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silveradeptGood morning. If you haven't seen one of these before, well, this is what usually passes for content here. Don't feel obligated to respond to everything, or anything at all. It's an aggregation, meant to maybe help others find something they're interested in talking about. If there's nothing there that looks interesting or cute, that's fine. It's also a demonstration of how you can use the cut tag. I'm not as good as I might otherwise be about wall-of-text posts going behind a cut, so if that's a thing you would also enjoy happening on other posts, I can...try.
Let's start with a fabulous idea of transforming a person and her wheelchair into the Notorious RBG and desk. Which is perfect, given the actual Notorious RBG broke a few ribs in a fall. (The Notorious label is well-earned - check out some of the things she's argued before she became a sitting Justice of the Supreme Court.
Salutations of the Wolfenoot, a holiday celebrating those who are kind to dogs and wolves. Created solidly well by a seven year-old, and with further details available at the official Wolfenoot FAQ. I'm hoping for something similar from an enterprising 7 year-old for their cats, but this is a good one for dog-lovers.
If you're part of the Archive of Our Own, understand that you can designate someone else on the Archive as your next-of-kin by mutual agreement, just in case something should happen to you that leaves you without the ability to administer your own things.
A survival guide written for trans and nonbinary teens from people who are trans and nonbinary themselves. Which is awesome, and we could use more of this.
The beginning of a series in how varied gender identity and gender roles could be in the Medium Aevum, encompassing a much wider and more diverse world than what is told in your fairy tales and myths. (Or, depending on your fairy tales and myths, is exactly the right kind of world.)
Tumblr's new content rules will affect the queer community harder than others, because it's still a rule of the world that queer content is "adult content", even though it shouldn't be. The people who were advertising and maintaining a presence as sex workers on Tumblr are going to have to find another place to be, yet again. Also, the community on Tumblr had a lot of people trying to shove the window of what kinds of people were allowed to be attractive, and they're going to have to find somewhere else as well. It'll be less easy to
find communities that are about snippets of actions, repeated, that are hot instead of trying to slog through an entire idea that probably wasn't created with them in mind.
As it always seems to be, when the bigger players started getting involved, what was known to be there but left alone with a wink and a nod suddenly became unacceptable. Because when chasing the money, the money has its own ideas about what is acceptable, and they will impose them on you.
It's a trash fire on Tumblr right now, and it doesn't look like anyone has any understanding of why they need to put it out. Or, for that matter, archive what's already been there. The folks at the Internet Archive would like to have your help in capturing and making more permanent the ephemeral parts of the World Wide Web. Mostly because those parts are being destroyed at an accelerated pace as companies buy and delete whole chunks of what the Web used to look like.
Wired profiles a couple sites that might be a place for the Tumblr disapora - Dreamwidth and Pillowfort.
If the book isn't any good, and you're far enough in to know you're not going to get anything out of it, stop reading the book. Forserious.
A short film about a world where androids outnumber humans, and the humans are hunted so that they can teach the androids how to feel. There's a lot more than that, and there are three parts that are each songs that are excerpted in the longer film, if the music strikes you, but I really like the aesthetic and the willingness of groups to make concept albums and the films that go with them.
A stunt performer had a bag rigged up by her crew so that she could have a book to read in the downtime between takes in the rigging. Which also apparently also helped keep the books safe from a co-worker who liked to rip out pages from the book. Given that he was a star of the film, I suspect she couldn't brain him with the remainder of the book, likely the desired response to such actions.
Consumers in the United States can now request a freezing of their credit with all the companies that maintain their credit histories, as well as placing security alerts with other companies that handle other forms of data, and opt-out of receiving pre-approved notices in the mail, as well. Sounds good to me.
Captain Awkward on evading and redirecting people who want to tell you how wrong you are right after you got done speaking, along with data that suggests that right after a person is done speaking might be the very worst time for your feedback, if you need to give it, to land and be taken seriously. Better to take it to another medium and give someone time to think about it respectfully and then decide whether your feedback is important and valuable and worth engaging or whether you should be dismissed as trolling or being hlepful.
