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Women’s Rights Are Essential to Democracy. Why Do Philanthropists Treat Investments in Women as a Special Interest? - Ms. Magazine
https://msmagazine.com/2024/05/06/philanthropy-grants-womens-rights-abortion-reproductive…

Women’s Rights Are Essential to Democracy. Why Do Philanthropists Treat Investments in Women as a Special Interest? - Ms. Magazine
In the last two months, the Supreme Court heard two case to limit nationwide access to abortion care. The chaotic state of play for abortion rights in the United States illustrates the consequences of failing to integrate efforts to strengthen democracy into strategies for advancing gender equity and vice versa. For philanthropic leaders, the twin goals of strengthening democracy and advancing gender equity presents a compelling case for simultaneous investment. Divorcing gender justice from d…

Buzzing that I got #logseq installed on my #Pinetab2 and it syncs to an encrypted folder on the tablet from my other machines. My Pinetab2 is now safe for:
1. Kids watching films on long car journeys, and
2. Me using it as an everyday machine for note-taking etc, including personal data that has to…

Y’ know what? One of the reasons I love bicycles is that they defy categorization the same way people do (and for some of the same reasons)
Mountain bike? Road bike? Oh yes the two genders.
Gravel bike. BMX bike. Commuter. Fat bike. Folding.
Most of the parts can be mixed and matched.
Brands just sell what they make usually. Generally kinda following the type but also fully making each mode and brand a little individual.
So what’s the difference between a gravel bike and a hybrid road bike? I could list a dozen subtle points but which a given bike has may well vary. All so very arguable and contextual. I love it. They’re just so inherently human systems. Deeply technical too, but in ways where it combines into axes of freedom rather than strict categories.

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But now consider another accident. A report in the British Medical Journal describes the case of a construction worker who had jumped off some scaffolding. Beneath him, to his horror, was a 15 cm nail that pierced clean through his boot when he landed. The man […] was in agony, tortured by every small movement of his foot. He was given some even more powerful sedatives, fentanyl and midazolam. But when doctors removed the boot they discovered that the nail had not penetrated his foot at all. In fact, it had passed safely between his toes. There was no bodily injury causing the excruciating pain he felt, though it was completely genuine. In his case, however, the experience was produced entirely by his own powerful prediction machinery. Those searing pains were false perceptions created by his brain's predictions (based on the visual evidence) of serious injury and the kinds of feelings that might result.
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(Andy Clark, The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality)
Honestly, I think the biggest conceptual leap here is realizing that pain that is neither caused by an injury, nor neuropathic in nature, can be very real and people aren't just "making up" or "imagining" things. The wiring of their brain fires up as in any other instance of pain.

I coded a thing, just because https://github.com/rock3r/sandbox-demo
Don't yell at me for the possible performance optimisations and missing features. Open a PR :)

GitHub - rock3r/sandbox-demo: Compose for Desktop falling sand simulator
Compose for Desktop falling sand simulator. Contribute to rock3r/sandbox-demo development by creating an account on GitHub.

Interest in policy interventions to protect journalism is exploding, but industry gatherings keep failing to include journalism labor advocates as strikes grow (Matt Pearce)
https://mattdpearce.substack.com/p/journalisms-visionary-leaders-and
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Journalism's visionary leaders and the voices missing from the room
Somebody is missing from the upcoming International Symposium on Online Journalism in Austin, Texas.

Filing: Meta rejects the FTC's bid to amend its 2020 privacy settlement, saying it voluntarily disclosed two Messenger Kids bugs and had no parent complaints (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Meta Pushes Back on FTC Bid to Amend Privacy Accord Over Kids Chat App
Meta Platforms Inc. pushed back on the US Federal Trade Commission’s bid to amend its 2020 privacy settlement, saying that the company voluntarily disclosed two flaws in its kids chat app to the agency and received no complaints from parents.

I have a longtime habit of abruptly making a flurry of clicking/popping sounds with my mouth as a way of expressing feelings, fulfilling a similar function to swearing, for example.
However, now that I'm going to college I've been struggling with occasionally starting to do this and then catching myself once I register what's happening. I can't tell if other people aren't bringing it up just to be nice, or really if my feelings of embarrassment are rational. What…

I coded a thing, just because https://github.com/rock3r/sandbox-demo
Don't yell at me for the possible performance optimisations and missing features. Open a PR :)

GitHub - rock3r/sandbox-demo: Compose for Desktop falling sand simulator
Compose for Desktop falling sand simulator. Contribute to rock3r/sandbox-demo development by creating an account on GitHub.

Interest in policy interventions to protect journalism is exploding, but industry gatherings keep failing to include journalism labor advocates as strikes grow (Matt Pearce)
https://mattdpearce.substack.com/p/journalisms-visionary-leaders-and
<…

Journalism's visionary leaders and the voices missing from the room
Somebody is missing from the upcoming International Symposium on Online Journalism in Austin, Texas.