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Hello. Have you drank enough water today? Your smol would like to know.
Alcohol drinking has been associated with increased cancer risk for years, and yet there isn't a whole lot on the airwaves and otherwise about that particular fact. As with other products, the data has been pushed back against with targeted advertisements and getting industry-friendly people in government positions.
There is still a pervasive attitude in sport that women have to be subjected to special scrutiny to determine if they are "women enough" to compete. This is a terrible idea - there's no set of biological characteristics that determine whether a person is a man or a woman, because any and all of those traits usually held up as such show up in both men and women.
It should be obvious at this point that trans women are women. So start studying terminology, with the understanding that different communities use words different ways (so you might have to have extra definitions attached to many of the words present). An easy one to start with - cis means on the same side as, and is a good way of remembering that the dominant group should not be unmarked with the presumption of normalcy. Listen to women. Let women use their voices. Don't require a woman to look masculine before you take her concerns seriously.
Molly Ringwald reflects on having been the star of films that did both good things and problematic ones, especially in light of how we are now starting to take seriously the issues that would have passed as nothing in previous times.
Affirmations and reminders for feminists, because activism is often thankless work that appears not to have any consequences.
It's likely that the men in the room are assuming they're the smartest, when the truth is much, much different.
Identity intersects in so many ways, including how you can be at a strong set of crossroads by being Deaf in a hearing family...of people who speak two languages. A performance of Hamlet that incorporated a BSL interpreter into the production, which made the whole thing much better for the entire audience.
The origins of many evangelist sects of Christianity are in reworking a tradition that is about hospitality and welcoming foreigners into one that would be okay with slaves and oppression.
Mary Patten, captin of a ship where just about everything that could go wrong, did. Daniel Mallory Ortberg, founder of he Toast and fiction writer. With a book coming out.
Historically speaking, monogamy has been much like marriage - about property and controlling women's sexuality.
Doctors assuming they know what's going on, even when a patient is clearly telling them what they're experiencing, is causing harm to their patients. Because even if someone is presenting what should be a classic case of symptoms, sometimes being a woman means everyone assumes it's something else. Plenty of people around have diverse bodies and can talk to people with diverse bodies about their body things.
AllGo hopes to provide reviews of places depending on how accessible they are for people with large bodies.
The question of when it is appropriate to create something out of whole cloth as opposed to using something that already exists in your story.
If your local media station(s) is/are owned by the Sinclair Group, they are being required to run pro-Administration propaganda and pass it off as actual news. If you read the New York Times, understand that its conservative columnists are not actually that close to what the conservative movement espouses. And that the NYT may not run those kinds of columns because they lack facts or espouse viewpoints that are offensive beyone their willingness to print.
Using glasses as a shortcut for a lack of beauty is less able to connect with audiences today, as glasses are, well, fashionable now. Similarly, Using movies like A Wrinkle In Time can move the needle on what sorts of hair styles are acceptable and attractive in a person, especially natural hair on women and girls of color.
Women of color activists of our times, as well as a study pointing out even the best educated and stablest family-situationed of black men will end up making about as much, on average, as a working-class white guy.
Monsters are often the best analogies that you have for depression and other seemingly invisible issues, amd the movie Anhiliation drives home the point how there are times in our lives where there are no reasons why something has happened or is.
The story of a con man who preyed on older women...who eventually banded together to bring him down, and they finally managed to get the feds involved by pointing out he was claiming military honors that he did not have and using them for gain.
A survivor of rape and assault is campaigning to get Florida to ban child marriage, because nobody was willing to say the truth about her experience, including her parents, and so she was eventually married and had children by her rapists. Tennessee almost killed theirs, but decided to bring it back aftr realizing what the stakes were.
Practical tips on the alterations of brassieres to make them fit after they come off the rack.
The human mind is excellent at creating in-groups and out-groups. This paradoxically helps us both create violence and peace. Because the mind can shift which teams it belongs to, and therefore create situations where one team membership can overcome another. Thus, you can have someone who believes "their" minority person isn't like "other" minority persons, without realizing the racist underpinnings of what they're doing. But also, you can get someone to embrace anti-racism by making minorities part of their team in ways that aren't tokenizing or virtue signaling. Change is scary to a lot of people, and people who were used to having privilege often struggle to find their place in the new world.
