(Seanan McGuire gets to write X-Men!)
Good morning. It should be less of a surprise that scandal about men behaving badly has arrived everywhere, because it was always about men behaving badly and networks working to protect them. And why should we be surprised at this at all, when in at leasy one school, students can be disciplined if they are seen in the hallways not smiling, while the administration is alleged to be victim-blaming those who are bullied.
The United Kingdom will be instituting compulsory sex education in 2019 - and need to update their standards of what consistutes proper sex ed from the Spice Girls era.
The Administration is considering new rules regarding abortion - the kind that would require physical separation of places that receive federal funding and those that provide or even talk about abortion services. So that places deliberately charged with providing services to the poor, the uninsured, and the underinsured would not be able to talk about what might be a viable option for them. To wit, I reiterate that if conservatives are so hell-bent on preserving life, they should be much more willing to provide adoption for children they think others don't want. And be willing to be investigated and audited to make sure they're treating the children well. Since that's not happening, I think I can safely say that this is more about punishing women who behave in ways other than what they want them to be (as chattel for men.)
Much like how teachers are not allowed to have adult lives anywhere near the communities they teach in, passport applications to the United Kingdom are increasingly being denied based on vaguely-defined moralistic-sounding clauses.
A complete, illustrated, Earthsea where the illustrations are a result of a true collaboration between author and illustrator. Slated for release in October, so regrettably, the author will not be able to see the work in its final form.
Authoritarian mindsets have some commonalities, many of which are based on making a person feel terrible and ashamed and trying to get every possible opportunity for someone to be shamed. It sounds terrible, but then again, I wasn't necessarily fully cognizant of the damage being done to me in my own terrible relationship.
The reason why you need to get details of an account as soon as it happens - the account changes as you remember it to suit the context. Which can include someone being sure something happened, but then not being sure what happened.
Having to hide that you're on the autism spectrum is not only exhausting, there are a lot of people that do it because the costs of being opely autistic can be worse. Additionally, people being socialized as girls are often better at camoflauging than those socialized as boys, because of the societal expectations of girls and the need for a greater degree of interpersonal behavior.
On being unapologetically yourself on the spectrum and having strong interests in things. The subject matter is The Prisoner, but the application of the article is widespread towhatever interests may be so. Including the part where things go from being cute to being aggravating to other people. And where people self-regulate to make sure they're not being too over the top to anyone else. (You can see the difference between those who understand and those who don't quite get it in this Metafilter discussion.) Being on the spectrum doesn't require the approval of others or the acknowledgement of your reality.
A fundamental misunderstanding of intersectionality on the left allowed white supremacists to create the idea of the "Jewish cabal" and allow it to grow, because leftists demanded that Jews be white instead of Jewish. (Thus, the "white people" who were actually Jews could be blamed for the gains of the Civil Rights Movement, because a white supremacist wouldn't be able to believe that any other identity than theirs is allowed full humanity and that other white poeple might act on that belief against other white people.) This problem continues into our current days, often because there isn't easily-capturable-on-video consequences to being Jewish in your daily life.
As conservatives succeed at merging the church and the state, more and more people step away from their churches/ I suspect it is because these days, more people know someone who is being demonized, and they choose to reconcile the contradiction between a church that wants their friend to be dead or otherwise second class and the friend they've known for a long time by choosing their friend and ditching the church.
Decisions made earlier on in history have produced both gains and losses in getting the full breadth of the not-cis-het experience recognized and explained. And then there's the masterclass that follows providing more detail, more nuance, and more explanation from a big group of commenters who know their stuff and have the lived experience in those areas.
The National Football League's decision to attach negative sanctions to players who kneel for the national anthem and fine teams that allow it is clearly a violation of labor law on the matte of collective bargaining. And could be illegal for labor law on several other points as well. One could also note that jerseys for sale by he NFL are, like a lot of products made and sold in the United States, flatly in violation of the Flag Code, and therefore, they're not really talking about patriotism, but their own income streams. The players have expressed their opiniion of the new rules in very unflattering terms toward the owner and the administrator.
The House of Mouse will can your show, even if it is popular, if you're the star and you make racist remarks. As Roseanne Barr found out the hard way - ABC canned her and her talent agency dropped her for those tweets. Consequences of actions happened, finally, and in quickness, rather than waiting for a while and then going from there.
