A Sense of Doubt blog post #1950 - Darwin Among the Machines - Hodge Podge 2006.20
There's so much going on in the world that is upsetting, disgusting, and enraging. Outrage is a commodity.
Also, after the news went down about one of my idols, WARREN ELLIS, as per my post yesterday (linked there), i am seeing very upsetting outcries of "cancel culture" of which I am not a fan: CANCEL CULTURE TOO FAR. The analogy is not fully applicable, but it's one aspect of how I feel about cancel culture. And yet, the issue is so complicated. I hate seeing people who are talented like Warren Ellis lose their livelihoods and so I hope that does not happen. However, the reports of his actions are vile and reprehensible and need to be confronted and exposed.
So there's that.
And I am sharing some content created by Warren Ellis here, and I am not apologizing for doing so. For one thing, I copied in that material to share it before the news of his behavior began to circulate, but even so, I do not feel that this content and that news are connected such that the material is now inappropriate.
And so before we really get into the think of the outrage, how about some levity? I have taken a picture of myself in my messy office with the latest issue of Mad Magazine that is mentioned here in tribute to the great Al Jaffee.
Welcome to the weekly Hodge Podge. Here's maybe not all the things that caught my eye this week but many of them with a few notes from my here and there.
An article by my good friend George Gene Gustines:
At 99, Al Jaffee Says Goodbye to Mad Magazine https://t.co/BX25WHRW9e— gmrstudios (@gmrstudios) June 15, 2020
And then, to keep things light, at least to start, the Fifth Dimension was trending this week on Twitter just because.
Woke up to 5th Dimension trending. ๐ค it will be a good day https://t.co/5mW3OtAsgx— Justice for Breonna Taylor #SayHerName (@kabulgaf2) June 16, 2020
The 5th Dimension is trending and I'm so here for it ๐ฉ๐✨ pic.twitter.com/cI9NhGCtZD— irene delilah! (@irenedelala) June 16, 2020
what I thought was trending when I read the "5th Dimension" pic.twitter.com/nIIRbKvE0p— Adam Zahafi (@ZahafiAdam) June 16, 2020
OTHER STUFF:
#Marte en 4 recientes รณrbitas via @esamarswebcam— landru79 (@landru79) June 17, 2020
VMC The #Mars Webcam#VMC 27x Images acquired on 0X-06-2020 at an altitude of ~9000 km above Mars, on #MarsExpress ๐ฐ️ orbit number 20766-64-62-61https://t.co/awfw2R34AK
ESA - j. Roger pic.twitter.com/K1UmkFzW6H
And then this is freaking hilarious:Silicon Valley was founded by racists, and racism still thrives today “I prefer the White man to the negro.” -- Leland Stanford.— Ellen K. Pao (@ekp) June 17, 2020
William Shockley, Silicon Valley's first founder, called African Americans socially, intellectually and genetically inferior. https://t.co/UQS7Trusce
So let's hit some of the outrage square in the bull's eye and there's lots more to follow:
https://www.wonkette.com/john-bolton-book-excerpts-are-dropping-and-they-are-bugf-ck
The Washington Post starts its report on Bolton's book with a heartwarming anecdote about Trump trying to get Chinese President Xi Jinping to help steal him the election:
During a one-on-one meeting at the June 2019 Group of 20 summit in Japan, Xi complained to Trump about China critics in the United States. But Bolton writes in a book scheduled to be released next week that "Trump immediately assumed Xi meant the Democrats. Trump said approvingly that there was great hostility among the Democrats.
"He then, stunningly, turned the conversation to the coming U.S. presidential election, alluding to China's economic capability to affect the ongoing campaigns, pleading with Xi to ensure he'd win," Bolton writes. "He stressed the importance of farmers, and increased Chinese purchases of soybeans and wheat in the electoral outcome. I would print Trump's exact words but the government's prepublication review process has decided otherwise."
These horrible & politically charged decisions coming out of the Supreme Court are shotgun blasts into the face of people that are proud to call themselves Republicans or Conservatives. We need more Justices or we will lose our 2nd. Amendment & everything else. Vote Trump 2020!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 18, 2020
Do you get the impression that the Supreme Court doesn’t like me?— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 18, 2020
"This is a wonderful, wonderful day," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer says in emotional statement on the Senate floor following the Supreme Court DACA decision.— ABC News (@ABC) June 18, 2020
"It gives you some faith that the laws, rules and mores of this country can be upheld." https://t.co/ZwJVPphHWA pic.twitter.com/6QdFu40zg1
The Supreme Court just affirmed that home is here for Dreamers and ruled Trump’s cruel termination of DACA was illegal.— Rep. Ilhan Omar (@Ilhan) June 18, 2020
Dreamers are Americans.
