As [discussed previously]({% post_url 2019-12-31-new-year %}), this is my weekly Twitter roundup. Note that tweets of articles generally include header images from the articles, which are not included here unless they *happen* to be available under a free license. Most are not.
I also don't generally attach pictures to posts with quotations.
[<i class="fab fa-twitter-square"></i>](https://jcolag.github.io/twitter/1237000684937121794) [Daylight Saving Time has a dark side. Here’s what you need to know](https://www.fastcompany.com/90472948/daylight-savings-time-has-a-dark-side-heres-what-you-need-to-know) from Fast Company
> What has ever been granted to the countless millions of workers of Earth without a fight? Czar Nicholas has discovered that he is not all Russia. Will he "let the voice of the people be heard"? Was it argument or force that changed Czar Nicholas's mind?
[<i class="fab fa-twitter-square"></i>](https://jcolag.github.io/twitter/1237363576261586944) [International Women's Day: How far have we come?](https://globalvoices.org/2020/03/07/international-womens-day-how-far-have-we-come/) from Global Voices
> In 1909, the Socialist Party of America celebrated 15,000 women who protested long work hours, low pay, and the lack of voting rights in New York City.
> Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labelled Utopian.
[<i class="fab fa-twitter-square"></i>](https://jcolag.github.io/twitter/1237726215663828993) [UN study finds almost 90% of men and women are biased against women](https://qz.com/1812802/un-study-finds-almost-90-of-men-and-women-are-biased-against-women/) from Quartz
> Respect for woman, the much lauded chivalry of the Middle Ages, meant what I fear it still means to some men in our own day---respect for the elect few among whom they expect to consort.
[<i class="fab fa-twitter-square"></i>](https://jcolag.github.io/twitter/1238088100133269506) [Mexican Women Paint Victim Names to Protest Gender Violence](https://www.latinorebels.com/2020/03/08/mexicanwomenprotestgenderviolence/) from Latino Rebels
> I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?
[<i class="fab fa-twitter-square"></i>](https://jcolag.github.io/twitter/1238449984829149187) [This Company Is Using Racially-Biased Algorithms to Select Jurors](https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/epgmbw/this-company-is-using-racially-biased-algorithms-to-select-jurors) from VICE Motherboard
> ...the algorithm is going to weight...protected classes in a way that could be outcome determinative...then you’re kind of tech-washing your racialized assumption of individuals.
Y'know, because of *course* someone is doing this...
<iclass="fas fa-square"></i> [Swamp wallabies are permanently pregnant](https://www.futurity.org/swamp-wallabies-pregnancy-marsupials-gestation-2296502/) from Futurity
> Marsupials have the largest sperm, the shortest pregnancies, and exhibit the longest periods of embryonic diapause (developmental arrest of the embryo) among mammals.
Hopefully, I'll remember to mention this when my path through **Star Trek** takes me through *The Trouble with Tribbles*, sometime around Thanksgiving...
**Credits**: Header image is [Circular diagrams showing the division of the day and of the week](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Week#/media/File:CLM_14456_71r_detail.jpg) from a manuscript drafted during the Carolingian Dynasty. [Swamp Wallaby and Joey](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Swamp_Wallaby_and_Joey_Lisarow.jpg) by [WikiWookie](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:WikiWookie).