Ablism can transform a review of what is a sirring tale of revenge and fury into inspiration porn. Which the book is not. Only in the reviewer's mind did it become about the disability instead of the narrative. Being disabled sometimes produces fantasies about being well enough to be actually lazy or otherwise simply unmotivated.
A fascinating paper about the complexities of cataloguing material from a time where language around people with disabilities was very different. The very short of it is that they had to juggle preferred modern nomenclature, the Library of Congress's subject headings, which are not nearly that diverse, medical, social, and complex embodiment models of disability, and the actal words used to describe the people that are going to be on the exhibits themselves, some of which might make it as historical artifacts, others which might be completely discarded because they are unusable. Even if library and archives isn't your calling, this is a great peek into what goes into cataloging decisions and how difficult they are when you want descriptive, discoverable, and interoperable systems. (Many thanks,![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
jenett!)
A reasonably handy way of figuring out whether or not the thing you are doing to your disabled friend is a good idea or not - would you do the sam thing to someone with a flat tire? If not, there's a good chance it's not good for the disabled person, either.
Talking about linguistics and the unique parts of human sound-making that can make the same audio clip sound like the word "laurel" to some and "yanny" to others. Has quite a bit to do with the frequencies that voicers operate at and what can be more easily distinguished. Just think - figuring out the entire set of potential phonemes for the English language is pretty hard for beginning language learners, so it's not surprising that sometimes the constructions that put them together are equally as difficult. After all, we have mondegreens for a reason.
A book list of Black women characters in speculative fiction, with a significant number on the list by Black women authors. There's a reading list to get behind.
Sanrio created a character and animation of an office worker, and pulled no punches about how terrible the situation is for women office workers in Japan.
Hayley Atwell is in for playing role model type characters, including the ones in classic lit and other places. Not necessarily every character, but ones that can be good even for modern audiences.
The use of the bingo card as a way of motivating uncluttering.
Translating the Odyssey's repetitions more poetically and variably. And on translating the Odyssey to focus much more on the adventure, instead of letting it be a piece of Literature.
While the young adult designation may have been formalized in 1957, it took until the 1970s for young adult literature to blosson into something that young adults would want to read.
The Marvel Cincematic Universe couldn't keep its television division and its movie division properly inter-connected, but that's been okay for the TV division, as they've gone off to tell their own stories and make vague gestures at where they are in the movie continuity, and it's been great.
There is a digital restoration of a movie from Turkey that..."borrowed" much of its visual effects from Star Wars.
A property house in Los Angeles that can create and stock just about any set you would like around food, including the fake food that stocks its shelves.
And examining the various attempts of celebrities to be fashionable and Catholic at a Met gala.
In technology, a typeface that overlays braille dots on top of latin or Japanese characters, so that both the sighted and the visually impaired could read the same text in the same space. That's COOL. I can hope that it does, in fact, come to fruition and get used a lot.
Eudora, the exccedingly popular mail client, is now open-source, BSD-licensed code, which means that anyone who has been hoping to update it for the modern era or to port it to other systems now has the opportunity to use the original source of the last version and build from there.
The United States Senate passed new network neutrality rules in response to a decision to overturn them made by the current chair of the Federal Communications Commission. A member of the House would like to get his colleagues to sign a petition to put the bill to the floor no matter what the committee says about it.
Copyright interests would like another term extension to make sure their revenue streams don't fall into the public domain, like they should have some time ago. There might be enough fight in the public to stop things from happening this time around. Possibly. I'd like to see the term of the copyright roll back significantly, myself, given that the point of the copyright was to give a limited right and then enrich everyone else by being able to build on it for their own works.
The FBI asked people to reboot their home routers as a way of disrupting malware attacks that transformed them into information-gathering tools for Russian agents. In the Internet of Things, routers do seem like the sort of things that could stand hardening, if they aren't already, so as to avoid being used in such a manner.
Mozilla has an add-on for Firefox Quantum to try and limit the places and means that Facebook uses to track you away from the site. It would work out better if they could essentially sandbox everyone's trackers all at once. I suspect there's a different add-on that does that.
The General Data Protection Regulation of the European Union has several United States newspapers refuse to serve their websites to European IPs or offering plaintext or different websites. This has the beneficial knock-on effect of making pages load faster by getting rid of the giant amount of advertising and tracking junk littered on the pages. In addition, several compmlaints were lodged against various copmanies under the new regulation, claiming that the new methods for gathering consent from those companies were not giving users a free and fair choice to turn over their data. For people in the States, the Regulation has meant a lot of Privacy Policy updates and e-mails asking for permission to continue doing things.
