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silveradeptLet us start with pictures of moonbows and the aurora borealis.
Words of the common vernacular with ableist origins or meanings, although, with some of them, there's the possibility of their being used specifically as reclamation from a person who is part of that community, rather than as insulting material. And at least some of those words are falling out of usage as creativity takes over and allows us express our opinion in highly specific and non-ableist terms.
Similarly, one person's guide to how to refer to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people that respects their names and nations.
We must also bid farewell to Eddie Van Halen, guitarist and rocker, at the age of 65 years.
In New Hampshire, someone tried to re-create Galt's Gulch. The purest form of libertarianism didn't particularly take, and then there were bears to contend with. Unsurprisingly, that only caused the libertarians to be even less effective at everything.
Several quotes from activists about how they keep themselves in balance and accomplish their work. Which I put next to the idea that the disabled body is always at work, not afterwork, and their work is much more like the afterwork of the abled. Which is to say, maintaining the body and making sure it can function is the work of the disabled, but it doesn't usually make enough money to be a proper career. Because capital is ableist and only cares about what profit it can extract from a body, not how to maintain one.
Finding Jewishness in the things that Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote, crafted, and wore, which goes nicely next to an exhortation to grieve for what is lost, all around the world, and for all of this time, and then build something better, more honest, and less soaked in greed and senseless hatred. To grieve, of course, one must first acknowledge that things are not fine, even if a person isn't directly affected by their being not fine. (Contrast to a person more concerned about the news not talking about their nomination for a prize than about the flooding in the state that he is nominally in charge of the federal government that assists that state.)
The UK still doesn't make voting in their elections very accessible to low vision and blind persons, according to research and surveys conducted by the RNIB. I have a feeling they're still better than what US voting does in a lot of places. Then again, as that iconic picture shows, there are still plenty of men in the United States that presume they should be able to observe and ensure that the women in their lives vote in line with their beliefs, rather than whatever the women in their lives might have as beliefs.
A suggestion of talking about a pregnancy as a "sprout", something full of potential but that will need care and nurturing, and that could be easily lost all the same, through no fault of the person carrying.
Tactics designed to intimidate don't have to threaten women directly. After all, it's just as effective to mark a grave of an aborted fetus with the woman's name and the date of the abortion to let someone know that you can obtain their information as it is to shout at them when they are attempting to get the procedure done. (And here in the States, we have someone up for the highest court in the country who has already said explicitly that she opposes the precedent already set by the court, even if when directly questioned, she refuses to say how she might rule on such a matter. And a party that, despite not actually having the quorum mandated by the rules, voted to pass her out of committee to the floor.)
Vote, if you have the means and ability, as there is at least one party that intends to continue to rule and gather legitimacy by making it as difficult as legally possible for you to do so. Assuming that you're someone other than who they believe will happily and strongly vote for them, despite the clear indications that they are unable to govern or otherwise administer any division of government. By this point in time, despite the need for going through the formalities, it's fairly clear that the thing the administrator did when given the chance to talk about substantive issues, he chose to peddle lies and conspiracy theories. Leading to the satirists having a field day making comparisons between the performance of this debate and the last one, as well as the media tendency to not want to appear partisan, even when one of the two people on hand was telling lies and peddling conspiracy theories.
Bernardine Evaristo delivers a prize lecture about the sad white men who refuse to go outside their tiny canon of novels to read or teach and the foolhardiness of continuing to let them define a singular canon of Great Works, rather than opening, expanding, and making many canons of Great Works. It's also a "I see you" to all of the people who have written novels, whether Great or otherwise, who won't ever get to see the publication of their novels because they aren't white, or men, or straight, and they're not writing about men who are white and straight (and, if absolutely necessary, white straight women), and therefore they are pre-emptively shut out of publishing and the possibility that their novel might become Great, or even just a really good best-seller in their genre. Publishing and editors need to have more than their token minority for each of the minorities they want to tokenize. To do so, of course, would be giving up power, and when all of your systems have been tuned to white supremacy, the thought of giving up that power spirals immediately into the possibility that white might not be supreme any more, and that causes the people who could be giving up their power and finding it's not terrible to shy away, because they are too afraid of having to compete or acknowledge they're not the unquestioned default, lord of all they see, and to confront the reality that without having started on third base, they might never have made it home.
