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silveradeptGood day. princessofgeeks has a most interesting salon going about the changing definition of slash.
Elsewhere, A summary of The Soup, the various movements, philosophies, and socio-historical contexts that all came together to provide material for most modern pagan denominations and interpretations.
Additionally, a look at the much older than we might think problem of pronouns, the search for a properly inclusive one, and the politics that undergirds the use of language.
Malala Yousafzai earned a degree from Oxford University, which is excellent, given that she campaigned for education of girls and was shot in the head by an extremist for wanting such.
Having determined that the winds were blowing against them, several food brands that used black mascots originally rooted in racist or minstrelsy portrayals have decided to go with different mascots. Band-Aid is rolling out a more complete pallette of tones for its plasters, and 'Capezio, who make pointe shoes, are also creating them in shades other than pink. The Natural History Museum in New York City is removing a statue it had of Theodore Roosevelt, based on his racist views and the racist elements of the statue. The New Orleans Museum of Art is one of many museums whose workers are demanding change in their governance and hiring. King Leopold II has campaigns against his statuary because of the atrocities he committed with regard to the Congolese people. John A. Maconald (of the Gordon Korman hall), first Prime Minister of Canada, is not better in his treatment of several First Nations places, and so at least one of his statues was repeatedly splashed with red paint to indicate the blood on his hands. These acts are in a long tradition of rendering people not unmemorable, but unworthy.
In a different place, blue plaques on buildings mention people of note who lived, worked, or were otherwise associated with those specific buildings. Which works reasonably well and doesn't produce statuary that occasionally needs to be rethought.
The truth of the matter is that when we say history is written by the winners, we mean it as a continuous process, and as the winners change, so, too, does the history and the history that should be remembered. Which means things like stopping the use of racist and derogatory common and scientific names for plants, but also the understanding that symbolic destruction is often more about memory than history, and if the culture doesn't change after it destroys, the things that those symbols represented will return just as surely. A sentiment that Justice Thurgood Marshall spoke of when talking about the continued presence of unofficial and official racism in an acceptance speech for the Liberty Medal in 01992.
An online resource of the original redlining maps and their commentaries for many metropolises and cities, so that someone can see their neighborhoods in the light that some very racist folk thought they should be in. My own current residence is in those map collections, and it isn't really surprising to see how many of them are marked as "low quality" if not outright redlined because of the presence of too many Black people or other minoritized people. Those things are also hella classist as well as racist.
If anyone ever needed true confirmation that the various indices and elements of the stock market have nothing to do with the actual economy, have a look at the data that says the economy is not doing great, but yet the stock market is doing just fine, as if it were, say, where all the wealthy people are parking their money instead of putting it to use actually doing something.
NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace, the sole full-time black driver on the circuit, had a noose in his garage on the next race after NASCAR banned the treasonweasel flag, and several "fans" of the sport displayed their support of same treasonweasel flag. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating, and the President of NASCAR said that the person responsible will be banned for life from the sport, as the drivers themselvs and their pit crews made a show of solidarity, pushing the 43 car to the front of the starting grid, as well as Bubba receiving reassurance (and then the rest of the world receiving soms strong words) from Richard Petty, a legend of the sport, and many of the other drivers on the circuit (and other sports figures) also expressing their disgust with the act.
An explainer of the concept of qualified immunity, and how it allows police to engage in clear Constitutional violations and not be held accountable for their actions. The sorts of things that result in vice squadrons being accused of abusing and harassing sex workers in their custody while specifically targeting trans people on a presumption that they are sex workers and then deadnaming them when tehy are the victims of crimes, choosing to decline prosecution or even the barest due diligence of reported sexual assaults because they won't believe their victims (CW for accounts of rape and the callousness of police in the face thereof), engage in a mentality that sees everyone around them as exaggerated threats, which they then use to justify attacking people who are assisting protestors, striking children with chemical agents and arresting those who filmed and posted it on pretexts, and otherwise behaving as a group of people with their roots in harming and killing slaves who have been given money and surplus military equipment, (more on the roots of police as tool of controlling BIPOC) or who have been told to control labor for the benefit of capital, who also threaten not to do their jobs any time someone suggests they should receive less money than they already do. Even though they're not really qualified for most of the things they're asked to do.
This results in an entire mess of documented abuses, attacks, and assaults by police (and the justifications they give themselves of same). The outcome that is most likely to work for a better society is simple - defund the police and invest that money into a million community experiments to find what actually will improve outcomes and lives and eventually render the need for policing mostly moot.
The individualist focuses of wellness tends to privilege the already privileged and provide a convenient excuse not to think about the collective problems everyone faces. Because it's much easier for the privileged to think that others are somehow deficient in their individual selves (in moral or spiritual as well as physical dimensions) and deserve their fate rather than acknowledging one's own advantages and the structures that make things unequal in the first place. Which I am putting next to a message from your university's vice president for magical thinking, because it really captures the feelings and ideas behind a lot of wellness-as-individual-only things. (Contains references to COVID.)
