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Down the Rabbit Hole - March-May 02016
Jun. 2nd, 2016 07:15 amYeah, I upgraded my phone and it ate a previous draft, so this is going to be extra large, most likely. Here we go. Let's start with thirty haikai, courtesy of a community.
The Dead Pool collects Price at 57 years. And another iconic musician goes earlier than they should have. Beyond that, Prince reminded us of ongoing racial issues in society as part of a career of social commentary on lyric and in name as he messed with our hearts about what an artist should look, sound, dress, or sing like. He was a reason for people to embrace themselves and a man who clearly respected women and the power they had, in and out of the bedroom.
None of that fiction for you if you want to be successful, or so we are told, forgetting that storytelling has been a way of imparting useful information for much longer than the printed word. Plus, when being told only to keep that which sparks joy, one implicitly has a system in place to repurchase mistakes, like with books. And finally, if your book club has to reinforce toxic masculinity just to be able to read books, you're probably not going to read books that would be good for men to read and discuss.
In the same vein of simplistic advice, if you can just think yourself positive, then you will also be financially frugal! If only it were that simple.
For as long as there are people to levy taxes, there are means by which people attempt to avoid paying them, it seems.
Also, the case for the use of trigger warnings and content notes, both as a way of being compassionate and as a way of having to avoid other people's feelings invading your space. A draft form, according to the most recent commentary on it, so it may change. I'm putting this near the question of why teenage girls are the most feared group in society for no apparent reason.
The ways that people trying to raise awareness often end up ignoring or doing things counterproductive to the people they're trying to help. Similarly, public speculation about the sexuality of others, even with good intentions, can also be counterproductive. Best, most often, too let people come out on their own time and terms. And to remember all the people that have gone before and the reasons why they died. Then, remember the fight continues, and there are frontiers in this fight that are valid and need fighting, but that don't always have a collective experience and vocabulary right from the beginning and it always starts younger than you think it does.
Knowing the way history is constructed gives you insight into the history of when someone is writing history. Or when they're writing hagiography. Indigenous people are often more important to history than invaders, but history rarely reflects that, for example.
Given an opportunity to avoid a strike by piloting a new contract for junior doctors, Health Secretary of the United Kingdom Jeremy Hunt decided he wanted the strike, instead.
CBS didn't pick up a pilot for a Nancy Drew series, with rumor suggesting they didn't want too many women. CBS denies they passed on the Nancy Drew reboot because it was too female-focused. Gendered reporting on mountain climbing incidents.
All around the world, the fight to make products accessible and affordable for women on periods rages on, mostly ignored by those who don't have the biological reminders. Which can make it difficult when those same ignorant people hold the reins of power. Women online fight this same fight about being women in a space that assumes men are both default and privileged.
Harriet Tubman will grace a new $20 design. This is the first time anyone other than a white man will be on the currency. That's neat, and Tubman's record for smuggling slaves is excellent. Less cool are the fact that Andrew Jackson will still remain on the bill, instead of being booted off money he wouldn't support for atrocities he committed and a persistent part of the hagiography of the United States involves the slavery period (and all the race relations afterward), which makes a strong case for why putting a person who fought against the buying and selling of other persons on the currency is not an appropriate thing to do. There will be plenty of opportunity to debate and refine this idea, because new bills won't appear for at least four years.
As marijuana becomes more and more legal, white people are easily able to step into the void, and minorities are very easily shut out based on having been disproportionately prosecuted during the War on (Some) Drugs.
Phrases of fairly common parlance that have very racist roots, next to words misheard so often their incorrect forms became the correct ones.
Australia's unique geography and inhabitants means they were writing dystopia long before it was fashionable to do so.
Heroic men characters need to have to a bigger range of acceptable emotional responses to this that cause fear or panic. Like, say, Captain America's conception of masculinity, at least before Marvel decided they were more interested in shock value than in the investment made in the character of Captain America and his ideals. (Messing with your fandom in fundamental ways backfires almost universally, by the way.)
Comics need more heroes like Faith. Or this entire suite of black heroes not named Storm. We could all use more actors like Natalie Morales. Diversity in comics requires many of the standard things comics need in general to succeed. When it does, though, it works out extremely well.
Suggestions on making a well-written book into one that sings to the reader, the ways that fan and creator are cyclical and simultaneous, instead of separated by the wall of publishing, actors going for making subtext much more textual (Myka and H.G. forever), fans making Shakespeare for his 400th anniversary, along with the prologues and warnings delivered that actual women might be on stage as actresses, Emilia as the woman most relevant to our current times, and a handy flowchart for deciding which play to go see.