Art that was hidden and believed lost has come to light because it was secretly passed between lovers, instead. And it comes to light because being gay is no longer a criminal act. As does a story about how some members of the UK Parliament sounded an early alarm about Hitler, because they saw him coming after gay men in Germany. Since they were familiar with the nightlife scene there.
Many of Subway's breads were ruled as non-bread for containing too much in additives, according to an Irish court that denied a request to refund the Value-Added Tax charged for Subway sandwiches. Which I'll put next to a peek inside the lives of giant vegetable growers, which would give an entirely different spin to the question of whether they meet the Malfoy Standard.
Swearing parrots moved to different places so as not to encourage each other, research conducted by women indicating that female birds are also singers, award-winning photographs of wildlife and nature in action, and a knot of hundreds of thousands of birds all in the same space.
The inability to have physical contact with each other because of the virus has varying effects, but a lot of them are negative for many people.
Using a program for something other than its intended purpose may have caused a lack of swift testing and tracing for SARS-CoV-2. Because Excel is not a database, and at the quantity of data and metadata we are talking about, a database is the right answer.
The countries of Africa, while still hit by the novel coronavirus, seem to have done significantly better at keeping it contained and not losing as many people than they were projected to. Which we're putting next to the possibility that R is not the right thing to look at, but k, and if one adapts the strategy to deal with a high k element that could be stochastic, along with the possibility of aerosol transmission, the virus could be contained once the number of cases is low enough that it's not a constant strain of chain reactions. Which, in all honesty, will probably require a certain amount of political turnover so as to bring the politics back in line with reality. At which point we note that in the UK, proposals to help slow the spread of the virus went mostly ignored by the government.
SARS-CoV-2 might be causing the onset of diabetes in certain patients, but more data is needed before any firm conclusions can be drawn about what to do.
Remdesivir, the anti-viral that had initially been thought of as a treatment for the Virus, appears not to have been effective at affecting the mortality rates of those infected. Despite that, the Food and Drug Administration in the U.S. approved it as a treatment, which suggests that politics has much more to do with the action than science does. Joy.
The fool of 1600, having caught the virus himself, proceeded to do all the wrong things to recover properly from it. Given that at least someone he was theoretically listening to was upset with him for not doing what he said everyone else should do if they caught the virus. Nevermind that the thing was unproven and dangerous.
In any case, despite it being known that fighting the virus takes the form of things seeming fine until they aren't, and that for some people, the damage from the virus is long-lasting and puts them at risk for other issues, (and that includes mental health damage suffered by suffering through the virus), it would only be a fool who believes he's doing fine and there's no need to keep him under observation or away from the people. Or someone convinced that sickness is equivalent to weakness who has built their entire brand on accusing everyone else of being weak.
Like, it would take some at least of the level of Boris Johnson claiming he's fine and healthy several months after getting the virus kind of a fool, nevermind the parallels of lack of competence and getting elected anyway.
So, naturally, the fool of 1600 decided to be a super-spreader, because lives are an acceptable cost for him to appear strong and hold on to power. After receiving a drug that suggested he was suffering a lot more than he would have us believe, and after further insisting on taking a drive so he could wave at supporters that had gathered around his hospital, he declared himself fit to return from the hospital and went back to the residence, where he promptly removed his mask, ensuring the infection of others who live and work in the White House. Also, apparently, he was trying to cut some promos for his campaign, or at least some footage of him appearing strong and maskless for such things, because that is the image he has so crudely cultivated and insisted upon.
If it kills him, it will be through his own negligence and unwillingness to heed the warnings.
One should also note that the monoclonal antibody treatment he was given a compassionate use exemption for is derived from stem cell research of an aborted fetus. Seen about the tweet-machine was someone proclaiming that the religious right was entirely okay with abortion now, based on a piece that said people were okay with the fool getting the treatment because he wasn't personally involved in that abortion, which would absolve quite a few people who do work and receive stem cell related treatments. But, of course, it's because their favored candidate received it that he can do no wrong. They are the most consistent on the hypocrisy. Fun times for all.
In science and technology, Sixteen minutes of building oneself a proud parent machine. Which took longer, clearly, because there's some quick-speed stuff, but still, it's certainly a thing.
A teardown and examination of one of the most popular personal massagers, the Vibratex/Hitachi Magic Wand Rechargeable.
Adaptive stretching from someone who is paralyzed.
