February 2012
24 posts
MKEXIST, report 1
All subjects scored within two sigma on standard mental health questionnaires at the time of the employment recruitment process. All subjects had been employed for a minimum of 48 months at the time of the experiment. No subjects were rated above 2 as possible subversive elements at the time of the experiment. Five of the thirty-five were used as input into the device; for each session, five of...
Umm al-Qura Mosque →
It has four minarets on its perimeter, each resembling a Kalashnikov rifle barrel and standing 43 metres (141 ft) high, marking the 43 days of the Gulf War. Around the dome are another four minarets, each in the shape of a Scud missile on its launchpad standing 37 metres (121 ft) high.
The mosque was formerly used to display a Qur’an written in Saddam Hussein’s blood.
Dilettante Extraordinaire: mnxmnkmnd: Tumblr... →
mnxmnkmnd:
Tumblr Savior: New App for Blocking Content
infinite-resignation:
fuckyeahtriggerwarnings:
This is a script you can install (I got it on chrome) that lets you block all posts with specific tags. This should be especially helpful if you have a rare phobia that…
Invocation, as in how you’d start your text editor from a terminal emulator. I forget if you use mac or...
Tumblr Savior: New App for Blocking Content →
infinite-resignation:
fuckyeahtriggerwarnings:
This is a script you can install (I got it on chrome) that lets you block all posts with specific tags. This should be especially helpful if you have a rare phobia that you don’t want to be exposed to. Of course, there’s no way to guarantee that the people you follow will tag their posts/images :-(
But if they do (and it might be worthwhile to...
Tumblr Savior: New App for Blocking Content →
infinite-resignation:
fuckyeahtriggerwarnings:
This is a script you can install (I got it on chrome) that lets you block all posts with specific tags. This should be especially helpful if you have a rare phobia that you don’t want to be exposed to. Of course, there’s no way to guarantee that the people you follow will tag their posts/images :-(
But if they do (and it might be worthwhile to...
Voter Fraud vs UFO sightings →
Sociological Images is really the best.
Fun with Lisp: Programming the NES →
Pretty cool post about coding music synthesis on the NES, and assemblers, and such related things. Low-level programming is one of the first things that got me really excited about what I could do with computers; writing like this gives me back some of that excitement while reminding me of why I’ve ended up far better at theory. I can’t imagine knowing all these things about the NES,...
Matthew 6
Post is long so I’m putting it behind a link.
I was looking up the Lord’s Prayer today for various reasons, I read the whole chapter it’s in, Matthew 6. I’ve read parts of it before, especially the bit about praying in closets, but it’s much better as a whole. It makes me wonder if numbering every sentence actually has some pretty bad unforeseen consequences, in...
No pardon for Turing, says House of Lords →
Not sure how I feel about this.
WatchPretty.
Free rhythm game my friend made. →
Try it out!
http://boobsdontworkthatway.tumblr.com/post/1167353... →
Linking instead of reblogging because it contains an anime boob gif, and it looks pretty sleazy on the ol’ dashboard. (A crayon rendition of anime-fied Lord of the Flies is art, not sleaziness.)
Anyway. Another neat blog, apparently I’m linking those today. Helpful contribution to my “weird internet images are part of a Lovecraftian shadow world” mind mythology.
January 2012
41 posts
Elsevier boycott →
‘nother step towards widespread open journals, yay.
Transgender People are Completely Banned From... →
infinite-resignation:
Man, tripping over a bystander is completely different from being barred from travel. And you know what, if someone trips me every single day and many of them are unapologetic about it I am going to start thinking something’s up and getting hostile about it.
But the transportation ministry hasn’t been doing things like this every day. The government as a whole,...
Transgender People are Completely Banned From... →
infinite-resignation:
mnxmnkmnd:
I get what you’re trying to say here, but discrimination is discrimination regardless of intent. I would even say that not considering how this would affect trans* people is obvious evidence of prejudice. You don’t have to explain to us that the people responsible were well-intentioned, I think we all know that. A person doesn’t have to be a Klan member to...
Transgender People are Completely Banned From... →
I get what you’re trying to say here, but discrimination is discrimination regardless of intent. I would even say that not considering how this would affect trans* people is obvious evidence of prejudice. You don’t have to explain to us that the people responsible were well-intentioned, I think we all know that. A person doesn’t have to be a Klan member to perpetuate harm and bigotry. I don’t...
