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silveradeptGreetings. Wouldn't you like to be cheered by reading about a backfire where conservatives accused charities of "wokeness" and the people responded by giving more and becoming members in greater quantity?
There is a counterpart to this, though - there must be a much greater fight by cis people against transphobia, for the people who want to reign as fascists and authoritarians are trying to get you to hate trans people and align with the fascists. Giving them power because they promise to give you a simpler time where the people you dislike will be suppressed is working toward your own suppression, for only an elite few will be considered pure enough for them. We have the accounts of people who were caught in past purges of the authoritarians, so it's not like there isn't an example waiting for us to notice. (We also have accounts of the people who fought, often using the skills they had to hand.)
Transphobia is already starting to have consequences - we're already losing our children and teens who look at the legislative and executive onslaught and decide they're not going to survive it. Others have to exercise constant hypervigilance against the kind of people who call security on someone who's trans and just trying to pee.
Pixar employees released an open letter demanding that Disney, their parent corporation, stop censoring and cutting down their queer content in movies and take a stand against all the transphobia and homophobia running rampant in legislation these days.
A second edition of a book trying to chart the history of how intersex people have generally been treated by the medical professoini since birth, where the standard procedure was to make a decision for the child about what sex they were going to be and perform the surgery to certify tht decvision.
More simple games for you to peruse - Nerdle offers you the four basic operands, ten digits, and gives you six guesses to construct the correct equation. Globle offers hot-and-cold guesses to a target secret country. Unlike Worldle, with gives you direction and distance, Globle only gives you color degrees of closeness, and the closer to dark red you are, the closer you are to the mystery country. For the truly masochistic (or those who are bored by Octordle), there's Sedecordle, which gives you 21 guesses to make 16 Wordle Words, and Squardle, which puts six Wordle words in a crossword-style and has you guess each word by guessing an across row and a down row at the same time.
U.S. President Biden fulfilled a campaign promise to nominate a Black woman to the Supreme Court of the United States, uneiling his decision to nominate fedeal judge Ketanji Brown to join the court. If all of the Democrats vote together for the confirmation, that will become so.
The gridiron football team of Roosevelt High School were extended an invitation to audition for the school's production of Mamma Mia! Thirty of them took up the call and ten have joined the cast after two rounds of auditions. It's a feel-good story, of course, because in US high school dramas, the football players are the top of the social heap and theater and arts perfromers are generally near the bottom, with the implication that participation in musical theater is an admission of being not-straight. That said, out here in the real world, professional gridiron players often take dance disciplines like ballet for the express purpose of improving their agility and footwork, and in high school, having different experiences is a good idea, and very important for helping them discover what they might be interested in for later on in life.
It was only relatively recently that legal definitions changed to include the possibility that male bodies might also have been sexually assaulted, and even then, there's still a significant amount of stigma around the possibility or disbelief that men can be victims of sexual assault.
If you haven't been keeping up on the maintenance posts or other such things, if you haven't run an import of your content from LJ, you might want to do so shortly, because LJ is owned by a state bank of the Russian Federation, and therefore...
The realities of the invasion of Ukraine have hit home for Russian soldiers, at least one of whom sent texts to his family about the difference between what they were sold and what is happening, as well as the suggestion that the orders given have been for things that violate the rules and treaties of war. Or that are just stupidly dangerous, like a nuclear power plant that's fully fueled and operating. Furthermore, the invasion appears to have been launched in one of the seasons that makes invading Ukraine (or similar countries) difficult, because the weather and the ground stop supporting wheeled vehicles.
A profile of the possible advisors to the Russian Federation President, or, potentially, subordinates who carry out his orders.
The BBC finds itself blocked in the Russian Federation, so they fire up the shortwave transmitters and post methods they have available to circumvent Roskomnadzor, the official censor of the Russian Federation. Several common social media sites and app stores followed getting blocked as the state censor does its damnedest to prevent anything but the official line from getting out. Because Internet access and infrastructure isn't going to be easy to come by in Ukraine, Elon Musk fast-tracked his satellite Internet access system into the country and made tweaks to access to work with the new reality.