A long Twitter thread about the ways in which the focus on making things pretty has potentially mangled a focus on making things useful and letting computers do what they do most effectively.
Ways in which the DNA of a human might be permanently combined with other humans.
The Chili's restaurant chain announced a credit card number breach.
[ETA: Mail clients that can speak] the PGP protocol for sending encrypted e-mail may be vulnerable to a flaw that would allow all PGP-related e-mails to be decrypted into plaintext and then forwarded to a third party by someone who lacks the keys to do so. Some low-cost Android phones have had malware installed at the system level by their manufacturers, which is as good a reason as I can think of to be able to open up their bootloaders and install custom operating systems legally as any. Comcast's website used to have a way where someone with a little bit of information about you could obtain your router's Wi-Fi name and password. Since that information included an address, there would be plenty of potential mischief.
Voice-activated assistants are vulnerable to commands embedded in other files or at ranges that human ears can't hear, which has great potential for bad things and doesn't even require Randall Munroe to order two tons of creamed corn. Then again, when the devices themselves are waking up and recording things based on improperly-heard conversations, that's another avenue of fixing that has to happen.
Lithimu-ion batteries can start fires or cause explosions if simply tossed in the trash with other things.
One of the people charged in the SWATting deaths in Kansas did himself no favors by sending another threat from the prison and proclaiming himself an "eGod", both things that would likely have required significant amounts of additional bad behavior. The federal charges that are involved, too, can't be pretty for anyone. Couldn't be happening to nicer people, indeed.
For films that haven't made the jump to digitization, or never will, sometimes the way to keep the collection together is to turn a beloved video store into a beloved nonprofit entity and get funded by donations as well as rental fees.
A hood made of chain...shaped as an octopus. Which goes nicely with pots for hanging plants that transform them into cephalopods.
StumbleUpon is leaving at the end of the month, replaced by a new service, Mix. Run your content across if you wish to continue.
Last for tonight, minimalist travel posters for known science fiction destinations.
Also, The Pronoun Dressing Room, where one might look at lists of various pronouns and then test them out in various textual environments to see if they fit oneself.
Finally, the virtue of being in on a part of the Internet where you can shout into the void and nobody is there to click "Like".
Good morning. It should be less of a surprise that scandal about men behaving badly has arrived everywhere, because it was always about men behaving badly and networks working to protect them. And why should we be surprised at this at all, when in at leasy one school, students can be disciplined if they are seen in the hallways not smiling, while the administration is alleged to be victim-blaming those who are bullied.
The United Kingdom will be instituting compulsory sex education in 2019 - and need to update their standards of what consistutes proper sex ed from the Spice Girls era.
The Administration is considering new rules regarding abortion - the kind that would require physical separation of places that receive federal funding and those that provide or even talk about abortion services. So that places deliberately charged with providing services to the poor, the uninsured, and the underinsured would not be able to talk about what might be a viable option for them. To wit, I reiterate that if conservatives are so hell-bent on preserving life, they should be much more willing to provide adoption for children they think others don't want. And be willing to be investigated and audited to make sure they're treating the children well. Since that's not happening, I think I can safely say that this is more about punishing women who behave in ways other than what they want them to be (as chattel for men.)
Much like how teachers are not allowed to have adult lives anywhere near the communities they teach in, passport applications to the United Kingdom are increasingly being denied based on vaguely-defined moralistic-sounding clauses.
A complete, illustrated, Earthsea where the illustrations are a result of a true collaboration between author and illustrator. Slated for release in October, so regrettably, the author will not be able to see the work in its final form.
Authoritarian mindsets have some commonalities, many of which are based on making a person feel terrible and ashamed and trying to get every possible opportunity for someone to be shamed. It sounds terrible, but then again, I wasn't necessarily fully cognizant of the damage being done to me in my own terrible relationship.
The reason why you need to get details of an account as soon as it happens - the account changes as you remember it to suit the context. Which can include someone being sure something happened, but then not being sure what happened.
Having to hide that you're on the autism spectrum is not only exhausting, there are a lot of people that do it because the costs of being opely autistic can be worse. Additionally, people being socialized as girls are often better at camoflauging than those socialized as boys, because of the societal expectations of girls and the need for a greater degree of interpersonal behavior.