An entity that seems to be doing a really good job at helping parents be supportive of their trans children. Because, unsurprisingly, having people that accept you as you are, espcially in caregiving roles, is really important. In that same vein, a project that started in New Orleans to make sure that trans and nonbinary people have a pair of clippers to cut their hair short with. (For those who would benefit from shorter hair as part of their presentation, anyway.)
The EU, citing the (lack of management of) cases in the United States, may restrict who is and isn't allowed to travel to the EU from the States.
Also, the Liberal Redneck gives reasons why people who think owning the libs is the best thing in life should still wear masks.
An article-legnth biography on Kevin Kwan about the runaway success of Crazy Rich Asians and all the necessary reckonings that are happening in publishing and society, pictures of night-time Japan that capture the feeling of a place without people, the ways in which classification is messy, and that's even if you're sticking to things that have observable morphological differences and similarities, because, ha, things that look the same do not necessarily have a common ancestor, people attempting to restore art and not doing a good job with it, a useful question about what is being valued when an original is being prized over a copy, especially copies that are nearly indistinguishable from the first copy, the addition of the Rosetta Stone to objects that are part of LGBTQ+-themed tours of the British Museum (because someone who helped decipher it was charged with being a man having sex with other men), and a campaign to get a statue for someone who was denied playing for England's national football club because he was black.
In technology, sextech sites want to teach technique, but haven't yet figured out that technique is only a part of a good experience with a partner.
Flash is dead as of 31 December 2020.
Pit sites discovered near the Stonehenge, attributed to the Neolithic time period, but all together they show their clear relation to a henge site that is in the middle of the circle the shafts represent. So now there's more information, even if the context is long gone.
Using laser printing techniques, a pattern of metal akin to folded steel that alternates between flexible and rigid layers can be produced. Said folded steel has more strength than a steel printed in a uniform manner.
Drugs to assist with bloodflow to a penis are different than drugs to get someone in the mood for sex. The first is easy, the second is not.
Efforts to make sure employers don't implant RFID chips in their employees, for massive privacy violations reasons (as well as the possibility that such chips might not be entirely secure, and then all you have to do is get close to someone to read their chip, like supposedly what could happen with other contactless items with someone getting close enough.
Last for tonight,ursamajor on how one turns a critical eye to finding the truth, even when what's not true is much more appealing as a story, or as a rage piece.
And the very real difficulties that come from being a child with identifiable exceptional talents and a system of education that cannot accommodate them. At times, there are supports outside the schooling system, such as visits to libraries or out-of-class extracurriculars. But that assumes a level of privilege that may not be present. (And, occasionally, those geniuses get their library degrees and become youth services librarians and help, intentionally or not, others through their journey.)
princessofgeeks has a most interesting salon going about the changing definition of slash. Elsewhere, A summary of The Soup, the various movements, philosophies, and socio-historical contexts that all came together to provide material for most modern pagan denominations and interpretations.
Additionally, a look at the much older than we might think problem of pronouns, the search for a properly inclusive one, and the politics that undergirds the use of language.
Malala Yousafzai earned a degree from Oxford University, which is excellent, given that she campaigned for education of girls and was shot in the head by an extremist for wanting such.
Having determined that the winds were blowing against them, several food brands that used black mascots originally rooted in racist or minstrelsy portrayals have decided to go with different mascots. Band-Aid is rolling out a more complete pallette of tones for its plasters, and 'Capezio, who make pointe shoes, are also creating them in shades other than pink. The Natural History Museum in New York City is removing a statue it had of Theodore Roosevelt, based on his racist views and the racist elements of the statue. The New Orleans Museum of Art is one of many museums whose workers are demanding change in their governance and hiring. King Leopold II has campaigns against his statuary because of the atrocities he committed with regard to the Congolese people. John A. Maconald (of the Gordon Korman hall), first Prime Minister of Canada, is not better in his treatment of several First Nations places, and so at least one of his statues was repeatedly splashed with red paint to indicate the blood on his hands. These acts are in a long tradition of rendering people not unmemorable, but unworthy.
In a different place, blue plaques on buildings mention people of note who lived, worked, or were otherwise associated with those specific buildings. Which works reasonably well and doesn't produce statuary that occasionally needs to be rethought.
The truth of the matter is that when we say history is written by the winners, we mean it as a continuous process, and as the winners change, so, too, does the history and the history that should be remembered. Which means things like stopping the use of racist and derogatory common and scientific names for plants, but also the understanding that symbolic destruction is often more about memory than history, and if the culture doesn't change after it destroys, the things that those symbols represented will return just as surely. A sentiment that Justice Thurgood Marshall spoke of when talking about the continued presence of unofficial and official racism in an acceptance speech for the Liberty Medal in 01992.
An online resource of the original redlining maps and their commentaries for many metropolises and cities, so that someone can see their neighborhoods in the light that some very racist folk thought they should be in. My own current residence is in those map collections, and it isn't really surprising to see how many of them are marked as "low quality" if not outright redlined because of the presence of too many Black people or other minoritized people. Those things are also hella classist as well as racist.
If anyone ever needed true confirmation that the various indices and elements of the stock market have nothing to do with the actual economy, have a look at the data that says the economy is not doing great, but yet the stock market is doing just fine, as if it were, say, where all the wealthy people are parking their money instead of putting it to use actually doing something.
NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace, the sole full-time black driver on the circuit, had a noose in his garage on the next race after NASCAR banned the treasonweasel flag, and several "fans" of the sport displayed their support of same treasonweasel flag. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating, and the President of NASCAR said that the person responsible will be banned for life from the sport, as the drivers themselvs and their pit crews made a show of solidarity, pushing the 43 car to the front of the starting grid, as well as Bubba receiving reassurance (and then the rest of the world receiving soms strong words) from Richard Petty, a legend of the sport, and many of the other drivers on the circuit (and other sports figures) also expressing their disgust with the act.
An explainer of the concept of qualified immunity, and how it allows police to engage in clear Constitutional violations and not be held accountable for their actions. The sorts of things that result in vice squadrons being accused of abusing and harassing sex workers in their custody while specifically targeting trans people on a presumption that they are sex workers and then deadnaming them when tehy are the victims of crimes, choosing to decline prosecution or even the barest due diligence of reported sexual assaults because they won't believe their victims (CW for accounts of rape and the callousness of police in the face thereof), engage in a mentality that sees everyone around them as exaggerated threats, which they then use to justify attacking people who are assisting protestors, striking children with chemical agents and arresting those who filmed and posted it on pretexts, and otherwise behaving as a group of people with their roots in harming and killing slaves who have been given money and surplus military equipment, (more on the roots of police as tool of controlling BIPOC) or who have been told to control labor for the benefit of capital, who also threaten not to do their jobs any time someone suggests they should receive less money than they already do. Even though they're not really qualified for most of the things they're asked to do.
This results in an entire mess of documented abuses, attacks, and assaults by police (and the justifications they give themselves of same). The outcome that is most likely to work for a better society is simple - defund the police and invest that money into a million community experiments to find what actually will improve outcomes and lives and eventually render the need for policing mostly moot.
The individualist focuses of wellness tends to privilege the already privileged and provide a convenient excuse not to think about the collective problems everyone faces. Because it's much easier for the privileged to think that others are somehow deficient in their individual selves (in moral or spiritual as well as physical dimensions) and deserve their fate rather than acknowledging one's own advantages and the structures that make things unequal in the first place. Which I am putting next to a message from your university's vice president for magical thinking, because it really captures the feelings and ideas behind a lot of wellness-as-individual-only things. (Contains references to COVID.)
An entity that seems to be doing a really good job at helping parents be supportive of their trans children. Because, unsurprisingly, having people that accept you as you are, espcially in caregiving roles, is really important. In that same vein, a project that started in New Orleans to make sure that trans and nonbinary people have a pair of clippers to cut their hair short with. (For those who would benefit from shorter hair as part of their presentation, anyway.)
The EU, citing the (lack of management of) cases in the United States, may restrict who is and isn't allowed to travel to the EU from the States.
Also, the Liberal Redneck gives reasons why people who think owning the libs is the best thing in life should still wear masks.
An article-legnth biography on Kevin Kwan about the runaway success of Crazy Rich Asians and all the necessary reckonings that are happening in publishing and society, pictures of night-time Japan that capture the feeling of a place without people, the ways in which classification is messy, and that's even if you're sticking to things that have observable morphological differences and similarities, because, ha, things that look the same do not necessarily have a common ancestor, people attempting to restore art and not doing a good job with it, a useful question about what is being valued when an original is being prized over a copy, especially copies that are nearly indistinguishable from the first copy, the addition of the Rosetta Stone to objects that are part of LGBTQ+-themed tours of the British Museum (because someone who helped decipher it was charged with being a man having sex with other men), and a campaign to get a statue for someone who was denied playing for England's national football club because he was black.
In technology, sextech sites want to teach technique, but haven't yet figured out that technique is only a part of a good experience with a partner.
Flash is dead as of 31 December 2020.
Pit sites discovered near the Stonehenge, attributed to the Neolithic time period, but all together they show their clear relation to a henge site that is in the middle of the circle the shafts represent. So now there's more information, even if the context is long gone.
Using laser printing techniques, a pattern of metal akin to folded steel that alternates between flexible and rigid layers can be produced. Said folded steel has more strength than a steel printed in a uniform manner.
Drugs to assist with bloodflow to a penis are different than drugs to get someone in the mood for sex. The first is easy, the second is not.
Efforts to make sure employers don't implant RFID chips in their employees, for massive privacy violations reasons (as well as the possibility that such chips might not be entirely secure, and then all you have to do is get close to someone to read their chip, like supposedly what could happen with other contactless items with someone getting close enough.
Last for tonight,
ursamajor on how one turns a critical eye to finding the truth, even when what's not true is much more appealing as a story, or as a rage piece.And the very real difficulties that come from being a child with identifiable exceptional talents and a system of education that cannot accommodate them. At times, there are supports outside the schooling system, such as visits to libraries or out-of-class extracurriculars. But that assumes a level of privilege that may not be present. (And, occasionally, those geniuses get their library degrees and become youth services librarians and help, intentionally or not, others through their journey.)
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Date: 2020-07-11 02:27 pm (UTC)