If a child presents with symptoms of ADHD, then, at college, gets themselves diagnosed and medicated, and it seems to be working for them, praise them for adult decisions, not blame them based on your own incorrect perceptions of what the child is.
A most interesting question - if progressives are being taught that hurting Jews is a positive sign, is there then no safe harbor anywhere for Jews to be able to make change or even express that they're being hurt and have it be taken as a negative? Which is a rather effective way of silencing someone. And, as you might expect, people who have a history of being strongly persecuted most places they go might be very sensitive to the possibility of being silenced, and then erased from the discourse.
Every now and then, a civil servant lets their biases show over their civics knowledge.
Drawing may be a very effective memory and learning aid. (Singing's pretty good, too, if the popularity of C'est Halloween is any indication.)
Letters to have Warner Media keep alive a service that streamed films from the Criterion Collection, number one, and number two.
The Black Cultural Archives of Brixton (in the UK) are severely in need some additional funding to continue operations.
The idea of a fast to accompany a harvest celebration, a very Puritan thing indeed, but also one that might help nudge the tradition away from what has become mostly historiographic.
While I'm sure there are many who think they are called to witness to the entire world, if you're going to a place that is very strictly off-limits because you could kill the people there by bringing your world with you, it's not a very effective idea or plan. Not to mention the part where you willingly take lives into your own hands, including your own, to do something that's neither wise nor necessary. And while this person may be seen as an excellent example of zeal to some, I think he serves better as an example of where zealotry will get you.
And even beyond that, there are examples of successful contacts with tribes no a part of the world around them, and it took women talking with each other before any acceptance was achieved.
This claims to have some exercises for people who might be more flexible than usual, although they do say to consult the medics if it might be related to collagen. People who are bendy, do these look like good exercises?
On a different end,rydra_wong talks about various exercise tests and thoughts around things like yoga and bouldering / grip srength.
If you should happen to have the opportunity to work with oracles, either in your own work or with someone who uses them, Labyrinthos has some guidance on how best to phrase your questions for useful results.
A method for a Hebrew speaker to de-gender the language and use nonbinary endings to root words. Which is important. Languages that don't have explicit gender markings for people sometimes create problems where the default gets assumed to be male and can't easily be pushed back against.
Film schools still believe that straight white men are the only demographic worth writing for, despite significant efforts to get content for all audiences on screen. Significant inequalities still exist between men and women, in both films and television. If you look at the money they make, though, films made by women have better return on investment, being able to make more money on less expenses. And yet, despite the evidence, it's still exceedingly rare for women to direct big budget films. And has been going on for years.
(The data is there for the looking at it, if you want. [PDF])
The Wachowskis are closing a Chicago office due to a lack of projects to need the space for. Given the context I'm putting it in, you might be able to deduce at least one of my suspicions as to why the Wachowskis don't have projects around at the moment...
Shonen Jump stands to make a lot of money by finally giving fans what they want - new chapters, released translated and in their native language, for free. And then charging for archive access. But they're also planning on stabbing various places that had been filling this role, albeit illegally, through the heart by doing their job officially.
Sailor Moon had one set of villains that were much closer to good representation than a significant amount of their context.
A library dedicated to the preservation and access of shojo manga.
erinptah talks about the Trolley Problem, the Doctor Problem, and the ways in which a thought experiment is supposed to be about the things you bring to bear on the problem, rather than the answer you come up with.
Attempting to get real women into superhero poses requires both flexibility on the part of the woman and a significant amount of image manipulation to achieve impossible proportions and poses. Trying to draw canonically male superheroes in canonically female poses makes for some very interesting decisions. If that's a thing you'd like more of, The Hawkeye Initiative has plenty.
