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silveradeptA dream yet unfulfilled, but one we pay lip service to, because we are still unwilling to recognize who the dreamer was, in all their capacity, and to set aside hagiography for the reality of history.
United States Customs officials are not apologizing for destroying eleven handmade flutes of a musician, citing them as an ecological hazard that could not be allowed in.
The Assembly of the State of New Jersey is subpoenaing thousands of documents about apparent political retribution that closed all but one lane of the toll road leading to the George Washington Bridge from Fort Lee, New Jersey. The resulting traffic backup gridlocked the entire town, to the point where even emergency response was having difficulty getting to their destinations. The gridlock lasted for an entire week. Several of the released documents indicate that not only was the retribution ordered from the office of the governor, more than a few of the officials in the office knew about the gridlock and maintained an official silence to any inquiries from Fort Lee about what was going on. To this point, the governor denies knowing anything about the issue, but he has already demonstrably lied about the involvement of his staff in the matter. In addition to this particular giant scandal, the Christie administration has been accused of retribution against several mayors that chose not to endorse the governor is his most recent campaign. Including an accusation from the mayor of Hoboken, NJ, accusing the governor's office of withholding hurricane relief money until she expedited a private development project the governor was interested in seeing completed. I hope the investigation roots out every last bit of rot and corruption from top to bottom.
No-longer-governor Ultrasound and his wife were indicted on fourteen felony counts today in relation to gifts, graft, and favors received while in office from a particular company seeking the muscle of the governor and first lady to promote their product.
The Supreme Court of the United States will be deciding how much leeway police have about gathering evidence from cell phones, and whether warrants will be necessary to search phone data.
An ancient Etruscan tomb revealed artifacts, which looked to be a man buried with a spear and a woman buried with jewelry...and then the bones said the woman had the spear, and the interest vanished. And the scientists stubbornly insisted that the spear was male, and a wedding gift. The discovery of embroidering needles allowed the gender prejudices to reassert themselves, and the spear was conveniently disappeared, despite the container from whence the needles came having a top that was a repurposed shield. This is bias - evidence clearly points to one thing, and there is a significant amount of back-bending to ensure that some other thing is the conclusion.
Several retailers have had their customers' credit card data stolen from their physical locations, impacting millions of people. Now including a craft retailer.
Netflix uses a very sophisticated system of breaking movies down into tiny elements, which forms the backbone of their recommendation system.
Forget low-grade microaggressions and constant sexism: online, women (and usernames that sound like women) are subjected to a daily barrage of threats and harassment that the police are often unwilling to take up or apparently unable to understand. Because taking threats seriously might mean police work against someone nowhere nearby. The other possibility, heinous that it might sound to the privileged, is that we can provide public pushback against people who engage in that kind of behavior, from usernames of all genders. Eventually, though, male culture that approves of assault and assault threats has to change. (That male culture has been floundering on what masculinity means for generations isn't helping men find the way forward. There's an inkling of how to go forward, though - having men talk with men and not treating assault like the weather, and ditching the idea that men must be gods and getting them to become cyborgs, instead.)
Research in mice suggests the involvement of previously unstudied cells in contributing to depression. Which helps to reinforce the reminder that depression is both unique to the sufferer and not something that can be cured only with techniques meant to assuage the symptoms.
Cosplay should not be restricted only to those who have skin tone to match the original character. Furthermore, just because the racism isn't obvious doesn't mean it isn't there, which is always a thing to remember, even in Liberalland.
Answers to all the questions family members ask the tech-savvy person.
The person that exposed the actions of the rapists in Steubenville may be facing a harsher prison sentence for alleged computer crime than the rapists did for rape. Betting on the Snowden precedent, the whistleblower gets full sentence with no parole, and all of the rapists get out on parole and stay out. Which would be a gigantic travesty.
The European Union requests your input on how you would like copyright to work. Responses may be from anywhere in the world, and there's no obligation to go through the entire eighty questions if you don't want to.
That said, there are a lot of people receiving ad-hoc and not very comprehensive privacy education, especially in immigrant or ESL sections of society.
People encountering the vastness of a university research library's collection are often bowled over at its vastness and unable to navigate or search it well. I think this extends to the Internet at large, and that's not helped any by the paucity of search tools we have for it. Have some tips on how to do good research.
Elsewhere, publishers, including academic ones, are greedy about their copyrights and will more than happily send takedowns to scientists who want to do as science should do and share their work. And worse, have perfectly legal claims to do so, because their contracts take everything they can.
Finally, an editor at Nature retaliated against criticism from a blog by outing the real name of the author criticizing. Which likely opened up the female writer to the scorn and sexism of the scientific fields.
A recreation of the area of London that the Great Fire started in, using video game technology.
The story of a company called Research In Motion, that developed a device that addicted many, many people.
Anatomy studies, especially in the World War II era, and even moreso in the Third Reich, were often done on corpses for which no consent was obtained or sought. Speaking of World War II, returning veterans with mental illnesses, or those suspected of being gay, were routinely lobotomized by doctors working for the Department of Veterans' Affairs.
Ever wonder what the experience of freezing to near-death would be like?
Last for tonight, pictures of astrological clocks, ornate and timekeeping, single-sentence summarizations of paper theses, a kitten playing with lots of blue butterflies, and decrypting what ancient Greek music sounded like, despite very little surviving fragments of what melody would have sounded like.
