Understand this: A teenager that comes out to their family has a high chance of being sent off to live on the streets - and in families with strong religious beliefs about the evils of being anything other than straight, the chances of the term becoming homeless skyrocket. Yet there is precious little money available to shelter these teenagers and help them rebuild their lives, and even less space that is friendly to them and that will place them with people of similar orientation. I would like to see those politicians that claim to be all about life, and those religious figures that claim to respect and want to nourish life, both put their considerable resources to the sustaining of all life, including life that may not believe as they do, but needs their support anyway.
Additionally, women and children stuck in Quiverfull and other highly Christian movements are often willingly suffering in abusive environments because they have been taught to believe that God wills it. There would be another place for those concerned with life to put their efforts - in ensuing that women and children can live full lives and that have the resources to leave if the life they have is abusive and dangerous. That is, if conservatives weren't so entirely wrapped up in trying to make women get back into the kitchen and/or bedroom and make pie or babies at their man's behest.
Now that the state of California has passed a law requiring affirmative consent ("yes means yes") for sexual encounters, observe that affirmative consent is often the sexiest option, instead of the buzzkill it is claimed to be. And when talk is actually engaged, it generally results in better sex for all partners involved.
In 2011, attempting to write to companies to ask for accommodation on websites and apps resulted in total failure from the companies to do anything. I sincerely doubt anything has changed in the last three years. Persons with disabilities do not exist to make you feel inspired in your own life. If you want to be inspired by persons with disabilities, fight to make sure everything in your life is accessible. The way things are framed, though, even stories that aren't suppressed to be about inspiration end up being that way - an article about the Maine Coon cat that helps an autistic artist be more social and interactive plays up the cat as a miracle creature, instead of pointing out all the ways an animal of proper temperament can be therapeutic.
A 2012-2013 series of writings by![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
tim on Impostor Syndrome is still relevant today, especially with regard to how institutions can believe their work with minorities is completed once minorities are recruited. Part One points out that if someone is told only a limited number of outlets and traits are good and acceptable, unsurprisingly, those traits and outlets tend to take on outsize influence in determining self-worth. Part Two points out the deck is often stacked heavily against people who don't conform to the idea of what the people in power believe are people who should be included, Part Three points out that those made to feel left out from a club will tend to stop coming, those that excluded them will believe it's because the excluded aren't worthy, and those excluded will often develop and cling to their own hierarchy in revenge, committing the same cardinal fouls as the group that pushed them out, and Part Four offers concrete suggestions for academic institutions on how to make themselves more inclusive past the recruiting point, so as to not generate Impostor Syndrome in students.
United Kingdom Prime Minister David Cameron offered a distinctly United States-style lack of justification for tax cuts intended to help the wealthiest, and attempted to dissuade voters from going for an anti-EU party by claiming any vote not with him was with the Opposition. Other members of the Government plan on changing all welfare benefits to be pre-paid cards, only usable in certain situations, so as to combat what the Government believes are rampant use of benefits for cigarettes, alcohol, gambling, and other vices.
The United Kingdom would like more sperm donors, but is having to fight through cultural shame and other factors to get them.
In China, as protesters call for democratic reforms, viruses and malware appear through channels designed to hit people who have jailbroken or rooted phones, which will disproportionately affect those people protesting. It's not necessarily possible to trace the malware to its source, but high probability that it is government or their allies responsible.
A 1959 map shows the linguistic boundaries of Africa, based on native languages. And people wonder why there might be a lot of conflict in Africa once the white oppressors abandoned the place to the capitalists and left all the rest behind. Of course, in America, we're still trying to forget that White people enslaved Black people.
Adobe's digital rights management software and Adobe Digital Editions appear to be collecting personal data from those who read ebooks and sending it back to a mothership. This has many libraries upset about the privacy issues involved, as their partners in ebooks use Adobe DRM almost exclusively.
In the United States, an organization that believes firmly on allowing ordinary people to manufacture their own unregulated guns is now in the business of selling machines that can manufacture the regulated portions of assault rifles. The Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics Department offers an interesting counterpoint - the odds are more likely for someone to die from being shot by a police officer than for a police officer to die by being shot.
Code and proof of concept for an attack that strikes at the USB protocol and rewrites microcontroller firmware was demonstrated at the Black Hat conference. In the words of C-3PO, "We're doomed." Or, at least significantly screwed for a while.
KMart is the latest target for data-stealing thieves, with malware installed on register computers.
23andMe, a (now) genetic ancestry service, decided to not automatically enroll people in a service that would have them matched up with other genetic relatives, after such matching discovered family members from indiscretions or earlier relationships in more than one case.
