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silveradeptHi, everybody! A quick reminder that as envisioned in the United States, the "Thanksgiving" is a holiday that doesn't tell an accurate story about how the First Nations were treated by colonizing forces. Cultural Survival offers some suggestions on how, if you want to celebrate that holiday, to make it less a celebration of colonization.
A further reminder that a person's identity is not a reason for their murder, and yet, trans people are far too often not extended that right. Would for the day that what you do is what produces consequence for you, rather than what you identify as, but that day is still long off, it seems. Also, have a detailed refutation of a theory commonly used in anti-trans rhetoric that points out its supposed science-ness is essentially nil.
Making surgical masks with a clear window so that lips can be read is excellent for patients who have hearing loss or are Deaf and need to be able to read lips.
Brains that are more focused on interests than other potential motivators may need to change the ways they motivate themselves to do tasks to make sure they get done. Which might include doing thigs for a set amount of time and then taking a break, or other rewards along the way kinds of ideas. (For others, it might be setting oneself up to succeed in such a way that a task has several defined stopping points that can be enforced if necessary.)
Following on complaints made about dress codes that require women to wear heels at work, there is pushback against the idea of forbidding women to wear glasses at work in certain professions. The remarkably suspect reasoning seems to think that women wearing glasses put off a cold or distant affect, and that can't be had in any space where a woman has to be charming to the men. This from the same place where another sector has developed a specific phrase for an attractive person who wears glasses. Culture is vast, contains multitudes, etc., but a culture that's more concerned about appearance and aesthetic is one that's likely to end up in trouble if they don't have anything to back it up.
Representation matters. So yes, it's important that Mary Shelley was bisexual. Especially since she's considered the origin of genres like science fiction and is, to put it mildly, gothic as fuck. Also, The Terminator is an origin story movie. What makes it unique is that it's an origin story about Sarah Connor. Most women don't get an origin story at all, much less a whole movie about it.
George Eliot shows us that the provinces, while still being provincial, still have perspectives for us, concerns they have, and things that people in more metropolitan areas can identify with and think about. More about George Eliot from the Guardian.
John M. Ford's works will be coming back into print, after a significant time left in limbo after Ford's death. There's a lot more in that article, where the writer is drawing a certain amount of parallel between Ford's life and works, and I'm not entirely sure that it's warranted, given that there's a lot there that seems like it's intensely personal to a lot of people. The upshot is that works will be coming back into print for someone who deserves to be in print.
Billie Lourd on being Carrie Fisher's daughter and eventually, coming to the understanding of what it meant to be Princess Leia, and then, what it meant to be Princess Leia's daughter. Which I can put next to the complicated relationship between commodity and cultural identity, wrapped up in how one might relate to, and what part of your actual culture, bubble tea is part of.
Depression is a terrible thing and it can seem like luck for whether one person manages to keep fighting that day and another might not. Indeed. Sometimes it's the most basic of things that can keep someone going or dissuade them from particular ends. Maths was one of them.
A person won a Fortnight tournament and was the victim of a SWATting attempt. Thankfully, in this case, the officer knew the target they were being called to, and no lives were lost nor shots fired. Some people are the kind who will send police after someone because they're upset about games. At some point, I would love to see extremely severe prison sentences for this behavior. And more than fifteen months for the people who provide a fake address for a SWAT team to be dispatched to.
The Hackney Archives of the United Kingdom have a photography shop's collection of images, but none of the associated metadata, and would like some help identifying the persons in the pictures.
A person who gains a position of trust in an archive and then steals from it is almost always going to look like an old white dude, based, at least, on what's available to be known about thefts from archives and the people who intended to get rich selling those things to collectors. The same sorts of things that make the materials available for people to engage in scholarship makes them vulnerable to theft. I suspect in many cases digital fascimiles will be enough, but not always.
Scalzi talks about what goes into a relationship to make it work. Some of those things are learned and practiced behaviors, some of them are innate.
A complaint that the phrase "emotional labor" is being used for things it was never intended to be used, because the term itself has escaped its limited boundaries. I might note that as useful a concept as it is, this was almost destined to happen, because humans are often imprecise in their language choices and expect you to get their meaning, even if their word or phrase choices don't exactly provide the listener with the precise degree of everything. The article writer suggests that by calling all things emotional labor, the idea of friendship loses special qualities and becomes a labor dispute. And while they acknowledge that women do disproportionately more of particular types of labor, without compensation, in most straight relationships, it seems very useful to me to deliberately expand the box of what qualifies as emotional labor, given that a significant amount of society has yet to properly value the uncompensated labor of women in relationships and society and minorities pushed into the boxes of either being a figurehead attacked by respectability politics or to geel helpless because asserting their power would make it dangerous for them have not yet said they are going to take the risk and exercise their power, even if it comes with costs.
