> This selective memorialization is unsurprising given that Hawaii, like other territories colonized by the U.S., is often omitted from accounts of American history. Nonetheless, such memorialization is problematic, as it reinforces the dominant narrative of Japanese American incarceration that focuses on the mainland camps and West Coast Japanese Americans and obscures the imprisonment of Japanese Americans from Hawaii.

> An alternative to Big Tech's video platforms > PeerTube is a tool for sharing online videos developed by Framasoft, a french non-profit.

> Ever noticed how white text on a black background looks thicker than black text on a white background, even though the weights are the same? > > This post teaches you how to account for this and adjust perceived font weight for dark mode without layout shift, with variable fonts and the GRAD axis.

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> Sameness entices, but novelty enchants. > So fanfic is a genuine cultural phenomenon—hence its fascination for Simon DeDeo, a complexity scientist at Carnegie Mellon University and the Santa Fe Institute who studies cultural evolution and the emergence of social hierarchies. A _complexity scientist‽‽_ > One possible alternative is some kind of punctuated equilibrium model for cultural evolution, in which things remain stable but undergo occasional leaps forward. “One story about how culture evolves is that eventually, the stuff that’s more enjoyable than what people keep re-consuming somehow becomes accessible to the majority of the community,” said DeDeo. “Novelty might act as a gravitational pull on the center and [over time] some new material gets incorporated into the culture.” He draws an analogy to established tech companies like IBM versus startups, most of which die out; but those few that succeed often push the culture substantially forward. > “Is it that we’re tired? Is it that we’re lazy? Is this a conflict within a human or within a culture?” said DeDeo. “We don’t know because we only get the raw numbers. If we could track an individual reader to see how they moved between these two spaces, that would be really interesting.”

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> “Meta knew that placing teens into a default-private setting would have eliminated 5.4 million unwanted interactions a day,” the plaintiffs wrote. Still, Meta didn’t make the fix. Instead, inappropriate interactions between adults and kids on Instagram skyrocketed to 38 times that on Facebook Messenger, according to the brief. The launch of Instagram Reels allegedly compounded the problem. It allowed young teenagers to broadcast short videos to a wide audience, including adult strangers.

> “They grabbed one of those boys,” he continued. “About a half mile up the road, they looked at his wallet and saw he was a citizen. They pulled him out of the van and threw his wallet out the window. He had to walk back here.” > > Nearby on Walnut Street, a customer had a video from outside a Home Depot that showed three federal agents standing with a man whose hands were behind his back. > > Two marked U.S. Customs and Border Protection vehicles were also spotted at a Bass Pro Shop.

> School for Poetic Computation (SFPC) is an experimental school in New York and online founded in 2013. SFPC facilitates the study of art, code, hardware, and critical theory through lenses of decolonization and transformative justice. SFPC offers programs grounded in solidarity across social differences and empowerment through a deeper technical and political understanding of tools towards building just communities. > > Our school is a platform for people who are Black, Indigenous, of color, trans, gender non-conforming, queer, disabled, survivors, from low-income backgrounds, and oppressed to feel empowered that their ideas are important, necessary, and central.

> Put simply, the left had space. There were spaces to meet (and argue), spaces to organize and plan – and spaces to socialize too. This was true in Glasgow, but also across much of Scotland, Britain and the wider world. Yet now, the left is looking at a very different and less vibrant landscape. The Women’s Centre in Glasgow closed in the early 1990s. At their high point, there were 250 unemployed workers’ centres across Britain and Northern Ireland. Now, there are just 18 that are active. There were over 100 radical bookshops in Britain by 1980 – a peak that has yet to be returned to. > > The loss of these spaces is significant. They were an important way to build, and defend, the left. Having different groups sharing the same space provided opportunities for people to learn how to organize together. If there were challenges, they could be worked out in person. The chance to negotiate this alongside more everyday concerns, like how to furnish the space, built trust for when crucial moments arose for different campaigns. George, the coordinator of the unemployed workers’ centre in Drumchapel, Glasgow, told me that he’d been adamant that the centre was not to have a pool table, in case it made the space seem too much like a boys club for women and families. He also stressed to me that: ‘During the Thatcher years… we were under attack so, it wasn’t about advancing workers’ rights really. In the 80’s it was more about defending.’