A chance laying of electric cable results in the discovery of a well-preserved Roman villa. Elsewhere, copper mines likely dug out by children, a map overlay showing then and now of Kyoto, and maps of old London taxi routes that may be the forerunners to the current Underground system.
There are postal workers whose job it is to decipher handwriting that can't be understood by the processing machines.
A shorter work week might help improve general cognitive performance, as anyone who has worked a long time knows.
The first night in a new place may not have the best sleep, because the brain is still alert for predators and dangers. Once a place is in the safe list, the sleep gets better.
When considering a living space, think about all your potential needs, including whether there is sufficient space for sex.
When considering the creation of a safe space, think about what behaviors you want to exclude, and target those, rather than the perceived identity of what you think of as an abuser. Because lots of people who might look like they don't fit very much do.
In defense of the need for comment sections and the moderators that try to keep them cleaned, because the job of moderation is often fraught and exposes those who most make decisions to traumas and watching the worst of people.
Children are autonomous creatures and deserve the respect of being able to say no to physical attention.
Damaging cultural assumptions around weight, and especially women and weight. Damaging cultural assumptions about weight and health. Damaging snake oil sales about things supposed to get rid of subcutaneous fat. Damaging cultural assumptions around mental illness and psychosis. Damaging cultural assumptions about physical abilities and accessibility. Damaging cultural assumptions about the presence of a white cane.
Stories of the relation of body to image, of the concern trolling almost constantly accompanying a a fat woman, the likelihood that nobody will step up to defend a fat person against aggressors, that these attacks often extend to official policies in addition to being used as extreme examples, that people need good ways of talking and dealing with psychosis, but also finding a highly visible role model or five, coming to the realization that the is a space between love and hate, the feeling of what it's like to deal with the stress from trauma, advocacy for all abilities to be able to use cycles, and recovering a name to the person.
The conflict between an organization that believes autism is a disease that needs curing and an organization that believes autism is a thing that requires adaptation, but not necessarily any sort of thing that requires a cure. I think it would be clear that we are to side with the group that treats autism with respect and doesn't use methodologically suspect research and testing to determine autism.
The experience of a person that cannot visualize anything in their mind. The experience of being legally blind, the experience of the world well above the ground, using the body as reminder of one's experience, and making the world around you acknowledge your experience.
Carrie Fisher some at Harvard about mental illness, spirituality, and yes, some of Star Wars as well.
Courtship and dating, an evolving process. As, for that matter, is grammar. If you're just looking at phrases, the presence of certain glyphs will help identify the likely language that has been written.
Fifty stories of cities worldwide.
Long-term disability often means permanent poverty because of the maximum limits imposed on those who receive social assistance in the United States. Speaking of poverty, if your narrative insists that people are poor because of their choices, your narrative needs fixing in the worst way. (Including the expanded proof of how much your world needs changing.)
What people cook and what food magazines tell us we should cook are very different.
In tech, Apple loses to a patent troll, Google wins against Oracle over Java use in Android, yet again, data stolen about you without you having to be involved in it, the nature of Buzzfeed, robotic snakes to do repairs and monitoring on offshore drilling platforms, gloves with a wireless connection that translates sign to spoken words, DRM interfering with the ability of people to keep books they have purchased, a graphic designer tries their hand at cookie-making, and useful data gathered from unlikely sources.
Artificial creations are increasingly coded feminine because the people driving technology are generally looking for the "perfect" woman to command. This is so so because we haven't yet decided that women are sentient and independent and shouldn't be exploited.
Great board games for developing useful skills for the world beyond the game.
Art about identification, a children's book version of how Ruby and Sapphire became Garnet, labels for your projects that have taken a very long time to complete, a beautiful book of Japanese art of stylized women, beautiful and badass feminist Indian pinups, the rainbow cheese sandwich, pictures of soba merchants on delivery runs, trans* and genderqueer children photographed the way they want to be, breastfeeding women in their professional clothing, Hong Kong, by drone-camera view, pictures of the actors of Game of Thrones [fanfare] in and out of their makeup, a display of every card created for the Yu-Gi-Oh collectible card game, and the competitors of the women's professional wrestling company of Japan.
and the ways in which visual communication is better at getting things across than linguistic communication.
Dogs jumping into lakes, animated cats, barn owls learning to fly, dolphin behaviors that aren't cute or cuddly, feeding thousands of birds at a time, a snow leopard rejoicing at food, a very photogenic cat, a review of red pandas, smiling animals, baby sloths, various cross breeds of dogs, playground towers for goats, cats interfering with human tasks, cats at play, and the cute of baby cheetahs.