A study suggesting that the more likely a person is to engage in microaggressions, the more likely they are to be rated as having racial biases. Which makes for extra fun times in trying to get them to unlearn or become conscious of and try not to perpetuate those agressions and biases. Because they're small and possibly unconscious. Which I'm going to stash next to a human interest story about a Black woman from Louisiana whose existence, and the events that brought the Movement for Black Lives to our collective consciousness, caused her students to rethink the conscious and overt anti-Black biases they had been taught all their lives.
Improving inside air quality by raising the relative humidity of the space, so as to give all of the ash and smoke water to bind to, which causes it to sink to the floor.
Learning all about plastic and plastic recycling machines, from the Precious Plastic project, who also have plans for people to build their own plastic recycling machines. Beware of the fumes, especially.
the practice of freezing eggs for later implantation has shifted from a strictly medical procedure to one that's more of a lifestyle choice, which has also meant reaching out more to younger women and trying to persuade them to freeze their eggs so that they can continue to pursue their ambitions and still be able to have children later.
The Scunthorpe problem strikes again, and also manages to expose a white bias as to what words are banned, as paleontologists find themselves afoul of a word filter that excluded not only common terms, but common names for people in the field, as well. So Scunthorpe and falsehoods that programmers believe about names all in one. Well done.
A breach of credit card data appears to have captured nearly three million cards, all of which appear to have eating at a Dickey's Barbecue shop, mostly in California or Arizona, as their common thread. Much of it appears to be related to franchisees not having upgraded their point of sale material to require chips versus swiping the magstripe. Which puts those franchisees in a terrible situation, as the card companies have said that people who aren't using chip technology are liable for any fraud that happens related to their business, but the margins in various franchises aren't necessarily big enough to be able to upgrade to more secure material, either. And thus, caught between Scylla and Charybdis, eventually, something ends up being a problem, and in this case, it will be the fraud liability from the stolen cards.
(Have to say, the Virus has been helpful, at least in that the library was staring down the necessity of having to go chip-based themselves and what the associated expense would be. Now, at least, they have the time to think about whether or not they want to return to accepting cards, or whether they're going to do the smart thing and abolish all fines, excepting replacement costs.)
Last for tonight, thinking about your virtual meeting space like you're on television, with the help of Mary Robinette Kowal. Which, y'know, you are on television when you're doing these things. So utilizing the whole frame you have really helps.
Words of the common vernacular with ableist origins or meanings, although, with some of them, there's the possibility of their being used specifically as reclamation from a person who is part of that community, rather than as insulting material. And at least some of those words are falling out of usage as creativity takes over and allows us express our opinion in highly specific and non-ableist terms.
Similarly, one person's guide to how to refer to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people that respects their names and nations.
We must also bid farewell to Eddie Van Halen, guitarist and rocker, at the age of 65 years.
In New Hampshire, someone tried to re-create Galt's Gulch. The purest form of libertarianism didn't particularly take, and then there were bears to contend with. Unsurprisingly, that only caused the libertarians to be even less effective at everything.
Several quotes from activists about how they keep themselves in balance and accomplish their work. Which I put next to the idea that the disabled body is always at work, not afterwork, and their work is much more like the afterwork of the abled. Which is to say, maintaining the body and making sure it can function is the work of the disabled, but it doesn't usually make enough money to be a proper career. Because capital is ableist and only cares about what profit it can extract from a body, not how to maintain one.
Finding Jewishness in the things that Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote, crafted, and wore, which goes nicely next to an exhortation to grieve for what is lost, all around the world, and for all of this time, and then build something better, more honest, and less soaked in greed and senseless hatred. To grieve, of course, one must first acknowledge that things are not fine, even if a person isn't directly affected by their being not fine. (Contrast to a person more concerned about the news not talking about their nomination for a prize than about the flooding in the state that he is nominally in charge of the federal government that assists that state.)
The UK still doesn't make voting in their elections very accessible to low vision and blind persons, according to research and surveys conducted by the RNIB. I have a feeling they're still better than what US voting does in a lot of places. Then again, as that iconic picture shows, there are still plenty of men in the United States that presume they should be able to observe and ensure that the women in their lives vote in line with their beliefs, rather than whatever the women in their lives might have as beliefs.
A suggestion of talking about a pregnancy as a "sprout", something full of potential but that will need care and nurturing, and that could be easily lost all the same, through no fault of the person carrying.