On being unapologetically yourself on the spectrum and having strong interests in things. The subject matter is The Prisoner, but the application of the article is widespread towhatever interests may be so. Including the part where things go from being cute to being aggravating to other people. And where people self-regulate to make sure they're not being too over the top to anyone else. (You can see the difference between those who understand and those who don't quite get it in this Metafilter discussion.) Being on the spectrum doesn't require the approval of others or the acknowledgement of your reality.
A fundamental misunderstanding of intersectionality on the left allowed white supremacists to create the idea of the "Jewish cabal" and allow it to grow, because leftists demanded that Jews be white instead of Jewish. (Thus, the "white people" who were actually Jews could be blamed for the gains of the Civil Rights Movement, because a white supremacist wouldn't be able to believe that any other identity than theirs is allowed full humanity and that other white poeple might act on that belief against other white people.) This problem continues into our current days, often because there isn't easily-capturable-on-video consequences to being Jewish in your daily life.
As conservatives succeed at merging the church and the state, more and more people step away from their churches/ I suspect it is because these days, more people know someone who is being demonized, and they choose to reconcile the contradiction between a church that wants their friend to be dead or otherwise second class and the friend they've known for a long time by choosing their friend and ditching the church.
Decisions made earlier on in history have produced both gains and losses in getting the full breadth of the not-cis-het experience recognized and explained. And then there's the masterclass that follows providing more detail, more nuance, and more explanation from a big group of commenters who know their stuff and have the lived experience in those areas.
The National Football League's decision to attach negative sanctions to players who kneel for the national anthem and fine teams that allow it is clearly a violation of labor law on the matte of collective bargaining. And could be illegal for labor law on several other points as well. One could also note that jerseys for sale by he NFL are, like a lot of products made and sold in the United States, flatly in violation of the Flag Code, and therefore, they're not really talking about patriotism, but their own income streams. The players have expressed their opiniion of the new rules in very unflattering terms toward the owner and the administrator.
The House of Mouse will can your show, even if it is popular, if you're the star and you make racist remarks. As Roseanne Barr found out the hard way - ABC canned her and her talent agency dropped her for those tweets. Consequences of actions happened, finally, and in quickness, rather than waiting for a while and then going from there.
Ablism can transform a review of what is a sirring tale of revenge and fury into inspiration porn. Which the book is not. Only in the reviewer's mind did it become about the disability instead of the narrative. Being disabled sometimes produces fantasies about being well enough to be actually lazy or otherwise simply unmotivated.
A fascinating paper about the complexities of cataloguing material from a time where language around people with disabilities was very different. The very short of it is that they had to juggle preferred modern nomenclature, the Library of Congress's subject headings, which are not nearly that diverse, medical, social, and complex embodiment models of disability, and the actal words used to describe the people that are going to be on the exhibits themselves, some of which might make it as historical artifacts, others which might be completely discarded because they are unusable. Even if library and archives isn't your calling, this is a great peek into what goes into cataloging decisions and how difficult they are when you want descriptive, discoverable, and interoperable systems. (Many thanks,
jenett!) A reasonably handy way of figuring out whether or not the thing you are doing to your disabled friend is a good idea or not - would you do the sam thing to someone with a flat tire? If not, there's a good chance it's not good for the disabled person, either.
Talking about linguistics and the unique parts of human sound-making that can make the same audio clip sound like the word "laurel" to some and "yanny" to others. Has quite a bit to do with the frequencies that voicers operate at and what can be more easily distinguished. Just think - figuring out the entire set of potential phonemes for the English language is pretty hard for beginning language learners, so it's not surprising that sometimes the constructions that put them together are equally as difficult. After all, we have mondegreens for a reason.
A book list of Black women characters in speculative fiction, with a significant number on the list by Black women authors. There's a reading list to get behind.
Sanrio created a character and animation of an office worker, and pulled no punches about how terrible the situation is for women office workers in Japan.
Hayley Atwell is in for playing role model type characters, including the ones in classic lit and other places. Not necessarily every character, but ones that can be good even for modern audiences.
The use of the bingo card as a way of motivating uncluttering.
Translating the Odyssey's repetitions more poetically and variably. And on translating the Odyssey to focus much more on the adventure, instead of letting it be a piece of Literature.
While the young adult designation may have been formalized in 1957, it took until the 1970s for young adult literature to blosson into something that young adults would want to read.
The Marvel Cincematic Universe couldn't keep its television division and its movie division properly inter-connected, but that's been okay for the TV division, as they've gone off to tell their own stories and make vague gestures at where they are in the movie continuity, and it's been great.
