Toots š¦£ from 06/10 to 06/14
John ColagioiaAs discussed previously, on Fridays, I present my weekly social media roundups. Note that toots of articles generally include header images from the articles, which I donāt include here unless their creators happen to have released them for use under a free license, and I notice. Most have not, or I donāt notice. But I now add my commentary here, where I donāt feel restricted by message length.
Also, I donāt generally attach pictures to posts with quotations.
9:05 ā Mon 10 June 2024
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The right dialogue gets straight men to confront homophobic beliefs from Futurity
This means further research is needed to explore the usefulness of this and similar interventions, aimed to abate homophobia and sexism, in different populations and settings.
Hashtags: #Misogyny #Homophobia
This definitely has potential, though Iād like to see more work in the area.
12:02 ā Mon 10 June 2024
The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of the philosopher, and laughed over the strange perspective of the landscape that lies beneath him. If they really knew who he was, they would tremble. For Chuang TsĒ spent his life in preaching the great creed of Inaction, and in pointing out the uselessness of all things.
Hashtags: #Quotes
9:07 ā Tue 11 June 2024
Image Not Shown: An old tube television displaying a Pride flag
Scrappy, campy and unabashedly queer, public access TV series of the 1980s and 1990s offered a rare glimpse into LGBTQ+ life from The Conversation
Because public access TV in New York was relatively unregulated, the showās hosts could openly discuss sexual health and air segments that would otherwise be censored on broadcast networks.
Hashtags: #LGBT #TV #PublicAccess
Some of this sounds vaguely familiar, butāprobably due to my age and the materialās lack of applicability to meādonāt remember watching it. I appreciate that this sort of programming had a home, though, especially in the political mess of the 1980s.
12:03 ā Tue 11 June 2024
There was a pause ā just long enough for an angel to pass, flying slowly.
Hashtags: #Quotes
9:03 ā Wed 12 June 2024
Image credit: Image by SkyHarbor (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Wikisource editions to feature Dr. JosĆ© Rizalās works from Wikimedia Diff
Rizal wrote the novels Noli Me TƔngere (1887) and El filibusterismo (1891), which together are taken as a national epic, in addition to numerous poems and essays.
Hashtags: #JoseRizal #Wikipedia
I occasionally reference what little of Rizalās work that I know, but I definitely need to learn more, so I look forward to digging into this.
12:05 ā Wed 12 June 2024
What comes now? The earth awaits / What fierce wonder from the skies?
Hashtags: #Quotes
9:04 ā Thu 13 June 2024
Image credit: by Yender Gonzalez, made available under the terms of the Unsplash License
Amazonās AI Warehouses Isolate Workers and Hinder Union Organizing, New Report Finds from 404 Media
A major way that AI and robotics impact workers is by increasing their rate of workā¦its acquisition and development of Kiva Systems robots which deliver inventory to stationary workers, thus speeding up the packing process.
Hashtags: #Amazon #AI #Labor
What a freaky coincidence that a rabidly anti-union organization has instituted a system that minimizes the chances that its workers might talk to each other, rightā¦?
12:01 ā Thu 13 June 2024
If you have learned anything at all from us, Tummetott, you no longer think that the humans should have the whole earth to themselves.
Hashtags: #Quotes
9:02 ā Fri 14 June 2024
Image Not Shown: A Kroger produce section, with the prices changing as the HAL-9000 eye appears
Surveillance pricing from Pluralistic
In other words, Agri Stats finds the highest price for each product in the sector, then advises all the companies with lower prices to raise their prices to the competitive level.
Hashtags: #Capitalism #Prices
Yes, on top of āgreedflation,ā we have an industry of consultants who work in the (definitely illegal) field of price-fixingā¦
12:07 ā Fri 14 June 2024
The latest and highest form of Feminism has great promise for the world. It postulates womanhood free, strong, clean and conscious of its power and duty.
Hashtags: #Quotes
Bonus
Because it accidentally became a tradition early on in the life of the blog, I drop any additional articles that didnāt fit into the one-article-per-day week, but too weird or important to not mention, here.
Content Warning: US Politics
Image Not Shown: Clarence Thomas
Clarence Thomas is far more corrupt than anyone knewāincluding his peers from Daily Kos
Among those still in the land of the living, Thomasā haul is over 20 times greater than that of runner-up Samuel Alito. Expect Alito to have a chat with Trumpās collection of billionaire donors about that sad imbalance.
It worries me that, for the last few years, people have talked about how close weāve gotten to the court losing its legitimacyā¦but the scandals keep coming, and we seem to talk about that less, and not actually treating it as illegitimate.
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Credits: Header image is Circular diagrams showing the division of the day and of the week from a manuscript drafted during the Carolingian Dynasty.
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