Tsubaki Reia: excuse me just what do you MEAN you're rejecting my new manuscript
Publisher: Tsubaki-san I'm not sure how to tell you this but
Publisher: you're trying to publish a children's book that contains both homosexual and human-bear relationships, which goes against just about every taboo our society is built on
Tsubaki Reia:
Publisher:
Publisher: the gun is also a problem
Since we last learned about NeSpoon last year, the Polish street artist has popped up everywhere with new pieces in Perth, Tunisia, Portugal, and elsewhere. NeSpoon translates traditional lace patterns into large-scale murals or stencils, ceramic installations, and even embroidery. The artworks are part of her ongoing series of “public jewelry” that seeks to turn unadorned spaces and surfaces into something beautiful. You can see more over on Behance.
Speaking in front of 20,000 people in St. Peter’s Square on April 29, Pope Francis referenced the teachings of the bible to make some strong statements about gender equality.
Most notably, he commented on the unfair position of women relative to men regarding wage disparity:
As Christians, we must become more demanding in this regard: for example, [by] supporting with decision the right to equal retribution for equal work; disparity is a pure scandal.
The leader of the Catholic church proceeded to discuss the creation story in the bible, which describes Eve being born from Adam’s rib as a helper to him, which is often interpreted as a sign that women should be considered inferior to men in the eyes of god. Pope Francis sought to dispel this myth:
The image of the rib does not in any way express inferiority or subordination, but on the contrary, that man and woman are of the same substance and are complementary.
Speaking in Italy, a country that ranks 69th in the world for gender equality and and 114th for workforce participation and opportunities according to the World Economic Forum (pdf, p.9), the pope also emphasized his stance on women’s emancipation as it relates to modern marriage. “Today, society is confronted with fewer marriages. In many countries, separation of couples is increasing, while the number of children is decreasing,” he said. Blaming this on women, he added (link in Italian), is “a form of male chauvinism: The man who always wants to dominate.”
This way, we disgrace ourselves as Adam, who in order to justify himself from eating the apple answered to God: “She gave it to me.”
Of course, it’s worth noting that the Roman Catholic Church does not (and has no plans to) employ any woman in leadership positions. The pope has clearly stated before that “the door is closed” to any opportunity of women’s ordination.
Photographer David Leventi captures opera houses all over the world in breathtaking detail in his series Opera. Leventi uses large-format photography to ensure the detail of rich texture and light in his work.
The project is in remembrance of my grandfather Anton Gutman a cantor trained right after World War II by Helge Rosvaenge, a famous Danish operatic tenor who sang regularly with the State Operas in Berlin and Vienna. While Gutman was interned in a prisoner-of-war camp in the Soviet Union, he performed for prisoners and officers. Nearly a half-century later, I grew up listening to him sing while he walked around our living room. The spaces included in this project are houses in which my grandfather never got the chance to perform. As the son of two architects, I experience an almost religious feeling walking into a grand space such as an opera house.
'While construction was being done, Respondents-Owners used the Building’s air- shaft as a make-shift garbage chute, causing heaps of construction waste and black dust to enter Petitioners’ apartments through windows and cracks in the walls. Petitioners are forced to seal off their kitchen windows and vents with cloth, plastic bags, and tape to prevent entrance and inhalation of the waste and dust.'
#notdaredevil
Rent-stabilized tenants at a Lower East Side building have filed a lawsuit against their landlord, Paul Galasso, for illegal construction that has left holes in the walls and ceilings of their apartments, compromised air quality, and, since March 20th, left them with no gas, heat or hot water. [ more › ]
The PeriodO period gazetteer collects definitions of time periods made by archaeologists and other historical scholars. In constructing the gazetteer, we sought to make period definitions parsable and comparable by computers while also retaining the broader scholarly context in which they were conceived. Our approach resulted in a dataset of period definitions and their provenances that resemble what data scientists working in the e-science domain have dubbed “nanopublications.” In this paper we describe the origin and goals of nanopublications, provide an overview of the design and implementation of a database of period definitions, and highlight the similarities and differences between the two.
