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silveradeptLet's begin with the sobering reality that most people who teach college classes do so in conditions that are exploitative, as institutions hold over their heads the possibility of a secure job with real benefits, salary, and office space.
The higher wage someone in your household makes, the more likely it is someone else in that household is going to participate in a creative profession. Because creative professions aren't valued enough to provide steady income for the necessities of life. So having someone in your house who can hold down that job that provides is one of the best indicators that others in the house will be able to produce creative output because they don't have to worry about making rent.
Assuming that boys will be boys in school is robbing yourself of an opportunity to teach them a better form of masculinity. When people say the patriarchy hurts men, this is a lot of what they mean. It hurts boys by making assumptions about them that are actually things that get taught.
Please use pronouns when introducing yourself, and put them in your profiles as well. It doesn't hurt anyone, and it makes people for whom correct pronouns are more of a necessity more willing to have their correct pronouns available.
Using the frame story of how Inuit children have remarkable control over anger, the suggestion that children need practice as well as role models on how to express and control their emotions, including the bad ones. And also, the knowledge that play and storytelling are ways to get a child to engage and absorb the lessons that a grownup is trying to impart. And they don't have to be allegorical, either. Direct playful stories with a dash of danger will do just fine.
K-pop idols are being paired with elderly Koreans who didn't get the opportunity to become literate for a reality show where the idols are the elderly person's study buddies.
Films are racist and sexist more than in just their casting - the composition itself, the lighting, and the lack of women, people of color, and especially women of color in the industry is all contributing to impossible standards in front of and behind the camera. Many of those techniques are meant to be invisible, but they have an effect on the people being shot and who gets chosen to get shot. There's a lot of "shoot white women to be ethereally beautiful" and everyone else suffers in comparison.
The IAAF decided that their definition of a woman meant a low testosterone count in ruling against a South African runner who produces high levels of the hormone. The federation insists that to compete, the athlete must take medication to lower her testosterone levels to within their prescribed guidelines. Caster Semenya said she will not do such a thing.
In Sri Lanka, attackers targeted churches asnd a hotel for maximum casualties in a coordinated terrorist attack on Easter Sunday. In New Zealand, the image of the Prime Minister hugging a person affected by the Christchurch terror attacks will be painted on a silo. The West Coast Eagles of Australia commissioned a jersey from Indigenous Australians to wear in an attempt to make their sport less racist toward Indigenous Australians. The need to protect hairstyles from racist work policies.
The workers of a museum dedicated to tenements in New York voted to join a union over low wages and poor working conditions. That's basically following the script extremely well. Good job, all.
There's something to be said that if your arguments on climate change can't convince a teenager with an interest in the subjec, you need better arguments, but it's also good seeing a visible, respected teenager who also openly admits to being on the autism spectrum.
Miss Manners agrees that hugs are for those who want them and have consented to them, rather than a thing to be foisted on someone.
The Netflix show Santa Clarita Diet dispenses with the analogies and goes straight into on-screen portrayals of bigotry and how it gets dealt with (usually by the bigot biting it, but not always.)
Asking people about fast-food related memes in those fast-food joints doesn't go as well as someone convinced of their ubiquity thinks.
The supposition that you cannot achieve the ends of the Green New Deal because the Green New Deal believes that capitalism can work against its interests and change things without changing the underlying structures that support them. If profit is the primary motivator, there's always an incentive to do things in the most profitable way. Which might be (and often is) the opposite of the way to do it to preserve humans and Terra for a good long time.
A new film about Emily Dickinson intends to make her less reclusive spinster and more vibrantly queer, based on reading the letters that she penned to what looks for all the world to be her lover.
A Danish program to help combat loneliness by gathering people together and giving them a thing or two to do, like cook meals and play games, providing a shared activity that everyone can participate in, and thus break through some of the most awkward parts of getting to know people by giving a focus for the conversations.