Dreamers are here to stay.
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And, in news that will make a certain segment of people who strongly identify with the color red (and orange) VERY angry, the Supreme Court ruled today that LBGTQ and Trans people are protected from workplace discrimination. https://t.co/kAFpcAaX9g— Eric who isn't Reign or Scaretheater. (@notreignsorry) June 15, 2020
Teamsters Hail Supreme Court Decision Protecting LBGTQ+ Workers on the Job https://t.co/4NU2ImcP7b— TeamstersLGBTQ+ (@TeamstersL) June 17, 2020
The thing is... I do not think this next message is a joke...
Hey everyone pic.twitter.com/fMQaK3PfSe— Minion Death Cult Podcast (@miniondeathcult) June 19, 2020
For all those wondering, this is my son Nestor. We share no blood but he is my life. He came from Metaluna (legally, of course) six years ago and lives with me in a yurt in Silver Lake.— Richard Kadrey (@Richard_Kadrey) June 18, 2020
Raising him has been the best, most rewarding thing I’ve done in my life. pic.twitter.com/8U8MkPvQaa
KBOO presents: A #Juneteenth special - organized & produced by BIPOC staff & volunteers at KBOO. Friday: Interviews, speeches & music. Saturday afternoon: we'll be broadcasting the livestream of the official Oregon Juneteenth music event. Tune in! 90.7 FM https://t.co/ImK9ZKhlYt pic.twitter.com/awoUTK7YSz— KBOO Community Radio (@KBOO) June 19, 2020
It’s almost like Trump is commemorating the 99th anniversary of the Tulsa massacre, a stain on our country, by provoking more violence.https://t.co/0Kp46qYMrT— Amy Siskind ๐ณ️๐ (@Amy_Siskind) June 19, 2020
What a great leader. #VoteBidenToSaveAmerica ๐บ๐ธ https://t.co/dY3Ean8mf1— Mitch Gerads (@MitchGerads) June 19, 2020
John Balcerzak was one of the two police officers who were called to investigate the 911 call about a drugged, bleeding 14 year old Laotian immigrant who escaped from Jeffery Dahmer. The policemen made gay jokes and left. The boy was raped, killed, and dismembered that night. https://t.co/kQy78imxSx— Dana Schwartz (@DanaSchwartzzz) June 19, 2020
Juneteenth 2020: The Important Event Nobody Had Heard Of Before Trump Made It So Famous by @SER1897 https://t.co/0Or5wEvcvZ— Wonkette (@Wonkette) June 19, 2020
BY ZACK BUDRYK - 06/18/20 10:42 PM
EDT
Twitter has flagged a tweet from President Trump as containing “manipulated media” after the president tweeted a clip of a black toddler and a white toddler edited to include a CNN chyron reading “terrified todler[sic] runs from racist baby.”
The initial video, which was widely circulated online long before the tweet, shows the two children running towards each other and embracing.
It has been edited to include ominous background music and the fictitious CNN headline. The video reverts to the original clip midway through, cutting to a title reading “America is not the problem. Fake news is.”
“This tweet has been labeled per our synthetic and manipulated
media policy to give people more context,” a Twitter spokesperson told The
Hill.
In a statement directly addressing Trump, a CNN spokesperson
noted that the network covered the footage of the two New York children when it
first went viral in 2019 under the headline "These two toddlers are
showing us what real-life besties look like."
"CNN did cover this story — exactly as it happened. Just as
we reported your positions on race [and poll numbers]," the network said
in a statement. "We’ll continue working with facts rather than tweeting
fake videos that exploit innocent children. We invite you to do the same. Be
better."
The tweet marks the third time the social media platform has
flagged a tweet by the president.
On the first occasion, Twitter appended the president's
comments on mail-in voting, a frequent topic for Trump, as containing
misinformation about an election.
Shortly thereafter, the social platform flagged a second tweet
about unrest after the death of George Floyd that included the phrase “when the
looting starts, the shooting starts” as promoting violence.