Film and television of black intimacy, a series of things that were always there but hidden away and not normally given wide dispersal.
Lexicography is in tension with itself, on the question of whether the dictionary should be descriptive or prescriptive. For some people, neologisms are things that show up and do their thing, and for others, they are things that need to be examined carefully and possibly sent away if not deemed worthy of entry.
A clerk who refused to do the job she was entrusted with, because she felt it would be endorsement of something she personally disapproved of, got a book.
An object lesson on how not to treat a child, whether on the autism sprectrum or not, because forcing a child into something they have objections, fears, and issues with is not the best way to get them to get over them. Sure, things have apparently turned out okay now. But I'd be willing to guess there were other ways of making that happen that didn't depend on traumatizing the child until they saw the thing they wanted and were able to make better associations.
Constant worry about everything is counterproductive - and also results in decision paralysis. Learn, make a decision about it, then decide and do.
Small tips that help with being okay with your emotional state or working to dispel emotional states you don't want.
Trying to meditate to achieve goals may be counter to what meditation is supposed to be about. Which is to say that the meditation itself is about nothing.
If you are going to be prescriptive about the origins of language, it helps to be right about the origins of language.
The process involved in getting costumes and property purchased for film and television away from the studio when done is pretty involved. Some of it gets purchased, a lot of it gets donated, some goes home with the cast and crew. But whether or not there's a process for all of it for after the wrap...maybe.
The average benefit from Supplemental Nutirition is a little less than the average meal cost, and there are some places where that gap is even greater. Ontario has been testing basic income guarantees, and the results look promising.
Leonard Cohen's version of Hallelujiah has verses that are very specifically Jewish, and that don't get much play, and occasionally, the lyrics get altered to be more Christian.
Publishing still has a problem with getting disabled narratives right, mostly because publishing has a problem with disabled people being able to tell their stories in their way.
The importance of the Jessica Jones series, written at the end of the first season, and generally a reason why these that show being made in these days is so important for us to have.
New Jersey finds itself in the midst of a tick crisis, with no help coming from an invader that can clone itself and completely drain cattle of their blood. Baboons used a play barrel in a Texas animal testing facility to climb their fence and escape, and, oh, yes, bacteria that are specifically interested in our not-very-degradable plastics.
Stone animals, long exposures of a drone taking photographs that make landscapes look haloed, silver treasure found by archaeologists, the ways that the Star Wars trilogy was rendered in film posters from former Soviet Republics, a tree of languages and their roots and branches, the knowledge that you can't kill pandas with cyanide - because the bamboo they eat has plenty of it, Game of Thrones in the stle of Disney animated movies (of the Mulan-Emperor's New-Groove-Hunchback of Notre Dame era, from the looks of it.), merpeople inspired by the colorations of various pride flags, a look at the making of a television episode, the way that the brain can be both source and inspiration for a song and an album, watching a movie that uses a stylized Japan as its backdrop when you're a native Japanese speaker, the adaptation of the Foundation trilogy for Apple as a streaming edxclusive...which could be great or terrible. I don't know which one it will be, given that Foundation itself wobbles back and forth between a tight thriller and gratuitous space battles.
In technology, a Russian citizen extradited to the United States pled guilty to abetting computer fraud by providing a service where malware creators could test their code against known computer security programs to see if it would be detected and quarantined.
The average United States or United Kingdom person's online identity is available for approximately $1,200, based on the going rates for logins and passwords stolen from various sources and offered on-line.
There is a way to limit the data sharing damage Facebook can do to you. You can essentially disable your ability to use Facebook outside of Facebook, and limit your data sharing inside Facebook. < href="https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/20/17140422/facebook-personal-data-deletion-how-to-cambridge-analytica-privacy-scandal-trump-campaign">Turning off everything that isn't something you specifically know you need is a good idea, too. So that perhaps the next time Facebook has to apologize for commercial interests using the service exactly as it was designed to be used, your data won't be beaten on too badly.
Facebook requires us to be the same person in all of our interactions, even though all of those people come from very different spheres.
There are maximum cart size limits to online retailers. And also, it's very easy to have a legitimate-looking product be a counterfeit from a place that could get you in trouble with customs if you imported and bought it.