On the other side, the need for men to find outlets for their emotions that aren't their partners. Because it's not healthy for one person to be the receptacle for all emotional content, and it's also not a great idea to insist that the only people who can deal with a man's emotions are women.
A veganism-promoting restaurant set up shop in the Parkland neighborhood of Toronto, bringing gentrification and all-or-nothing morality with it, only to find that the situation in Parkdale was far more complicated that simple morality would allow for.
Measels has been making a dramatic return to the headlines - a Scientology ship was quarantined after a confirmed outbreak, a person who went to see the latest Avengers movie in California had a confirmed case and potentially exposed a lot of other people to it as well. So Get yourself vaccinated if you can.
Germany proposed a strong fine for those promoting lies about vaccination, as well as a ban on children from day care who don't come with adequate certification of their vaccination. Quebec initiated a program where a specialist would come talk to mothers of newborns about vaccination, listen to their concerns, and then encourage vaccination of their children.
Beautiful Patagonian marble structures, mostly underwater [video and audio], salt mining and salt mines in pictures, preserving Cherokee culture through seed exchange of Chrokee varieties of crops, and photographs of the Northern Lights, and finalists in the Archibald Prize for portrait paintings.
GPS data shows a bird that got caught in a cyclone while trying to get to a breeding site, a large bird has been trying to make a home among the humans, which is the last thing it needs, lots of parrot chicks, a lizard that swallowed golf balls, thinking they were chicken eggs, an orangutan making a second bid for escaping their enclosure, ocelot kittens born from frozen sperm artificially inseminated, the reality that coffee may not be available at all in only a few years if climate change continues to make the ecological zone where it can thrive smaller and smaller, the actual time it takes (and effort involved) to caramelize onions, the significant presence of killer rabbits in the marginalia of various books, how theories about vision made up the justification for the basilisk's deadly gaze, a emu recovering from surgery from the nails and other metal objects it ate while wandering the streets, helping endangered lizards return to the wild, using robots to re-seed coral with coral larvae, beavers becoming protected wildlife in Scotland, and realizing that humans use different pathways to signal pain to their brains.
In technology, engineering conrete structures that weight more than two tons, that can be moved and assembled by hand. Which seems to suggest that just about all the architectural wonders we scratch our heads at could have been constructed without the tools we are used to seeing for such construction.
The Firefox browser suffered a severe issue when a necessary certificate expired and caused many extensions to no longer work. A fix is now live, and an update will fix the problem, butt there's a certain amount of "what happened" that something that important to the browser managed to avoid notice until it was too late.
The possibility of using DNA left in an environment to track the presences of the species there, which requires a good reference library to compare environmental DNA against.
Suggestions on composting on how to build a compost environment where even things that might otherwise be difficult to deal with can be managed without disrupting the bin.
using a floating wheelchair and specially-modified wetsuits so that people with disabilities can experience sand and waves and snorkeling, if they so desire.
Indigenous doctors and health care services are extremely low in Australia. And in the United States as well.
Using drone flights to transport organs swifter than chartered flights or other methods.
The catalog of the library Hernando Colon was trying to collect has been identified as part of holdings in Copenhagen. So we'll get the summaries of several books that were in print at the time they were being collected. That should be very interesting.
A recently-discovered shipwreck will offer more information about the transition period between shipbuilding techniques that helped make the Dutch a strong maritime power.
Trying to extract useful oils from used coffee grounds as a possible replacement for palm oil, paired with using recycled plastic as the stock for creating 3D-printed prosthetics. Recycle and reuse to turn one thing into another.
The Organization for Transformative Works has a breakdown of how the EU's new copyright directive is likely to play out in their member countries. There are potential exclusions and exceptions, but there's no guarantee that any of them will end up working out in a way that's favorable to fans.
Research into inflammation and its processes seems to return to "traditional" advice about food and exercise with relation to health, even as the article goes around talking about various molecules that might be worth targeting for newer drugs designed to reduce inflammation or help target the processes for a more effective healing process.
