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title: Toots 🐘 from 07/31 to 08/04
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date: 2023-08-04 17:26:11-0400
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tags: [linkdump, mastodon, socialmedia, week]
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summary: Toots for the Week of July 31st, 2023
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thumbnail: /blog/assets/CLM_14456_71r_detail.png
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teaser: This week, we have Latine pride, Dal Lake tourism, the GOP love of traitors, data-driven authoritarianism, the anniversary of the Child Tax Credit's end, scrutinizing the Disney/DeSantis feud, and quotes.
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spell: Latine Dal Jerge Jammu Rezwan Beattie Feltham
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As [discussed previously]({% post_url 2019-12-31-new-year %}), on Fridays, I present my weekly social media roundups. Note that toots of articles generally include header images from the articles, which I don't include here unless their creators *happen* to have released them for use under a free license, and I notice. Most have not, or I don't notice. But I now add my commentary here, where I don't feel restricted by message length.
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Also, I don't generally attach pictures to posts with quotations.
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## "Programming" Note
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For people reading this when it comes out, I'll hold my first, highly experimental "office hours" tomorrow---Saturday, August 5<sup>th</sup>---where you have a decent chance to track me down for whatever conversations people seem interested in. From what looks like 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM GMT, you can either...
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* Drop in on the [`#entropy-arbitrage:matrix.org`](https://matrix.to/#/#entropy-arbitrage:matrix.org) chat-room on [Matrix]({% post_url 2020-03-28-riot %}) and start talking, or
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* Ask me a question [on Cohost](https://cohost.org/jcolag).
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I picked Matrix, because they created it as Free Software on a federated, open protocol, which fits well with many of the blog's goals. I picked Cohost, because it has the "Ask" feature, which *might* draw out some readers who might otherwise not want to dive into a chat system.
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Both will have the best moderation that I can muster. Will we look back on this as a success? You'll only know if you participate.
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## 9:07 -- Mon 31 July 2023
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{% embed https://www.futurity.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/mexican_teens_culture_ethnic_pride_1600.jpg|Teenage girl on street that's decorated for a festival|false| %}
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[<i class="fab fa-mastodon"></i>](https://mastodon.social/@jcolag/110808847777948387) [Latinx youth benefit from ethnic pride and culture](https://www.futurity.org/latinx-youth-ethnic-pride-2948622-2/) from Futurity
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> Empowering youth to recognize and draw strength from the cultural wealth of their ethnic/racial background is critical for their well-being, especially during mid-adolescence when they are forming their sense of self by exploring who they want to be, what they value and what their goals are.
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Hashtags: #Ethnicity #SelfImage
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I admittedly find studies like this a *bit* hard to take. While I want teenagers to thrive, family stories about "the old country"---that none of the living relatives had visited, let alone lived in, by the way---always came off as pointless and mildly embarrassing. But then, I also didn't grow up with people asking if I belonged in this country.
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## 12:01 -- Mon 31 July 2023
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[<i class="fab fa-mastodon"></i> Quoted on Mastodon](https://mastodon.social/@jcolag/110809532049910369)
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> There are as many as a score more novel devices about the entire machine, some of them being innovations in fire-fighting.
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{% cite James Jerpe %}
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Hashtags: #Quotes #DisabilityPride
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## 9:03 -- Tue 01 August 2023
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{% embed https://globalvoices.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Houseboat4-1200x675.jpeg|Stationary houseboats in Dal Lake, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, 2022|false|by Rezwan, (seemingly) released under the same CC-BY license as the article %}
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[<i class="fab fa-mastodon"></i>](https://mastodon.social/@jcolag/110814494099467082) [Permission to restore century-old houseboats in Kashmir's Dal Lake is a welcome move for tourism](https://globalvoices.org/2023/07/25/permission-to-restore-century-old-houseboats-in-kashmirs-dal-lake-is-a-welcome-move-for-tourism/#) from Global Voices
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> Dwindling tourism, due to the prolonged curfews and internet shutdowns coupled with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, already had a noticeable impact on the survival of these boats in the following years.
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Hashtags: #India #DalLake #Tourism
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I don't have much to offer, here, except wishing the area luck. I don't envision myself traveling to Asia, but if I happen to do so, Dal Lake looks like a great stop.
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## 12:04 -- Tue 01 August 2023
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[<i class="fab fa-mastodon"></i> Quoted on Mastodon](https://mastodon.social/@jcolag/110815205566871976)
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> Zealous, yet modest; innocent, though free; Patient of toil, serene amidst alarms; Inflexible in faith, invincible in arms.
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{% cite James Beattie %}
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Hashtags: #Quotes
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## 9:04 -- Wed 02 August 2023
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{% cw US Politics %}
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{% embed https://images.dailykos.com/images/1211925/story_image/GettyImages-12583779641.jpg?1690325729|Two people in fatigues walking past a large sign reading Headquarters XVIII Airborne Corps and Fort Liberty|false| %}
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[<i class="fab fa-mastodon"></i>](https://mastodon.social/@jcolag/110820159657087019) [Republicans cling to traitorous Confederate names](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/7/26/2183298/-Republicans-cling-to-traitorous-Confederate-names) from Daily Kos
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> It seems weird to defend those traitors until you realize that embracing Confederate flags and defending slavery are now a feature, not a bug, of the modern conservative movement.
