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silveradeptLet's begin with photographs of the changes of fashion as the Gold Coast became the nation of Ghana. Although trying to think of the continent of Africa as having pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial periods still gives the influence and the power to the Europeans, rather than acknowledging the rich history of all of the kingdoms, empires, and colonies of Africa, including those times where parts of Europe were part of African empires. To decolonize museums is to do more than just get rid of a building and its artifacts, but to defeat the parts of society that want to hold onto the things that they took without permission and without fair dealing.
The DIY Methods conference, soliciting pitches, for researchers who want to make a zine and talk about their research process, ethics, and other othings with an interdisciplinary and likely intersectional lens. All the accepted zines will then be gathered, printed, and shipped to the participants in August, with some amount of ways to contact each other for more interest.
A proposed bill in Florida would conflate bloggers, journalists, and lobbyists by requiring anyone who writes about government officials and gets paid for their writing to register with the state government and disclose how much they were paid and by whom. Persons who work for approved organizations would be exempted from this, of course, but the point is to try and stifle the possibility that someone might have an opinion and other people might be interested in giving them money for it. I assume that this proposed law would only ever be used against people who are critical of the government.
Elsewhere in Florida, a state lawmaker made a proposal to disband both of the major political parties in the state by making it illegal for any party to exist in the state that historically supported the slavery of black people. The lawmaker believes that his legislation would only disband his political opponents, of course, but his grasp of history is equally as shaky as his grasp of grammar.
Pink was requested as the color to wear for the funeral of Brianna Ghey on 15 March. And, thankfully, not only were the colors respected, but there were no hate incidents at the funeral.
The United States intends to prevent persons trading in cryptocurrency tokens from claiming losses of value on their taxes such that someone could buy tokens, watch their value go down, claim the loss on their taxes, and then buy the tokens again without having lost money in their investment.
The Government of the United Kingdom wants to prevent asylum-seeking in the country for anyone who enters the country through unofficial channels, believing there is abuse of the asylum system. Their solution is to remove anyone to some other country and then hear their asylum appeals from that other country. The plan drew sharp criticism from sport casters as well as politicians, but it looks like most of the furor is trying to tell the sport caster to keep his mouth shut because it affects the position of neutrality the broadcaster has taken on politics. Don't know where else that might be relevant.[/s]
An arrest order has been issued for a woman who has an active infection of tuberculosis for at least a year and has not followed isolation and treatment orders from the public health department. From the details present in the article, there may be some amount of mental issues that complicate understanding enough of the situation to produce voluntary compliance with the public health order. One only hopes that she hasn't additionally infected others, or if she has, they have been able to receive treatment.
On the other side of good care and medical practice, five states have already introduced measures to mark autistic people's driver licenses and other identification with the fact that they have autism, because that's somehow something so important and problematic that it has to be placed on a government identification.
A medical school has achieved excellence in recruitment and graduation of minoritized people through several methods that make it easier for poorer people to get through medical school and by focusing on recruiting those people who want to practice medicine in underserved places for underserved populations.
A 2018 PDF of the WHO publication about how to construct nonproprietary/"generic" names for various pharmaceutical compounds. So if you have a generic or there's the compound name on the proprietary name, you can figure out with these stems what it actually does.
The influences of organizations that wouldn't ordinarily seem to have influence, like the Married Women's Association in the UK. Which contrasts with the ways in which having an intersectional identity often leaves you out of the community and the decision-making process, because you don't fit into the categories well enough, with the examples here being about Spare Rib magazine.
The literary executor of Ursula LeGuin details the thoughts involved and the persons consulted before ultimately deciding to update language in the childrens' books so as to avoid untoward or unintended meanings and to avoid characters being harsher if they were read in a modern voice than in the original voice. Which is contrasted, to some degree, with the decisions made to change the language in Roald Dahl's works to soften their often cruel and sharp language.
Cue a significant number of people crying "censorship!" at the changes of the language, many of whom did the same at the decision of the Seuss company to pull from publication some of Theodore's work. Which, to some degree, misunderstands the nature of censorship. The decision of a literary estate or corporation to change the language of works under their control is not censorship. It may be cowardly, it may be destructive, it may fundamentally change a work, it may be a stupid decision or one that is bad for the market, but it is not censorship. Corporations demanding changes from creators to make their works less of what they are for the market is also not censorship, although it is often all of those above—cowardly, destructive, fundamentally changing a thing and making it less good for the market. Censorship is government action. When the Chief Censor of Florida demands that certain subjects are unteachable, certain works should not be in schools, and threatens fines and felonies for those who don't obey, that's censorship. That's using the power of the State to silence a person or a group.
There is a debate to be had as to whether these changes of language are wise or whether it would be better to let those books be what they are and let them go gracefully into history, though, and it's a good debate to have. I'm personally in favor of letting things gracefully fade that are no longer of interest to the current population and current issues, and they can be around for people who want to remember from their childhood or who are studying the literature of the past.