Trump has pushed back sharply against flags from the platform,
announcing an executive order shortly after the first time a tweet was flagged
that directed the federal government to consider removing some of social media
platforms’ legal protections.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, by contrast,
has said he does not consider it within the website’s purview to fact-check or
remove political content.
https://youtu.be/CGMGu1372uo |
George Dyson from Darwin
Among the Machines
“In the game of life and evolution, there are
three players at the table: human beings, nature, and machines. I am firmly on
the side of nature. But nature, I suspect, is on the side of machines” (qtd in
Joy, 7).
Joy, Bill. “Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us.” Wired. January,
2000. https://www.wired.com/2000/04/joy-2/
Black people are tired of trying to explain racism
TWO EXCERPTS:
Explaining racism is exhausting. It’s exhausting to explain to people who don’t believe you, or who look at you with blank expressions. Or, worse, who ask, “How do you know that happened because of race?”
In Tulsa, we see two young, black boys walking in a quiet street — as they should be able to during summer in a “free” country — when an officer suddenly slams them to the ground and searches them. “Why are you touching me like that?” one yells, as the officer pats the teen down near his front pocket. Then the officer unclips the cuffs and says he is free to go.
But the officer just took the teen’s freedom. The humiliation of arrest destroys innocence.
Last week, I saw news that two young black men were found hanging from trees in California. No, I think. This can’t be true. I search The Post to see whether it was true. It is.
This scares me. I'm in tears.
Why it’s so important that Juneteenth become a national holiday
I wasn't always taught my history, but when I learned it, that knowledge changed my life. Celebrating Juneteenth can change how we understand America.
There has never been a more urgent time than now to get this done. On Thursday, Sens. Tina Smith (D-Minn.), Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Sen. Kamala D. Harris (D-Calif.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) announced that they are introducing legislation to make Juneteenth a federal holiday. Congress must pass this bill immediately.
As we celebrate today, let’s stay open to possibility. Let’s support black-owned businesses today and every day. Let’s uplift our resilient history. Let’s honor our people. Happy Juneteenth, America.
OH WOW: In our continuing series on haters who hate because of the hate they hate to feel and still hate anyway, this:
The Uncensorship Project
The Skepchick Network's "censored" comments finally revealed in their appropriate context:Old-timey photos. Trigger warning for hate speech and rape and death threats.
https://theuncensorshipproject.tumblr.com/ via skepchick
HOLY SHIT.
... and so many more...
WEEKLY PANDEMIC REPORT
Anyway, as usual, here's the weekly links to the data about cases (lower than reality) and deaths (lower than reality, also) due to COVID-19.
Data can be found here, as always:
This is also a good data site:
There's still a pandemic... and lots of other stuff to be outraged about...
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Tweets That Perfectly Sum Up What JK Rowling Gets Wrong About Trans People
The author was called out on the social media
platform after tweeting more transphobic statements.
June 10, 2020
https://www.allure.com/story/jk-rowling-transphobic-tweets
Even with all that's going on in the world right now, JK Rowling, beloved author of the Harry Potter franchise that so many of us grew up with, seemingly had nothing better to do this week than blast some (more) transphobic tweets to her 14.5 million followers.
If sex isn’t real, there’s no same-sex attraction. If sex isn’t real, the lived reality of women globally is erased. I know and love trans people, but erasing the concept of sex removes the ability of many to meaningfully discuss their lives. It isn’t hate to speak the truth.— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) June 6, 2020
The idea that women like me, who’ve been empathetic to trans people for decades, feeling kinship because they’re vulnerable in the same way as women - ie, to male violence - ‘hate’ trans people because they think sex is real and has lived consequences - is a nonsense.— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) June 6, 2020
There's a lot to unpack here. To start, “biological sex” refers to what the hospital fills in on your birth certificate based on your genitals, which is a creepy sentence to type and demonstrates how oddly our society deals with sex and gender. What Rowling is failing to understand here is that gender has nothing to do with genitals (which are no one's business), and that it also has nothing. to do with what was marked on a piece of paper at a person's birth. A person's gender is personal, and on their own experience within their body.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/15/world/middleeast/egypt-gay-suicide-sarah-hegazi.html
Arrested for Waving Rainbow Flag, a Gay Egyptian Takes Her Life
Charged with “inciting debauchery,” Sarah Hegazi was jailed and tortured.
because this is how she would like to be remembered. All the power to the oppressed. #RaiseTheFlagForSarah pic.twitter.com/loe6odG75x— Amr Magdi (@ganobi) June 15, 2020
EXCERPT:
Days later, armed security officials arrived at Ms. Hegazi’s home and took her to a detention center run by the National Security Agency, a feared arm of Mr. el-Sisi’s security apparatus. Officers questioned her religious beliefs and asked if she was a virgin.
