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Clearing out a pile of March-April 02018
May. 9th, 2018 09:31 pmHey! Let's begin with a Traqnsgender Language Primer, which is another effort to get definitions and terminology7 out in the world as a reference work, and should be applauded.
A reasonable guide for gender exploration, which may be helpful if you find yourself contemplating whether or not you have a case of the genders. There may be some identifiable biological differences between trans and cis people. (Article also contains descriptions of TERFs being given space in the UK halls of government.)
The Dead Pool has been busy - Barbara Bush, polarizing figure and intimately related to several presidents and hoepfuls, at 92 years of age, Carl Kassel, well-known NPR broadcaster and recorder of voicemail and answering machine messages, at 84 years, Harry Anderson, comedian and finest Night Court magistrate, at 65 yesars of age, and Gunnery Sergeant R. Lee Ermey, whose role of Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in Full Metal Jacket was certainly the Trope Codifier of Drill Sergeant Nasty, at 74 years of age.
Unsurprisingly, the "last night of freedom" that a man might have before getting married can lead to excesses...but the tragedies tend to strike the people in the party, not the soon-to-be-married man.
Yes, friend, toxic masculinity and misogyny are terrible for boys and men as well as women and girls, but lamenting the lack of a formal ritual of passage from one state to another doesn't seem to be the way to go. Perhaps, instead, we could turn our work to dismantling the assumptions and institutions that insist there are only a limited number of ways to be acceptably masculine or feminine, such that every child has the breadth of freedom before them. Publsih some books about boys and men who don't go the toxic route.
I think it would be an incredibly poor idea to go the route of contracting a service that makes a man into a PUA and fields a group of people to employ PUA techniques on women for them. The whole thing markets very differently depending on whether you're a propsective man or woman, to the point where it seems like it's trying to feed women to PUAs, regardless of which side you might think about contracting them on.
It is also a terrible, terrible idea to believe the myth that most powerful men who are accused of misconduct are unaware that they are mis-conducting, and that the others who defend them aren't pretty aware of it, too.
A suggestion to bring more balance to the Dark Side of things by having more women as villains, which has a thought as well about the idea of good representation making it less palatable for a character to be a villain. I think the solution is the same as the one mentioned in the article - more representation, and broader. The less that a character trades on terrible tropes to be a villain, the more villains that you unlock as possibilities.
Nancy Pelosi, the politician, suffers from being good at her job while being a woman. Much in the same way that Hillary Clinton suffered from being good at her job while being a woman. Much in the same way that any successful woman, in whatever field, is constantly harrassed by nearly everyone around her because she's good at something while being a woman.
Our media reflects us, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe is no different. Which says a lot about the terrible state of us. And then there are things like the semi-truck drivers that parked themselves under an overpass to prevent a person from jumping off the overpass to their death. Or the kinds of people who are willing to intervene when someone else is behaving poorly, even when it's not part of their job.
The thought that AD(H)D might have specific manifestations in adults - specifically, the ability to get into things based on interest, an emotion engine that's always tuned a little high, and a strong sensitivity to criticism or rejection, or even the perception thereof. Which certainly seems interesting.
Investment in public housing and services has great returns. Letting private equity firms buy entities is one of the fastest ways to make sure that entity will not survive.
All around the world, Person of Interest becomes less a work of fiction and more a work-in-progress...including suggestions that the government compile databases of journalists and "influencers" and monitor their activities.
There was going to be an article here about the advantages of being a polymath in this world, but it turned out to be an elaborate sales pitch and it was using a lot of people who might be charitably described as terrible people as the examlpes of polymaths. Instead, I'm going to point out that your polymath is likely to be a public librarian or teacher, who has to master more than a few disciplines enough to be able to help other people with their specialist or generalist queries. Yes, being good and able to combine the knowledge you have in novel ways is a thing that can make you a lot of money, but the article-writer also failed to acknowledge that many of those people have some not-inconsiderable privilege working in their favor. Even a child who taught themselves to sing or dance using YouTube has sufficient privilege for a home or telephone data connection and the free time and safety to be able to practice those things until they achieved mastery. These are not guarantees for every child, much as we desperately wish they could be.