Tactics designed to intimidate don't have to threaten women directly. After all, it's just as effective to mark a grave of an aborted fetus with the woman's name and the date of the abortion to let someone know that you can obtain their information as it is to shout at them when they are attempting to get the procedure done. (And here in the States, we have someone up for the highest court in the country who has already said explicitly that she opposes the precedent already set by the court, even if when directly questioned, she refuses to say how she might rule on such a matter. And a party that, despite not actually having the quorum mandated by the rules, voted to pass her out of committee to the floor.)
Vote, if you have the means and ability, as there is at least one party that intends to continue to rule and gather legitimacy by making it as difficult as legally possible for you to do so. Assuming that you're someone other than who they believe will happily and strongly vote for them, despite the clear indications that they are unable to govern or otherwise administer any division of government. By this point in time, despite the need for going through the formalities, it's fairly clear that the thing the administrator did when given the chance to talk about substantive issues, he chose to peddle lies and conspiracy theories. Leading to the satirists having a field day making comparisons between the performance of this debate and the last one, as well as the media tendency to not want to appear partisan, even when one of the two people on hand was telling lies and peddling conspiracy theories.
Bernardine Evaristo delivers a prize lecture about the sad white men who refuse to go outside their tiny canon of novels to read or teach and the foolhardiness of continuing to let them define a singular canon of Great Works, rather than opening, expanding, and making many canons of Great Works. It's also a "I see you" to all of the people who have written novels, whether Great or otherwise, who won't ever get to see the publication of their novels because they aren't white, or men, or straight, and they're not writing about men who are white and straight (and, if absolutely necessary, white straight women), and therefore they are pre-emptively shut out of publishing and the possibility that their novel might become Great, or even just a really good best-seller in their genre. Publishing and editors need to have more than their token minority for each of the minorities they want to tokenize. To do so, of course, would be giving up power, and when all of your systems have been tuned to white supremacy, the thought of giving up that power spirals immediately into the possibility that white might not be supreme any more, and that causes the people who could be giving up their power and finding it's not terrible to shy away, because they are too afraid of having to compete or acknowledge they're not the unquestioned default, lord of all they see, and to confront the reality that without having started on third base, they might never have made it home.
Art that was hidden and believed lost has come to light because it was secretly passed between lovers, instead. And it comes to light because being gay is no longer a criminal act. As does a story about how some members of the UK Parliament sounded an early alarm about Hitler, because they saw him coming after gay men in Germany. Since they were familiar with the nightlife scene there.
Many of Subway's breads were ruled as non-bread for containing too much in additives, according to an Irish court that denied a request to refund the Value-Added Tax charged for Subway sandwiches. Which I'll put next to a peek inside the lives of giant vegetable growers, which would give an entirely different spin to the question of whether they meet the Malfoy Standard.
Swearing parrots moved to different places so as not to encourage each other, research conducted by women indicating that female birds are also singers, award-winning photographs of wildlife and nature in action, and a knot of hundreds of thousands of birds all in the same space.
The inability to have physical contact with each other because of the virus has varying effects, but a lot of them are negative for many people.
Using a program for something other than its intended purpose may have caused a lack of swift testing and tracing for SARS-CoV-2. Because Excel is not a database, and at the quantity of data and metadata we are talking about, a database is the right answer.
The countries of Africa, while still hit by the novel coronavirus, seem to have done significantly better at keeping it contained and not losing as many people than they were projected to. Which we're putting next to the possibility that R is not the right thing to look at, but k, and if one adapts the strategy to deal with a high k element that could be stochastic, along with the possibility of aerosol transmission, the virus could be contained once the number of cases is low enough that it's not a constant strain of chain reactions. Which, in all honesty, will probably require a certain amount of political turnover so as to bring the politics back in line with reality. At which point we note that in the UK, proposals to help slow the spread of the virus went mostly ignored by the government.
SARS-CoV-2 might be causing the onset of diabetes in certain patients, but more data is needed before any firm conclusions can be drawn about what to do.
Remdesivir, the anti-viral that had initially been thought of as a treatment for the Virus, appears not to have been effective at affecting the mortality rates of those infected. Despite that, the Food and Drug Administration in the U.S. approved it as a treatment, which suggests that politics has much more to do with the action than science does. Joy.
The fool of 1600, having caught the virus himself, proceeded to do all the wrong things to recover properly from it. Given that at least someone he was theoretically listening to was upset with him for not doing what he said everyone else should do if they caught the virus. Nevermind that the thing was unproven and dangerous.