The athletes from the Russian Federation were straight-up banned from competing in the Paralympic games, rather than representing themselves as the Russian Olympic Committee. Art museums that were going to loan works to the Kremlin museum rescinded their offers. (Or pulled the Russian mustards they had temporarily until peace reigns and Ukraine is sovereign again.)
Some of the less obvious effects of the invasion is a lack of noble gases available for those who make chips.
And there are also Doom II maps and another massive itch.io bundle of materials for inexpensively.
A plan for the spaces of the United Kingdom to rework themselves for both climate-friendliness and disability-friendliness, much of which involves making sure that your disabled people are involved in the planning process from the beginning, so they can test proposed ideas and point out the places where something won't have the desired effect of improving accessibility. As we saw, many of the decisions made about the pandemic that were geared toward keeping the economy going made spaces more inaccessible, or made inaccessible places that had been devoted to access. In the States, where there's significantly more automotive infrastructure, there are calls for rethinking that the way out of traffice problems is wider highways (and that's before you recognize that some of those projects where highways and freeways are built were intended to destroy communities or put polluting and industrial decisions through places that are poor or minority). Additionally, at least one person is trying to get bicycle commute information read with automobile commute information on the local radio station.
Recommending books to people and having them talk about book charcters as a therapeutic option, mostly on the idea that talking about people and things that are not themselves sometimes helps people explore things they hadn't considered for themselves, or to be able to make decisions that would otherwise have stymied them. I sincerely hope nobody gets it in their head that librarians, as book-recommenders, would easily be able to expand their recommendations for therapeutic purposes.
Julian Assnge, founder of Wikileaks, is still on track to be extradited to the United States at the request of the United States government.
Magpies 1, researchers 0, after the birds cooperatively figured out how to remove tracking devices the researchers had believed were hardened against removal.
The Islamic influences of the Gothic architecture style, because, despite what some people would like you to believe, Islamic art and architecture has been breathtakingly beautiful for millenia, and so lots of people would want to imitate or be inspired by it, the problem of the Internet taking exception to a person posting about what they enjoy doing, which in the case of this article, is reading, where people have a certain amount of jealousy at anyone who is able to do some significant amount of it, either because they would like to have more time to do the same, or because they believe someone who is reading (or doing anything else they enjoy) and posting about it is boasting or bragging about their skills, digitization and presentation of manuscripts from Mali endangered by those who wish to engage in cultural destruction, the question of just how old old candy is and the social practices around things like candy pulls, and the experience of younglings finding pornographic materials in outdoor locations as a potentially generational phenomenon.
We need to keep the benefits that pandemic precautions have put in place, so that people who are immunocompromised can continue to participate in society. Going back to the way things were before is like giving someone a vision of what might have been possible and then yanking it away and laughing at them for believing that such a thing would ever happen to them. But with mask mandates dropping and the politicians telling us we have to get back to the point where COVID is't a terrifying pandemic, people who are still going to be wearing their masks in public have to determine how best to protect themselves from the virus. I expect there to be even more pushes for public-facing places, like mine, to open up their meeting spaces and take away their protections and otherwise stop reminding them that there's still a disease spreading around, no matter what they'd like to believe.
Unfortunately, it looks like plenty of places are stopping the funding for their virus tracking. Or deciding they don't want to fund any such thing that might suggest that things are still not okay. Despite the clear understanding that we're not actually in the "live with it" phase.
It's possible that the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak can be traced to a particular market, where a robust trade in wildlife, and some correspondingly lax safety and sanitation protocols, might have meant the virus made a jump from animal to animal to human.
On technology, the Organization for Transformative Works highlighted efforts underway to undermine end-to-end encryption and private storage by requiring all materials sent or stored online be subjected to scanning, allegedly to root out child sexual abuse material, but almost certainly going to be used for purposes other than that, and to create a chilling effect on the use of encryption tools and other ways of preserving privacy against a government that wants to spy on everyone, even though they're constitutionally forbidden from doing so in a lot of cases and places. (They get around this by telling technology companies to spy on you instead, and then they go and collect the data from the technology companies.) At times, this is where I would like to deploy an argument against this (and those decisions in Texas about how wihle the government can't forbid your abortion, they can encourage private citizens to sue anyone who they think was involved in an abortion withthe presumption that the person so sued is guilty of it) that works on the same principle of unparliamentary language - if the government cannot do it directly, they are also forbidden from using non-government entities to do that forbidden work for them or from accessing the results of that forbidden work if some private company decides to do it themselves.
