With all the discussion about foundations, I think it’s a good idea to understand them a bit more. First off: if you see a foundation, it’s nearly certainly a tax dodge. Let’s get that out of the way. [Read more…]
The commander clacked its jaws for attention, then assumed the Posture Of Authority, Mild, and waited for two slow pulse-beats while everyone in attendance swivelled their resting-platforms and focused attention. [Read more…]
Someone run and warn Iris: the enemy has stepped up their game.
August 13 is International Left Handers’ Day and Rhiannon poked a corner of the Hive Mind and asked if it’d consider taking a look at handedness as a social justice issue. They’re doing a series of postings on the topic, which you should check out.
I lived for 13 years with a left handed person, and I recall it occasionally was a problem, but I admit I never thought about it much. I remember mostly complaints about 
finding decent scissors – stuff like that, so I replied to Rhiannon: “I’ve mostly worked in the software industry and I’d always thought that computing wasn’t so bad…”
Our story begins with a decision by The King’s Bench, Somerset V Stewart.
From Cnet News:
Google vet’s new Candid app for anonymous sharing puts trolls in their place.
Bindu Reddy wanted a social app where she could say what she really thought, hear unfiltered responses and tamp down the volume on trolls.
Sure, there’s some kerfuffle about Ubisoft’s survey, which crashed out if you said you were a female. That’s stupid. But what’s really annoying, to me is…
We have been raised on a steady diet of propaganda that Officer Friendly is, well, our friend.
My high school had a couple of days of holocaust awareness, around about 1977 or so, when I was in 9th grade, I think. Elie Weisel came and spoke and we watched “Nacht Und Nebel”