In any case, despite it being known that fighting the virus takes the form of things seeming fine until they aren't, and that for some people, the damage from the virus is long-lasting and puts them at risk for other issues, (and that includes mental health damage suffered by suffering through the virus), it would only be a fool who believes he's doing fine and there's no need to keep him under observation or away from the people. Or someone convinced that sickness is equivalent to weakness who has built their entire brand on accusing everyone else of being weak.
Like, it would take some at least of the level of Boris Johnson claiming he's fine and healthy several months after getting the virus kind of a fool, nevermind the parallels of lack of competence and getting elected anyway.
So, naturally, the fool of 1600 decided to be a super-spreader, because lives are an acceptable cost for him to appear strong and hold on to power. After receiving a drug that suggested he was suffering a lot more than he would have us believe, and after further insisting on taking a drive so he could wave at supporters that had gathered around his hospital, he declared himself fit to return from the hospital and went back to the residence, where he promptly removed his mask, ensuring the infection of others who live and work in the White House. Also, apparently, he was trying to cut some promos for his campaign, or at least some footage of him appearing strong and maskless for such things, because that is the image he has so crudely cultivated and insisted upon.
If it kills him, it will be through his own negligence and unwillingness to heed the warnings.
One should also note that the monoclonal antibody treatment he was given a compassionate use exemption for is derived from stem cell research of an aborted fetus. Seen about the tweet-machine was someone proclaiming that the religious right was entirely okay with abortion now, based on a piece that said people were okay with the fool getting the treatment because he wasn't personally involved in that abortion, which would absolve quite a few people who do work and receive stem cell related treatments. But, of course, it's because their favored candidate received it that he can do no wrong. They are the most consistent on the hypocrisy. Fun times for all.
In science and technology, Sixteen minutes of building oneself a proud parent machine. Which took longer, clearly, because there's some quick-speed stuff, but still, it's certainly a thing.
A teardown and examination of one of the most popular personal massagers, the Vibratex/Hitachi Magic Wand Rechargeable.
Adaptive stretching from someone who is paralyzed.
A study suggesting that the more likely a person is to engage in microaggressions, the more likely they are to be rated as having racial biases. Which makes for extra fun times in trying to get them to unlearn or become conscious of and try not to perpetuate those agressions and biases. Because they're small and possibly unconscious. Which I'm going to stash next to a human interest story about a Black woman from Louisiana whose existence, and the events that brought the Movement for Black Lives to our collective consciousness, caused her students to rethink the conscious and overt anti-Black biases they had been taught all their lives.
Improving inside air quality by raising the relative humidity of the space, so as to give all of the ash and smoke water to bind to, which causes it to sink to the floor.
Learning all about plastic and plastic recycling machines, from the Precious Plastic project, who also have plans for people to build their own plastic recycling machines. Beware of the fumes, especially.
the practice of freezing eggs for later implantation has shifted from a strictly medical procedure to one that's more of a lifestyle choice, which has also meant reaching out more to younger women and trying to persuade them to freeze their eggs so that they can continue to pursue their ambitions and still be able to have children later.
The Scunthorpe problem strikes again, and also manages to expose a white bias as to what words are banned, as paleontologists find themselves afoul of a word filter that excluded not only common terms, but common names for people in the field, as well. So Scunthorpe and falsehoods that programmers believe about names all in one. Well done.
A breach of credit card data appears to have captured nearly three million cards, all of which appear to have eating at a Dickey's Barbecue shop, mostly in California or Arizona, as their common thread. Much of it appears to be related to franchisees not having upgraded their point of sale material to require chips versus swiping the magstripe. Which puts those franchisees in a terrible situation, as the card companies have said that people who aren't using chip technology are liable for any fraud that happens related to their business, but the margins in various franchises aren't necessarily big enough to be able to upgrade to more secure material, either. And thus, caught between Scylla and Charybdis, eventually, something ends up being a problem, and in this case, it will be the fraud liability from the stolen cards.
(Have to say, the Virus has been helpful, at least in that the library was staring down the necessity of having to go chip-based themselves and what the associated expense would be. Now, at least, they have the time to think about whether or not they want to return to accepting cards, or whether they're going to do the smart thing and abolish all fines, excepting replacement costs.)
Last for tonight, thinking about your virtual meeting space like you're on television, with the help of Mary Robinette Kowal. Which, y'know, you are on television when you're doing these things. So utilizing the whole frame you have really helps.
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Date: 2020-10-25 10:15 am (UTC)