Seanan McGuire talks about doing Ghost-Spider as well as the things that happen in your life that you can then contribute to your writing. And then the ways in which the fandom of Seanan can find themselves in her writings. Chuck Wendig on managing to get the bezoar of your first draft out, which combines with Destiny Soria giving advice on how to turn your emotions and the things inside you into a first draft. Sonya Huber talks about how the limitations of body and mind will change your writing style and how (and how much) you produce text, and Diana Pho on how being well-versed in fanfiction helped as both writer and editor. (Tell scary stories at Yuletide. It's traditional.)
stultiloquentia points out that when you know Austen's context, Austen's skill as a writer becomes much more apparent.
D.C. Fontana's name needs to be remembered a lot in relation to science fiction and western writing, and especially Spock.
A rather expensive vulva scarf, attempts at cooking in Antarctica, where the liquids freeze not too soon after being taken outside, a church organ put to the task of playing Bohemian Rhapsody, the history of the United States, as imagined by isolationist Imperial Japan, a cover of Space Oddity by a Tangerine Dream, attempts at synchronized floss dancing (there are some other versions of these videos floating about, captioned anywhere from "look at those two goofballs" to "isn't this a perfect metaphor for how white people treat black people"), an online space for women artists who have been neglected and disappeared from the artistic canon, various entires in divisions of a wearable art exposition and competition, music made by hammering rocks in a vibraphone style of arrangement, creating things that puzzle manufacturers never intended by repurposing puzzles with the same piece cutouts, the pereson who does illustration work for GBBO, the rankings of various pens to try and find the best ink pen, looking around the world at the same basic height, which shows the grids of the metropolis equally as well as the seemingly-zoomed in landscapes of Antarctica, what it's like to eat at chain restaurants who are down to perhaps one of their locations left, and even then not necessarily under the chain's branding, and a poem from one indigenous person to another about stories and solidarity in the face of exploiters who do not care for them and theirs, but only for what they can gain from the land.
Restaurants have become far louder than they used to be, which is profitable for the owners and problematic for the diners and the staff.
Okay, one more - thoughts about hygge and how a speed-obsessed capitalist profit-maximizing sort of culture might not actually understand what they're trying to market.
Take a look at some behind-the-scenes looks at how a giant Oner is blocked, designed, and shot, and then read about how a cast had to make five of them happen to create an episode.
Cats are classified as liquids because of these examples, puppies are incredibly cute, a couple of cats that would love to go into a museum, but the security person keeps turning them away, the thought of introducing endangered species into city envrionments as a possible ay of saving them from extinction of their natural habitats, which always carries risk of invasive-ness or pathogens or other such ecological disruptors and disasters, seeing birds as other birds might see them, things that the creators of bestiaries observed correctly but then associated with stories, some advice about understanding cat behavior (which is mostly "Cats express affection in a lot of ways that look like disinterest."), a retirement home for sloths, (with accompanying fact sheets and clearing the misconceptions about sloths), methods of containing baby animals sufficiently to weigh them (which results in adorable pictures of said animals being weighed), cats that would like you to pay attention to them instead of your printed material, very close up pictures of butterfly wings, and the horses of Iceland.
In technology, Even though most United States credit cards have EMV chips, merchants and retailers have been exceedingly slow to implement the actual EMV recommendation, so U.S. cards are still exceedingly vulnerable to theft at point-of-sale terminals. And new methods will always present themselves for fraud. Like text messages that will get used at cardless ATMs to drain account monies.
<Keeping people safe online means respecting their preferences regarding safety, not assuming yours are adequate or effective. I'm going to pair this with a video shot by WIRED about disguising oneself physically, from someone who would know (a former chief of disguise for the CIA), because I think it's fascinating to watch someone talk about the art of turning you into something you're not naturally.
If you use or know someone who uses continuous positive air pressure machines, knowing there are programs dedicated to capturing the data that your device generates and making it available to you and that that data may be used more to make sure you're using the device rather than to necessarily improve your treatment, and suddenly there's a strong urge to get into the internals and see what's going on and tweak the systems (once knowing that that will do to you) so that the device that's supposed to be helping actually does that in a useful way.