Transgender People are Completely Banned From... →
infinite-resignation:
mashkwi:
stfuhypocrisy:
The shit hit the fan in the trans blogosphere last night, when it came to light that there is a disturbing new section in the Identity Screening Regulations used in airports throughout Canada. Simply put, Transgender People are Completely Banned From Boarding Airplanes in Canada.
The offending section of the regulations reads:
5.2 (1) An air...
Caucasian is a Dirty Word →
infinite-resignation:
carrionoftrista:
stfuconfederates:
velocicrafter:
[snip]
Thank you!
This is perfection. let’s all say it with me: Whiteness is a structure, it accomodates various groups over time, giving them the title of “caucasian” in order to maintain a white majority because white has nothing to ground it but our own social imagination. we can not define white because there...
The Marilyn Meme →
Glad I wasn’t the only one bothered by Marilyn Monroe, of all people, apparently being used in a “it’s okay to not fit societal standards of beauty” message.
Going to talk to the doc about antidepressants tomorrow. Will Read More work this time?
I’ve had a sort of complex about stuff like antidepressants since I started thinking I might have some mental problem (which I apparently actually have, go figure). It seems like the usual thinking is something like, you have a normal person, and then you have a layer of...
Russia and NASA plan to COLONISE the Moon →
spinor:
itsfullofstars:
‘We want to do more than just step on it’
Russian, American and European space agencies are in talks to create a human colony on the moon, according to Russian news source Rianovosti.
Russia wants to build either a space base on the surface of the Moon itself or a space station that closely orbits the heavenly body – and has planned talks with NASA and the European...
Under ACTA, airport officials would be allowed to... →
infinite-resignation:
mnxmnkmnd:
infinite-resignation:
What? I’m just curious as to how this would work. How do you tell the difference between legally obtained and pirated files?
I believe they can do this already: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Arnold
In the US, I mean.
That doesn’t answer my question, but um… :|
Yeah. Well, as for that, the article the boingboing...
Under ACTA, airport officials would be allowed to... →
infinite-resignation:
What? I’m just curious as to how this would work. How do you tell the difference between legally obtained and pirated files?
I believe they can do this already: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Arnold
In the US, I mean.
I don’t know why I wrote this, I think I’m getting anxious about things
And “read more” isn’t working. Fuck tumblr formatting forever.
It’s really pretty easy to become a monster, if you set your sights low. I don’t mean something like Cthulhu or Hitler, which I guess would be a higher goal, but just something simple. A zombie, say, or a vampire....
Wat →
spinor:
abandonmentprobability:
Most of this talk by Gary Bernhardt centers around how unpredictable JavaScript’s type coercion is, except presented in a fashion that makes it funny and not just frustrating. A little humor can take the edge off of using a language where even typeof can’t get it straight sometimes.
I heard that JavaScript was developed in something like two weeks. It...
Color photos from WWI →
In the vein of that site with photos of the US during the Depression, and outlying Soviet areas, which I suddenly can’t find, I suppose… seeing color photos instead of black and white goes some way to make it seem more real to me, for whatever reason.
“an interior shot of what may have been a church or castle” reminds me of a shot of the National Library at Sarajevo....
Dilettante Extraordinaire: mnxmnkmnd: merron-chan:... →
If someone is wrong, being well-intentioned doesn’t change that.
Uh, no, I didn’t mean otherwise.
This is what people mean when they say tropers and white people can’t take criticism.
What I’m doing, you mean? If so, I’m not complaining about your criticism existing, I’m complaining about the criticism done on your tumblr, where nobody who doesn’t already...
Dilettante Extraordinaire: mnxmnkmnd: merron-chan:... →
I find it strange and presumptuous.
So do I, but that’s not the point.
I don’t think I have the ability to convince them. Improvised debates on a subject you and everybody else in the debate doesn’t know much of isn’t any fun :c
If you don’t know much about the subject, don’t you think that it would be better to assume the best you reasonably can of people, rather than...
merron-chan:
> see all the white people saying racism against whites exist
> see all the white people saying affirmative action is patronizing and condescending
Is that enough to put someone in your “too stupid/irrational to bother trying to talk to, better make fun of them” category?
i think i found a way to temper my human privilege
thegoddamazon:
dumbassfils:
im never going to bathe ever again
that way my body will become a community
for thousands of varieties of bacteria, algaes, tiny bugs
and i will learn how to live with them interdependently
in one world of living beings
(EDIT: TRIGGER WARNING: BEING ALIVE PRIVILEGE)
(IM SO SORRY)
(TO THE DIFFERENT ROCK AND MINERAL SJ COMMUNITIES)
(IM SORRY)
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