I hope you all had a great #MensHealthWeek♂️!
EU: https://emhf.org/
US: http://www.menshealthmonth.org/week.html
“While disgust at #corruption has played a role, the political strains of today [in #Spain] owe more to the slump and the emergence of rival #populisms in the form of #Catalan nationalism, #Podemos (with its mixture of Leninism and Peronism) and #Vox.”
https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2020/06/20/a-historian-sets-out-to-explain-spains-tumultuous-past
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I wanted to show a foreigner a picture of what blackface looked like. I wanted a modern day picture in color so it was easier for them to recognize.
Problem is when I look on google images the only results that come up are that of a Christmas Elf called Zwarte Pete from Holland.
I had guessed that this may be intentional censorship so as not to give this particular form of hate speech a voice by eliminating it from search results.
To me this is a perfect example of why such censorship is counterproductive. The end result was I was unable to educate someone about this form of hate speech effectively.
The five or six main problems with #capitalism today — the ∪ of #RebeccaHenderson's & #RussRoberts's sets on #EconTalk podcast:
• Accelerating inequality / people who are left behind.
• Failing to deal with major environmental risks.
• Decreasing government capacity.
• The epidemic of loneliness.
• Control of information (govt vs tech).
https://www.econtalk.org/rebecca-henderson-on-reimagining-capitalism/
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@tripu I absolutely agree with this, but it also isnt the central problem causing police brutality (though the unions does touch on it)... The central problem is a lack of police accountability and there are several ways in which that happens.
Any real solution must focus on fixing police accountability as a top priority. Social services are a great focus, but it is secondary to the immediate problem.
“The real roots of black suffering in America don’t lie just with #racism, but also with an unconscionably inadequate social-safety net, underfunded schools, self-interested #police unions that protect bad officers, a disastrous #warondrugs, and a prison-industrial complex whose profiteers feast on human misery. These are massively complicated problems that can’t be addressed with new-age religious ceremonies or self-lacerating Facebook posts from preening white suburbanites.”
https://quillette.com/2020/06/09/for-journalists-the-new-york-times-social-justice-meltdown-is-a-sign-of-things-to-come/
OS modal windows (upgrade available, error occurred, background operation finished, unsolicited tip) that spring up unexpectedly, stealing the keyboard focus, and are accidentally accepted or dismissed because you happened to be typing — perhaps not even looking at the screen, or at *that* screen: how #$% is this still a thing? #usability #antipattern
For me, it's #Ubuntu #GNU/Linux. But I'd be (pleasantly) surprised if it didn't happen on other OS's.
Those #modals should have a little timer, or perhaps wait for more deliberate interaction (like mouse hover / ⇥, then Esc / ↵).
“To condemn the #rioting—which I believe to be a moral and political imperative—is not at all the same thing as opposing the #protests. Many observers have been reluctant to do the former because they wish to avoid the latter. I maintain that this is a grave mistake. […] #Progressive intellectuals who make excuses for #streetviolence, even in the face of the awful killing of #GeorgeFloyd, are making a monumental moral and political error.”
— #GlennLoury
https://quillette.com/2020/06/03/condemn-this-violence-without-equivocation/
There are universal #web sites that don't include #JavaScript at all. There are accessible, progressively-enhanced sites that use #JS sensibly. There are crappy web apps that rely too much on #JavaScript.
…and then there is #LinkedIn, which is a blank page unless you keep its tab focused while https://www.linkedin.com/feed/ is loading and stare at it attentively and in reverential silence.
I think @bert would be even more appalled than me about this 😉
#badweb #antipattern
I am three days away from a 2-year-long streak on #Duolingo: learning a tiny bit of 🇯🇵 #Japanese and/or 🇩🇪 #German each and every day since June 2018 — and I've been travelling, out of the country, off sick…
Maintaining the streak is a silly thing, but this kind of challenges help me keep motivated and going.
I finished the German course long ago, so now I am just “practising” and not learning new stuff; and I've reached a point in Japanese where I'm not learning well (I should be properly studying grammar, vocabulary and kanji instead). On the other hand, losing the streak would be a pity, and I'm not confident that I would study regularly if I switched to my textbooks…
Mastodon: what should I do?
https://mastodon.technology/@tripu/102208612300210016
https://www.duolingo.com/profile/tripu.info
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A slide built in the 60's in romania. Still up though apparently boarded up. Shame I would definitely play on this as an adult!
Concrete Toboggan slide - Playground Floreasca.
Bucharest, Romania.
Built in 1959-1960
Architect Victor Agent et al.
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This should be interesting... Mastodon servers that aren’t hosted from/in the US should prepare to handle more traffic, I think...
#EricWeinstein on how to learn what's necessary to think from first principles:
1. #EvolutionaryTheory (eg “The Selfish Gene”, “The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution”).
2. #Economics (“markets are the continuation of natural and sexual selection by other means”).
3. Offbeat #history (regular history, Howard Zinn's version, conservative versions, etc).
4. #Psychology (the most durable parts).
Then: #mathematics, #physics, #chemistry, #programming…
https://jamesaltucher.com/podcast/472-eric-weinstein/
#Marvel:
“#Safespace […] can create forcefields, but he can only trigger them if he's protecting somebody else. #Snowflake is #non-binary and goes by they/them, and has the power to generate individual crystalized snowflake-shaped shurikens. […] A post-ironic meditation on using violence to combat bullying.”
Post-ironic indeed!
https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/introducing-the-new-new-warriors
Los mejores análisis políticos de #EEUU en #español siempre vienen de #RogerSenserrich, «egocrata», a través de #Politikon. El último:
https://politikon.es/2020/05/25/inundar-la-zona-de-basura/
Apparently, this did happen. Too hilarious.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-greece-lesbians-court/greek-court-considers-lesbos-vs-lesbians-case-idUSL1120797420080611
Just listened to the last episode of the #MakingSense podcast. Quite a few interesting ideas there.
I disagree with a bunch. eg, I don't understand how #taxes (which are compulsory) could be called “solidarity” (which is voluntary by definition). And I'd remind #DanielMarkovits & #SamHarris that some #billionaires donate very little, or to irrelevant or self-aggrandizing causes — but that many others are in fact effective altruist.
On the positive, this conversation will make me question the merits of our meritocracy (pun intended), which doesn't seem to work as well as I assumed. And I think it'll help me find arguments to support my growing intuition that a cap on extreme individual #wealth may be morally justified and socially beneficial (I mean a 100% marginal tax rate for wealth above $10B or the like, ie affecting the truly super-rich only).
https://samharris.org/podcasts/205-failure-meritocracy/
