copyrighted material. Not under the law, but under the contract.
The top court in the European Union has ruled that libraries are allowed to digitize works without seeking permission from copyright holders, but that those digital works cannot be downloaded to a personal digital drive or printed without appropriate recompense to rights holders. So, if you want to read works at a library terminal, that's okay. But actually copying the digital copy would violate the law. This has interesting implications - I wonder whether such things could be made available with proxy access or VPN with appropriate authentication, such that the data was never moved from the dedicated terminal, but that would open up access.
In trying to scrub negative mentions of their company from the Internet, Sundance Vacations forged court documents and presented them to MetaFilter. The company denies doing so, but someone certainly did, and I wouldn't be surprised if they worked for the company.
Facebook gets wise, releases tool to help users make sure their privacy settings are set correctly.
Researcher danah boyd riffs on how those who want to surveil or data mine will use the excuse that your data is public (in that it is published) to attack your desire to be private (because your data is only intended for certain contexts and people). That assertion, and the contracts and courts that will validate it, is how many people are both unaware of what they are sharing, and entirely aggravated when that data appears outside of their desired context.
Devices meant to capture bank card information have undergone a swift evolution to become incredibly common. There's some things you can do to be aware of whether your ATM has been compromised, but that's not the only point where thieves can steal your information - your payment processors are tempting targets, for example. The Goodwill breach, for example, was 18 months long before anyone reported anything.
Lots of helpful links for tools and technology to help with your work or with organization of The Things.
Stress may trigger parts of our biology to attack the parts that deal with mood regulation and memory.
Sagging pants and hoodies may have more in common with zoot suits than at first glance - both appear to be statements made by young people that have been intertwined with criminal behavior and indecency.
We may have just invented computer-mediated telepathy, using brain-computer and computer-brain interfaces to encode, transmit, and decode thought-data. The implications are... many.
Computers and servers using the Bourne Again Shell as their default may be vulnerable to specially crafted attacks settling to take advantage of how the shell handles requests. Patches and fixes are available.
Last for tonight, let's make some great bread, plates with planetary images on them, how narcissistic personality disorder is now like paranoia and other issues where the brain doesn't see the illness as foreign and a problem, take a tour looking for benches based on books, the second part of the tour of book benches, and part three of the book benches tour.
Oh, and ways to stop the procrastination loop - deadlines imposed by others is one good way.
Okay, one more - Chris Hadfield, rock star astronaut, attempts to calm the fears of a five year-old who is worried that the Voyager spacecraft, now beyond the helioshock and truly in interstellar space, is lonely and what will happen if something breaks. The responses are excellent, age-appropriate, and qualify as heartwarming. Listen to the full conversation, recorded by the CBC.
