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A world tailored to Men

dimanche 18 décembre 2022 à 12:48

Article talking about how the world is tailored toward men.

For the most of the issues listed, I agree that we should change practices so that they serve women as well as men. I disagree in regard to office temperature, though, for the simple reason that you can wear more clothing without limit, but there are limits to how much you clothing can remove in an office with other workers. If at that point some people are still too hot, the only solution that can satisfy everyone is to make the office cool enough for them, and for those who find that too cold to wear another layer.

There were times that my office in the Stata Center was so hot that I needed to be nude to be comfortable. I kept the door locked so that visitors would knock and I could ask them to wait a minute. I did not usually explain that this was so I could put my shirt and pants on.

AT&T, Amazon and Comcast donated to election denialists

dimanche 18 décembre 2022 à 12:48

AT&T, Amazon, Comcast and Intel donated to the campaigns of Republican election denialists, well before this year's election.

QAnonenties are transferring worship from wrecker to Musk

dimanche 18 décembre 2022 à 12:48

QAnonenties are starting to transfer their worship from the wrecker to Musk.

They are mostly authoritarian followers and it isn't crucial to them which authoritarian leader they can follow.

Deception of "Crisis pregnancy centers"

dimanche 18 décembre 2022 à 12:48

"Crisis pregnancy centers" look like abortion clinics, but their mission is to confuse females so that they don't get abortions. They get away with lies because they are almost exempt from regulation.

The right-wing extremists on the Supreme Court have protected them from regulations intended to protect women from being deceived.

Campaign to prevent nondisclosure agreements to prevent cover up of abuse

dimanche 18 décembre 2022 à 12:48

The world-wide campaign to prevent nondisclosure agreements from being used by employers to cover up any abuses, from harassment to rape, is making substantial progress, but not in the UK.

You can't expect the Tories to eagerly pursue this goal, because they represent the rich who commit the abuses and want them covered up.

My first experience with a nondisclosure agreement was when I asked someone at CMU for a copy of the Xerox laser printer software source code. He said he had actually promised in advance to refuse to share that code with me and other colleagues at MIT. Shame on him! He had made a commitment to be a jerk and deny his cooperation to his colleagues.

From this I learned that signing a nondisclosure agreement for generally useful technical information, such as software, was betraying the whole world — so I vowed I would never agree to one, and I never knowingly done so.

That led me, a year or two later, to the conclusion that nonfree software was an injustice, regardless of whether the nonfreedom was brought about by a nondisclosure agreement.