"We Be The Humans"
Older Retired White Guy. Buddhist.
"Non nobis solum"
Likes trees better than people. Books better than trees.
"We Be The Humans"
Joined Aug 2018
VMG is excited to reopen our gallery with MASK. In their widespread across the globe, masks have become a ubiquitous symbol of the COVID-19 pandemic. Through this project, we hope to call attention to the significance and signification of masking as an issue of public health and a demonstration of civic responsibility. Equally, MASK calls attention to this newly important medium’s function as an outward mode of self-expression and opportunity for creativity.
"We Be The Humans"
boosted
Just a thought:
With the Secret Service decimated by COVID-19.
Anyone question, if they were asked to, they would gladly remove Rump, and not even hesitate.
Come January 20th, 10:00 am local time.
For your reading pleasure.
The latest issue of
Nature Magazine
For 2020 11 12
(Note: I had to flatten this file to get it under 100MB, so a small loss in quality)
Grab it here:
For your reading pleasure.
The Latest Science Magazine from the AAAS,
for 2020 11 13
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For your reading pleasure.
Here is the latest copy of
The Economist Magazine
for 2020 11 14
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For Everybody here:
It's Friday !
Every Friday, I try and upload some magazines. For your reading pleasure. Help yourself. At the moment I am only doing the 5, I read most often. I set them to expire after a month. So grab them now.
If there is a very wide spread need, I will entertain adding to the list.
Find them here:
(weekly)
(monthly)
How to End ‘Women’s Work’
New Zealand is pursuing a century-old idea to close the gender pay gap: not equal pay for equal work, but equal pay for work of equal value.
By Anna Louie Sussman
(Since this is behind a paywall, I put it here)
Math Without Numbers
by Milo Beckman
This book upends the conventional approach to math, inviting you to think creatively about shape and dimension, the infinite and infinitesimal, symmetries, proofs, and how these concepts all fit together.
YouTube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCURP6q1VjGEFfy7GPP3Tm0w
Book:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52685608-math-without-numbers
Son House, Buddy Guy, Camera Three
"I'm gonna take this thing here, right now, and I can make it say its prayers."
As The Water Flows
Reclaiming ancestral knowledge has allowed photographer Evan Benally Atwood to explore their gender beyond colonization. For our latest issue, Atwood honors their family and femininity in the Diné tradition through a spirit-led relationship between themselves and their lens.
https://atmos.earth/indigenous-dine-tradition-family-photos/
How to Manage Application Secrets (7 Levels of Credential Management)
TL;DR: If you develop web applications, inevitably you will have secrets (database credentials, 3rd party API keys, etc…) that you need to manage. I have seen a variety of approaches used here and wanted to walk through them, from least secure to most.
https://devopsdirective.com/posts/2020/11/credential-management/
Flix — Next-generation reliable, safe, concise, and functional-first programming language.
Flix is a principled and flexible functional-, logic-, and imperative- programming language that takes inspiration from F#, Go, OCaml, Haskell, Rust, and Scala. Flix looks like Scala, but its type system is closer to that of OCaml and Haskell.
A Review of:
There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness: And Other Thoughts on Physics, Philosophy, and the World
by Carlo Rovelli
"Rovelli asks what it must feel like to be an octopus with a brain that is spread throughout its body and with arms that can think independently."
By Andrew Anthony
Book:
Life with purpose.
Biologists balk at any talk of ‘goals’ or ‘intentions’ – but a bold new research agenda has put agency back on the table.
"Yet, on the contrary, we now have growing reasons to suspect that agency is a genuine natural phenomenon. Biology could stop being so coy about it if only we had a proper theory of how it arises"
By Philip Ball
https://aeon.co/essays/the-biological-research-putting-purpose-back-into-life
Tapped-Out Tenants Take Charge as Landlords Pursue End Runs Around Eviction Moratorium.
Harassment and lockouts pressure renters to leave their homes — but renters are fighting back with a little help from their friends. One way: “stoop court” sessions.
By Allison Dikanovic, Peter Senzamici And Christine Chung
https://www.thecity.nyc/housing/2020/11/12/21561805/nyc-tenants-take-charge-eviction-moratorium
"We Be The Humans"
boosted
Number one reason I want a functional conservative opposition to my preferred progressive politics / party.
Cause I, and my fellow progressives are probably dead wrong about some things.
Communism (people above state) and Fascism (state above people) both resulted in the same deliverable: homicidal maniac dictators.
The one type of person I can never trust is the person who says "I'm not wrong"...
"We have been fighting this battle for four years. How could we not expect ourselves to be exhausted at the end of it? It’s not that the lightness isn’t there, I saw it first hand on the streets of Brooklyn last weekend, as the city collectively exhaled. But we also know that this was a battle, and that what we are fighting is a war. That’s why we must examine how we are making space for rest in activism, embodying sustainability, and not just fighting for it."
~William Defebaugh
It is all about direct action, and Mutual Aid.
(In My Local Town)
Refrigerators to be posted to feed the hungry without question.
The model is simple.
A host agrees to provide an electrical outlet and access. Volunteers deliver a refrigerator housed inside a weatherproof structure. Some locations also include pantries that contain dry goods and other donated items. Anyone is welcome to supply the food depots, or help themselves as needed.
First one up and running next week!
How to Fix the Internet: Podcast
How to Fix the Internet is a podcast mini-series to examine potential solutions to six ills facing the modern web. Over the course of six episodes, we explore how modern tech policy isn’t working well for users and invite experts to join us in imagining a better future.
"We Be The Humans"
Older Retired White Guy. Buddhist.
"Non nobis solum"
Likes trees better than people. Books better than trees.
"We Be The Humans"
Joined Aug 2018