She was blindfolded and taken to a foul-smelling interrogation room where she could hear people groaning with pain. A piece of cloth was stuffed into her mouth. She was tortured with electric shocks, she later said in interviews.
An interrogator challenged her to prove that homosexuality was not a disease. “One time he likened Communism to homosexuality,” she wrote in an article for Mada Masr, an independent news media outlet. “Another time he sarcastically asked why homosexuals don’t sleep with children or animals.”
Later, Ms. Hegazi was taken to a police station where she was charged with “inciting debauchery.” In her cell, other female prisoners, encouraged by the police, molested her, she said.
She was transferred to Qanatir prison, north of Cairo, and placed in solitary confinement. Outside, the harshest crackdown in years against Egypt’s gay community was underway.
https://science.slashdot.org/story/20/06/16/2337251/americans-are-the-unhappiest-theyve-been-in-50-years
Americans Are the Unhappiest They've Been In 50 Years (go.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ABC News:It's been a rough year for the American psyche. Folks in the U.S. are more unhappy today than they've been in nearly 50 years. This bold -- yet unsurprising -- conclusion comes from the COVID Response Tracking Study, conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago. It finds that just 14% of American adults say they're very happy, down from 31% who said the same in 2018. That year, 23% said they'd often or sometimes felt isolated in recent weeks. Now, 50% say that. The survey, conducted in late May, draws on nearly a half-century of research from the General Social Survey, which has collected data on American attitudes and behaviors at least every other year since 1972. No less than 29% of Americans have ever called themselves very happy in that survey.The poll has revealed some other interesting findings. It says that the public is less optimistic today about the standard of living improving for the next generation than it has been in the past 25 years.
Americans are also less likely to report some types of emotional and psychological stress reactions following the COVID-19 outbreak, and about twice as many Americans report being lonely today as in 2018.
You can read the full study here (PDF).
Americans are also less likely to report some types of emotional and psychological stress reactions following the COVID-19 outbreak, and about twice as many Americans report being lonely today as in 2018.
You can read the full study here (PDF).
Scientists Say Most Likely Number of Contactable Alien Civilizations Is 36 (theguardian.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian:They may not be little green men. They may not arrive in a vast spaceship. But according to new calculations there could be more than 30 intelligent civilizations in our galaxy today capable of communicating with others. In 1961 the astronomer Frank Drake proposed what became known as the Drake equation, setting out seven factors that would need to be known to come up with an estimate for the number of intelligent civilizations out there. These factors ranged from the the average number of stars that form each year in the galaxy through to the timespan over which a civilization would be expected to be sending out detectable signals.
But few of the factors are measurable. "Drake equation estimates have ranged from zero to a few billion [civilizations] -- it is more like a tool for thinking about questions rather than something that has actually been solved," said Christopher Conselice, a professor of astrophysics at the University of Nottingham and a co-author of the research. Now Conselice and colleagues report in the Astrophysical Journal how they refined the equation with new data and assumptions to come up with their estimates. "Basically, we made the assumption that intelligent life would form on other [Earth-like] planets like it has on Earth, so within a few billion years life would automatically form as a natural part of evolution," said Conselice.
The assumption, known as the Astrobiological Copernican Principle, is fair as everything from chemical reactions to star formation is known to occur if the conditions are right, he said. "[If intelligent life forms] in a scientific way, not just a random way or just a very unique way, then you would expect at least this many civilizations within our galaxy," he said. Under the strictest set of assumptions -- where, as on Earth, life forms between 4.5 billion and 5.5 billion years after star formation -- there are likely between four and 211 civilizations in the Milky Way today capable of communicating with others, with 36 the most likely figure. But Conselice noted that this figure is conservative, not least as it is based on how long our own civilization has been sending out signals into space -- a period of just 100 years so far. The team add that our civilization would need to survive at least another 6,120 years for two-way communication."They would be quite far away ... 17,000 light years is our calculation for the closest one," said Conselice. "If we do find things closer ... then that would be a good indication that the lifespan of [communicating] civilizations is much longer than a hundred or a few hundred years, that an intelligent civilization can last for thousands or millions of years. The more we find nearby, the better it looks for the long-term survival of our own civilization."