Using, essentially, an A/B study of a person with or without a beard to see which might be more attractive on them.
The person responsible for calling down the SWAT on where he thought another person lived over a gaming dispute has pled guilty to the charges brought against him for the police killing the person who lived at that address, who was not the other game-player, since the other person gave an old address.
Mass surveillance of lives to transform a person into a score is already underway, and China plans to roll out a fully-operational system by 2020. In addition to things like providing resources at the earliest of ages to try and steer the career choices of young people into places like artificial intelligence warfare.
Over here in the States, we've got some of that social score already in place, but also telecom companies are disconnecting families from the Internet because of one accusation of copyright infringement. And also, a proposal to make an immigrant's credit score have influence on whether they should become a legal permanent resident. (This is a terrible idea, because it's based in a flawed view of the world that believes whether or not you are likely to default on a debt has anything to do with whether or not you will be a good citizen and how much of the public treasury you might pull upon. I'm pretty sure several of the people on my list can tell stories about governments that forbid someone from using the public treasury in any sort of way while they're still an immigrant, possibly even with Indefinite Leave to Remain.)
Windows updates are breaking things again.
Explanations of various everyday things that a younger generation that hasn't had to deal with them might not know about. (And me, too - I'm part of the lucky 10,000 on most of those.)
Last for tonight, the collective mood of Dreamwidth, based on the last 1000 posts to the site.
The definitive time to have a family meal together - 4pm.
And also, what happens to those who had an entire city's suffering placed upon them for the sake of the happiness of the rest of that city? Because, as you recall, utopia often rests on the knowledge that someone, somewhere, is suffering all the things that aren't happening to you. [PDF]
(Okay, fine, one more - a commemorative box of the various flavors of KitKat available in Japan. I would be entirely interested in trying them, but the price and the shipping are going to make it a nope.
Let's start with a fabulous idea of transforming a person and her wheelchair into the Notorious RBG and desk. Which is perfect, given the actual Notorious RBG broke a few ribs in a fall. (The Notorious label is well-earned - check out some of the things she's argued before she became a sitting Justice of the Supreme Court.
Salutations of the Wolfenoot, a holiday celebrating those who are kind to dogs and wolves. Created solidly well by a seven year-old, and with further details available at the official Wolfenoot FAQ. I'm hoping for something similar from an enterprising 7 year-old for their cats, but this is a good one for dog-lovers.
If you're part of the Archive of Our Own, understand that you can designate someone else on the Archive as your next-of-kin by mutual agreement, just in case something should happen to you that leaves you without the ability to administer your own things.
A survival guide written for trans and nonbinary teens from people who are trans and nonbinary themselves. Which is awesome, and we could use more of this.
The beginning of a series in how varied gender identity and gender roles could be in the Medium Aevum, encompassing a much wider and more diverse world than what is told in your fairy tales and myths. (Or, depending on your fairy tales and myths, is exactly the right kind of world.)
Tumblr's new content rules will affect the queer community harder than others, because it's still a rule of the world that queer content is "adult content", even though it shouldn't be. The people who were advertising and maintaining a presence as sex workers on Tumblr are going to have to find another place to be, yet again. Also, the community on Tumblr had a lot of people trying to shove the window of what kinds of people were allowed to be attractive, and they're going to have to find somewhere else as well. It'll be less easy to
find communities that are about snippets of actions, repeated, that are hot instead of trying to slog through an entire idea that probably wasn't created with them in mind.
As it always seems to be, when the bigger players started getting involved, what was known to be there but left alone with a wink and a nod suddenly became unacceptable. Because when chasing the money, the money has its own ideas about what is acceptable, and they will impose them on you.
