I have no idea how sincere or successful this is in practice, but it's a pretty stark contrast with London boroughs who basically just want to make things as difficult for rough sleepers as possible (including by confiscating tents and other fuckery)
"Any rough sleeper in my city will get help. No exceptions. No bureaucracy. "
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LOL
“My reaction was ‘Jesus, a New York City restaurant that records all its revenue? How can they stay in business?’ ” NY Times
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Interested to hear thoughts on this, especially from POC (obviously). Predictably, there are a bunch of white people on various comment threads complaining about "SJWs gone wild", "reverse racism" and all the rest, and there's an undercurrent of that in the article itself, so please none of that.
One thing it raises, for me at least, is questions of internal democracy and how avowedly non-hierarchical organisations can come to be dominated by small groups with dominant personalities. Like, are ideology and tactics actually being *debated* or is a commitment to radicalism in goals and methods functioning more as a test of loyalty/purity?
[CN for some nasty language related to racial abuse]
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"... humans procure psychological equanimity by being valued in the eyes of higher powers: at first our parents, and, as we mature, the culture at large. But when protracted difficulties or acute crises arise, when the crops fail and the hunters return empty-handed, when wars are lost, when people are plagued with economic woes and civil unrest to the point where the cultural scheme of things no longer seems to provide a reliable basis for feeling significant and secure, they will look elsewhere to fulfill that need.
Under such conditions, people’s allegiance may shift to an individual who exhibits an “unconflicted” personality—in the sense of appearing supremely bold and self-confident—and offers a grand vision that affords a renewed prospect of being a valuable part of something noble and enduring."
Solomon, Greenberg and Pyszczynski, "The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life"
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Well, this is very bad...
"A local Indian newspaper was able to access the private data of nearly 1.2 billion Indians for just $8"
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Don't agree that it should be the overriding or only focus, but I think this is an important point:
"Moving to higher quality homes is an important part of economic progress. Because one year's worth of new construction is only about 1% of the existing stock of homes, it's difficult to rapidly upgrade the quality of our housing stock. But if we are to make any progress at all, it's essential for new homes to be of much higher quality (and hence more expensive) that the average of existing homes. New houses should be unaffordable to average people."
Here's the other side of the coin:
"Either dramatically upzone and pair the upzoning with [inclusive zoning] mandates, or else simply upzone and use the resulting tax windfall to finance the construction of social housing."
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Not sure if this is great, creepy, or both - an ad that's also a pregnancy test...
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Fascinating interview throughout
"I’ve done several interviews around the trans caricatures Janice Raymond created for the TERF community to go after. I talked to Robin Tyler and she told me about how TERFs physically attacked her for standing between them and a trans women they wanted to beat at the 1973 Lesbian Conference. These radical feminist institutions – the 73 Conference, Olivia Records – they were trans-inclusive. Each time TERFs turned to harassment and violence to insert themselves into feminist spaces. Thus far ,TERFs like Raymond have gotten away with creating this false narrative about how their Radical Feminist spaces were being invaded by violent trans women and it’s just not the case."
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"To combat racism, minorities in the United States have often attempted to portray themselves as upstanding citizens capable of assimilating into mainstream culture. Asian Americans were no different, Wu writes. Some, like the Chinese, sought respectability by promoting stories about their obedient children and their traditional family values. The Japanese pointed to their wartime service as proof of their shared Americanness. African Americans in the 1940s made very similar appeals. But in the postwar moment, Wu argues, it was only convenient for political leaders to hear the Asian voices." Washington Post
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Apparently the Queen likes Weetabix, and an occasional pie from Greggs...
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"We have a smiling pile of poop. What about one that is sad?" Japan Times
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President and COO of SpaceX is a woman named Gwynne Shotwell, yet there is more media coverage of Elon Musk's dating life than any of her amazing professional accomplishments...
"Basically, the coolest woman ever is a below-the-fold profile in Marie Claire.
What fundamental failure of humanity is this?"
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Was part of the rise in bitcoin prices due to outright currency manipulation?
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Dan Harmon's apology for sexually harassing a female employee. A lot of the time, people try to wriggle out of moral responsibility by saying basically "I believed what I was doing was fine at the time". What stands out for me about Harmon's apology is that he does say this, but *also* acknowledges that believing as he did was a result of profoundly distorted thinking, and he takes moral responsibility for allowing himself to think in that way.
He also acknowledges and takes responsibility for the harm he caused to the other person, rather than trying to deny it or pass over it as quickly as possible. Obvs not great that he actually *did* the terrible thing in the first place, but still valuable to see an example of sincere accountability.
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It's pretty clear that the current status quo of segregating sport by gender is harmful and ultimately unsustainable, though it remains an open question why sort of classification system will ultimately replace it. I think this is definitely an interesting suggestion - I'd like to see it worked out in more detail!
"We suggest that in able-bodied sport, it would similarly make sense to remove the label of male or female and replace it with categories based on the ability of bodies to move in that particular sport. This is a confronting notion, as we are not used to thinking about sex and gender as based on particular traits."
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"public health workers and harm reductionists in an unnamed U.S. city are operating an illegal, unsanctioned supervised injection site: a space where injection drug users can safely inject their drugs under the watch of medical professionals. Even under its unsanctioned status, the site is showing public health benefits, according to a qualitative study published in late December in the International Journal of Drug Policy."
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“African-American doctors, lawyers, business executives, and they still have a higher infant-mortality rate than…white women who never went to high school in the first place,” qz
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Maybe this is very liberal feminism of me, but can't help being pleasantly startled that the PM of New Zealand will be giving birth while in office, with her (unmarried) male partner expecting to take on the majority of childcare duties.
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