But few of the factors are measurable. "Drake equation estimates have ranged from zero to a few billion [civilizations] -- it is more like a tool for thinking about questions rather than something that has actually been solved," said Christopher Conselice, a professor of astrophysics at the University of Nottingham and a co-author of the research. Now Conselice and colleagues report in the Astrophysical Journal how they refined the equation with new data and assumptions to come up with their estimates. "Basically, we made the assumption that intelligent life would form on other [Earth-like] planets like it has on Earth, so within a few billion years life would automatically form as a natural part of evolution," said Conselice.
The assumption, known as the Astrobiological Copernican Principle, is fair as everything from chemical reactions to star formation is known to occur if the conditions are right, he said. "[If intelligent life forms] in a scientific way, not just a random way or just a very unique way, then you would expect at least this many civilizations within our galaxy," he said. Under the strictest set of assumptions -- where, as on Earth, life forms between 4.5 billion and 5.5 billion years after star formation -- there are likely between four and 211 civilizations in the Milky Way today capable of communicating with others, with 36 the most likely figure. But Conselice noted that this figure is conservative, not least as it is based on how long our own civilization has been sending out signals into space -- a period of just 100 years so far. The team add that our civilization would need to survive at least another 6,120 years for two-way communication."They would be quite far away ... 17,000 light years is our calculation for the closest one," said Conselice. "If we do find things closer ... then that would be a good indication that the lifespan of [communicating] civilizations is much longer than a hundred or a few hundred years, that an intelligent civilization can last for thousands or millions of years. The more we find nearby, the better it looks for the long-term survival of our own civilization."
https://science.slashdot.org/story/20/06/14/2336219/looking-at-an-alien-sky-new-horizons-probe-sees-stars-from-a-new-view
'Looking at an Alien Sky': New Horizons Probe Sees Stars From a New View (space.com)
Long-time Slashdot reader JoeRobe writes:Space.com and other outlets are reporting on new pictures of Wolf 359 and Proxima Centauri sent back from New Horizons. The images show clear parallax between the view from Earth and from the spacecraft 6.9 billion km away. In effect, New Horizons is looking up at a visually different star field than we are... NASA has even created stereoscopic pairs to get a 3D view.
"It's fair to say that New Horizons is looking at an alien sky, unlike what we see from Earth," New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern said in a statement, according to Space.com:New Horizons captured the imagery on April 22 and April 23, when the probe was more than 4.3 billion miles (6.9 billion kilometers) from its home planet. That's so far away that it took 6.5 hours for the data containing the photos, moving at the speed of light, to travel from New Horizons to mission scientists' inboxes... The parallax demonstration was not done for scientific purposes, Stern told Space.com (though he did note that the New Horizons imagery might find its way into textbooks that discuss the parallax effect). Rather, the main goal was public outreach and engagement, and a desire to provide us all with some cosmic poetry and perspective.
We could get more such demonstrations, and much more data, from New Horizons in the coming years. The probe remains in good health and has enough fuel to fly by yet another object in the 2020s, if a suitable target can be found and NASA approves another mission extension, Stern and other team members have said.
On Friday five New Horizons scientists answered questions on Reddit, including New Horizons contributing scientist and astrophysicist Brian May (also a guitarist for the rock group Queen).
The team pointed out they could hypothetically maintain communication with their interplanetary space probe until it's 200 times as far from the Sun as the Earth is. (It's currently just 47 times as far...) "But power will run out before we get that far...somewhere near 100 times."
"It's fair to say that New Horizons is looking at an alien sky, unlike what we see from Earth," New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern said in a statement, according to Space.com:New Horizons captured the imagery on April 22 and April 23, when the probe was more than 4.3 billion miles (6.9 billion kilometers) from its home planet. That's so far away that it took 6.5 hours for the data containing the photos, moving at the speed of light, to travel from New Horizons to mission scientists' inboxes... The parallax demonstration was not done for scientific purposes, Stern told Space.com (though he did note that the New Horizons imagery might find its way into textbooks that discuss the parallax effect). Rather, the main goal was public outreach and engagement, and a desire to provide us all with some cosmic poetry and perspective.