When confronted by a person hurling anti-Semitic remarks, a brave Muslim, Asma Shuweikh, tried to get him to stop and engaged with him. The anti-Semite has been found and is suffering consequences for his actions.
Designing book covers is like other parts of graphic design, which means there are possible things that will make a design look better or worse. And things that will violate all sorts of pieces of advice and work perfectly all the same, but they are statistically unlikely.
yhlee asks the question about what kind of thinking ability makes for a good military commander. The consensus seems to be "fuck if we know", but there are suggestions around about what might be worth examining, depending on the situation presented.
The way in which an article about an automobile crash is constructed affects how persons reading the article apportion blame for the crash.
A photograph of the black bear that was supposed to be asleep and wasn't, and didn't really want to be, either, Australian scientists recording a two petabytes worth of environmental sound, with the likelihood of citizen science projects attempting to pick out particular sounds and their variances coming with the data, the ways in which a significant part of an ant colony was separated, and eventually reunited, with their colony, human hair as the possible cause for pigeons losing toes,
In technology, the suggestion that time is no longer a useful measurement or referent, as algorithms, the World Wide Web, and the proliferation of devices and connectivity have placed humans into a perpetual Now, where things that are old can, without warning, become new and go viral.
QR Codes, while they seem like a fad in the United States, are used fairly heavily in China to transact a significant amount of business and advertising. Because a lot of people have a smartphone as their sole computer and device, the QR code allows for quick access to a lot of things, even more so when linked to various payment applications that recognize the code and perform the appropriate action.
Very few devices that claim to save the labor of a cook actually do so, because it hasn't been until recently that people have begun to understand the amount of labor that goes into cooking. And there is also the history of parchment paper. Which does occasionally save the labor of the cook properly.
The .gov TLD s not as regulated as someone might want, making it possible for a .gov website to be used as a vector of attack or malice.
There is a tremendous amount of work that goes into the recording of an audiobook.
The House of Mouse's streaming service launched, and not too soon afterward, stolen subscriber credentials for that service were being sold and traded around in dark web spaces.
Last for this post, a map of where accused witches resided in Scotland during investigations in the 16th and 17th centuries CE. What programming with punch cards and shared machine access time looked like in Sweden in 1969.
The Baltimore Museum of Art is spending their entire 2020 calendar year acquiring works made by women.
And the advice columnist Ms. Mantis, whose advice is sensible and practical.
A further reminder that a person's identity is not a reason for their murder, and yet, trans people are far too often not extended that right. Would for the day that what you do is what produces consequence for you, rather than what you identify as, but that day is still long off, it seems. Also, have a detailed refutation of a theory commonly used in anti-trans rhetoric that points out its supposed science-ness is essentially nil.
Making surgical masks with a clear window so that lips can be read is excellent for patients who have hearing loss or are Deaf and need to be able to read lips.
Brains that are more focused on interests than other potential motivators may need to change the ways they motivate themselves to do tasks to make sure they get done. Which might include doing thigs for a set amount of time and then taking a break, or other rewards along the way kinds of ideas. (For others, it might be setting oneself up to succeed in such a way that a task has several defined stopping points that can be enforced if necessary.)
Following on complaints made about dress codes that require women to wear heels at work, there is pushback against the idea of forbidding women to wear glasses at work in certain professions. The remarkably suspect reasoning seems to think that women wearing glasses put off a cold or distant affect, and that can't be had in any space where a woman has to be charming to the men. This from the same place where another sector has developed a specific phrase for an attractive person who wears glasses. Culture is vast, contains multitudes, etc., but a culture that's more concerned about appearance and aesthetic is one that's likely to end up in trouble if they don't have anything to back it up.
Representation matters. So yes, it's important that Mary Shelley was bisexual. Especially since she's considered the origin of genres like science fiction and is, to put it mildly, gothic as fuck. Also, The Terminator is an origin story movie. What makes it unique is that it's an origin story about Sarah Connor. Most women don't get an origin story at all, much less a whole movie about it.
George Eliot shows us that the provinces, while still being provincial, still have perspectives for us, concerns they have, and things that people in more metropolitan areas can identify with and think about. More about George Eliot from the Guardian.
John M. Ford's works will be coming back into print, after a significant time left in limbo after Ford's death. There's a lot more in that article, where the writer is drawing a certain amount of parallel between Ford's life and works, and I'm not entirely sure that it's warranted, given that there's a lot there that seems like it's intensely personal to a lot of people. The upshot is that works will be coming back into print for someone who deserves to be in print.
Billie Lourd on being Carrie Fisher's daughter and eventually, coming to the understanding of what it meant to be Princess Leia, and then, what it meant to be Princess Leia's daughter. Which I can put next to the complicated relationship between commodity and cultural identity, wrapped up in how one might relate to, and what part of your actual culture, bubble tea is part of.