There is a digital restoration of a movie from Turkey that..."borrowed" much of its visual effects from Star Wars.
A property house in Los Angeles that can create and stock just about any set you would like around food, including the fake food that stocks its shelves.
And examining the various attempts of celebrities to be fashionable and Catholic at a Met gala.
In technology, a typeface that overlays braille dots on top of latin or Japanese characters, so that both the sighted and the visually impaired could read the same text in the same space. That's COOL. I can hope that it does, in fact, come to fruition and get used a lot.
Eudora, the exccedingly popular mail client, is now open-source, BSD-licensed code, which means that anyone who has been hoping to update it for the modern era or to port it to other systems now has the opportunity to use the original source of the last version and build from there.
The United States Senate passed new network neutrality rules in response to a decision to overturn them made by the current chair of the Federal Communications Commission. A member of the House would like to get his colleagues to sign a petition to put the bill to the floor no matter what the committee says about it.
Copyright interests would like another term extension to make sure their revenue streams don't fall into the public domain, like they should have some time ago. There might be enough fight in the public to stop things from happening this time around. Possibly. I'd like to see the term of the copyright roll back significantly, myself, given that the point of the copyright was to give a limited right and then enrich everyone else by being able to build on it for their own works.
The FBI asked people to reboot their home routers as a way of disrupting malware attacks that transformed them into information-gathering tools for Russian agents. In the Internet of Things, routers do seem like the sort of things that could stand hardening, if they aren't already, so as to avoid being used in such a manner.
Mozilla has an add-on for Firefox Quantum to try and limit the places and means that Facebook uses to track you away from the site. It would work out better if they could essentially sandbox everyone's trackers all at once. I suspect there's a different add-on that does that.
The General Data Protection Regulation of the European Union has several United States newspapers refuse to serve their websites to European IPs or offering plaintext or different websites. This has the beneficial knock-on effect of making pages load faster by getting rid of the giant amount of advertising and tracking junk littered on the pages. In addition, several compmlaints were lodged against various copmanies under the new regulation, claiming that the new methods for gathering consent from those companies were not giving users a free and fair choice to turn over their data. For people in the States, the Regulation has meant a lot of Privacy Policy updates and e-mails asking for permission to continue doing things.
A long Twitter thread about the ways in which the focus on making things pretty has potentially mangled a focus on making things useful and letting computers do what they do most effectively.
Ways in which the DNA of a human might be permanently combined with other humans.
The Chili's restaurant chain announced a credit card number breach.
[ETA: Mail clients that can speak] the PGP protocol for sending encrypted e-mail may be vulnerable to a flaw that would allow all PGP-related e-mails to be decrypted into plaintext and then forwarded to a third party by someone who lacks the keys to do so. Some low-cost Android phones have had malware installed at the system level by their manufacturers, which is as good a reason as I can think of to be able to open up their bootloaders and install custom operating systems legally as any. Comcast's website used to have a way where someone with a little bit of information about you could obtain your router's Wi-Fi name and password. Since that information included an address, there would be plenty of potential mischief.
Voice-activated assistants are vulnerable to commands embedded in other files or at ranges that human ears can't hear, which has great potential for bad things and doesn't even require Randall Munroe to order two tons of creamed corn. Then again, when the devices themselves are waking up and recording things based on improperly-heard conversations, that's another avenue of fixing that has to happen.
Lithimu-ion batteries can start fires or cause explosions if simply tossed in the trash with other things.
One of the people charged in the SWATting deaths in Kansas did himself no favors by sending another threat from the prison and proclaiming himself an "eGod", both things that would likely have required significant amounts of additional bad behavior. The federal charges that are involved, too, can't be pretty for anyone. Couldn't be happening to nicer people, indeed.
For films that haven't made the jump to digitization, or never will, sometimes the way to keep the collection together is to turn a beloved video store into a beloved nonprofit entity and get funded by donations as well as rental fees.
A hood made of chain...shaped as an octopus. Which goes nicely with pots for hanging plants that transform them into cephalopods.
StumbleUpon is leaving at the end of the month, replaced by a new service, Mix. Run your content across if you wish to continue.
Last for tonight, minimalist travel posters for known science fiction destinations.
Also, The Pronoun Dressing Room, where one might look at lists of various pronouns and then test them out in various textual environments to see if they fit oneself.
Finally, the virtue of being in on a part of the Internet where you can shout into the void and nobody is there to click "Like".