We could get more such demonstrations, and much more data, from New Horizons in the coming years. The probe remains in good health and has enough fuel to fly by yet another object in the 2020s, if a suitable target can be found and NASA approves another mission extension, Stern and other team members have said.
On Friday five New Horizons scientists answered questions on Reddit, including New Horizons contributing scientist and astrophysicist Brian May (also a guitarist for the rock group Queen).
The team pointed out they could hypothetically maintain communication with their interplanetary space probe until it's 200 times as far from the Sun as the Earth is. (It's currently just 47 times as far...) "But power will run out before we get that far...somewhere near 100 times."
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- Scientists say most likely number of contactable alien civilisations is 36 | Science | The Guardian
- Trio receive jail term for dumping mustard gas bombs in a Lincolnshire lake
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Name-your-price digital EP. Remarkable atmospherics.
In 1928, the poet Paul Valรฉry had a vision of the future: “Just as water, gas, and electricity are brought into our houses from far off to satisfy our needs in response to a minimal effort, so we shall be supplied with visual or auditory images, which will appear and disappear at a simple movement of the hand, hardly more than a sign.”
I copied this quote into my notebook five years ago, and it knocks me over each time I come across it. Today we can let the entire world—and everyone’s opinions about it—into our heads with a swipe or a click. Of course we’re going to feel a little crazy. Sometimes my mind lands on a jittery thought: screens have become our reality and the physical world simply exists to serve their needs. It’s more of a loopy sensation than a coherent idea, but I clearly need to step up my information hygiene.
Celebrate #Juneteenth this year by learning about the significance of red foods & eating red velvet cake from some of NYC’s Black-owned bakeries: https://t.co/EPsudwHrvF— Kristen Adaway (@kristenadaway) June 17, 2020
Planning fall courses?— Dr Academic Batgirl (@AcademicBatgirl) June 17, 2020
Writing articles?
Serving on committees?
How about step 1 is remembering that you’re a human living through a pandemic?! pic.twitter.com/HZZLl05jdm
The way @scalzi writes about his marriage is a reference point for me, in how I want to love and be loved in all relationships. Every day, seeing and appreciating; every day, being seen and being appreciated. Happy anniversary to John and Krissy ๐https://t.co/rlPUeyFclz pic.twitter.com/SaeAf8AeRB— Monica Byrne (@monicabyrne13) June 17, 2020
— ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐๐น ๐ช๐ฒ๐น๐น๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ก๐ฒ๐๐ (@PaulWellerNews) June 17, 2020
10 weeks ago 800 New Yorkers died in a single day from COVID.— Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) June 17, 2020
Only 10 weeks ago.
Wear a mask. There’s no excuse not to.
Can't stop thinking of my friend and the last bit of work we did together. https://t.co/mITXVsdS5u— Tony Visconti (@Tonuspomus) June 17, 2020
Scott Bakula almost broke character and lost his shit on this one #startrek #trekkie #nerd #startrekpodcast #boldlygo #makeitso #tng #ds9 #voyager #picard #Discovery #omegaparticlepodcast pic.twitter.com/zFUdxrUoif— The Omega Particle Podcast (@OmegaParticle_) June 17, 2020
The Huffington Post Calls It: "The First Wine Club To Get It Right" https://t.co/tDhvPqRADz— POPDUST (@Popdust) March 21, 2018
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I love her stuff so much. (link)
Artist/designer John Coulthart’s journal — and I must have some of John’s earliest work, with Savoy, in the office here — is now his main channel, and he’s increasing his posting velocity. feuilleton has been a favourite for years, and I’m very happy to see more of John’s seeing and thinking.
“An abandoned manor in the Tver region.” Ir0n4ss on IG.