For article content, instead, I'm going to talk about how a person currently sitting in the Administration told inflations and lies of his own net worth so as to make Forbes rank him higher than his actual wealth was.
Classical liberalism has succeeded! This is, potentially, a failure.
Teachers are ready to strike on their jobs, and then did so in several states, because we think that education isn't a valuable service that everyone deserves to have and we underpay our teachers terrible. (Unsurprisingly, mos of those teachers are women, and we know how women have trouble getting men to respect them and pay them what they're worth. You shouldn't have to have a second job just so that you can not make ends meet.
The puzzle jug, a drinking vessel that needed secret knowledge to get its contents without them spilling out, illustrating the recipe with as much creativity as you can muster, the borrowing records of various historical figures from their subscription libraries, which nowadays are quite properly scrapped unless explicitly opted-in-to, snow mushrooms as natural phenomena, carving intricate patterns into fruit flesh, an idea to strap weapons to the back of cats and get them to run home, the difficulties of reconstructing bodies from their skeletal remains, seed distribution via public library, the UV properties of various bird parts and plumage, new knowledge that a preserved dodo specimen was shot, rather than dying of natural causes, photographs from a storm chaser of what severe weather looks like, up close and in your face,
California can look forward to more climate change, and more snaps between dry and wet weather conditions.
The declassified games of the CIA, one of which you can examine with all the redactions that make it not quite as good a game as the original might be, but there's at least one person who's gone and filled in some blanks and is looking to get funding to print some decks.
In science and tech, Any particular moment in time is much more like to be an electron cloud's worth of things all edited, stitched, or otherwise shuffled together to look like a coherent thing than an exact unit of anything, because of the way that humans do a lot of percention and shuffling and eliding and other such things.
The logistics involved in moving a floating bog, which does not respond well to many direct attempts.
Foxconn will be the beneficiary of machinactions that will drain water out of Lake Michigan, in a move designed essentially to sidestep the difficult process normally in place to get water out of the Great Lakes.
The accessibility features of London taxicabs, that allow people of any sort of mobility or ability to enter and ride in the cabs safely. Although, from the video, it looks like all the passengers are riding facing the rear of the cab when they use an accessible cab?
Electric public transport vehicles, like buses, are helping reduce air pollution from transit and still achieving sufficient mass of transit as to continue with normal operations. (We could, too, but we have people who think that all regulation is bad and so will try to roll back things that would help people's health.)
A creatively-named WiFi access point caused the evacuation of a Planet Fitness club due to caution about whether the name itself was an indicator of a real threat. Cue, of course, plenty of other creatively-named WiFi access points, many of which are quite humorous or would be good references to spot. I think I have an "FBI Surveillance Van" near work.
Kits are being installed in several Florida towns that will contain supplies so that witnesses to a mass casualty event will be able to help victims from bleeding to death.
Fingerprint analysis of a partial print in a single photo resulted in the arrest of several people on suspicion of dealing or purchasing illicit drugs.
It is a much better idea to invest in prevention that scramble for a cure, as the city of Atlanta found out when it was hit with a ransomware attack and had no way of actually attempting to pay the ransom.
Facebook knew that its data was being exploited in terrible ways, but didn't do anything about it so they could claim they didn't. And may have been following a supposedly provvocative idea of growth at all costs much more closely than they wanted to admit.
Last for tonight, the ways in which we deform taboos and True Names so that we can turn "god-damn-it" into "dag-nab-it"!. Some of those things are very useful for slinging curse words past the censors by changing the taboo enough that it won't get bleeped. (If you're looking for a good example, watch The Good Place and marvel at the syllable shifts that make it possible for widespread cursing that has no way of being bleeped out by the censors.) And the linguistic guesses about the origins of spring, autumn, and fall.
I am not throwing away my plot. Or, Shakespeare-Hamilton comic mashup.