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Hashtags: #USPol #GOP #Confederacy
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Much like how they fought the infrastructure bills but want credit for their passage on the campaign trail, Republicans also agreed that we shouldn't name bases after traitors and passed *that* bill, only to insist that the real heroes fought to destroy this country for the right to own people and breed them like cattle.
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## 12:06 -- Wed 02 August 2023
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[<i class="fab fa-mastodon"></i> Quoted on Mastodon](https://mastodon.social/@jcolag/110820877802794059)
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> Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates; The fumes of it invade the brain, And make men giddy, proud, and vain; By this the fool commands the wise, The noble with the base complies, The sot assumes the rule of wit, And cowards make the base submit.
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{% cite Samuel Butler %}
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Hashtags: #Quotes
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## 9:01 -- Thu 03 August 2023
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{% embed https://i0.wp.com/craphound.com/images/digital-dictator.jpg|A glowing red ball in a decorated military uniform, facing out over helmeted troops|false| %}
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[<i class="fab fa-mastodon"></i>](https://mastodon.social/@jcolag/110825810789401610) [The surprising truth about data-driven dictatorships](https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/26/dictators-dilemma/#garbage-in-garbage-out-garbage-back-in) from Pluralistic
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> Having given up on manually assembling training data based on careful human judgment with multiple review steps, the AI industry "pivoted" to mass ingestion of scraped data from the whole internet.
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Hashtags: #AI #Oppression
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I had a professor in college who would quietly talk about how a consulting gig had mostly radicalized them, though nobody used the term at that time. Someone called them in, back before people would have done this on computers, to build a predictive-policing model. After studying the data, they determined that---you guessed it---no statistical analysis existed that could turn arrest records and convictions into crime predictions, except inside the already-policed. The prediction could *only ever* say to continue current policies.
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They thanked this person, sent them on their way, and then hired the statisticians to do exactly that.
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I emphasize the story, because Doctorow unfortunately downplays how authoritarians don't always want accurate information from their models. They often want a chart that tells them to "stay the course."
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## 12:05 -- Thu 03 August 2023
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[<i class="fab fa-mastodon"></i> Quoted on Mastodon](https://mastodon.social/@jcolag/110826534124525385)
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> Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave, oh leave the light of Hope behind!
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{% cite Thomas Campbell %}
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Hashtags: #Quotes
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## 9:05 -- Fri 04 August 2023
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{% embed https://i0.wp.com/otherwords.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/ctc-getty-images-scaled.jpg|Adults in striped shirts help a small child with work, all seated at a table|false| %}
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[<i class="fab fa-mastodon"></i>](https://mastodon.social/@jcolag/110831488876196219) [A Bittersweet Milestone for the Anti-Poverty Movement](https://otherwords.org/a-bittersweet-milestone-for-the-anti-poverty-movement/) from OtherWords
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> In fact, both Democratic and Republican parents polled in 2023 preferred a child credit that did not have any work or income requirements by a margin of 2 to 1.
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Hashtags: #Poverty #TaxCredit
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I've almost certainly gone through this analysis before, but this once again shows us that (a) people become poor when they don't have enough money, (b) giving poor people money takes them out of poverty, and (c) attaching conditions and tracking to that money, rather than keeping it out of the hands of not-poor people, instead fails to lift people out of poverty.
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## 12:03 -- Fri 04 August 2023
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[<i class="fab fa-mastodon"></i> Quoted on Mastodon](https://mastodon.social/@jcolag/110832188263173631)
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> It is our follies that make our lives uncomfortable. Our errors of opinion, our cowardly fear of the world’s worthless censure, and our eagerness after unnecessary gold have hampered the way of virtue, and made it far more difficult than, in itself, it is.
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{% cite Owen Feltham %}
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Hashtags: #Quotes
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## Bonus
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Because it accidentally became a tradition early on in the life of the blog, I drop any additional articles that didn't fit into the one-article-per-day week, but too weird or important to not mention, here.
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{% embed https://images.theconversation.com/files/537918/original/file-20230717-248134-k6gf9e.jpg|A Mickey Mouse pin with rainbow colors adorns a worker's shirt|false| %}
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<i class="fas fa-square"></i> [Progressives’ embrace of Disney in battle with DeSantis over LGBTQ rights comes with risks](https://theconversation.com/progressives-embrace-of-disney-in-battle-with-desantis-over-lgbtq-rights-comes-with-risks-207465) from The Conversation
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> Corporations’ loyalties tend to lie with profits and shareholders, and the political principles that companies embrace may get quickly discarded when profits are threatened.
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I feel like I've talked a lot about this, recently, though maybe not on the blog. Recent politics has left me in an uncomfortable position, because we now see progressives cheering a monopolistic company trying to push back against corporate oversight. And while I feel happy watching Disney and DeSantis hurt each other, whoever survives this will present a greater threat to all of us, later.
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## Follow Me
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If you appreciate this sort of content, then you should probably [follow me <i class="fab fa-mastodon"></i> on Mastodon](https://mastodon.social/@jcolag/) to get it as early as possible...and feel free to reply, at least to the good stuff.
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**Credits**: Header image is [Circular diagrams showing the division of the day and of the week](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CLM_14456_71r_detail.jpg) from a manuscript drafted during the Carolingian Dynasty.
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