There is hope for good people doing good things!! Watch "Supreme Court Shields LGBT Workers From On-Job Bias in Landmark Decision" on YouTube - https://t.co/CKlsxH6fmt— gmrstudios (@gmrstudios) June 15, 2020
We are doomed if this is the average level of critical thinking ability in our country. https://t.co/7w7KQa4lvt— gmrstudios (@gmrstudios) June 12, 2020
Police, you're on notice that you cannot get away with this profiling and fascism. The world is watching "law enforcement." It's not 99% good cops and 1% bad. Too much brutality for those numbers to be right. https://t.co/IIKSN5bTpQ— gmrstudios (@gmrstudios) June 11, 2020
Bay Area Cop Shoots Kneeling Guy, May Get Away With It Because America https://t.co/LxKJLOB8ik— gmrstudios (@gmrstudios) June 5, 2020
Louisville mayor fires police chief after law enforcement killed an unarmed Black man during protests https://t.co/sOGYuotUcz— gmrstudios (@gmrstudios) June 3, 2020
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Hi! Here's a brief tutorial about how to start using Quotebacks.
Quotebacks are like quote-retweets for any piece of writing on the internet, using simple web-native technology. here's what one looks like:
The web is still a very young medium, and it has been influenced more than anything else by print media design. There is so much more that can be done with text on a screen than is being done today. Citations, drawing, chat, speech-to-text. There are opportunities everywhere, and the bar is low! If we are serious about unlocking the value of knowledge we should consider how to improve every part of the knowledge production stack, and that includes reading. As Laurel Schwulst says: “Imaginative functionality is important, even if it’s only a trace of what was, as it’s still a sketch for a more ideal world.”
Try creating one yourself. highlight the paragraph below, then press
Mac: ⌘+shift+s Windows: ctrl+shift+s
The web is still a very young medium, and it has been influenced more than anything else by print media design. There is so much more that can be done with text on a screen than is being done today. Citations, drawing, chat, speech-to-text. There are opportunities everywhere, and the bar is low! If we are serious about unlocking the value of knowledge we should consider how to improve every part of the knowledge production stack, and that includes reading. As Laurel Schwulst says: “Imaginative functionality is important, even if it’s only a trace of what was, as it’s still a sketch for a more ideal world.”
Nice. You can change the title and author, if you want.
Now, click the <> Embed button and you'll copy a nice block of HTML. Paste that into your blog post to get a quoteback like the one above.
Quoteback Library
Every quote you save is stored in your Quoteback Library, which lives in your Chrome local storage.
You can get to your Quoteback library by clicking the Quoteback icon in your Chrome toolbar:
Quotebacks can be used anywhere a normal block quote might go. They help give added context, structured metadata, and better linking back to the original author. we've found them to be really useful for:
- quoting other people at length when writing online (here's an example in a post by Tom).
- quoting yourself in your own blog posts - sometimes you've written the perfect thing already. (here's an example in a post by Toby.)
- quoting text that wouldn't traditionally be quoted - we were amazed by Sonya Mann's quoteback of this YouTube comment!
So what next?
One thing to could try right now is generating a Quoteback for a block quote in one of your own blog posts!
let us know how you go with it, and email us at tjcritchlow@gmail.com / tobyshorin@gmail.com if you need anything.
Looks like this:
Is the answer to “cancel” Warren Ellis? Maybe; it’s an understandable impulse. But at the same time, it’s difficult to also throw out the good he’s done; the WEF was not just a force that advanced comics and pop culture to where we are today but a place that many of us loved and still love. It was a place where we made friendships that have lasted to this day, where careers were launched — including mine. It’s painful to look back and have the shadow of his behavior taint everything. Was THIS event or THAT behavior something innocent, or was it a clue that we should have seen? Was this person kicked from the group because they were a troublemaker and a creep, or were they calling attention to something that Ellis would’ve preferred remain unremarked on? Or, worse, were they a threat to Uncle Warren’s desire to bring some new young woman under his influence?
However, the fact that it’s hard doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t do it anyway. The fact that it takes time doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t start now. And the fact that changing an industry — and other industries that face the same problems and bad actors — is an almost Sisyphean task doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t grit our teeth and start rolling the rock up that hill.
If we’re going to start, we should start with ourselves. Look around. Examine the people in your life, in your communities. Are there warning signs that you’ve missed? Is there a “missing stair” in your community that has thus far been allowed to remain? The sooner we do the work within ourselves and our own communities, the sooner we change geek culture… and make it the place we’ve always pretended it was.
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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2006.20 - 10:10
- Days ago = 1814 days ago
- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I plan to continue Hey Mom posts at least twice per week but will continue to post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.
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