A thing that all teens know instinctively, but that has very real consequences for teens in places the police want to target, for whatever their reasons are: what you do online can and will be used against you if the police believe you're showing that you intend to do crime or associate with people who commit crimes. Even if the behavior or the post was from some time ago.
The ephemeral nature of our digital lives makes archiving ourselves hell, especially as we continue to create more and more things that potentially need archiving. For example, MySpace shuttered itself rather suddenly. Were it not thanks to the effort of someone who was saving and archiving, we wouldn't have the Dragon Hoard, which covers a mere two years of the existence of MySpace. It only became clear afterward that stuff needed archiving, and even now, we don't have dedicated teams crawling, indexing, and trying to biuld finding aids for things that once were. That needs time, storage space, and dedicated archivists capturing and making accessible what they have collected. (And then racing to get it all converted over to the next accessible format before all the machines that can read the previous one break down past repair.) We're not even good at collecting important stories and archiving them, like the collective knowledge excerpted in this piece about webcomics, from their start as putting content out without being beholden to a syndicate to the explosive boom that they still are, including things like what happened when Penny Arcade made a tasteless joke and then monetized and doubled down on it.
A company defrauded NASA for several hundreds of millions of dollars by falsifying test results about their metal. The company can be linked to at least two satellite launch failures.
Last out, Bathtubs Over Broadway, a documentary about finding corporate musicals commissioned and performed for employees, on Broadway, using actors that would go on to do lots of other very visible projects.
The Guinness World Records Team refused to update a record about fastest marathon run dressed as a nurse because their criteria for "Dressed as a nurse" appeared to have been derived from a cartoon. Or, perhaps, some other flight of fancy for adults. After reviewing their criteria and updating them to the 20th century, they correctly awarded the record to Jessica Anderson..
A song, in sound and ASL, about the improving weather and the new swath of available activities for the adventurous. Being Beltane, the activity being described is having sex outside.
The higher wage someone in your household makes, the more likely it is someone else in that household is going to participate in a creative profession. Because creative professions aren't valued enough to provide steady income for the necessities of life. So having someone in your house who can hold down that job that provides is one of the best indicators that others in the house will be able to produce creative output because they don't have to worry about making rent.
Assuming that boys will be boys in school is robbing yourself of an opportunity to teach them a better form of masculinity. When people say the patriarchy hurts men, this is a lot of what they mean. It hurts boys by making assumptions about them that are actually things that get taught.
Please use pronouns when introducing yourself, and put them in your profiles as well. It doesn't hurt anyone, and it makes people for whom correct pronouns are more of a necessity more willing to have their correct pronouns available.
Using the frame story of how Inuit children have remarkable control over anger, the suggestion that children need practice as well as role models on how to express and control their emotions, including the bad ones. And also, the knowledge that play and storytelling are ways to get a child to engage and absorb the lessons that a grownup is trying to impart. And they don't have to be allegorical, either. Direct playful stories with a dash of danger will do just fine.
K-pop idols are being paired with elderly Koreans who didn't get the opportunity to become literate for a reality show where the idols are the elderly person's study buddies.
Films are racist and sexist more than in just their casting - the composition itself, the lighting, and the lack of women, people of color, and especially women of color in the industry is all contributing to impossible standards in front of and behind the camera. Many of those techniques are meant to be invisible, but they have an effect on the people being shot and who gets chosen to get shot. There's a lot of "shoot white women to be ethereally beautiful" and everyone else suffers in comparison.
The IAAF decided that their definition of a woman meant a low testosterone count in ruling against a South African runner who produces high levels of the hormone. The federation insists that to compete, the athlete must take medication to lower her testosterone levels to within their prescribed guidelines. Caster Semenya said she will not do such a thing.
