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Women's March Too White
Women's March in California canceled over concerns it would be 'overwhelmingly white'
A California Women’s March was canceled because of concerns that its participants have been “overwhelmingly white,” the march’s organizers said.
Organizers announced Friday that the Women’s March would not take place in Eureka, in Humboldt County, California, on Jan. 19 as previously planned due to issues of representation.
“Up to this point, the participants have been overwhelmingly white, lacking representation from several perspectives in our community,” a post on the march’s Facebook page read. “Instead of pushing forward with crucial voices absent, the organizing team will take time for more outreach.”
Eat your own. #Unity
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Only until 12/31/2018, 11:59PM MST, sadly.
You want a great VPN that has survived court cases and has always been reliable, this is it.
Hypothesis: Speed of Internet: ~40,000 miles/sec
Recently I was talking with a non-technical person about the Internet, speed of light, and speed of communications. As a part of that discussion I got curious about the fraction of the speed of light that the Internet will move data around for me. I picked a few spots, sent a few pings, and did a bit of math.
Assuming a round trip time splits the duration evenly between send and receive latency my first measurements gave me approximately 1/5th the speed of light for a one way packet of right around 37,000 miles per second. Later on I repeated this experiment.
How does this work? Pick a geographic location some distance from you (I've done this with 150 miles and 1500 miles so far), pick an IP in that location then traceroute it to make sure the route isn't a mess, then ping it and note round trip time. Also estimate the rough distance to that location as the crow flies.
speed one way = 2 * miles / seconds - here are some values from where I sit:
RTT for ~150 miles: ~7ms = ~42,000 miles/sec
RTT for ~1500 miles: ~34ms = ~70,000 miles/sec
That puts the speed of a ping in a very respectable range of around 1/4 to 1/3rd the speed of light. G'damn that's pretty amazing.
I'm curious about the results from other people. Can anyone replicate?
Merry Christmas to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad!! 🎄
And from Former President Ahmadinejad.
"I would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year. May, 2019 be full of happiness, prosperity, and peace for everybody. Jesus loved everyone and wanted us to love all. God Bless" twitter.com/Ahmadinejad1956/status/1077287938839531520
Very special tweet. Right? He's saying MERRY CHRISTMAS again. Or possibly for the first time. And that's because of me. Only I could end the War on Christmas. By proclaiming, and WINNING, the War on Political Correctness. It's Christmas. Perfect time to give a teacher a gun. And make our schools much safer. whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/president-donald-j-trump-committed-making-schools-safer
By the way, I am in the Oval Office, all alone (poor me). Wearing nothing but my robe & socks. And I just gave out a 115 mile long contract for another HUGE section of the Wall in Texas. #ChristmasWall
Failed Circumcision Kills Toddler in Italy
Italy circumcision kills toddler, with one man charged
A two-year-old boy has died from blood loss following a failed circumcision at a migrant centre in Italy. The boy's twin brother also underwent the procedure in Rome's north-western suburb of Monterondo and is recovering in hospital.
A 66-year-old man has been charged with murder, according to Italian media. Some 5,000 circumcisions are performed in Italy each year but more than a third are carried out illegally, according to health charity Amsi.
Cultural non-profit group Arci said the procedures had taken place at a refugee centre it runs with the local council in Monterondo. "It is a tragedy that leaves us speechless," Arci said in a statement on Facebook, adding that it would take civil action once those responsible for the child's death had been determined by police.
The two boys, who have not been named, were born in Italy in 2017 to a Nigerian mother who has five other children in Nigeria. Local media say the mother had asked for the operations in respect for Nigeria's Islamic traditions, despite being Catholic herself.
The medical credentials of the doctor are reportedly being questioned by police. Ansa said the man arrested was an American citizen of Libyan origin.
There's a lot of snark I could put here but I'll just go with "Merry Christmas!"
We did the Design for Steel Slat Barrier.⏸⏸
Beautiful!!! pic.twitter.com/sGltXh0cu9
They did the Cartoon about Little Adam Schitt.
"Short Throw" 4K Laser Projector
I didn't quite realize these were a thing. Something like this would be nice to replace a family member's old projector (it has 3 VGA inputs but no HDMI), but I'm sure this specific model will be priced out the ass. It might make a lot of sense for some people though since it's much more compact than a large TV and you won't have people blocking the image when they stand up.
LG is also planning to sell roll-up OLED TVs in 2019. I don't see how that approach is better than this short throw projector. Maybe the projector makes some fan noise, or maybe the roll-up has better brightness/HDR.
Humble bundle hacking books
I bought the humble bundle hacking books on sale for myself for Christmas because I'm tired of knowing enough to possibly get myself in trouble but not enough to stay out of trouble.
Some interesting reading, so far.
About 15 books total...DRM free and charitable giving. Nice.
Swedish Man-Free Festival Found Guilty of Discrimination
Statement festival: 'Man-free' event found guilty of discrimination
Statement, a women-only festival in Sweden, has been found guilty of discrimination by Sweden's Discrimination Ombudsman (DO).
The DO said that describing an event as "male-free" breached the country's anti-discrimination laws.
The publicity issued in the run up to the event "discouraged a certain group from attending", the regulator added.
The event's organisers said in a Facebook post that they are "too busy changing the world" to respond.
"It's sad that what 5,000 women, non-binaries and transgender experienced as a life-changing festival made a few cis [cisgender] men lose it completely," the post added.
[...] The DO's ruling acknowledged the man-free rule was not enforced at the festival, held earlier this year, adding that "no differentiation based on sex was made between visitors at entry".
As nobody suffered damage from the festival's restrictions, it added, no financial penalties would be imposed.
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