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silveradeptHello, let's begin with selections from the Small World contest that shows some of the smallest things in great and captivating detail.
The decision in Bell v. Tavistock in the UK has been rescinded, and it is once again a matter between people and their medical professionals with regard to the use of puberty blockers and other trans care. Good. And, perhaps, if the defeat can make the opponents of affirming care focus hard on trying to overturn it without success, they can waste time, effort, and resources they can't then use to attack others.
The lawyers involved in several suits alleging widespread elections fraud in states that the previous Administrator wanted to win and did not are being recommended for sanctions and possible disbarrment by the judge that had to listen to the case and make a ruling on it. The Honorable Linda Parker's opiion and order is 110 pages, but makes clear just how much these lawyers have aggravated the judge and made a mockery of the legal process [PDF] and is worth a read on those grounds alone.
A course on several Black persons in the Tudor era. And the need to understand that Latin Christendom is not the only kid on the block when it comes to colonial and strong Christian powers of the period of 400-1500 of the Common Era. Ethiopia, for example, was doing quite well for themselves.
Just because there's an increase in who we see on screen and in print, it does not mean that the fandoms for those things are also more inclusive. Even in the places that are supposed to be an escape from our harsh reality, people bring their shit with them, and more often than not, that means that BIPOC fans gets harrassed for writing characters true to themselves, or for understanding and saying that some places are colonialist and that makes them evil, or that Sam had good reasons not to take up the mantle of Captain America, or other things that white fans don't get and often think is a problem the fan of color is making up or bringing in out of left field.naye's post links to several tweets and other blogs about the experience and the lack of action in fandom to correct a clear racism problem.
Mijente looks to organize the Latine/Latinx community and use their power to accomplish important goals.
A story about going out in to the world and trying to find something will get you a job. And ending up with a life and the ability to use your talents and training together.
Police in Canada are looking for a man who attacked a nurse repeatedly because his wife was "vaccinated without his consent", which already says volumes about what kind of person this man is and his beliefs about vaccination and about the autonomy of women, married or otherwise. On the same vein of men trying to control women's bodies, Abortion is Normal, an essay about a woman writing about the thing that terrifies her the most, which is not the journalism she's done exposing abusive regimes, but the fact that she had two normal abortions.
Doctor Katharine Bement Davis did a significant amount of good sex research, but suffered both from sexism on the job and from being removed from her position by the funder, Rockefeller, once it became clear she wasn't trying to patholigize sex work and otherwise try to keep sex from being discussed frankly and effectively.
A memoir of poor Texas life that is both a story about the terrible situation of the woman who wrote it and her mother, and also an artifact of the time period it was written in with the attitudes that it has toward race and other races.
And another life of the women aspiring and succeeding at becoming doctors in a time when nobody wanted to or believed they could be. (Plus researchers being able to look into the work that women were doing in the 1500s to 1700s CE by examining the court records and seeing what work was being mentioned incidentally in those accounts of crime.)
A judge ruled that the ballot proposition exempting ride-hailing entities like Uber and Lyft from having to classify their employees as employees violates the California state constitution, which paves the way for more fighting over the matter as it works its way through the courts. The judge's order on Proposition 22 declares that the Proposition limits powers that are explicitly described as unlimited in the State Constitution [PDF], as well as striking down the provision that prevented ride-share drivers from joining unions or collectively bargaining as not being part of the same theme as the rest of the proposition.
Goat herding in Ireland to both preserve a species and to keep wildfires at bay. A candy bar-like object from the era of the Soviet Socialist Republics advertised as an iron supplement that got the iron from the presence of actual blood in the thing itself. Vivid botanical drawings that survive the person who made them, about whom little has survived.
Wally the Walrus has been spotted in Iceland, significantly closer to the normal habitat of walruses, which is good for all the people who were concerned that Wally might not make it back to his home territory after his summer vacation in the south.
Environmental groups are asking the UK government to more vigorously enforce laws that prevent untreated sewage from being discharged into public waters. Magical groups might be concerned about a rare white stag that was eventually killed by police after it was going through the streets of a city, as there's probably a reckoning with the Fair Folk that will have to happen from that decision.
On matters of the still growing case counts all around the world, the supposed great fear of the early 2000s Republicans — "death panels" —have arrived in states that are struggling with capacity issues around sufferers of COVID-19. Which are coincidentally more likely to be governed by libertarian or conspiracy theory Republicans that believe money is more important than lives. And whose residents may be proportionately more likely to be violent against the health care workers trying to give them proper treatment.
Nanobodies produced by llamas in response to a spike protein injection could possibly be isolated, replicated, and then used as a treatment in humans. If it works, it could be packaged very conveniently and then sent all over the world to help people fight off the virus and its effects while vaccination slowly spreads itself across the globe.