Depression is a terrible thing and it can seem like luck for whether one person manages to keep fighting that day and another might not. Indeed. Sometimes it's the most basic of things that can keep someone going or dissuade them from particular ends. Maths was one of them.
A person won a Fortnight tournament and was the victim of a SWATting attempt. Thankfully, in this case, the officer knew the target they were being called to, and no lives were lost nor shots fired. Some people are the kind who will send police after someone because they're upset about games. At some point, I would love to see extremely severe prison sentences for this behavior. And more than fifteen months for the people who provide a fake address for a SWAT team to be dispatched to.
The Hackney Archives of the United Kingdom have a photography shop's collection of images, but none of the associated metadata, and would like some help identifying the persons in the pictures.
A person who gains a position of trust in an archive and then steals from it is almost always going to look like an old white dude, based, at least, on what's available to be known about thefts from archives and the people who intended to get rich selling those things to collectors. The same sorts of things that make the materials available for people to engage in scholarship makes them vulnerable to theft. I suspect in many cases digital fascimiles will be enough, but not always.
Scalzi talks about what goes into a relationship to make it work. Some of those things are learned and practiced behaviors, some of them are innate.
A complaint that the phrase "emotional labor" is being used for things it was never intended to be used, because the term itself has escaped its limited boundaries. I might note that as useful a concept as it is, this was almost destined to happen, because humans are often imprecise in their language choices and expect you to get their meaning, even if their word or phrase choices don't exactly provide the listener with the precise degree of everything. The article writer suggests that by calling all things emotional labor, the idea of friendship loses special qualities and becomes a labor dispute. And while they acknowledge that women do disproportionately more of particular types of labor, without compensation, in most straight relationships, it seems very useful to me to deliberately expand the box of what qualifies as emotional labor, given that a significant amount of society has yet to properly value the uncompensated labor of women in relationships and society and minorities pushed into the boxes of either being a figurehead attacked by respectability politics or to geel helpless because asserting their power would make it dangerous for them have not yet said they are going to take the risk and exercise their power, even if it comes with costs.
When confronted by a person hurling anti-Semitic remarks, a brave Muslim, Asma Shuweikh, tried to get him to stop and engaged with him. The anti-Semite has been found and is suffering consequences for his actions.
Designing book covers is like other parts of graphic design, which means there are possible things that will make a design look better or worse. And things that will violate all sorts of pieces of advice and work perfectly all the same, but they are statistically unlikely.
yhlee asks the question about what kind of thinking ability makes for a good military commander. The consensus seems to be "fuck if we know", but there are suggestions around about what might be worth examining, depending on the situation presented.The way in which an article about an automobile crash is constructed affects how persons reading the article apportion blame for the crash.
A photograph of the black bear that was supposed to be asleep and wasn't, and didn't really want to be, either, Australian scientists recording a two petabytes worth of environmental sound, with the likelihood of citizen science projects attempting to pick out particular sounds and their variances coming with the data, the ways in which a significant part of an ant colony was separated, and eventually reunited, with their colony, human hair as the possible cause for pigeons losing toes,
In technology, the suggestion that time is no longer a useful measurement or referent, as algorithms, the World Wide Web, and the proliferation of devices and connectivity have placed humans into a perpetual Now, where things that are old can, without warning, become new and go viral.
QR Codes, while they seem like a fad in the United States, are used fairly heavily in China to transact a significant amount of business and advertising. Because a lot of people have a smartphone as their sole computer and device, the QR code allows for quick access to a lot of things, even more so when linked to various payment applications that recognize the code and perform the appropriate action.
Very few devices that claim to save the labor of a cook actually do so, because it hasn't been until recently that people have begun to understand the amount of labor that goes into cooking. And there is also the history of parchment paper. Which does occasionally save the labor of the cook properly.
The .gov TLD s not as regulated as someone might want, making it possible for a .gov website to be used as a vector of attack or malice.
There is a tremendous amount of work that goes into the recording of an audiobook.
The House of Mouse's streaming service launched, and not too soon afterward, stolen subscriber credentials for that service were being sold and traded around in dark web spaces.
Last for this post, a map of where accused witches resided in Scotland during investigations in the 16th and 17th centuries CE. What programming with punch cards and shared machine access time looked like in Sweden in 1969.
The Baltimore Museum of Art is spending their entire 2020 calendar year acquiring works made by women.
And the advice columnist Ms. Mantis, whose advice is sensible and practical.
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Date: 2019-12-03 06:54 am (UTC)The problem is because the scales are tipped in favor of the one getting the most out of the arrangement, there is no dispute until the person providing the most emotional labor points out the imbalance.
I'd argue there is no friendship if one person feels used enough by the other to turn it into a labor dispute but perhaps that's a controversial take, if only because the person benefiting most almost never sees themselves as using the other or wants to change the fact that they are, once it's pointed out.
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