Lifting the flaps in George Bartisch’s Ophthalmodouleia. This 1583 book on ophthalmology includes flaps that allow readers to “dissect” the layers of the head and brain.
California thrash metal legends Slayer headlined the third and heaviest night in this week’s Converse Rubber Tracks series at The Sinclair, supported by locals Doomriders and Rozamov.
White Americans often use Asian Americans as examples of the “model minority,” a reference to the perception that they are high achievers relative to other American ethnic groups.
If Asian Americans talked about white Americans the way whites talk about black folks, they'd bring back the Exclusion Act.
Anil Dash, an Indian American and co-founder of social media analytics company ThinkUp, put out a series of tweets challenging the thinking behind that trope. Asian Americans aren’t just model minorities, he argues. Data show that they have surpassed white Americans in so many ways that Asian Americans could talk about white Americans as disparagingly as white Americans talk about the country’s black population.
We could point at how white Americans compare to Asian Americans in violence, in education, in income. We could call your kids thugs.
Young Asian Americans, those between ages 25-29, are better educated than white Americans (these data also include Hispanics who also identify as white or black in those categories).
The divorce rate for Asian Americans is also lower than that of white Americans. (It’s worth noting that a higher divorce rate doesn’t necessarily translate into absentee parents.)
A 2009 report (pdf, pg. 3) from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD) found that a smaller share of Asian Americans were incarcerated compared to the share of white Americans. In this case, the Asian American category includes people of Asian and Pacific Islander descent. By more recent estimates, white Americans, including Hispanics who identify as white, made up 78% of the US population in 2013 and 59% of the US federal inmate population in 2015, while Asian Americans made up 5.3% of the US population in 2013 and 1.5% of the federal inmate population. (The sentencing rate within an ethnic community does not necessarily reflect the level of violence within that group.)
Asian Americans don’t blame “white culture” for individual crimes among white people, Dash points out. So why do white Americans blame crime among black people on “black culture”?
I am glad that white Americans don't have to endure the daily dehumanization that black people do; nobody should have to.
A little while back, word filtered out that Pope Francis was going to devote an encyclical to climate change. It's not much of a surprise; his tenure has featured a strong emphasis on caring for the poor, and the poor are in no position to air-condition, flood-proof, and bioengineer their way out of the worst impacts of climate change.
As part of the preparation for the encyclical, there's a meeting going on at the Vatican Science Academy that's focused on climate change. Guests include everyone from Ban Ki-moon to Nobel Prize winning scientists. Not on the guest list was the Heartland Institute, most notable for putting up a billboard suggesting that people who cared about climate change might be just as deranged as Ted Kaczynski, better known as the Unabomber.
When in Rome...
But Heartland decided to go to Rome anyway. I know this because someone has signed me up to its press mailing list, which offers up quotes from expertise-free "experts" that make you wonder whether some of them might need an intervention—or simply a trip back to Earth from whatever planet they seem to be inhabiting.
It might be hard to believe today, but long ago Roxbury was a land of farms and apple orchards that produced delicious cider. A partnership between two community organizations now plans to revive some of that history while also investing in a piece of land that has long sat vacant.
The Roxbury Historical Society is partnering with the Hawthorne Youth Community Center to purchase fifty Roxbury russet apple trees from a Maine orchard and sell the saplings at low prices to local organizations and residents. The proceeds from the sales will go to the HYCC, which also plans to purchase a few of the trees for itself and plant them on a land parcel next to its youth center.
The project’s emphasis is on revitalization of an old local resource.
Remember the episode of the Super Mario Super Show where Mario’s brain got swapped with Cher’s dog and Luigi had to fix things before Cher regained consciousness
Mervyn O’Gorman (1871-1958) is best known as one of the greatest British engineers, and during WW1 was head of the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough. O’Gorman was also known as an early pioneer of color photography, and was an artist in addition to his interest aeronautics. Many of his images are included in exhibitions referencing early color photography, including this dreamlike series of his daughter Christina using the Autochrome process in 1913. The Autochrome process, patented in 1903, was the first fully practical single-plate color process that was accessible to the public.