It's a trash fire on Tumblr right now, and it doesn't look like anyone has any understanding of why they need to put it out. Or, for that matter, archive what's already been there. The folks at the Internet Archive would like to have your help in capturing and making more permanent the ephemeral parts of the World Wide Web. Mostly because those parts are being destroyed at an accelerated pace as companies buy and delete whole chunks of what the Web used to look like.
Wired profiles a couple sites that might be a place for the Tumblr disapora - Dreamwidth and Pillowfort.
If the book isn't any good, and you're far enough in to know you're not going to get anything out of it, stop reading the book. Forserious.
A short film about a world where androids outnumber humans, and the humans are hunted so that they can teach the androids how to feel. There's a lot more than that, and there are three parts that are each songs that are excerpted in the longer film, if the music strikes you, but I really like the aesthetic and the willingness of groups to make concept albums and the films that go with them.
A stunt performer had a bag rigged up by her crew so that she could have a book to read in the downtime between takes in the rigging. Which also apparently also helped keep the books safe from a co-worker who liked to rip out pages from the book. Given that he was a star of the film, I suspect she couldn't brain him with the remainder of the book, likely the desired response to such actions.
Consumers in the United States can now request a freezing of their credit with all the companies that maintain their credit histories, as well as placing security alerts with other companies that handle other forms of data, and opt-out of receiving pre-approved notices in the mail, as well. Sounds good to me.
Captain Awkward on evading and redirecting people who want to tell you how wrong you are right after you got done speaking, along with data that suggests that right after a person is done speaking might be the very worst time for your feedback, if you need to give it, to land and be taken seriously. Better to take it to another medium and give someone time to think about it respectfully and then decide whether your feedback is important and valuable and worth engaging or whether you should be dismissed as trolling or being hlepful.
If a child presents with symptoms of ADHD, then, at college, gets themselves diagnosed and medicated, and it seems to be working for them, praise them for adult decisions, not blame them based on your own incorrect perceptions of what the child is.
A most interesting question - if progressives are being taught that hurting Jews is a positive sign, is there then no safe harbor anywhere for Jews to be able to make change or even express that they're being hurt and have it be taken as a negative? Which is a rather effective way of silencing someone. And, as you might expect, people who have a history of being strongly persecuted most places they go might be very sensitive to the possibility of being silenced, and then erased from the discourse.
Every now and then, a civil servant lets their biases show over their civics knowledge.
Drawing may be a very effective memory and learning aid. (Singing's pretty good, too, if the popularity of C'est Halloween is any indication.)
Letters to have Warner Media keep alive a service that streamed films from the Criterion Collection, number one, and number two.
The Black Cultural Archives of Brixton (in the UK) are severely in need some additional funding to continue operations.
The idea of a fast to accompany a harvest celebration, a very Puritan thing indeed, but also one that might help nudge the tradition away from what has become mostly historiographic.
While I'm sure there are many who think they are called to witness to the entire world, if you're going to a place that is very strictly off-limits because you could kill the people there by bringing your world with you, it's not a very effective idea or plan. Not to mention the part where you willingly take lives into your own hands, including your own, to do something that's neither wise nor necessary. And while this person may be seen as an excellent example of zeal to some, I think he serves better as an example of where zealotry will get you.
And even beyond that, there are examples of successful contacts with tribes no a part of the world around them, and it took women talking with each other before any acceptance was achieved.
This claims to have some exercises for people who might be more flexible than usual, although they do say to consult the medics if it might be related to collagen. People who are bendy, do these look like good exercises?
On a different end,
rydra_wong talks about various exercise tests and thoughts around things like yoga and bouldering / grip srength. If you should happen to have the opportunity to work with oracles, either in your own work or with someone who uses them, Labyrinthos has some guidance on how best to phrase your questions for useful results.
A method for a Hebrew speaker to de-gender the language and use nonbinary endings to root words. Which is important. Languages that don't have explicit gender markings for people sometimes create problems where the default gets assumed to be male and can't easily be pushed back against.
