The “#news” nowadays: the History and the causes of a complex, consequential conflict… in seven tweets
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_(plotting_tool) ?
I know #gnuplot and others, thank you. The advantage of that tool I found is that it works online, with a very simple UI.
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@tripu @olamundo I spent a couple weeks manually copying metadata off Flickr and removing photos (I had more than 20000) back when they restricted free accounts to 1000 photos. Now I logged in after a while and I almost gave up as it kept bugging me to upgrade my browser. Very sad to see what Flickr has become.
I'm curious: do you see “a great focus” on “sexual and domestic violence” where men are the victims?
As for gender neutralisation, I can't provide solid evidence. But once you're aware of it, you notice it on mainstream media and political speeches quite often. For instance, the news articles I mentioned above about a group of dead fishermen (all men).
The other manifestation is an insistence on highlighting the female portion of some bad outcome or tragedy, even when the vast majority of those affected are men. For example, I remember watching pieces on TV specifically about homeless women, never acknowledging that homelessness is a distinctively male problem. Or speeches focused on female literacy and education, at a time when almost every indicator in Western democracies tells us that it's boys and men lagging behind.
Lately I'm finding fewer and fewer reasons to renew my subscription to the #NYT …
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/23/technology/duckduckgo-conspiracy-theories.html
apropos:
> _“The heroism performed mainly by men (e.g. firemen) will be #gender neutralised ('firefighters') by the inclusion of a small minority of #women, whereas a much larger proportion of female perpetrators and male victims will be excluded from our highly gendered narratives and policies about sexual and domestic violence. Such cognitive distortions, we believe, are leading to a systematic exaggeration of the negative aspects of men and #masculinity within mainstream culture, and a minimisation of positive aspects. These embedded distortions could be having a significantly harmful impact on the psychological health of #boys and #men and therefore on our society as a whole.”_
https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-33/april-2020/gamma-bias-new-theory
A Spanish fishing boat sunk in the Atlantic. It carried 24 men. Only three survived. Ten died, and eleven are missing (presumably dead too). In thi...
These are some #browser #extensions I use, or used to use (the list's a bit old):
https://gist.github.com/tripu/cee34e70ed13218c60d86a3438bb5f07#extensions
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Hyperbolic (I'm sure they see them as “human”) but true. I denounce that often too, with tags like #gammabias.
That doesn't contradict that there are misogynistic attitudes like this, and we should denounce them too.
Because of things like this and worse still happening in the heart of the most advanced continent in the world, and in spite of so much nonsense attached to the label, I still call myself a #feminist.
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When was the last time a politician solved any of your problems? How much time do you spend catching up with the news, listening to what politicians say?
Considering the ROI, is it worth it the opportunity cost?
OK, I just conducted a peer-reviewed empirical study on the field (ie, I peeled one while my wife was watching), and I can state categorically that:
* the skin of the #kumquat is bitter (but not much, less than an orange's)
* the flesh is quite acid and a bit sweet
Case closed. It's quite good.
Bonus: try with #coffee (eg, eat kumquat and while the flavour is still in your mouth, move to coffee). 😋
The total word count of the W3C specification catalogue is 114 million words at the time of writing. If you added the combined word counts of the ...
@koalie @monochromatique What? The skin is sweeter than the pulp??
/cc @monochromatique
@doliu666 Thanks! I'm glad you liked it.
@monochromatique So far I find the combination balanced. It might be that I like citrus plants and acidity in general.
> _“Glorifying #nostalgia and people putting media they used to enjoy on a pedestal.”_
https://twitter.com/OneWingedKaiju/status/1493960644625846276
I'm glad I stumbled upon that tweet. It's the same point I made [last year](https://qoto.org/@tripu/105949819777567218), and also [three years ago (pointing to some science to back my claim)](https://mastodon.technology/@tripu/103035326975515688).
