Sometimes, only sometimes, there is progress on the #equality front. Not that you'll read a lot about it on the news, or see politicians and celebrities praising this development.
And yet, if you call yourself a #feminist you should celebrate this, and advocate for more countries to follow suit (otherwise, what kind of logical and moral contortions are you making to justify plain old, ages-old, sex-based discrimination?)
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Read my lips:
An audio show that can only be played in an Apple player on an Apple device is not a podcast.
An audio show that can only be played in Spotify is not a podcast.
Repeat ad nauseam for any other proprietary audio show platforms.
A #podcast is an #RSS feed with enclosures of audio files which are playable across the whole ecosystem of podcast players.
Any reporter who reports on exclusive audio shows and calls them “podcasts” are doing a grave disservice to their audience.
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Since I left home and started working full time, I've lived in eight places (five cities, three countries, two continents, both sharing a flat and living alone).
For whatever reason, in none of those places there was a #dishwasher.
A month ago we moved to the ninth place (and sixth city), and now I have a dishwasher, and every day I"m like OH MY GOD THIS IS AWESOME THIS IS THE FUTURE.
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Adult human males discussing in all seriousness whether some soccer player is very good or not so good after all, whether he got the minutes he deserved last night or not, each one so sure about his ideas and about the importance of his ideas.
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It seemed natural for #genuary17 to render some rotating nested square grids. It's a little annoying to get this to render nicely; I ended up computing explicit quad intersections using polybooljs (https://github.com/velipso/polybooljs), which is a bit slow (and there's still some shimmer in the thin lines). #genuary https://editor.p5js.org/isohedral/sketches/uh3twEzz4
Actors who play their part in a film about X and suddenly become experts and advocates for X 😒
Oh, so that's why everything's broken!
[Source](http://www.ecosystematic.com/2020/04/29/the-ecosystem-of-wicked-problems/)
#TIL about [Yuri Bezmenov](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Bezmenov) and found this illuminating video (from 198x!):
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10 años sin Aaron.
So: some Apache are angry that a benign non-profit is calling itself “enemy” using a word that moved from Zuñi to Spanish and from Spanish to English, and assert that they and only they can be “enemy”.
I don't know where the Zuñi got their word for “enemy” from in the first place, and whether in turn it was a disrespectful appropriation (yes, it was).
To recap: a group of people in what is now known as North America (the Apache) use, to refer to themselves in the language of one of their colonisers (English), a loanword from the language of another of their colonisers (Spanish), which is an approximate transliteration of the word that a rival group of people (the Zuñi) used to mean “enemy”, sometimes referring to them (the Apache).
Lastly, and by the same (flimsy) logic, 500+ million native #Spanish speakers would like to have a word with any entitled English speaker who pontificates on the word “apache” being used as a disrespectful cultural appropriation: you guys stole the word from our language in the first place. We could be offended too, or withdraw our approval for you to use it. Just use your own word!
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The #ASF (Apache Software Foundation) is, to most people familiar with it, a good institution with a noble cause. At worst, it would be a neutral organisation, in moral terms. How can the association between the name of a group of people (marginalised or not) and a good entity be bad in itself?