Last for tonight, human self-care, even for those who don't feel like they deserve it. And swears of previous times and a a historical thesaurus.
The Dead Pool collects Price at 57 years. And another iconic musician goes earlier than they should have. Beyond that, Prince reminded us of ongoing racial issues in society as part of a career of social commentary on lyric and in name as he messed with our hearts about what an artist should look, sound, dress, or sing like. He was a reason for people to embrace themselves and a man who clearly respected women and the power they had, in and out of the bedroom.
None of that fiction for you if you want to be successful, or so we are told, forgetting that storytelling has been a way of imparting useful information for much longer than the printed word. Plus, when being told only to keep that which sparks joy, one implicitly has a system in place to repurchase mistakes, like with books. And finally, if your book club has to reinforce toxic masculinity just to be able to read books, you're probably not going to read books that would be good for men to read and discuss.
In the same vein of simplistic advice, if you can just think yourself positive, then you will also be financially frugal! If only it were that simple.
For as long as there are people to levy taxes, there are means by which people attempt to avoid paying them, it seems.
Also, the case for the use of trigger warnings and content notes, both as a way of being compassionate and as a way of having to avoid other people's feelings invading your space. A draft form, according to the most recent commentary on it, so it may change. I'm putting this near the question of why teenage girls are the most feared group in society for no apparent reason.
The ways that people trying to raise awareness often end up ignoring or doing things counterproductive to the people they're trying to help. Similarly, public speculation about the sexuality of others, even with good intentions, can also be counterproductive. Best, most often, too let people come out on their own time and terms. And to remember all the people that have gone before and the reasons why they died. Then, remember the fight continues, and there are frontiers in this fight that are valid and need fighting, but that don't always have a collective experience and vocabulary right from the beginning and it always starts younger than you think it does.
Knowing the way history is constructed gives you insight into the history of when someone is writing history. Or when they're writing hagiography. Indigenous people are often more important to history than invaders, but history rarely reflects that, for example.
Given an opportunity to avoid a strike by piloting a new contract for junior doctors, Health Secretary of the United Kingdom Jeremy Hunt decided he wanted the strike, instead.
CBS didn't pick up a pilot for a Nancy Drew series, with rumor suggesting they didn't want too many women. CBS denies they passed on the Nancy Drew reboot because it was too female-focused. Gendered reporting on mountain climbing incidents.
All around the world, the fight to make products accessible and affordable for women on periods rages on, mostly ignored by those who don't have the biological reminders. Which can make it difficult when those same ignorant people hold the reins of power. Women online fight this same fight about being women in a space that assumes men are both default and privileged.
Harriet Tubman will grace a new $20 design. This is the first time anyone other than a white man will be on the currency. That's neat, and Tubman's record for smuggling slaves is excellent. Less cool are the fact that Andrew Jackson will still remain on the bill, instead of being booted off money he wouldn't support for atrocities he committed and a persistent part of the hagiography of the United States involves the slavery period (and all the race relations afterward), which makes a strong case for why putting a person who fought against the buying and selling of other persons on the currency is not an appropriate thing to do. There will be plenty of opportunity to debate and refine this idea, because new bills won't appear for at least four years.
As marijuana becomes more and more legal, white people are easily able to step into the void, and minorities are very easily shut out based on having been disproportionately prosecuted during the War on (Some) Drugs.
Phrases of fairly common parlance that have very racist roots, next to words misheard so often their incorrect forms became the correct ones.
Australia's unique geography and inhabitants means they were writing dystopia long before it was fashionable to do so.
Heroic men characters need to have to a bigger range of acceptable emotional responses to this that cause fear or panic. Like, say, Captain America's conception of masculinity, at least before Marvel decided they were more interested in shock value than in the investment made in the character of Captain America and his ideals. (Messing with your fandom in fundamental ways backfires almost universally, by the way.)
Comics need more heroes like Faith. Or this entire suite of black heroes not named Storm. We could all use more actors like Natalie Morales. Diversity in comics requires many of the standard things comics need in general to succeed. When it does, though, it works out extremely well.
Suggestions on making a well-written book into one that sings to the reader, the ways that fan and creator are cyclical and simultaneous, instead of separated by the wall of publishing, actors going for making subtext much more textual (Myka and H.G. forever), fans making Shakespeare for his 400th anniversary, along with the prologues and warnings delivered that actual women might be on stage as actresses, Emilia as the woman most relevant to our current times, and a handy flowchart for deciding which play to go see.
A chance laying of electric cable results in the discovery of a well-preserved Roman villa. Elsewhere, copper mines likely dug out by children, a map overlay showing then and now of Kyoto, and maps of old London taxi routes that may be the forerunners to the current Underground system.
