The end of May - May 02021
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silveradeptLet's begin with a walrus very far south of where it should be, causing all sorts of disruptions by being a walrus that far south. Last spotted in Cornwall, still with the hope that the walrus will move back north when things warm up. Also, there is video and audio of the attempt to move the walrus with an air horn, which goes about as well as you would think with a puny human and an annoying sound go up against a walrus that really doesn't want to move.
After having proven that the world can basically do most of its work with the accommodations needed to get disabled people to participate more fully in everything, disabled people are already bracing for the time where abled people decide those accommodations are no longer necessary, because abled people don't need them anymore.
After having received a taste of what life is constantly like for non-white people, there is the very real danger that whiteness will turn away from what they have experienced and go back to pretending the problem doesn't exist, or their choices don't make the problem worse, or that things that have already been decisively proven to be harmful and dangerous are beneficial and good for order and society. And if they do, then whiteness will stop suffering and everyone else will suffer more.
While in the United Kingdom, there are calls for apologies for a scheme that persuaded young mothers to give up their children for adoption, in the United States, we're still more than happy to foist that scheme on our own young mothers, with the additional attempt to shame them and make the baby their punishment for having had sex in the first place. That aspect of shame and insisting that the children be given to more worthy people has survived all this time, because there are entities that want to dehumanize other humans for their own gains or morals.
Woeful complaints that publishing, now with so many wimminz, are no longer looking at teh menz to publish. Almost as if they were expecting to be able to rely on some hidden boys' network to get themselves in print rather than on trying to compete with all of the other possibilities. There are some legit complaints about who is and isn't getting published and how many spots there are for people to get published, especially about how many spots are available for non-white narratives by non-white people, but "there aren't enough men being published" isn't one of them.
The case for making sure there is always slack in any given organization or position, so as to be able to absorb new things when they are urgent, and to also be able to have reflection time about one's processes, procedures, and direction in life and work, so that if there is an insight to be had, it can be had rather than being brushed aside or efficiencied out of existence. Which goes along with embracing the grind, which is to say that occasionally, magical results come from exceedingly boring and repetitive work. Which, even in a place that wants to try and automate all the boring tasks out of existence, often means having to have humans do the thing, because humans are way better at a lot of tasks than even the most sophisticated machines.
It is entirely possible to criticize the actions of the government and country of Israel without engaging in stereotype or using anti-Semitic arguments and imagery. Which, for the most part, involves being specific about criticizing the actions of the government of Israel and not engaging in generalizations or conflations of the government of Israel and people who follow Judaism, wherever they happen to be.
The case of a woman who wore men's clothes and used a dildo to simulate a penis, whose presentation went mostly unremarked upon by "commentators" in a rush to denunciate women loving and sleeping with women. And the man who had a succesfful career as "Princess Seraphina", who was eventually charged for sodomy in the rush to denunciate men loving and sleeping with other men. The dress doesn't seem to have been the issue, but the possibility of sex certainly was.
A Wisconsin town of 66 residents will be holding plenty of Pride events in June. Which is nice, and the town itself seems to understannd that the rural United States gets a reputation for being provincial and -phobic / -misic.
Fungi are much more radically different than we have conceived them of, even as we learn more about them and start trying to understand how their networks work. An abandoned orange peel dump rejuvenated the depleted patch of land the peels were dumped upon. It just took some time. Golden eagle pairs in Scotland.
a spot that needed a lot of vaccinations delivered them, using lots of vaccine that needed to be used and a good outreach campaign from someone with the idea in mind of trying to find a good reason to give someone a shot, rather then turn them away.
Because of the stumbles that plagued the Johnson and Johnson vaccine when it came into play, there's a reputation of being a subordinate or second-class vaccine that's being built. Which might have to do a lot with how much easier it is for the J&J vaccination to get around and to make it to spaces where there's insufficient medical infrastructure to use one of the other vaccines. But even the Cadillac vaccinations are starting to see people want one over the other, even though they are near-functionally identical.
It looks like getting a vaccine course might ease the symptoms of people who have the long-term effects of a COVID-19 infection.