OTW also highlighted language inserted into a trade bill that would require someone to know what words are trademarked, provide their indentity documents to a listing site, be able to list the country of origin for all their materials, all in favor of preventing people and small businesses from selling their material on-line, whether as craft or used item. If you have United States legislators, it's probably worth contacting them over the matter.
A company that made bionic eyes has been bought and the division that made the eyes has shuttered. Where does that leave the people with the implanted technology, now that there's basically no support for it?
Samsung's implementation of encryption and security segmentation apparently had flaws that negated the ability of the security to keep anything safe, prompting, at least in this article, an RTFM comment from someone observing the issue.
Epic Games has acquired Bandcamp, the music sales (and streaming) service, with the Ars article speculating they might want to turn all the Bandcamp offerings into assets that can be licensed into games, moveis, or other things that use some of Epic's other products. Many of the people that I've seen comment on it are concerned that all the good things that Bandcamp has done will be eaten by Epic or meddled with by the same.
Amazon is closing several of their physical store locations, which doesn't surprise me that much, as the whole point of Amazon was that physical space and stock was the most inefficient thing about any company.
Last for tonight, the danger of a single story, and the single story revolving around a protagonist (or a very tight set of protagonists).
The suggestion that the antidote to despair is finding something to act upon, which might be large (or part of a large thing) or small, but is enough to keep a person going, even as the world seems to be coming to an end.
And a person booping a member of the marine community.
(Materials viaadrian_turtle, cmcmck, conuly, cosmolinguist, elf, finch, firecat, jadelennox, jjhunter, kaberett, lilysea, oursin, rydra_wong, snowynight, sonia, thewayne, umadoshi, vass, and anyone else that's I've neglected to mention. If you want to know where I get the neat stuff, my reading list has most of it.)
There is a counterpart to this, though - there must be a much greater fight by cis people against transphobia, for the people who want to reign as fascists and authoritarians are trying to get you to hate trans people and align with the fascists. Giving them power because they promise to give you a simpler time where the people you dislike will be suppressed is working toward your own suppression, for only an elite few will be considered pure enough for them. We have the accounts of people who were caught in past purges of the authoritarians, so it's not like there isn't an example waiting for us to notice. (We also have accounts of the people who fought, often using the skills they had to hand.)
Transphobia is already starting to have consequences - we're already losing our children and teens who look at the legislative and executive onslaught and decide they're not going to survive it. Others have to exercise constant hypervigilance against the kind of people who call security on someone who's trans and just trying to pee.
Pixar employees released an open letter demanding that Disney, their parent corporation, stop censoring and cutting down their queer content in movies and take a stand against all the transphobia and homophobia running rampant in legislation these days.
A second edition of a book trying to chart the history of how intersex people have generally been treated by the medical professoini since birth, where the standard procedure was to make a decision for the child about what sex they were going to be and perform the surgery to certify tht decvision.
More simple games for you to peruse - Nerdle offers you the four basic operands, ten digits, and gives you six guesses to construct the correct equation. Globle offers hot-and-cold guesses to a target secret country. Unlike Worldle, with gives you direction and distance, Globle only gives you color degrees of closeness, and the closer to dark red you are, the closer you are to the mystery country. For the truly masochistic (or those who are bored by Octordle), there's Sedecordle, which gives you 21 guesses to make 16 Wordle Words, and Squardle, which puts six Wordle words in a crossword-style and has you guess each word by guessing an across row and a down row at the same time.
U.S. President Biden fulfilled a campaign promise to nominate a Black woman to the Supreme Court of the United States, uneiling his decision to nominate fedeal judge Ketanji Brown to join the court. If all of the Democrats vote together for the confirmation, that will become so.
The gridiron football team of Roosevelt High School were extended an invitation to audition for the school's production of Mamma Mia! Thirty of them took up the call and ten have joined the cast after two rounds of auditions. It's a feel-good story, of course, because in US high school dramas, the football players are the top of the social heap and theater and arts perfromers are generally near the bottom, with the implication that participation in musical theater is an admission of being not-straight. That said, out here in the real world, professional gridiron players often take dance disciplines like ballet for the express purpose of improving their agility and footwork, and in high school, having different experiences is a good idea, and very important for helping them discover what they might be interested in for later on in life.