Australian energy operators have been test-driving a Tesla battery, mostly using it to keep the energy grid stable rather than having to use it for battery backup, and seem pleased with the ease in which the battery responds to fluctuations in the power grid.
Microsoft may be looking to re-enter the digital device market with a mostly pen-based, dockable tablet idea. Which sounds rather appealing. What I might need for it to do, though, is demonstrate that it can handle translating my writing to text in word-based chunks, rather than a letter at a time. And that it will need to keep up with me by providing me with enough space to keep writing on as I want to keep jotting things down. A sort of infinite paper, as it were, that doesn't just replicate my pen strokes, but can take them and format them into readable text. (Or, when I'm sketching something visual, keep that and/or translate it into charts and graphs.)
Synaethesia may have a genetic component to it, and researchers are trying to find if there are specific genes that contribute.
A template for writing stories about how people eschewing vaccination are causing outbreaks of things that we all thought were behind us. Because it. keeps. happening.
Nitrite- and nitrate-processed meats are still pretty good cancer risks, even with alternatives much more widely available. But, of course, they're more expensive, too. As is usual with these sorts of things. Bottled water might also contain small amounts of plastics in it as well, although the published studies on whether that's health-harmful haven't yet come out.
Archivists and preservation specialists are trying to build a universal on-line emulator, so that file formats that are quite old could still be opened and then updated to newer formats. As with everything, though, that sometimes means trying to find a physical version of the thing to start with, an increasingly rare thing these days. I wish them good skill, however, because they're going to need it to get things up and running.
Very interesting things you can do with a dishwasher. And a couple things that you shouldn't.
Redesigning the speculum so that it's not a torture device to people that have to get gynegolocial examinationsa.
DNA ancestry testing is unlikely to produce useful results for you if your DNA doesn't already have a lot of samples close to it in the system.
Trying to use the Tweet-machine for good things by displaying a hashtag for students meant to be used so they can compliment each other.
Panera, the company, left millions of customer records in plain sight for anyone who had the right link to work with.
Last for tonight, a story of a librarian giving someone exactly the book they need, at great cost to themselves.
And one thing to help you in your travels acrss the internet - a page you can direct someone to if they are arguing in bad faith and you want to close the discussion without further comment.
(If men and birds flirted like each other.)
Alcohol drinking has been associated with increased cancer risk for years, and yet there isn't a whole lot on the airwaves and otherwise about that particular fact. As with other products, the data has been pushed back against with targeted advertisements and getting industry-friendly people in government positions.
There is still a pervasive attitude in sport that women have to be subjected to special scrutiny to determine if they are "women enough" to compete. This is a terrible idea - there's no set of biological characteristics that determine whether a person is a man or a woman, because any and all of those traits usually held up as such show up in both men and women.
It should be obvious at this point that trans women are women. So start studying terminology, with the understanding that different communities use words different ways (so you might have to have extra definitions attached to many of the words present). An easy one to start with - cis means on the same side as, and is a good way of remembering that the dominant group should not be unmarked with the presumption of normalcy. Listen to women. Let women use their voices. Don't require a woman to look masculine before you take her concerns seriously.
Molly Ringwald reflects on having been the star of films that did both good things and problematic ones, especially in light of how we are now starting to take seriously the issues that would have passed as nothing in previous times.
Affirmations and reminders for feminists, because activism is often thankless work that appears not to have any consequences.
It's likely that the men in the room are assuming they're the smartest, when the truth is much, much different.
Identity intersects in so many ways, including how you can be at a strong set of crossroads by being Deaf in a hearing family...of people who speak two languages. A performance of Hamlet that incorporated a BSL interpreter into the production, which made the whole thing much better for the entire audience.
The origins of many evangelist sects of Christianity are in reworking a tradition that is about hospitality and welcoming foreigners into one that would be okay with slaves and oppression.
Mary Patten, captin of a ship where just about everything that could go wrong, did. Daniel Mallory Ortberg, founder of he Toast and fiction writer. With a book coming out.
Historically speaking, monogamy has been much like marriage - about property and controlling women's sexuality.
Doctors assuming they know what's going on, even when a patient is clearly telling them what they're experiencing, is causing harm to their patients. Because even if someone is presenting what should be a classic case of symptoms, sometimes being a woman means everyone assumes it's something else. Plenty of people around have diverse bodies and can talk to people with diverse bodies about their body things.