Delaying the second shot of a vaccination for 11-12 weeks may produce a better peak antibody rate, suggesting the additional delay may be better, at least for older people, than the shorter time frame that's mostly at work in the States. Additionally, preliminary data suggests that it's safe, and possibly better, to mix the manufacturers of two-dose vaccinations.
The Pfizer/BioNTech vaccination has been approved to stay in regular refrigeration longer than it previous had, up to a month.
A conflation of data that set the idea of aerosols as being smaller than five microns, combined with some hubris on the end of various health bodies, appears to have been responsible for the initially erroneous guidance with regard to how to avoid infection from SARS-CoV-2. But hopefully, now that the error has been researched and exposed, in the future, there will be less issues involving what might be transmissible by aerosols.
A public relations agency claiming to be in London approached several social media influencers and asked them to spread misinformation about the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccination, claiming there were hidden reports showing lots of deaths from the vaccination and a cover-up was on. There was some significant money on offer, but the requirement was that the sponsor and payer remain anonymous and the content be presented as if it were organic, which certainly ups the shady quotient.
In technology, students who already have Overdrive's Sora app deployed to their devices can take advantage of two free audiobooks each week that started in late April and will run through August. Others can also take part, but they have to have the Sora app, rather than any other Overdrive app, so switching to Sora makes it clear that this is primarily intended for students.
Amazon intends to purchase Metro Goldwyn Mayer and use their assets to boost the Amazon Prime Video service. I doubt the regulators will say anything about it, even though it means more media consolidation, and also might mean that a significant amount of material suddenly stops being available to libraries.
Mexican officials arrested the alleged leader of a crime syndicate that bribed or coerced ATM operators to install card skimmers in their machines, allowing the criminal gang to then use the cards and PINs to steal more than a billion dollars.
Last for tonight, the previous Administrator potentially has a second criminal complaint lodged against his organization based on evidence examined during the civil case filed against him by the State of New York. Should there be enough for a prosecution, or should people at the Federal Bureau of Investigation find courage and properly investigate the results of the Special Counsel's report, following through with prosecution, even if it doesn't result in conviction, will be very good toward reasserting the primacy of the rule of law and showing that the executive is not an unchecked despot who can crime with impunity.
And something lighter: different ways that neurodivergent people express friendship and affection for others, some of which might not be recognized as gestures of friendship and affection at first.
After having proven that the world can basically do most of its work with the accommodations needed to get disabled people to participate more fully in everything, disabled people are already bracing for the time where abled people decide those accommodations are no longer necessary, because abled people don't need them anymore.
After having received a taste of what life is constantly like for non-white people, there is the very real danger that whiteness will turn away from what they have experienced and go back to pretending the problem doesn't exist, or their choices don't make the problem worse, or that things that have already been decisively proven to be harmful and dangerous are beneficial and good for order and society. And if they do, then whiteness will stop suffering and everyone else will suffer more.
While in the United Kingdom, there are calls for apologies for a scheme that persuaded young mothers to give up their children for adoption, in the United States, we're still more than happy to foist that scheme on our own young mothers, with the additional attempt to shame them and make the baby their punishment for having had sex in the first place. That aspect of shame and insisting that the children be given to more worthy people has survived all this time, because there are entities that want to dehumanize other humans for their own gains or morals.
Woeful complaints that publishing, now with so many wimminz, are no longer looking at teh menz to publish. Almost as if they were expecting to be able to rely on some hidden boys' network to get themselves in print rather than on trying to compete with all of the other possibilities. There are some legit complaints about who is and isn't getting published and how many spots there are for people to get published, especially about how many spots are available for non-white narratives by non-white people, but "there aren't enough men being published" isn't one of them.
The case for making sure there is always slack in any given organization or position, so as to be able to absorb new things when they are urgent, and to also be able to have reflection time about one's processes, procedures, and direction in life and work, so that if there is an insight to be had, it can be had rather than being brushed aside or efficiencied out of existence. Which goes along with embracing the grind, which is to say that occasionally, magical results come from exceedingly boring and repetitive work. Which, even in a place that wants to try and automate all the boring tasks out of existence, often means having to have humans do the thing, because humans are way better at a lot of tasks than even the most sophisticated machines.