There are postal workers whose job it is to decipher handwriting that can't be understood by the processing machines.
A shorter work week might help improve general cognitive performance, as anyone who has worked a long time knows.
The first night in a new place may not have the best sleep, because the brain is still alert for predators and dangers. Once a place is in the safe list, the sleep gets better.
When considering a living space, think about all your potential needs, including whether there is sufficient space for sex.
When considering the creation of a safe space, think about what behaviors you want to exclude, and target those, rather than the perceived identity of what you think of as an abuser. Because lots of people who might look like they don't fit very much do.
In defense of the need for comment sections and the moderators that try to keep them cleaned, because the job of moderation is often fraught and exposes those who most make decisions to traumas and watching the worst of people.
Children are autonomous creatures and deserve the respect of being able to say no to physical attention.
Damaging cultural assumptions around weight, and especially women and weight. Damaging cultural assumptions about weight and health. Damaging snake oil sales about things supposed to get rid of subcutaneous fat. Damaging cultural assumptions around mental illness and psychosis. Damaging cultural assumptions about physical abilities and accessibility. Damaging cultural assumptions about the presence of a white cane.
Stories of the relation of body to image, of the concern trolling almost constantly accompanying a a fat woman, the likelihood that nobody will step up to defend a fat person against aggressors, that these attacks often extend to official policies in addition to being used as extreme examples, that people need good ways of talking and dealing with psychosis, but also finding a highly visible role model or five, coming to the realization that the is a space between love and hate, the feeling of what it's like to deal with the stress from trauma, advocacy for all abilities to be able to use cycles, and recovering a name to the person.
The conflict between an organization that believes autism is a disease that needs curing and an organization that believes autism is a thing that requires adaptation, but not necessarily any sort of thing that requires a cure. I think it would be clear that we are to side with the group that treats autism with respect and doesn't use methodologically suspect research and testing to determine autism.
The experience of a person that cannot visualize anything in their mind. The experience of being legally blind, the experience of the world well above the ground, using the body as reminder of one's experience, and making the world around you acknowledge your experience.
Carrie Fisher some at Harvard about mental illness, spirituality, and yes, some of Star Wars as well.
Courtship and dating, an evolving process. As, for that matter, is grammar. If you're just looking at phrases, the presence of certain glyphs will help identify the likely language that has been written.
Fifty stories of cities worldwide.
Long-term disability often means permanent poverty because of the maximum limits imposed on those who receive social assistance in the United States. Speaking of poverty, if your narrative insists that people are poor because of their choices, your narrative needs fixing in the worst way. (Including the expanded proof of how much your world needs changing.)
What people cook and what food magazines tell us we should cook are very different.
In tech, Apple loses to a patent troll, Google wins against Oracle over Java use in Android, yet again, data stolen about you without you having to be involved in it, the nature of Buzzfeed, robotic snakes to do repairs and monitoring on offshore drilling platforms, gloves with a wireless connection that translates sign to spoken words, DRM interfering with the ability of people to keep books they have purchased, a graphic designer tries their hand at cookie-making, and useful data gathered from unlikely sources.
Artificial creations are increasingly coded feminine because the people driving technology are generally looking for the "perfect" woman to command. This is so so because we haven't yet decided that women are sentient and independent and shouldn't be exploited.
Great board games for developing useful skills for the world beyond the game.
Art about identification, a children's book version of how Ruby and Sapphire became Garnet, labels for your projects that have taken a very long time to complete, a beautiful book of Japanese art of stylized women, beautiful and badass feminist Indian pinups, the rainbow cheese sandwich, pictures of soba merchants on delivery runs, trans* and genderqueer children photographed the way they want to be, breastfeeding women in their professional clothing, Hong Kong, by drone-camera view, pictures of the actors of Game of Thrones [fanfare] in and out of their makeup, a display of every card created for the Yu-Gi-Oh collectible card game, and the competitors of the women's professional wrestling company of Japan.
and the ways in which visual communication is better at getting things across than linguistic communication.
Dogs jumping into lakes, animated cats, barn owls learning to fly, dolphin behaviors that aren't cute or cuddly, feeding thousands of birds at a time, a snow leopard rejoicing at food, a very photogenic cat, a review of red pandas, smiling animals, baby sloths, various cross breeds of dogs, playground towers for goats, cats interfering with human tasks, cats at play, and the cute of baby cheetahs.
Last for tonight, human self-care, even for those who don't feel like they deserve it. And swears of previous times and a a historical thesaurus.
