{"id":26196,"date":"2021-09-02T09:38:35","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T16:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=26196"},"modified":"2021-09-02T09:38:35","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T16:38:35","slug":"open-thread-and-link-fram-mispelled-adition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=26196","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread and Link Fram, Mispelled Adition"},"content":{"rendered":"

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  1. When Thin is a Trans Requirement | Autostraddle<\/a>
    \n“These experiences are rarely given airtime, partly because the few trans people in the public eye are almost universally thin, and partly because fatness and transness together bring a double burden of stigma: they\u2019re both seen as a form of excess & violation of public norms, and they\u2019re both met with community policing and shaming.”<\/li>\n
  2. US State Policies, Politics, and Life Expectancy – MONTEZ – 2020 – The Milbank Quarterly – Wiley Online Library<\/a>
    \n“Results show that changes in life expectancy during 1970-2014 were associated with changes in state policies on a conservative-liberal continuum, where more liberal policies expand economic regulations and protect marginalized groups. States that implemented more conservative policies were more likely to experience a reduction in life expectancy.”<\/li>\n
  3. Afghanistan: 3 Unlearned Lessons – by Nonzero – Nonzero Newsletter<\/a>
    \nAnd a fourth lesson: We really should stop attempting “interventions” like this.<\/li>\n
  4. Opinion | Anna Harris of Texas who works with indigent defendants says she was arrested in retaliation for her work – The Washington Post<\/a>
    \nInteresting stuff about a “holistic” model of providing legal defenses to people who can’t afford their own, versus the standard model.<\/li>\n
  5. Texas has betrayed women – UnHerd<\/a>
    \n“Not content to simply outlaw abortion, they have constructed a law that maximises the humiliation, stigma and degradation on any woman who seeks to end a pregnancy. In Texas, every woman\u2019s entire community has been deputised to police her most private choices.”<\/li>\n
  6. On Twitter, I discussed <\/a>why we shouldn’t infer a lot from that study which found that spoilers make readers enjoy stories more.<\/li>\n
  7. The Secret Bias Hidden in Mortgage-Approval Algorithms \u2013 The Markup<\/a>
    \n“Holding 17 different factors steady in a complex statistical analysis of more than two million conventional mortgage applications for home purchases, we found that lenders were 40 percent more likely to turn down Latino applicants for loans, 50 percent more likely to deny Asian\/Pacific Islander applicants, and 70 percent more likely to deny Native American applicants than similar White applicants. Lenders were 80 percent more likely to reject Black applicants than similar White applicants. … In every case, the prospective borrowers of color looked almost exactly the same on paper as the White applicants, except for their race.”<\/li>\n
  8. How Oslo Achieved Zero Pedestrian and Bicycle Fatalities, and How Others Can Apply What Worked |\u00a0TheCityFix<\/a><\/li>\n
  9. Race Is a Social Construct, Scientists Argue – Scientific American<\/a>
    \nGood article from 2016; unfortunately, I don’t think much has changed since then. “Today, the mainstream belief among scientists is that race is a social construct without biological meaning. And yet, you might still open a study on genetics in a major scientific journal and find categories like “white” and “black” being used as biological variables.”<\/li>\n
  10. Human races are not like dog breeds: refuting a racist analogy<\/a>
    \n“But because the analogy between races and dog breeds incorrectly privileges biology over the social and historical factors that have led to the development of racial constructs, here we demonstrate how genetic data fails to substantiate the racial categorizations used in the U.S. today and their equivalence to dog breeds.”<\/li>\n
  11. Will the Child Tax Credit End Traditional Welfare? – The Atlantic<\/a>
    \nThe headline should replace “end” with “replace,” and “traditional welfare” with “TANF.” And, I doubt it will, but I wish it would.<\/li>\n
  12. Don\u2019t Believe the Hype (About Believing): You Don\u2019t Need Religion to be Happy | Religion Dispatches<\/a><\/li>\n
  13. Amia Srinivasan \u00b7 Does anyone have the right to sex? \u00b7 LRB 22 March 2018<\/a>
    \n“The question\u200b, then, is how to dwell in the ambivalent place where we acknowledge that no one is obligated to desire anyone else, that no one has a right to be desired, but also that who is desired and who isn\u2019t is a political question, a question usually answered by more general patterns of domination and exclusion.”<\/li>\n
  14. The Ides of August<\/a>
    \nA persuasive essay about what happened in Afghanistan. “I and too many other people to count spent years of our lives trying to convince U.S. decision-makers that Afghans could not be expected to take risks on behalf of a government that was as hostile to their interests as the Taliban were.”<\/li>\n
  15. ‘For me, this is paradise’: life in the Spanish city that banned cars | Cities | The Guardian<\/a>
    \n“On the same streets where 30 people died in traffic accidents from 1996 to 2006, only three died in the subsequent 10 years, and none since 2009. CO2 emissions are down 70%, nearly three-quarters of what were car journeys are now made on foot or by bicycle, and, while other towns in the region are shrinking, central Pontevedra has gained 12,000 new inhabitants.”<\/li>\n
  16. To survive, China\u2019s biggest gay dating app became a pharmacy – Rest of World<\/a>
    \n\u201cIt\u2019s trying to make sure the state will not mistake it as a gay activist organization,\u201d said Chan. \u201cIt must, in order to survive.\u201d The app was founded by a gay cop who was forced to resign after he was outed.<\/li>\n
  17. Podcase recommendation: Dead Eyes<\/a>.
    \nSomewhere within the show, Connor Ratliff describes his podcast as being a lot like “Serial,” if the mystery were about something of no importance whatsoever. In this case, Ratliff – an actor – “embarks upon a quest to solve a very stupid mystery that has haunted him for two decades: why Tom Hanks fired him from a small role in the 2001 HBO mini-series, Band Of Brothers.” I’ve listened to the whole first season now, and it’s surprisingly entertaining.<\/li>\n
  18. What podcasts are y’all enjoying? I’m particularly interested in non-political podcast recommendations.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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