In Sri Lanka, attackers targeted churches asnd a hotel for maximum casualties in a coordinated terrorist attack on Easter Sunday. In New Zealand, the image of the Prime Minister hugging a person affected by the Christchurch terror attacks will be painted on a silo. The West Coast Eagles of Australia commissioned a jersey from Indigenous Australians to wear in an attempt to make their sport less racist toward Indigenous Australians. The need to protect hairstyles from racist work policies.
The workers of a museum dedicated to tenements in New York voted to join a union over low wages and poor working conditions. That's basically following the script extremely well. Good job, all.
There's something to be said that if your arguments on climate change can't convince a teenager with an interest in the subjec, you need better arguments, but it's also good seeing a visible, respected teenager who also openly admits to being on the autism spectrum.
Miss Manners agrees that hugs are for those who want them and have consented to them, rather than a thing to be foisted on someone.
The Netflix show Santa Clarita Diet dispenses with the analogies and goes straight into on-screen portrayals of bigotry and how it gets dealt with (usually by the bigot biting it, but not always.)
Asking people about fast-food related memes in those fast-food joints doesn't go as well as someone convinced of their ubiquity thinks.
The supposition that you cannot achieve the ends of the Green New Deal because the Green New Deal believes that capitalism can work against its interests and change things without changing the underlying structures that support them. If profit is the primary motivator, there's always an incentive to do things in the most profitable way. Which might be (and often is) the opposite of the way to do it to preserve humans and Terra for a good long time.
A new film about Emily Dickinson intends to make her less reclusive spinster and more vibrantly queer, based on reading the letters that she penned to what looks for all the world to be her lover.
A Danish program to help combat loneliness by gathering people together and giving them a thing or two to do, like cook meals and play games, providing a shared activity that everyone can participate in, and thus break through some of the most awkward parts of getting to know people by giving a focus for the conversations.
On the other side, the need for men to find outlets for their emotions that aren't their partners. Because it's not healthy for one person to be the receptacle for all emotional content, and it's also not a great idea to insist that the only people who can deal with a man's emotions are women.
A veganism-promoting restaurant set up shop in the Parkland neighborhood of Toronto, bringing gentrification and all-or-nothing morality with it, only to find that the situation in Parkdale was far more complicated that simple morality would allow for.
Measels has been making a dramatic return to the headlines - a Scientology ship was quarantined after a confirmed outbreak, a person who went to see the latest Avengers movie in California had a confirmed case and potentially exposed a lot of other people to it as well. So Get yourself vaccinated if you can.
Germany proposed a strong fine for those promoting lies about vaccination, as well as a ban on children from day care who don't come with adequate certification of their vaccination. Quebec initiated a program where a specialist would come talk to mothers of newborns about vaccination, listen to their concerns, and then encourage vaccination of their children.
Beautiful Patagonian marble structures, mostly underwater [video and audio], salt mining and salt mines in pictures, preserving Cherokee culture through seed exchange of Chrokee varieties of crops, and photographs of the Northern Lights, and finalists in the Archibald Prize for portrait paintings.
GPS data shows a bird that got caught in a cyclone while trying to get to a breeding site, a large bird has been trying to make a home among the humans, which is the last thing it needs, lots of parrot chicks, a lizard that swallowed golf balls, thinking they were chicken eggs, an orangutan making a second bid for escaping their enclosure, ocelot kittens born from frozen sperm artificially inseminated, the reality that coffee may not be available at all in only a few years if climate change continues to make the ecological zone where it can thrive smaller and smaller, the actual time it takes (and effort involved) to caramelize onions, the significant presence of killer rabbits in the marginalia of various books, how theories about vision made up the justification for the basilisk's deadly gaze, a emu recovering from surgery from the nails and other metal objects it ate while wandering the streets, helping endangered lizards return to the wild, using robots to re-seed coral with coral larvae, beavers becoming protected wildlife in Scotland, and realizing that humans use different pathways to signal pain to their brains.