It was only relatively recently that legal definitions changed to include the possibility that male bodies might also have been sexually assaulted, and even then, there's still a significant amount of stigma around the possibility or disbelief that men can be victims of sexual assault.
If you haven't been keeping up on the maintenance posts or other such things, if you haven't run an import of your content from LJ, you might want to do so shortly, because LJ is owned by a state bank of the Russian Federation, and therefore...
The realities of the invasion of Ukraine have hit home for Russian soldiers, at least one of whom sent texts to his family about the difference between what they were sold and what is happening, as well as the suggestion that the orders given have been for things that violate the rules and treaties of war. Or that are just stupidly dangerous, like a nuclear power plant that's fully fueled and operating. Furthermore, the invasion appears to have been launched in one of the seasons that makes invading Ukraine (or similar countries) difficult, because the weather and the ground stop supporting wheeled vehicles.
A profile of the possible advisors to the Russian Federation President, or, potentially, subordinates who carry out his orders.
The BBC finds itself blocked in the Russian Federation, so they fire up the shortwave transmitters and post methods they have available to circumvent Roskomnadzor, the official censor of the Russian Federation. Several common social media sites and app stores followed getting blocked as the state censor does its damnedest to prevent anything but the official line from getting out. Because Internet access and infrastructure isn't going to be easy to come by in Ukraine, Elon Musk fast-tracked his satellite Internet access system into the country and made tweaks to access to work with the new reality.
The athletes from the Russian Federation were straight-up banned from competing in the Paralympic games, rather than representing themselves as the Russian Olympic Committee. Art museums that were going to loan works to the Kremlin museum rescinded their offers. (Or pulled the Russian mustards they had temporarily until peace reigns and Ukraine is sovereign again.)
Some of the less obvious effects of the invasion is a lack of noble gases available for those who make chips.
And there are also Doom II maps and another massive itch.io bundle of materials for inexpensively.
A plan for the spaces of the United Kingdom to rework themselves for both climate-friendliness and disability-friendliness, much of which involves making sure that your disabled people are involved in the planning process from the beginning, so they can test proposed ideas and point out the places where something won't have the desired effect of improving accessibility. As we saw, many of the decisions made about the pandemic that were geared toward keeping the economy going made spaces more inaccessible, or made inaccessible places that had been devoted to access. In the States, where there's significantly more automotive infrastructure, there are calls for rethinking that the way out of traffice problems is wider highways (and that's before you recognize that some of those projects where highways and freeways are built were intended to destroy communities or put polluting and industrial decisions through places that are poor or minority). Additionally, at least one person is trying to get bicycle commute information read with automobile commute information on the local radio station.
Recommending books to people and having them talk about book charcters as a therapeutic option, mostly on the idea that talking about people and things that are not themselves sometimes helps people explore things they hadn't considered for themselves, or to be able to make decisions that would otherwise have stymied them. I sincerely hope nobody gets it in their head that librarians, as book-recommenders, would easily be able to expand their recommendations for therapeutic purposes.
Julian Assnge, founder of Wikileaks, is still on track to be extradited to the United States at the request of the United States government.
Magpies 1, researchers 0, after the birds cooperatively figured out how to remove tracking devices the researchers had believed were hardened against removal.
The Islamic influences of the Gothic architecture style, because, despite what some people would like you to believe, Islamic art and architecture has been breathtakingly beautiful for millenia, and so lots of people would want to imitate or be inspired by it, the problem of the Internet taking exception to a person posting about what they enjoy doing, which in the case of this article, is reading, where people have a certain amount of jealousy at anyone who is able to do some significant amount of it, either because they would like to have more time to do the same, or because they believe someone who is reading (or doing anything else they enjoy) and posting about it is boasting or bragging about their skills, digitization and presentation of manuscripts from Mali endangered by those who wish to engage in cultural destruction, the question of just how old old candy is and the social practices around things like candy pulls, and the experience of younglings finding pornographic materials in outdoor locations as a potentially generational phenomenon.