United States Customs officials are not apologizing for destroying eleven handmade flutes of a musician, citing them as an ecological hazard that could not be allowed in.
The Assembly of the State of New Jersey is subpoenaing thousands of documents about apparent political retribution that closed all but one lane of the toll road leading to the George Washington Bridge from Fort Lee, New Jersey. The resulting traffic backup gridlocked the entire town, to the point where even emergency response was having difficulty getting to their destinations. The gridlock lasted for an entire week. Several of the released documents indicate that not only was the retribution ordered from the office of the governor, more than a few of the officials in the office knew about the gridlock and maintained an official silence to any inquiries from Fort Lee about what was going on. To this point, the governor denies knowing anything about the issue, but he has already demonstrably lied about the involvement of his staff in the matter. In addition to this particular giant scandal, the Christie administration has been accused of retribution against several mayors that chose not to endorse the governor is his most recent campaign. Including an accusation from the mayor of Hoboken, NJ, accusing the governor's office of withholding hurricane relief money until she expedited a private development project the governor was interested in seeing completed. I hope the investigation roots out every last bit of rot and corruption from top to bottom.
No-longer-governor Ultrasound and his wife were indicted on fourteen felony counts today in relation to gifts, graft, and favors received while in office from a particular company seeking the muscle of the governor and first lady to promote their product.
The Supreme Court of the United States will be deciding how much leeway police have about gathering evidence from cell phones, and whether warrants will be necessary to search phone data.
An ancient Etruscan tomb revealed artifacts, which looked to be a man buried with a spear and a woman buried with jewelry...and then the bones said the woman had the spear, and the interest vanished. And the scientists stubbornly insisted that the spear was male, and a wedding gift. The discovery of embroidering needles allowed the gender prejudices to reassert themselves, and the spear was conveniently disappeared, despite the container from whence the needles came having a top that was a repurposed shield. This is bias - evidence clearly points to one thing, and there is a significant amount of back-bending to ensure that some other thing is the conclusion.
Several retailers have had their customers' credit card data stolen from their physical locations, impacting millions of people. Now including a craft retailer.
Netflix uses a very sophisticated system of breaking movies down into tiny elements, which forms the backbone of their recommendation system.
Forget low-grade microaggressions and constant sexism: online, women (and usernames that sound like women) are subjected to a daily barrage of threats and harassment that the police are often unwilling to take up or apparently unable to understand. Because taking threats seriously might mean police work against someone nowhere nearby. The other possibility, heinous that it might sound to the privileged, is that we can provide public pushback against people who engage in that kind of behavior, from usernames of all genders. Eventually, though, male culture that approves of assault and assault threats has to change. (That male culture has been floundering on what masculinity means for generations isn't helping men find the way forward. There's an inkling of how to go forward, though - having men talk with men and not treating assault like the weather, and ditching the idea that men must be gods and getting them to become cyborgs, instead.)
Research in mice suggests the involvement of previously unstudied cells in contributing to depression. Which helps to reinforce the reminder that depression is both unique to the sufferer and not something that can be cured only with techniques meant to assuage the symptoms.
Cosplay should not be restricted only to those who have skin tone to match the original character. Furthermore, just because the racism isn't obvious doesn't mean it isn't there, which is always a thing to remember, even in Liberalland.
Answers to all the questions family members ask the tech-savvy person.
The person that exposed the actions of the rapists in Steubenville may be facing a harsher prison sentence for alleged computer crime than the rapists did for rape. Betting on the Snowden precedent, the whistleblower gets full sentence with no parole, and all of the rapists get out on parole and stay out. Which would be a gigantic travesty.
The European Union requests your input on how you would like copyright to work. Responses may be from anywhere in the world, and there's no obligation to go through the entire eighty questions if you don't want to.
That said, there are a lot of people receiving ad-hoc and not very comprehensive privacy education, especially in immigrant or ESL sections of society.
People encountering the vastness of a university research library's collection are often bowled over at its vastness and unable to navigate or search it well. I think this extends to the Internet at large, and that's not helped any by the paucity of search tools we have for it. Have some tips on how to do good research.
Elsewhere, publishers, including academic ones, are greedy about their copyrights and will more than happily send takedowns to scientists who want to do as science should do and share their work. And worse, have perfectly legal claims to do so, because their contracts take everything they can.
Finally, an editor at Nature retaliated against criticism from a blog by outing the real name of the author criticizing. Which likely opened up the female writer to the scorn and sexism of the scientific fields.
A recreation of the area of London that the Great Fire started in, using video game technology.
The story of a company called Research In Motion, that developed a device that addicted many, many people.
Anatomy studies, especially in the World War II era, and even moreso in the Third Reich, were often done on corpses for which no consent was obtained or sought. Speaking of World War II, returning veterans with mental illnesses, or those suspected of being gay, were routinely lobotomized by doctors working for the Department of Veterans' Affairs.
Ever wonder what the experience of freezing to near-death would be like?
Last for tonight, pictures of astrological clocks, ornate and timekeeping, single-sentence summarizations of paper theses, a kitten playing with lots of blue butterflies, and decrypting what ancient Greek music sounded like, despite very little surviving fragments of what melody would have sounded like.