The ending of good friendships often has the same sting and worry that a romantic relationship's ending does. And sometimes for many of the same reasons, or lack thereof, too.
A reasonable guide for gender exploration, which may be helpful if you find yourself contemplating whether or not you have a case of the genders. There may be some identifiable biological differences between trans and cis people. (Article also contains descriptions of TERFs being given space in the UK halls of government.)
The Dead Pool has been busy - Barbara Bush, polarizing figure and intimately related to several presidents and hoepfuls, at 92 years of age, Carl Kassel, well-known NPR broadcaster and recorder of voicemail and answering machine messages, at 84 years, Harry Anderson, comedian and finest Night Court magistrate, at 65 yesars of age, and Gunnery Sergeant R. Lee Ermey, whose role of Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in Full Metal Jacket was certainly the Trope Codifier of Drill Sergeant Nasty, at 74 years of age.
Unsurprisingly, the "last night of freedom" that a man might have before getting married can lead to excesses...but the tragedies tend to strike the people in the party, not the soon-to-be-married man.
Yes, friend, toxic masculinity and misogyny are terrible for boys and men as well as women and girls, but lamenting the lack of a formal ritual of passage from one state to another doesn't seem to be the way to go. Perhaps, instead, we could turn our work to dismantling the assumptions and institutions that insist there are only a limited number of ways to be acceptably masculine or feminine, such that every child has the breadth of freedom before them. Publsih some books about boys and men who don't go the toxic route.
I think it would be an incredibly poor idea to go the route of contracting a service that makes a man into a PUA and fields a group of people to employ PUA techniques on women for them. The whole thing markets very differently depending on whether you're a propsective man or woman, to the point where it seems like it's trying to feed women to PUAs, regardless of which side you might think about contracting them on.
It is also a terrible, terrible idea to believe the myth that most powerful men who are accused of misconduct are unaware that they are mis-conducting, and that the others who defend them aren't pretty aware of it, too.
A suggestion to bring more balance to the Dark Side of things by having more women as villains, which has a thought as well about the idea of good representation making it less palatable for a character to be a villain. I think the solution is the same as the one mentioned in the article - more representation, and broader. The less that a character trades on terrible tropes to be a villain, the more villains that you unlock as possibilities.
Nancy Pelosi, the politician, suffers from being good at her job while being a woman. Much in the same way that Hillary Clinton suffered from being good at her job while being a woman. Much in the same way that any successful woman, in whatever field, is constantly harrassed by nearly everyone around her because she's good at something while being a woman.
Our media reflects us, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe is no different. Which says a lot about the terrible state of us. And then there are things like the semi-truck drivers that parked themselves under an overpass to prevent a person from jumping off the overpass to their death. Or the kinds of people who are willing to intervene when someone else is behaving poorly, even when it's not part of their job.
The thought that AD(H)D might have specific manifestations in adults - specifically, the ability to get into things based on interest, an emotion engine that's always tuned a little high, and a strong sensitivity to criticism or rejection, or even the perception thereof. Which certainly seems interesting.
Investment in public housing and services has great returns. Letting private equity firms buy entities is one of the fastest ways to make sure that entity will not survive.
All around the world, Person of Interest becomes less a work of fiction and more a work-in-progress...including suggestions that the government compile databases of journalists and "influencers" and monitor their activities.
There was going to be an article here about the advantages of being a polymath in this world, but it turned out to be an elaborate sales pitch and it was using a lot of people who might be charitably described as terrible people as the examlpes of polymaths. Instead, I'm going to point out that your polymath is likely to be a public librarian or teacher, who has to master more than a few disciplines enough to be able to help other people with their specialist or generalist queries. Yes, being good and able to combine the knowledge you have in novel ways is a thing that can make you a lot of money, but the article-writer also failed to acknowledge that many of those people have some not-inconsiderable privilege working in their favor. Even a child who taught themselves to sing or dance using YouTube has sufficient privilege for a home or telephone data connection and the free time and safety to be able to practice those things until they achieved mastery. These are not guarantees for every child, much as we desperately wish they could be.