A mother sued the sperm bank that provided for her child at she discovered she had been given the wrong donor, resulting in a black child being raised by white parents in a white neighborhood. The stated reasons appear to be that the white woman has a black baby. Which doesn't engender anyone to her.
A politician who suffered a serious Twitter harassment campaign was unhappy about how seriously it was taken, even if the harasser was jailed.
For as much as one promotes the new possibilities brought by technology, one must keep in mind how the materials and manufacturing of that technology happens. As well as the consequences of that technology - the television show Person of Interest, much like The X-Files that preceded it, has subtly and obviously made commentary on the question of technology and surveillance, while packaging it in the guise of a novel-seeming detective story.
Sport is still trying and failing to find a way to allow intersex athletes to compete, because it is still trying to find definitions of what constitutes men and women, presuming that men intend to compete in the women's divisions. This should sound familiar to anyone who had had to deal with bathroom panic.
A photograph and bio article about First Nations women trying to preserve their languages and cultures. The women alternate between dress in what is presumably more traditional costume and more "culture surrounding us" wear. The photographs look respectful of the women and contribute, rather than detract, from the gravity of trying to capture and preserve culture and language before it disappears.
The payment processor breached that handled many Jimmy John's transactions has been more than just compromised - they weren't certified to be able to handle such payments securely.
Lifehacker releases a Google Chrome extension to customize the look and use of the Netflix website, which allows for half-star rating, hiding of Facebook interactions, dimming of things already watched, and more.
Analyzing current social media trends, byliv, in the light of the popularity of a tool intending to horn in on Facebook when it started a Real Names policy.
Mr. Gaiman tells us that Mr. Pratchett is not a jolly, amiable man, but one driven by anger and frustration about the world and himself. Which is quite possible - social messages about the long-suffering people who are married to those with chronic illness can show up even in books written by people with chronic illnesses.
An interview with Ursula K. LeGuin, who offers advice on writing and commentary on the destructive nature of corporate capitalism and publishers treating books as commodities.
And then, mistakes people complaining about mistakes often make.
Time capsules! With excellently preserved artifacts.
"Do what you like" extends in many places, including things like cooking. If you are cooking to fish for compliments, you're going to be disappointed. All the time. But at no point should do what you like be used as a way to make people do work for less than fair compensation, or to place categories of work that are necessary, but not always creative, into some form of second-class-ness. I happen to like what I do, but I find that the profession's tendency to employ people part-time so as to avoid paying health care costs reprehensible, not to mention the part where the wages are not nearly enough in the public sector to match the work and degree requirements performed.
On the flip of that, more often than not, men, including men who other men are pointing at as examples of feminist media figures,, substitute the male perception of what women want, which is very male gaze focused, for what women actually want, which may not include men at all. This can lead to one of the examples of an attempt to name and classify several varieties of mansplainer. These things may be classified as subsets of rape culture, which men have special responsibility to dismantle and call out.
Or you end up with the very different ways men and women react to finding out that the person on the dating profile looks significantly different in person. Comments talk about how this could be a case of anger at "lying", but what constitutes the lie is disputable, and I think the line of explanation that talks about the different social expectations of how to react has a lot of merit in explaining the discrepancy.
Sticking on a theme, somewhat, there are no cookies to be had if your feminism does not include all women - in the same vein of protests claiming Not All Men, protests saying not all white feminists are asking the marginalized to validate the exceptions for their own peace of mind before they are willing to talk. Because if it isn't about you, then you don't have to take anything to heart. Thus, the real fights and future of feminism resides squarely with those who have the most need for it - women of color and people in low wage jobs who need access to health care, good education, and social services. And with those who write and discuss books about women and their experiences.
Most people in favor of gun control don't want to take your guns. What they do want is to be reasonably sure that people who are carrying them are properly trained in their use and won't hurt people with them, by accident or deliberately.
Names and colors, put together, with the idea in mind of being able to use and recall the right shades at the right time. Might also function as a color calibrator for computer monitors and televisions.
Finding your own errors in proofing is difficult, because it's trying to compare what's on the page to the ideal in your own head. Using other people to proof is good, then, because they can only see what is there.
An author speaks to the books, all the books, not just a single list, that have influenced her in her life.
Photographing a cat in the middle of a jump produces images that make cats look like they are doing other things.
Pictures of what happens to a woman's internal organs when she wears a laced-up corset.
By changing what you do with your cookie recipe, you can affect the finished product in terms of taste, texture, and even uniformity of cookie look.
