Bad news for Florida Man
“After almost two years as a conservative rallying cry, Republicans may finally be over the war on woke.”
The GOP Is Over Its War On ‘Woke’ | HuffPost Latest News
Leave a reply
Author Archives: John Lusk
Washington State Votes To Kill Law That Restricted Community Broadband | Techdirt
“If entrenched broadband providers really wanted to thwart such options, they’d simply offer faster, cheaper service. Instead, they’ve found it **more cost effective to buy laws restricting the options**, even if local community members want to vote for it.”
Black Farmer’s Are Fighting to Be Saved As The Number of Black Owned Farms Grows Smaller
https://shoppeblack.us/black-farmers-fighting-to-be-saved/
“Oh, but, John, this article is two years old. Surely things are better now.”
Nope:
https://www.blackenterprise.com/black-farmers-federal-government/
Edit: wait, there’s more!
«the Reagan administration closed the U.S.D.A.‘s Office of Civil Rights. And so complaints were pouring in going back that far, but there was no office to process them.
Alexander Pires
“And I had heard a rumor from a couple of black farmers that there’s a room where they just stuff them all.”»
Food deserts in North Carolina
I was wondering where these “food deserts” actually are. My home state, with South Carolina as a bonus. Looks like the Black Belt to me. (Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi look similar.)
https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-access-research-atlas/go-to-the-atlas.aspx#.UUDMojfNkS8
Law as code
Comment by JohnFen – https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37090710
I’ve actually always thought something like this:
«As a rough analogy that my lawyer told me early on, lawyers are like software engineers, and the law is like the operating system. A good lawyer writes robust “code” designed to deal with edge cases and unexpected conditions gracefully.»
Law as code, amenable to diffs and code review, and vulnerable to bugs.
Hello, blind spot, my old friend
«Experts on the way racialized thinking operates would read the same comments and see the fingerprints of racism all over them. In studying the same anti-Obama sentiment during the same period, psychologist Eric Knowles and his colleagues devised experiments to minimize the silencing impact of social desirability (that is, giving answers you know society wants you to give); to analyze based on implicit, not explicit, bias; and to control for other rationales such as ideology and partisanship. With all that stripped away, racial prejudice remained. They explained, “People may fail to report the influence of race on their judgments, not because such an influence is absent, but because they are unaware of it—and might not acknowledge it even if they were aware of it.”»
#TheSumOfUs
Start reading this book for free: https://a.co/9UN64UB
Low-income voters are not voting against their own self-interest.
«Trump improved upon Mitt Romney’s margin with voters making under $30,000 a year by 16 points. But he still lost them—by 12 whole points.
The bulk of Trump’s support didn’t come from people who are most down on their luck. It came from people who are afraid they’re next.
…
So what did correspond with Trump support?
Racial resentment among white voters was particularly determinative.»
https://talkpoverty.org/2016/11/16/stop-blaming-low-income-voters-donald-trumps-victory/index.html
@tarheel 🔗 https://mstdn.io/users/tarheel/statuses/110826037160088717
Epicurious: This Rule-Breaking Red Cocktail Is a Certified Legend
VinePair: There’s a Chartreuse You Can Actually Find — Here’s How to Use It in Cocktails
Huge old outdoor public swimming pools like these made summertime cool for everyone 100 years ago – Click Americana
https://clickamericana.com/topics/activities-fun/huge-outdoor-public-swimming-pools-1900s
What we white people gave up, rather than swim with Black people.
But John, we were also afraid of polio!
(a) Polio was endemic way before the 1950s.
(b) chlorine was known to deactivate the polio virus and had been in use since the turn of the century.