The beach images are from Lulworth Cove, Dorset and feature her in a bright red swimming costume—a color the early process captured well. Christina is also captured in red in every other scene, drawing the eye immediately to the subject and her long strawberry blonde hair. The up-close image of Christina has an oddly modern feel as her clothing is hard to pin to a singular time period. O’Gorman’s wife Florence and second daughter are featured in the last portrait, the photographer’s camera box seen just to the left of his family. (via PetaPixel, Mashable, and National Media Museum)
Boston Magazine details an idiot savant's obsession with a woman who broke up with him and how it led to a national wave of death threats and other forms of harassment against women in the gaming industry.
The words "the perfect beer for removing 'no' from your vocabulary for the night" were circulated on social-media sites this week with some people saying it promoted rape culture.
Defense attorneys represent people who they think may be guilty all the fucking time, and there isn’t a kidnapped teenager waiting in the wings to help them feel better about having to do it.
This may sound objectionable to the non-lawyers reading this, but when you get right down to it, being an attorney really isn’t about determining who is right. That’s the responsibility of the judge or the jury. Rather, a lawyer is an advocate. A lawyer puts on the best argument she can, acts on behalf of her client’s wishes, and help him get his fair day in court. This is regardless of what the attorney personally thinks about the client in question. Even civil lawyers who represent people in non-criminal cases, like foreclosures or divorces, have to constantly put their own feelings aside in order to do the job they’ve been hired to do.
Lawyers are hated in society for representing the unlikable or those who are “clearly” in the wrong, but this hate exists only because people don’t appreciate or understand why we have lawyers in the first place. Both the prosecutor and the defense attorney - and lawyers who represent insurance companies, and lawyers who represent patent trolls, and government attorneys who have to argue against same-sex marriage because their governor is conservative - are cogs in a much larger machine. We have a job to do. We perform a function. You might think that lawyers are dishonest and help people lie... until you need a lawyer, and “lying” becomes “helping me tell my side of the story.”
Being an attorney isn’t about picking the “right side” and only accepting cases from that side. A defense attorney is not gonna get to represent the innocent party every single time. That’s what makes case 2-4 such a missed opportunity. Instead of challenging the player’s concept of defense lawyers and teaching them about the profession, it actually plays into the negative stereotype. The moral ambiguity of Phoenix’s decision isn’t given enough space to exist in the first place; Maya’s kidnapping absolves him of all responsibility for representing Engarde in the eyes of the audience. And the writers’ message here - that the “correct” decision for Phoenix to make is to prioritize the “truth” over the requirements of his job - is wrong. That is not what a defense attorney does, and it’s borderline degrading to people whose job it is to uphold criminals’ constitutional rights regardless of their guilt.
Now, I’m certain that the writers meant no offense by writing this case the way they did. They were probably just trying to write a good finale for their fun detective/investigation game. This is a goofy cartoonish visual novel about bishounen anime lawyers, not the The Pitt expansion from Fallout 3.
But Ace Attorney is still based on the real-life legal system, a critically important part of modern-day civilization. Like any piece of media, it both reflects the values of the people who made it and has the potential to mold or reinforce the values of the people who consume it. There is a clearly a side that you’re supposed to pick here, a set of values that you’re supposed to agree with. But these values are not accurate to “real lawyers” and skirt the line of being misinformation. As much as I love this case for the melodramatic high-stakes roller coaster that it is, I would have preferred it if the game gave its audience a little bit more credit and challenged us by giving Phoenix a character arc of the same quality as Edgeworth’s.
Rent-stabilized tenants at a Lower East Side building have filed a lawsuit against their landlord, Paul Galasso, for illegal construction that has left holes in the walls and ceilings of their apartments, compromised air quality, and, since March 20th, left them with no gas, heat or hot water. [ more › ]