Film schools still believe that straight white men are the only demographic worth writing for, despite significant efforts to get content for all audiences on screen. Significant inequalities still exist between men and women, in both films and television. If you look at the money they make, though, films made by women have better return on investment, being able to make more money on less expenses. And yet, despite the evidence, it's still exceedingly rare for women to direct big budget films. And has been going on for years.
(The data is there for the looking at it, if you want. [PDF])
The Wachowskis are closing a Chicago office due to a lack of projects to need the space for. Given the context I'm putting it in, you might be able to deduce at least one of my suspicions as to why the Wachowskis don't have projects around at the moment...
Shonen Jump stands to make a lot of money by finally giving fans what they want - new chapters, released translated and in their native language, for free. And then charging for archive access. But they're also planning on stabbing various places that had been filling this role, albeit illegally, through the heart by doing their job officially.
Sailor Moon had one set of villains that were much closer to good representation than a significant amount of their context.
A library dedicated to the preservation and access of shojo manga.
erinptah talks about the Trolley Problem, the Doctor Problem, and the ways in which a thought experiment is supposed to be about the things you bring to bear on the problem, rather than the answer you come up with.Attempting to get real women into superhero poses requires both flexibility on the part of the woman and a significant amount of image manipulation to achieve impossible proportions and poses. Trying to draw canonically male superheroes in canonically female poses makes for some very interesting decisions. If that's a thing you'd like more of, The Hawkeye Initiative has plenty.
Seanan McGuire talks about doing Ghost-Spider as well as the things that happen in your life that you can then contribute to your writing. And then the ways in which the fandom of Seanan can find themselves in her writings. Chuck Wendig on managing to get the bezoar of your first draft out, which combines with Destiny Soria giving advice on how to turn your emotions and the things inside you into a first draft. Sonya Huber talks about how the limitations of body and mind will change your writing style and how (and how much) you produce text, and Diana Pho on how being well-versed in fanfiction helped as both writer and editor. (Tell scary stories at Yuletide. It's traditional.)
stultiloquentia points out that when you know Austen's context, Austen's skill as a writer becomes much more apparent.D.C. Fontana's name needs to be remembered a lot in relation to science fiction and western writing, and especially Spock.
A rather expensive vulva scarf, attempts at cooking in Antarctica, where the liquids freeze not too soon after being taken outside, a church organ put to the task of playing Bohemian Rhapsody, the history of the United States, as imagined by isolationist Imperial Japan, a cover of Space Oddity by a Tangerine Dream, attempts at synchronized floss dancing (there are some other versions of these videos floating about, captioned anywhere from "look at those two goofballs" to "isn't this a perfect metaphor for how white people treat black people"), an online space for women artists who have been neglected and disappeared from the artistic canon, various entires in divisions of a wearable art exposition and competition, music made by hammering rocks in a vibraphone style of arrangement, creating things that puzzle manufacturers never intended by repurposing puzzles with the same piece cutouts, the pereson who does illustration work for GBBO, the rankings of various pens to try and find the best ink pen, looking around the world at the same basic height, which shows the grids of the metropolis equally as well as the seemingly-zoomed in landscapes of Antarctica, what it's like to eat at chain restaurants who are down to perhaps one of their locations left, and even then not necessarily under the chain's branding, and a poem from one indigenous person to another about stories and solidarity in the face of exploiters who do not care for them and theirs, but only for what they can gain from the land.
Restaurants have become far louder than they used to be, which is profitable for the owners and problematic for the diners and the staff.
Okay, one more - thoughts about hygge and how a speed-obsessed capitalist profit-maximizing sort of culture might not actually understand what they're trying to market.
Take a look at some behind-the-scenes looks at how a giant Oner is blocked, designed, and shot, and then read about how a cast had to make five of them happen to create an episode.