Last for tonight, even when you know the depression is lying to you, it still feels like the complete truth. And the unabashed joy of finding the princess who is like you. Then, a series of nude photographs of people who are outside the conventional models of beauty, staged to resemble classic painting motifs. Additionally, being perceived as a nice or good person increases your attractiveness. Finally, the utter necessity of practice, whether you intend to try and be really good at someone or whether you use it as a sounding board or medium for some other part of your life.
Additionally, women and children stuck in Quiverfull and other highly Christian movements are often willingly suffering in abusive environments because they have been taught to believe that God wills it. There would be another place for those concerned with life to put their efforts - in ensuing that women and children can live full lives and that have the resources to leave if the life they have is abusive and dangerous. That is, if conservatives weren't so entirely wrapped up in trying to make women get back into the kitchen and/or bedroom and make pie or babies at their man's behest.
Now that the state of California has passed a law requiring affirmative consent ("yes means yes") for sexual encounters, observe that affirmative consent is often the sexiest option, instead of the buzzkill it is claimed to be. And when talk is actually engaged, it generally results in better sex for all partners involved.
In 2011, attempting to write to companies to ask for accommodation on websites and apps resulted in total failure from the companies to do anything. I sincerely doubt anything has changed in the last three years. Persons with disabilities do not exist to make you feel inspired in your own life. If you want to be inspired by persons with disabilities, fight to make sure everything in your life is accessible. The way things are framed, though, even stories that aren't suppressed to be about inspiration end up being that way - an article about the Maine Coon cat that helps an autistic artist be more social and interactive plays up the cat as a miracle creature, instead of pointing out all the ways an animal of proper temperament can be therapeutic.
A 2012-2013 series of writings by
tim on Impostor Syndrome is still relevant today, especially with regard to how institutions can believe their work with minorities is completed once minorities are recruited. Part One points out that if someone is told only a limited number of outlets and traits are good and acceptable, unsurprisingly, those traits and outlets tend to take on outsize influence in determining self-worth. Part Two points out the deck is often stacked heavily against people who don't conform to the idea of what the people in power believe are people who should be included, Part Three points out that those made to feel left out from a club will tend to stop coming, those that excluded them will believe it's because the excluded aren't worthy, and those excluded will often develop and cling to their own hierarchy in revenge, committing the same cardinal fouls as the group that pushed them out, and Part Four offers concrete suggestions for academic institutions on how to make themselves more inclusive past the recruiting point, so as to not generate Impostor Syndrome in students.United Kingdom Prime Minister David Cameron offered a distinctly United States-style lack of justification for tax cuts intended to help the wealthiest, and attempted to dissuade voters from going for an anti-EU party by claiming any vote not with him was with the Opposition. Other members of the Government plan on changing all welfare benefits to be pre-paid cards, only usable in certain situations, so as to combat what the Government believes are rampant use of benefits for cigarettes, alcohol, gambling, and other vices.
The United Kingdom would like more sperm donors, but is having to fight through cultural shame and other factors to get them.
In China, as protesters call for democratic reforms, viruses and malware appear through channels designed to hit people who have jailbroken or rooted phones, which will disproportionately affect those people protesting. It's not necessarily possible to trace the malware to its source, but high probability that it is government or their allies responsible.
A 1959 map shows the linguistic boundaries of Africa, based on native languages. And people wonder why there might be a lot of conflict in Africa once the white oppressors abandoned the place to the capitalists and left all the rest behind. Of course, in America, we're still trying to forget that White people enslaved Black people.
Adobe's digital rights management software and Adobe Digital Editions appear to be collecting personal data from those who read ebooks and sending it back to a mothership. This has many libraries upset about the privacy issues involved, as their partners in ebooks use Adobe DRM almost exclusively.
In the United States, an organization that believes firmly on allowing ordinary people to manufacture their own unregulated guns is now in the business of selling machines that can manufacture the regulated portions of assault rifles. The Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics Department offers an interesting counterpoint - the odds are more likely for someone to die from being shot by a police officer than for a police officer to die by being shot.
Code and proof of concept for an attack that strikes at the USB protocol and rewrites microcontroller firmware was demonstrated at the Black Hat conference. In the words of C-3PO, "We're doomed." Or, at least significantly screwed for a while.
KMart is the latest target for data-stealing thieves, with malware installed on register computers.
23andMe, a (now) genetic ancestry service, decided to not automatically enroll people in a service that would have them matched up with other genetic relatives, after such matching discovered family members from indiscretions or earlier relationships in more than one case.
A mother sued the sperm bank that provided for her child at she discovered she had been given the wrong donor, resulting in a black child being raised by white parents in a white neighborhood. The stated reasons appear to be that the white woman has a black baby. Which doesn't engender anyone to her.
