The gender of dementia.
I once saw a man who scored 3 out of 30 on his cognitive screening test, with a wife and daughter who initially denied that there were any problems with his memory. This man spent his days walking his dog around his local streets (or perhaps the dog was walking him); his wife did everything else for him. His role in the family was to be served by women, so the family had simply continued to serve him. I see whole families who have rearranged their lives around a man with advanced dementia, ensuring that he’s constantly supported, helping him wash and eat, without ever seeking a formal diagnosis.
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“I photoshop Paddington into another movie every day until I forget.” (Via beritmiriam.substack.com.)
@ayanaeliza's framework for figuring out what you should do about the climate crisis:
— allwecansave (@allwecansave) March 19, 2021
Make a Venn diagram and notice what's at the center:
1. What brings you joy?
2. What is the work that needs doing?
3. What are you good at?
(from this week's @how2saveaplanet) t.co pic.twitter.com/L0oM0i45Vk
Man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
In Defense of Doing Nothing.
The lifestyle of the chronic worker, the influencer-freelancer-hustler, whose every feeling and experience of joy and peace is commodified, is sold on this same idea of freedom: not freedom from work, but freedom from the temptation ever to stop working. In this context, the slacker figure takes on a new significance, and the question of what leisure truly is or can be is the most important one; and perhaps we have the same moral and spiritual obligation to pursue leisure—with all its unreal hopes—as God and government claim we have to pursue work.
What Happens to a Society Who Can’t Punish Those Who Want to Undo It?
America’s Fascism Problem Isn’t Going Away.
So the ugly old social norm — “Ah, you’re a racist? A fascist? I don’t like it, but I guess that’s OK, because it’s permitted in our society” — still exists. And the power structures built on that norm — law firms, lobbyists, pressure groups, and so on, have not changed one iota.
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The fascists are being allowed to get away with it. What do you think that teaches them? Says to them? Tells them? That the rest of us are weak, laughable, and pathetic enough that we can be had.
I wonder what Mr Langreiter is up to, nowadays…?
A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden.
My small collection highlighted a number of sites that are taking a new approach to the way we publish personal knowledge on the web. They're not following the same conventions as what we've come to know as the "personal blog". Rather than presenting a set of polished articles, displayed in reverse chronological order, these sites act more like free form, work-in-progress wikis.
“The end of TenFourFox and what I've learned from it.”
Nowadays front ends have become impossible to debug by outsiders and the liberties taken by JavaScript minifiers are demonstrably not portable. No one cares because it works okay on the subset of browsers they want to support, but someone bringing up the rear like we are has no chance because you can't look at the source map and no one on the dev side has interest in or time for helping out the little guy. Making test cases from minified JavaScript is an exercise in untangling spaghetti that has welded itself together with superglue all over your chest hair, worsened by the fact that stepping through JavaScript on geriatic hardware with a million event handlers like waiting mousetraps is absolute agony. With that in mind, who's surprised there are fewer and fewer minority browser engines?