AllGo hopes to provide reviews of places depending on how accessible they are for people with large bodies.
The question of when it is appropriate to create something out of whole cloth as opposed to using something that already exists in your story.
If your local media station(s) is/are owned by the Sinclair Group, they are being required to run pro-Administration propaganda and pass it off as actual news. If you read the New York Times, understand that its conservative columnists are not actually that close to what the conservative movement espouses. And that the NYT may not run those kinds of columns because they lack facts or espouse viewpoints that are offensive beyone their willingness to print.
Using glasses as a shortcut for a lack of beauty is less able to connect with audiences today, as glasses are, well, fashionable now. Similarly, Using movies like A Wrinkle In Time can move the needle on what sorts of hair styles are acceptable and attractive in a person, especially natural hair on women and girls of color.
Women of color activists of our times, as well as a study pointing out even the best educated and stablest family-situationed of black men will end up making about as much, on average, as a working-class white guy.
Monsters are often the best analogies that you have for depression and other seemingly invisible issues, amd the movie Anhiliation drives home the point how there are times in our lives where there are no reasons why something has happened or is.
The story of a con man who preyed on older women...who eventually banded together to bring him down, and they finally managed to get the feds involved by pointing out he was claiming military honors that he did not have and using them for gain.
A survivor of rape and assault is campaigning to get Florida to ban child marriage, because nobody was willing to say the truth about her experience, including her parents, and so she was eventually married and had children by her rapists. Tennessee almost killed theirs, but decided to bring it back aftr realizing what the stakes were.
Practical tips on the alterations of brassieres to make them fit after they come off the rack.
The human mind is excellent at creating in-groups and out-groups. This paradoxically helps us both create violence and peace. Because the mind can shift which teams it belongs to, and therefore create situations where one team membership can overcome another. Thus, you can have someone who believes "their" minority person isn't like "other" minority persons, without realizing the racist underpinnings of what they're doing. But also, you can get someone to embrace anti-racism by making minorities part of their team in ways that aren't tokenizing or virtue signaling. Change is scary to a lot of people, and people who were used to having privilege often struggle to find their place in the new world.
Film and television of black intimacy, a series of things that were always there but hidden away and not normally given wide dispersal.
Lexicography is in tension with itself, on the question of whether the dictionary should be descriptive or prescriptive. For some people, neologisms are things that show up and do their thing, and for others, they are things that need to be examined carefully and possibly sent away if not deemed worthy of entry.
A clerk who refused to do the job she was entrusted with, because she felt it would be endorsement of something she personally disapproved of, got a book.
An object lesson on how not to treat a child, whether on the autism sprectrum or not, because forcing a child into something they have objections, fears, and issues with is not the best way to get them to get over them. Sure, things have apparently turned out okay now. But I'd be willing to guess there were other ways of making that happen that didn't depend on traumatizing the child until they saw the thing they wanted and were able to make better associations.
Constant worry about everything is counterproductive - and also results in decision paralysis. Learn, make a decision about it, then decide and do.
Small tips that help with being okay with your emotional state or working to dispel emotional states you don't want.
Trying to meditate to achieve goals may be counter to what meditation is supposed to be about. Which is to say that the meditation itself is about nothing.
If you are going to be prescriptive about the origins of language, it helps to be right about the origins of language.
The process involved in getting costumes and property purchased for film and television away from the studio when done is pretty involved. Some of it gets purchased, a lot of it gets donated, some goes home with the cast and crew. But whether or not there's a process for all of it for after the wrap...maybe.
The average benefit from Supplemental Nutirition is a little less than the average meal cost, and there are some places where that gap is even greater. Ontario has been testing basic income guarantees, and the results look promising.
Leonard Cohen's version of Hallelujiah has verses that are very specifically Jewish, and that don't get much play, and occasionally, the lyrics get altered to be more Christian.
Publishing still has a problem with getting disabled narratives right, mostly because publishing has a problem with disabled people being able to tell their stories in their way.
The importance of the Jessica Jones series, written at the end of the first season, and generally a reason why these that show being made in these days is so important for us to have.
New Jersey finds itself in the midst of a tick crisis, with no help coming from an invader that can clone itself and completely drain cattle of their blood. Baboons used a play barrel in a Texas animal testing facility to climb their fence and escape, and, oh, yes, bacteria that are specifically interested in our not-very-degradable plastics.