We need to keep the benefits that pandemic precautions have put in place, so that people who are immunocompromised can continue to participate in society. Going back to the way things were before is like giving someone a vision of what might have been possible and then yanking it away and laughing at them for believing that such a thing would ever happen to them. But with mask mandates dropping and the politicians telling us we have to get back to the point where COVID is't a terrifying pandemic, people who are still going to be wearing their masks in public have to determine how best to protect themselves from the virus. I expect there to be even more pushes for public-facing places, like mine, to open up their meeting spaces and take away their protections and otherwise stop reminding them that there's still a disease spreading around, no matter what they'd like to believe.
Unfortunately, it looks like plenty of places are stopping the funding for their virus tracking. Or deciding they don't want to fund any such thing that might suggest that things are still not okay. Despite the clear understanding that we're not actually in the "live with it" phase.
It's possible that the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak can be traced to a particular market, where a robust trade in wildlife, and some correspondingly lax safety and sanitation protocols, might have meant the virus made a jump from animal to animal to human.
On technology, the Organization for Transformative Works highlighted efforts underway to undermine end-to-end encryption and private storage by requiring all materials sent or stored online be subjected to scanning, allegedly to root out child sexual abuse material, but almost certainly going to be used for purposes other than that, and to create a chilling effect on the use of encryption tools and other ways of preserving privacy against a government that wants to spy on everyone, even though they're constitutionally forbidden from doing so in a lot of cases and places. (They get around this by telling technology companies to spy on you instead, and then they go and collect the data from the technology companies.) At times, this is where I would like to deploy an argument against this (and those decisions in Texas about how wihle the government can't forbid your abortion, they can encourage private citizens to sue anyone who they think was involved in an abortion withthe presumption that the person so sued is guilty of it) that works on the same principle of unparliamentary language - if the government cannot do it directly, they are also forbidden from using non-government entities to do that forbidden work for them or from accessing the results of that forbidden work if some private company decides to do it themselves.
OTW also highlighted language inserted into a trade bill that would require someone to know what words are trademarked, provide their indentity documents to a listing site, be able to list the country of origin for all their materials, all in favor of preventing people and small businesses from selling their material on-line, whether as craft or used item. If you have United States legislators, it's probably worth contacting them over the matter.
A company that made bionic eyes has been bought and the division that made the eyes has shuttered. Where does that leave the people with the implanted technology, now that there's basically no support for it?
Samsung's implementation of encryption and security segmentation apparently had flaws that negated the ability of the security to keep anything safe, prompting, at least in this article, an RTFM comment from someone observing the issue.
Epic Games has acquired Bandcamp, the music sales (and streaming) service, with the Ars article speculating they might want to turn all the Bandcamp offerings into assets that can be licensed into games, moveis, or other things that use some of Epic's other products. Many of the people that I've seen comment on it are concerned that all the good things that Bandcamp has done will be eaten by Epic or meddled with by the same.
Amazon is closing several of their physical store locations, which doesn't surprise me that much, as the whole point of Amazon was that physical space and stock was the most inefficient thing about any company.
Last for tonight, the danger of a single story, and the single story revolving around a protagonist (or a very tight set of protagonists).
The suggestion that the antidote to despair is finding something to act upon, which might be large (or part of a large thing) or small, but is enough to keep a person going, even as the world seems to be coming to an end.
And a person booping a member of the marine community.
(Materials via
adrian_turtle, cmcmck, conuly, cosmolinguist, elf, finch, firecat, jadelennox, jjhunter, kaberett, lilysea, oursin, rydra_wong, snowynight, sonia, thewayne, umadoshi, vass, and anyone else that's I've neglected to mention. If you want to know where I get the neat stuff, my reading list has most of it.)
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Date: 2022-03-17 07:36 pm (UTC)Ha, I was one of the people who started supporting the National Trust after the attacks on them for being woke! At least that support is good news.
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Date: 2022-03-17 07:42 pm (UTC)(I am an adult trans woman, and I am very very scared. This is why.)
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Date: 2022-03-17 08:45 pm (UTC)Hugs
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Date: 2022-03-17 09:01 pm (UTC)I am glad that you are here, despite so many organized efforts in opposition.
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Date: 2022-03-18 01:42 pm (UTC)https://jonesnxt.github.io/kilordle
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