For article content, instead, I'm going to talk about how a person currently sitting in the Administration told inflations and lies of his own net worth so as to make Forbes rank him higher than his actual wealth was.
Classical liberalism has succeeded! This is, potentially, a failure.
Teachers are ready to strike on their jobs, and then did so in several states, because we think that education isn't a valuable service that everyone deserves to have and we underpay our teachers terrible. (Unsurprisingly, mos of those teachers are women, and we know how women have trouble getting men to respect them and pay them what they're worth. You shouldn't have to have a second job just so that you can not make ends meet.
The puzzle jug, a drinking vessel that needed secret knowledge to get its contents without them spilling out, illustrating the recipe with as much creativity as you can muster, the borrowing records of various historical figures from their subscription libraries, which nowadays are quite properly scrapped unless explicitly opted-in-to, snow mushrooms as natural phenomena, carving intricate patterns into fruit flesh, an idea to strap weapons to the back of cats and get them to run home, the difficulties of reconstructing bodies from their skeletal remains, seed distribution via public library, the UV properties of various bird parts and plumage, new knowledge that a preserved dodo specimen was shot, rather than dying of natural causes, photographs from a storm chaser of what severe weather looks like, up close and in your face,
California can look forward to more climate change, and more snaps between dry and wet weather conditions.
The declassified games of the CIA, one of which you can examine with all the redactions that make it not quite as good a game as the original might be, but there's at least one person who's gone and filled in some blanks and is looking to get funding to print some decks.
In science and tech, Any particular moment in time is much more like to be an electron cloud's worth of things all edited, stitched, or otherwise shuffled together to look like a coherent thing than an exact unit of anything, because of the way that humans do a lot of percention and shuffling and eliding and other such things.
The logistics involved in moving a floating bog, which does not respond well to many direct attempts.
Foxconn will be the beneficiary of machinactions that will drain water out of Lake Michigan, in a move designed essentially to sidestep the difficult process normally in place to get water out of the Great Lakes.
The accessibility features of London taxicabs, that allow people of any sort of mobility or ability to enter and ride in the cabs safely. Although, from the video, it looks like all the passengers are riding facing the rear of the cab when they use an accessible cab?
Electric public transport vehicles, like buses, are helping reduce air pollution from transit and still achieving sufficient mass of transit as to continue with normal operations. (We could, too, but we have people who think that all regulation is bad and so will try to roll back things that would help people's health.)
A creatively-named WiFi access point caused the evacuation of a Planet Fitness club due to caution about whether the name itself was an indicator of a real threat. Cue, of course, plenty of other creatively-named WiFi access points, many of which are quite humorous or would be good references to spot. I think I have an "FBI Surveillance Van" near work.
Kits are being installed in several Florida towns that will contain supplies so that witnesses to a mass casualty event will be able to help victims from bleeding to death.
Fingerprint analysis of a partial print in a single photo resulted in the arrest of several people on suspicion of dealing or purchasing illicit drugs.
It is a much better idea to invest in prevention that scramble for a cure, as the city of Atlanta found out when it was hit with a ransomware attack and had no way of actually attempting to pay the ransom.
Facebook knew that its data was being exploited in terrible ways, but didn't do anything about it so they could claim they didn't. And may have been following a supposedly provvocative idea of growth at all costs much more closely than they wanted to admit.
Last for tonight, the ways in which we deform taboos and True Names so that we can turn "god-damn-it" into "dag-nab-it"!. Some of those things are very useful for slinging curse words past the censors by changing the taboo enough that it won't get bleeped. (If you're looking for a good example, watch The Good Place and marvel at the syllable shifts that make it possible for widespread cursing that has no way of being bleeped out by the censors.) And the linguistic guesses about the origins of spring, autumn, and fall.
I am not throwing away my plot. Or, Shakespeare-Hamilton comic mashup.
The ending of good friendships often has the same sting and worry that a romantic relationship's ending does. And sometimes for many of the same reasons, or lack thereof, too.