Stone animals, long exposures of a drone taking photographs that make landscapes look haloed, silver treasure found by archaeologists, the ways that the Star Wars trilogy was rendered in film posters from former Soviet Republics, a tree of languages and their roots and branches, the knowledge that you can't kill pandas with cyanide - because the bamboo they eat has plenty of it, Game of Thrones in the stle of Disney animated movies (of the Mulan-Emperor's New-Groove-Hunchback of Notre Dame era, from the looks of it.), merpeople inspired by the colorations of various pride flags, a look at the making of a television episode, the way that the brain can be both source and inspiration for a song and an album, watching a movie that uses a stylized Japan as its backdrop when you're a native Japanese speaker, the adaptation of the Foundation trilogy for Apple as a streaming edxclusive...which could be great or terrible. I don't know which one it will be, given that Foundation itself wobbles back and forth between a tight thriller and gratuitous space battles.
In technology, a Russian citizen extradited to the United States pled guilty to abetting computer fraud by providing a service where malware creators could test their code against known computer security programs to see if it would be detected and quarantined.
The average United States or United Kingdom person's online identity is available for approximately $1,200, based on the going rates for logins and passwords stolen from various sources and offered on-line.
There is a way to limit the data sharing damage Facebook can do to you. You can essentially disable your ability to use Facebook outside of Facebook, and limit your data sharing inside Facebook. < href="https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/20/17140422/facebook-personal-data-deletion-how-to-cambridge-analytica-privacy-scandal-trump-campaign">Turning off everything that isn't something you specifically know you need is a good idea, too. So that perhaps the next time Facebook has to apologize for commercial interests using the service exactly as it was designed to be used, your data won't be beaten on too badly.
Facebook requires us to be the same person in all of our interactions, even though all of those people come from very different spheres.
There are maximum cart size limits to online retailers. And also, it's very easy to have a legitimate-looking product be a counterfeit from a place that could get you in trouble with customs if you imported and bought it.
Australian energy operators have been test-driving a Tesla battery, mostly using it to keep the energy grid stable rather than having to use it for battery backup, and seem pleased with the ease in which the battery responds to fluctuations in the power grid.
Microsoft may be looking to re-enter the digital device market with a mostly pen-based, dockable tablet idea. Which sounds rather appealing. What I might need for it to do, though, is demonstrate that it can handle translating my writing to text in word-based chunks, rather than a letter at a time. And that it will need to keep up with me by providing me with enough space to keep writing on as I want to keep jotting things down. A sort of infinite paper, as it were, that doesn't just replicate my pen strokes, but can take them and format them into readable text. (Or, when I'm sketching something visual, keep that and/or translate it into charts and graphs.)
Synaethesia may have a genetic component to it, and researchers are trying to find if there are specific genes that contribute.
A template for writing stories about how people eschewing vaccination are causing outbreaks of things that we all thought were behind us. Because it. keeps. happening.
Nitrite- and nitrate-processed meats are still pretty good cancer risks, even with alternatives much more widely available. But, of course, they're more expensive, too. As is usual with these sorts of things. Bottled water might also contain small amounts of plastics in it as well, although the published studies on whether that's health-harmful haven't yet come out.
Archivists and preservation specialists are trying to build a universal on-line emulator, so that file formats that are quite old could still be opened and then updated to newer formats. As with everything, though, that sometimes means trying to find a physical version of the thing to start with, an increasingly rare thing these days. I wish them good skill, however, because they're going to need it to get things up and running.
Very interesting things you can do with a dishwasher. And a couple things that you shouldn't.
Redesigning the speculum so that it's not a torture device to people that have to get gynegolocial examinationsa.
DNA ancestry testing is unlikely to produce useful results for you if your DNA doesn't already have a lot of samples close to it in the system.
Trying to use the Tweet-machine for good things by displaying a hashtag for students meant to be used so they can compliment each other.
Panera, the company, left millions of customer records in plain sight for anyone who had the right link to work with.
Last for tonight, a story of a librarian giving someone exactly the book they need, at great cost to themselves.
And one thing to help you in your travels acrss the internet - a page you can direct someone to if they are arguing in bad faith and you want to close the discussion without further comment.
(If men and birds flirted like each other.)