It may need to be marketed properly as some sort of superpowered disease cure, though, as in addition to horse paste and bleach, those who do not wish to get vaccinated may be turning to high concentrations of iodine taken orally or nasally as a perceived prophylactic.
In technology, utilizing regular makeup and makeup technique to prevent a facial recognition system from recognizing you, which doesn't have the flair of some of the Dazzle makeup, but will certainly attract less human attention to you as well. There is some amount of customization to the makeup, but currently available apps can generate the heatmap that provides the template of where to use the makeup to fool the system. A video demonstration of the success of the makeup attack technique. Should probably make some people wonder whether all of this panopticon surveillance technology is anything more than very expensive security theater.
Companies marketing smart toilets are ready to move our reality even more into the Internet of Shit. And, of course, all the data generated by toilet analysis would have to be safeguarded, and would be potentially buyable by companies with awful agendas, or could be hacked and released all over the Internet, so that someone could examine your shit, or at least the digital representation of it, for something to use to further attack and harrass you. There will be a market for these things, eventually, but hopefully it's a relatively small one.
A Twitter thread illustrating the way that spacing between glyphs often has to be hand-tuned so that the eye reading those glyphs doesn't think they're too close or too far apart, which involves both the spacing (and sizing) of the glyphs generally and specific situations where glyph pairs invade each others' space so that they look like they're spaced correctly. Spacing and kerning, both in one handy thread.
The concept of the carbon footprint is still useful, but it needs to be seen as something that's not wholly dependent on individuals or wholly dependent on corporations, but as a gauge to see where effort needs to be made to reduce carbon emissions. Some of those things are best accomplished by large entities. Others by bands of individuals working together.
WIRED produced a non-comprehensive tour of the English-speaking accents and dialects of the United States and Canada. Part One covers much of the Northeast and a little bit of the Midatlantic, Part Two covers most of the the South and Midwest, and Part Three handles much of the West, Canada, and loops back around to a particular spot in the Northeast near where the whole thing started. Particularly excellent is that the white main presenter passes off to Black, Latine, and Indigenous linguists and dialect coaches for accents and dialects that are specific to those populations in the regions that are covered.
Last for tonight, the heroes of the comic books as rendered in a traditional Northwest indigenous art style.
And The Latest Kate, combining affirmations and natural scenes together into really beautiful art. The statements themselves are excellent, the drawings are great, and the intersection of the two is really quite gorgeous.
The decision in Bell v. Tavistock in the UK has been rescinded, and it is once again a matter between people and their medical professionals with regard to the use of puberty blockers and other trans care. Good. And, perhaps, if the defeat can make the opponents of affirming care focus hard on trying to overturn it without success, they can waste time, effort, and resources they can't then use to attack others.
The lawyers involved in several suits alleging widespread elections fraud in states that the previous Administrator wanted to win and did not are being recommended for sanctions and possible disbarrment by the judge that had to listen to the case and make a ruling on it. The Honorable Linda Parker's opiion and order is 110 pages, but makes clear just how much these lawyers have aggravated the judge and made a mockery of the legal process [PDF] and is worth a read on those grounds alone.
A course on several Black persons in the Tudor era. And the need to understand that Latin Christendom is not the only kid on the block when it comes to colonial and strong Christian powers of the period of 400-1500 of the Common Era. Ethiopia, for example, was doing quite well for themselves.
Just because there's an increase in who we see on screen and in print, it does not mean that the fandoms for those things are also more inclusive. Even in the places that are supposed to be an escape from our harsh reality, people bring their shit with them, and more often than not, that means that BIPOC fans gets harrassed for writing characters true to themselves, or for understanding and saying that some places are colonialist and that makes them evil, or that Sam had good reasons not to take up the mantle of Captain America, or other things that white fans don't get and often think is a problem the fan of color is making up or bringing in out of left field.
naye's post links to several tweets and other blogs about the experience and the lack of action in fandom to correct a clear racism problem.Mijente looks to organize the Latine/Latinx community and use their power to accomplish important goals.
A story about going out in to the world and trying to find something will get you a job. And ending up with a life and the ability to use your talents and training together.
Police in Canada are looking for a man who attacked a nurse repeatedly because his wife was "vaccinated without his consent", which already says volumes about what kind of person this man is and his beliefs about vaccination and about the autonomy of women, married or otherwise. On the same vein of men trying to control women's bodies, Abortion is Normal, an essay about a woman writing about the thing that terrifies her the most, which is not the journalism she's done exposing abusive regimes, but the fact that she had two normal abortions.
Doctor Katharine Bement Davis did a significant amount of good sex research, but suffered both from sexism on the job and from being removed from her position by the funder, Rockefeller, once it became clear she wasn't trying to patholigize sex work and otherwise try to keep sex from being discussed frankly and effectively.
A memoir of poor Texas life that is both a story about the terrible situation of the woman who wrote it and her mother, and also an artifact of the time period it was written in with the attitudes that it has toward race and other races.