In technology, engineering conrete structures that weight more than two tons, that can be moved and assembled by hand. Which seems to suggest that just about all the architectural wonders we scratch our heads at could have been constructed without the tools we are used to seeing for such construction.
The Firefox browser suffered a severe issue when a necessary certificate expired and caused many extensions to no longer work. A fix is now live, and an update will fix the problem, butt there's a certain amount of "what happened" that something that important to the browser managed to avoid notice until it was too late.
The possibility of using DNA left in an environment to track the presences of the species there, which requires a good reference library to compare environmental DNA against.
Suggestions on composting on how to build a compost environment where even things that might otherwise be difficult to deal with can be managed without disrupting the bin.
using a floating wheelchair and specially-modified wetsuits so that people with disabilities can experience sand and waves and snorkeling, if they so desire.
Indigenous doctors and health care services are extremely low in Australia. And in the United States as well.
Using drone flights to transport organs swifter than chartered flights or other methods.
The catalog of the library Hernando Colon was trying to collect has been identified as part of holdings in Copenhagen. So we'll get the summaries of several books that were in print at the time they were being collected. That should be very interesting.
A recently-discovered shipwreck will offer more information about the transition period between shipbuilding techniques that helped make the Dutch a strong maritime power.
Trying to extract useful oils from used coffee grounds as a possible replacement for palm oil, paired with using recycled plastic as the stock for creating 3D-printed prosthetics. Recycle and reuse to turn one thing into another.
The Organization for Transformative Works has a breakdown of how the EU's new copyright directive is likely to play out in their member countries. There are potential exclusions and exceptions, but there's no guarantee that any of them will end up working out in a way that's favorable to fans.
Research into inflammation and its processes seems to return to "traditional" advice about food and exercise with relation to health, even as the article goes around talking about various molecules that might be worth targeting for newer drugs designed to reduce inflammation or help target the processes for a more effective healing process.
A thing that all teens know instinctively, but that has very real consequences for teens in places the police want to target, for whatever their reasons are: what you do online can and will be used against you if the police believe you're showing that you intend to do crime or associate with people who commit crimes. Even if the behavior or the post was from some time ago.
The ephemeral nature of our digital lives makes archiving ourselves hell, especially as we continue to create more and more things that potentially need archiving. For example, MySpace shuttered itself rather suddenly. Were it not thanks to the effort of someone who was saving and archiving, we wouldn't have the Dragon Hoard, which covers a mere two years of the existence of MySpace. It only became clear afterward that stuff needed archiving, and even now, we don't have dedicated teams crawling, indexing, and trying to biuld finding aids for things that once were. That needs time, storage space, and dedicated archivists capturing and making accessible what they have collected. (And then racing to get it all converted over to the next accessible format before all the machines that can read the previous one break down past repair.) We're not even good at collecting important stories and archiving them, like the collective knowledge excerpted in this piece about webcomics, from their start as putting content out without being beholden to a syndicate to the explosive boom that they still are, including things like what happened when Penny Arcade made a tasteless joke and then monetized and doubled down on it.
A company defrauded NASA for several hundreds of millions of dollars by falsifying test results about their metal. The company can be linked to at least two satellite launch failures.
Last out, Bathtubs Over Broadway, a documentary about finding corporate musicals commissioned and performed for employees, on Broadway, using actors that would go on to do lots of other very visible projects.
The Guinness World Records Team refused to update a record about fastest marathon run dressed as a nurse because their criteria for "Dressed as a nurse" appeared to have been derived from a cartoon. Or, perhaps, some other flight of fancy for adults. After reviewing their criteria and updating them to the 20th century, they correctly awarded the record to Jessica Anderson..
A song, in sound and ASL, about the improving weather and the new swath of available activities for the adventurous. Being Beltane, the activity being described is having sex outside.
But you do such a good job of collating!
Date: 2019-05-10 11:10 pm (UTC)Re: But you do such a good job of collating!
Date: 2019-05-11 12:07 am (UTC)