Cats are classified as liquids because of these examples, puppies are incredibly cute, a couple of cats that would love to go into a museum, but the security person keeps turning them away, the thought of introducing endangered species into city envrionments as a possible ay of saving them from extinction of their natural habitats, which always carries risk of invasive-ness or pathogens or other such ecological disruptors and disasters, seeing birds as other birds might see them, things that the creators of bestiaries observed correctly but then associated with stories, some advice about understanding cat behavior (which is mostly "Cats express affection in a lot of ways that look like disinterest."), a retirement home for sloths, (with accompanying fact sheets and clearing the misconceptions about sloths), methods of containing baby animals sufficiently to weigh them (which results in adorable pictures of said animals being weighed), cats that would like you to pay attention to them instead of your printed material, very close up pictures of butterfly wings, and the horses of Iceland.
In technology, Even though most United States credit cards have EMV chips, merchants and retailers have been exceedingly slow to implement the actual EMV recommendation, so U.S. cards are still exceedingly vulnerable to theft at point-of-sale terminals. And new methods will always present themselves for fraud. Like text messages that will get used at cardless ATMs to drain account monies.
<Keeping people safe online means respecting their preferences regarding safety, not assuming yours are adequate or effective. I'm going to pair this with a video shot by WIRED about disguising oneself physically, from someone who would know (a former chief of disguise for the CIA), because I think it's fascinating to watch someone talk about the art of turning you into something you're not naturally.
If you use or know someone who uses continuous positive air pressure machines, knowing there are programs dedicated to capturing the data that your device generates and making it available to you and that that data may be used more to make sure you're using the device rather than to necessarily improve your treatment, and suddenly there's a strong urge to get into the internals and see what's going on and tweak the systems (once knowing that that will do to you) so that the device that's supposed to be helping actually does that in a useful way.
Using, essentially, an A/B study of a person with or without a beard to see which might be more attractive on them.
The person responsible for calling down the SWAT on where he thought another person lived over a gaming dispute has pled guilty to the charges brought against him for the police killing the person who lived at that address, who was not the other game-player, since the other person gave an old address.
Mass surveillance of lives to transform a person into a score is already underway, and China plans to roll out a fully-operational system by 2020. In addition to things like providing resources at the earliest of ages to try and steer the career choices of young people into places like artificial intelligence warfare.
Over here in the States, we've got some of that social score already in place, but also telecom companies are disconnecting families from the Internet because of one accusation of copyright infringement. And also, a proposal to make an immigrant's credit score have influence on whether they should become a legal permanent resident. (This is a terrible idea, because it's based in a flawed view of the world that believes whether or not you are likely to default on a debt has anything to do with whether or not you will be a good citizen and how much of the public treasury you might pull upon. I'm pretty sure several of the people on my list can tell stories about governments that forbid someone from using the public treasury in any sort of way while they're still an immigrant, possibly even with Indefinite Leave to Remain.)
Windows updates are breaking things again.
Explanations of various everyday things that a younger generation that hasn't had to deal with them might not know about. (And me, too - I'm part of the lucky 10,000 on most of those.)
Last for tonight, the collective mood of Dreamwidth, based on the last 1000 posts to the site.
The definitive time to have a family meal together - 4pm.
And also, what happens to those who had an entire city's suffering placed upon them for the sake of the happiness of the rest of that city? Because, as you recall, utopia often rests on the knowledge that someone, somewhere, is suffering all the things that aren't happening to you. [PDF]
(Okay, fine, one more - a commemorative box of the various flavors of KitKat available in Japan. I would be entirely interested in trying them, but the price and the shipping are going to make it a nope.
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Date: 2018-12-10 09:43 pm (UTC)Your link roundups are the best. Thank you for continuing to do them. I'll be coming back to this one (and your other, more personal entry) when I am doing somewhat less of dashing around like a pinched chicken.
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Date: 2018-12-10 10:08 pm (UTC)No worries about time. One of the nice things about here is that it's asynchronous, so you can come back to it when you have time.
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Date: 2018-12-11 09:06 pm (UTC)He should re-buy them. After all, he has all that Baywatch money. ;-)