It is entirely possible to criticize the actions of the government and country of Israel without engaging in stereotype or using anti-Semitic arguments and imagery. Which, for the most part, involves being specific about criticizing the actions of the government of Israel and not engaging in generalizations or conflations of the government of Israel and people who follow Judaism, wherever they happen to be.
The case of a woman who wore men's clothes and used a dildo to simulate a penis, whose presentation went mostly unremarked upon by "commentators" in a rush to denunciate women loving and sleeping with women. And the man who had a succesfful career as "Princess Seraphina", who was eventually charged for sodomy in the rush to denunciate men loving and sleeping with other men. The dress doesn't seem to have been the issue, but the possibility of sex certainly was.
Fungi are much more radically different than we have conceived them of, even as we learn more about them and start trying to understand how their networks work. An abandoned orange peel dump rejuvenated the depleted patch of land the peels were dumped upon. It just took some time. Golden eagle pairs in Scotland.
a spot that needed a lot of vaccinations delivered them, using lots of vaccine that needed to be used and a good outreach campaign from someone with the idea in mind of trying to find a good reason to give someone a shot, rather then turn them away.
Because of the stumbles that plagued the Johnson and Johnson vaccine when it came into play, there's a reputation of being a subordinate or second-class vaccine that's being built. Which might have to do a lot with how much easier it is for the J&J vaccination to get around and to make it to spaces where there's insufficient medical infrastructure to use one of the other vaccines. But even the Cadillac vaccinations are starting to see people want one over the other, even though they are near-functionally identical.
It looks like getting a vaccine course might ease the symptoms of people who have the long-term effects of a COVID-19 infection.
Delaying the second shot of a vaccination for 11-12 weeks may produce a better peak antibody rate, suggesting the additional delay may be better, at least for older people, than the shorter time frame that's mostly at work in the States. Additionally, preliminary data suggests that it's safe, and possibly better, to mix the manufacturers of two-dose vaccinations.
The Pfizer/BioNTech vaccination has been approved to stay in regular refrigeration longer than it previous had, up to a month.
A conflation of data that set the idea of aerosols as being smaller than five microns, combined with some hubris on the end of various health bodies, appears to have been responsible for the initially erroneous guidance with regard to how to avoid infection from SARS-CoV-2. But hopefully, now that the error has been researched and exposed, in the future, there will be less issues involving what might be transmissible by aerosols.
A public relations agency claiming to be in London approached several social media influencers and asked them to spread misinformation about the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccination, claiming there were hidden reports showing lots of deaths from the vaccination and a cover-up was on. There was some significant money on offer, but the requirement was that the sponsor and payer remain anonymous and the content be presented as if it were organic, which certainly ups the shady quotient.
In technology, students who already have Overdrive's Sora app deployed to their devices can take advantage of two free audiobooks each week that started in late April and will run through August. Others can also take part, but they have to have the Sora app, rather than any other Overdrive app, so switching to Sora makes it clear that this is primarily intended for students.
Amazon intends to purchase Metro Goldwyn Mayer and use their assets to boost the Amazon Prime Video service. I doubt the regulators will say anything about it, even though it means more media consolidation, and also might mean that a significant amount of material suddenly stops being available to libraries.
Mexican officials arrested the alleged leader of a crime syndicate that bribed or coerced ATM operators to install card skimmers in their machines, allowing the criminal gang to then use the cards and PINs to steal more than a billion dollars.
Last for tonight, the previous Administrator potentially has a second criminal complaint lodged against his organization based on evidence examined during the civil case filed against him by the State of New York. Should there be enough for a prosecution, or should people at the Federal Bureau of Investigation find courage and properly investigate the results of the Special Counsel's report, following through with prosecution, even if it doesn't result in conviction, will be very good toward reasserting the primacy of the rule of law and showing that the executive is not an unchecked despot who can crime with impunity.
And something lighter: different ways that neurodivergent people express friendship and affection for others, some of which might not be recognized as gestures of friendship and affection at first.
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Date: 2021-05-31 03:48 pm (UTC)Tenby is 50 minutes by train from me.
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Date: 2021-05-31 03:50 pm (UTC)