And another life of the women aspiring and succeeding at becoming doctors in a time when nobody wanted to or believed they could be. (Plus researchers being able to look into the work that women were doing in the 1500s to 1700s CE by examining the court records and seeing what work was being mentioned incidentally in those accounts of crime.)
A judge ruled that the ballot proposition exempting ride-hailing entities like Uber and Lyft from having to classify their employees as employees violates the California state constitution, which paves the way for more fighting over the matter as it works its way through the courts. The judge's order on Proposition 22 declares that the Proposition limits powers that are explicitly described as unlimited in the State Constitution [PDF], as well as striking down the provision that prevented ride-share drivers from joining unions or collectively bargaining as not being part of the same theme as the rest of the proposition.
Goat herding in Ireland to both preserve a species and to keep wildfires at bay. A candy bar-like object from the era of the Soviet Socialist Republics advertised as an iron supplement that got the iron from the presence of actual blood in the thing itself. Vivid botanical drawings that survive the person who made them, about whom little has survived.
Wally the Walrus has been spotted in Iceland, significantly closer to the normal habitat of walruses, which is good for all the people who were concerned that Wally might not make it back to his home territory after his summer vacation in the south.
Environmental groups are asking the UK government to more vigorously enforce laws that prevent untreated sewage from being discharged into public waters. Magical groups might be concerned about a rare white stag that was eventually killed by police after it was going through the streets of a city, as there's probably a reckoning with the Fair Folk that will have to happen from that decision.
On matters of the still growing case counts all around the world, the supposed great fear of the early 2000s Republicans — "death panels" —have arrived in states that are struggling with capacity issues around sufferers of COVID-19. Which are coincidentally more likely to be governed by libertarian or conspiracy theory Republicans that believe money is more important than lives. And whose residents may be proportionately more likely to be violent against the health care workers trying to give them proper treatment.
Nanobodies produced by llamas in response to a spike protein injection could possibly be isolated, replicated, and then used as a treatment in humans. If it works, it could be packaged very conveniently and then sent all over the world to help people fight off the virus and its effects while vaccination slowly spreads itself across the globe.
It may need to be marketed properly as some sort of superpowered disease cure, though, as in addition to horse paste and bleach, those who do not wish to get vaccinated may be turning to high concentrations of iodine taken orally or nasally as a perceived prophylactic.
In technology, utilizing regular makeup and makeup technique to prevent a facial recognition system from recognizing you, which doesn't have the flair of some of the Dazzle makeup, but will certainly attract less human attention to you as well. There is some amount of customization to the makeup, but currently available apps can generate the heatmap that provides the template of where to use the makeup to fool the system. A video demonstration of the success of the makeup attack technique. Should probably make some people wonder whether all of this panopticon surveillance technology is anything more than very expensive security theater.
Companies marketing smart toilets are ready to move our reality even more into the Internet of Shit. And, of course, all the data generated by toilet analysis would have to be safeguarded, and would be potentially buyable by companies with awful agendas, or could be hacked and released all over the Internet, so that someone could examine your shit, or at least the digital representation of it, for something to use to further attack and harrass you. There will be a market for these things, eventually, but hopefully it's a relatively small one.
A Twitter thread illustrating the way that spacing between glyphs often has to be hand-tuned so that the eye reading those glyphs doesn't think they're too close or too far apart, which involves both the spacing (and sizing) of the glyphs generally and specific situations where glyph pairs invade each others' space so that they look like they're spaced correctly. Spacing and kerning, both in one handy thread.
The concept of the carbon footprint is still useful, but it needs to be seen as something that's not wholly dependent on individuals or wholly dependent on corporations, but as a gauge to see where effort needs to be made to reduce carbon emissions. Some of those things are best accomplished by large entities. Others by bands of individuals working together.
WIRED produced a non-comprehensive tour of the English-speaking accents and dialects of the United States and Canada. Part One covers much of the Northeast and a little bit of the Midatlantic, Part Two covers most of the the South and Midwest, and Part Three handles much of the West, Canada, and loops back around to a particular spot in the Northeast near where the whole thing started. Particularly excellent is that the white main presenter passes off to Black, Latine, and Indigenous linguists and dialect coaches for accents and dialects that are specific to those populations in the regions that are covered.
Last for tonight, the heroes of the comic books as rendered in a traditional Northwest indigenous art style.
And The Latest Kate, combining affirmations and natural scenes together into really beautiful art. The statements themselves are excellent, the drawings are great, and the intersection of the two is really quite gorgeous.
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Date: 2021-10-10 02:12 pm (UTC)I feel sorry for Ms Bell but because it didn't work for you doesn't mean it doesn't work for the rest of us!
I was made to wait until eighteen for medication and 21 for GC surgery and that did untold damage that blockers might have prevented!
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Date: 2021-10-10 02:50 pm (UTC)