A politician who suffered a serious Twitter harassment campaign was unhappy about how seriously it was taken, even if the harasser was jailed.
For as much as one promotes the new possibilities brought by technology, one must keep in mind how the materials and manufacturing of that technology happens. As well as the consequences of that technology - the television show Person of Interest, much like The X-Files that preceded it, has subtly and obviously made commentary on the question of technology and surveillance, while packaging it in the guise of a novel-seeming detective story.
Sport is still trying and failing to find a way to allow intersex athletes to compete, because it is still trying to find definitions of what constitutes men and women, presuming that men intend to compete in the women's divisions. This should sound familiar to anyone who had had to deal with bathroom panic.
A photograph and bio article about First Nations women trying to preserve their languages and cultures. The women alternate between dress in what is presumably more traditional costume and more "culture surrounding us" wear. The photographs look respectful of the women and contribute, rather than detract, from the gravity of trying to capture and preserve culture and language before it disappears.
The payment processor breached that handled many Jimmy John's transactions has been more than just compromised - they weren't certified to be able to handle such payments securely.
Lifehacker releases a Google Chrome extension to customize the look and use of the Netflix website, which allows for half-star rating, hiding of Facebook interactions, dimming of things already watched, and more.
Analyzing current social media trends, by
liv, in the light of the popularity of a tool intending to horn in on Facebook when it started a Real Names policy.Mr. Gaiman tells us that Mr. Pratchett is not a jolly, amiable man, but one driven by anger and frustration about the world and himself. Which is quite possible - social messages about the long-suffering people who are married to those with chronic illness can show up even in books written by people with chronic illnesses.
An interview with Ursula K. LeGuin, who offers advice on writing and commentary on the destructive nature of corporate capitalism and publishers treating books as commodities.
And then, mistakes people complaining about mistakes often make.
Time capsules! With excellently preserved artifacts.
"Do what you like" extends in many places, including things like cooking. If you are cooking to fish for compliments, you're going to be disappointed. All the time. But at no point should do what you like be used as a way to make people do work for less than fair compensation, or to place categories of work that are necessary, but not always creative, into some form of second-class-ness. I happen to like what I do, but I find that the profession's tendency to employ people part-time so as to avoid paying health care costs reprehensible, not to mention the part where the wages are not nearly enough in the public sector to match the work and degree requirements performed.
On the flip of that, more often than not, men, including men who other men are pointing at as examples of feminist media figures,, substitute the male perception of what women want, which is very male gaze focused, for what women actually want, which may not include men at all. This can lead to one of the examples of an attempt to name and classify several varieties of mansplainer. These things may be classified as subsets of rape culture, which men have special responsibility to dismantle and call out.
Or you end up with the very different ways men and women react to finding out that the person on the dating profile looks significantly different in person. Comments talk about how this could be a case of anger at "lying", but what constitutes the lie is disputable, and I think the line of explanation that talks about the different social expectations of how to react has a lot of merit in explaining the discrepancy.
Sticking on a theme, somewhat, there are no cookies to be had if your feminism does not include all women - in the same vein of protests claiming Not All Men, protests saying not all white feminists are asking the marginalized to validate the exceptions for their own peace of mind before they are willing to talk. Because if it isn't about you, then you don't have to take anything to heart. Thus, the real fights and future of feminism resides squarely with those who have the most need for it - women of color and people in low wage jobs who need access to health care, good education, and social services. And with those who write and discuss books about women and their experiences.
Most people in favor of gun control don't want to take your guns. What they do want is to be reasonably sure that people who are carrying them are properly trained in their use and won't hurt people with them, by accident or deliberately.
Names and colors, put together, with the idea in mind of being able to use and recall the right shades at the right time. Might also function as a color calibrator for computer monitors and televisions.
Finding your own errors in proofing is difficult, because it's trying to compare what's on the page to the ideal in your own head. Using other people to proof is good, then, because they can only see what is there.
An author speaks to the books, all the books, not just a single list, that have influenced her in her life.
Photographing a cat in the middle of a jump produces images that make cats look like they are doing other things.
Pictures of what happens to a woman's internal organs when she wears a laced-up corset.
By changing what you do with your cookie recipe, you can affect the finished product in terms of taste, texture, and even uniformity of cookie look.
Last for tonight, even when you know the depression is lying to you, it still feels like the complete truth. And the unabashed joy of finding the princess who is like you. Then, a series of nude photographs of people who are outside the conventional models of beauty, staged to resemble classic painting motifs. Additionally, being perceived as a nice or good person increases your attractiveness. Finally, the utter necessity of practice, whether you intend to try and be really good at someone or whether you use it as a sounding board or medium for some other part of your life.