The DIY Methods conference, soliciting pitches, for researchers who want to make a zine and talk about their research process, ethics, and other othings with an interdisciplinary and likely intersectional lens. All the accepted zines will then be gathered, printed, and shipped to the participants in August, with some amount of ways to contact each other for more interest.
A proposed bill in Florida would conflate bloggers, journalists, and lobbyists by requiring anyone who writes about government officials and gets paid for their writing to register with the state government and disclose how much they were paid and by whom. Persons who work for approved organizations would be exempted from this, of course, but the point is to try and stifle the possibility that someone might have an opinion and other people might be interested in giving them money for it. I assume that this proposed law would only ever be used against people who are critical of the government.
Elsewhere in Florida, a state lawmaker made a proposal to disband both of the major political parties in the state by making it illegal for any party to exist in the state that historically supported the slavery of black people. The lawmaker believes that his legislation would only disband his political opponents, of course, but his grasp of history is equally as shaky as his grasp of grammar.
Pink was requested as the color to wear for the funeral of Brianna Ghey on 15 March. And, thankfully, not only were the colors respected, but there were no hate incidents at the funeral.
The United States intends to prevent persons trading in cryptocurrency tokens from claiming losses of value on their taxes such that someone could buy tokens, watch their value go down, claim the loss on their taxes, and then buy the tokens again without having lost money in their investment.
The Government of the United Kingdom wants to prevent asylum-seeking in the country for anyone who enters the country through unofficial channels, believing there is abuse of the asylum system. Their solution is to remove anyone to some other country and then hear their asylum appeals from that other country. The plan drew sharp criticism from sport casters as well as politicians, but it looks like most of the furor is trying to tell the sport caster to keep his mouth shut because it affects the position of neutrality the broadcaster has taken on politics. Don't know where else that might be relevant.[/s]
An arrest order has been issued for a woman who has an active infection of tuberculosis for at least a year and has not followed isolation and treatment orders from the public health department. From the details present in the article, there may be some amount of mental issues that complicate understanding enough of the situation to produce voluntary compliance with the public health order. One only hopes that she hasn't additionally infected others, or if she has, they have been able to receive treatment.
On the other side of good care and medical practice, five states have already introduced measures to mark autistic people's driver licenses and other identification with the fact that they have autism, because that's somehow something so important and problematic that it has to be placed on a government identification.
A medical school has achieved excellence in recruitment and graduation of minoritized people through several methods that make it easier for poorer people to get through medical school and by focusing on recruiting those people who want to practice medicine in underserved places for underserved populations.
A 2018 PDF of the WHO publication about how to construct nonproprietary/"generic" names for various pharmaceutical compounds. So if you have a generic or there's the compound name on the proprietary name, you can figure out with these stems what it actually does.
The influences of organizations that wouldn't ordinarily seem to have influence, like the Married Women's Association in the UK. Which contrasts with the ways in which having an intersectional identity often leaves you out of the community and the decision-making process, because you don't fit into the categories well enough, with the examples here being about Spare Rib magazine.
The literary executor of Ursula LeGuin details the thoughts involved and the persons consulted before ultimately deciding to update language in the childrens' books so as to avoid untoward or unintended meanings and to avoid characters being harsher if they were read in a modern voice than in the original voice. Which is contrasted, to some degree, with the decisions made to change the language in Roald Dahl's works to soften their often cruel and sharp language.
Cue a significant number of people crying "censorship!" at the changes of the language, many of whom did the same at the decision of the Seuss company to pull from publication some of Theodore's work. Which, to some degree, misunderstands the nature of censorship. The decision of a literary estate or corporation to change the language of works under their control is not censorship. It may be cowardly, it may be destructive, it may fundamentally change a work, it may be a stupid decision or one that is bad for the market, but it is not censorship. Corporations demanding changes from creators to make their works less of what they are for the market is also not censorship, although it is often all of those above—cowardly, destructive, fundamentally changing a thing and making it less good for the market. Censorship is government action. When the Chief Censor of Florida demands that certain subjects are unteachable, certain works should not be in schools, and threatens fines and felonies for those who don't obey, that's censorship. That's using the power of the State to silence a person or a group.
There is a debate to be had as to whether these changes of language are wise or whether it would be better to let those books be what they are and let them go gracefully into history, though, and it's a good debate to have. I'm personally in favor of letting things gracefully fade that are no longer of interest to the current population and current issues, and they can be around for people who want to remember from their childhood or who are studying the literature of the past.
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Date: 2023-03-18 05:35 pm (UTC)I also grew up in the era of forums, in my case, dial-up BBSes. While not everything needs to be its own social media platform, I think they could make improvements to it.
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Date: 2023-03-18 06:58 pm (UTC)There's always room for improvement on any given platform, and AO3 certainly can use some improvements, but I don't see OTW fully embracing the idea that AO3 is primarily a social place with a works archive any time soon.
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Date: 2023-03-30 07:32 am (UTC)