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Weirdly, [Epsilon Scorpii](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epsilon_Scorpii) (ε Sco, about 65 light years from Earth) is named Larawag from a [Wardaman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardaman_people) word---not Lactra, the name of the star in the episode---though the names do bear some mild resemblance to each other. Larawag is probably best known for representing [Ceará](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cear%C3%A1), the Brazilian state, on the national flag. Foster has changed star names before, and seems to have delighted in filling his background with non-European names, so it's surprising that he didn't make the change, here.
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> "Keeper-animal relationships have always been fluid, Bones," observed Kirk, "even on Earth. We have one category for ourselves and one for most other animals. But then there are the primates and the cetaceans. Intelligent behavior is often a question of artificially applied standards. Maybe the dolphins consider is part of *their* zoo. On this world I think we ought to be flattered if they've put us into the latter category. In any case, they've taken the precaution of putting us behind bars."
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> "Keeper-animal relationships have always been fluid, Bones," observed Kirk, "even on Earth. We have one category for ourselves and one for most other animals. But then there are the primates and the cetaceans. Intelligent behavior is often a question of artificially applied standards. Maybe the dolphins consider us part of *their* zoo. On this world I think we ought to be flattered if they've put us into the latter category. In any case, they've taken the precaution of putting us behind bars."
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I raised the question of why we haven't seen any non-human animals treated as peers in the post about [*The Gamesters of Triskelion*]({% post_url 2020-11-26-games %}), and this at least hints at the most troubling possible answer: Humans haven't gone to the trouble of trying to communicate, with Kirk not having the foggiest idea what dolphins think.
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title: Tweets from 03/07 to 03/11
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date: 2022-03-11 14:32:02-0500
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categories: media
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tags: [twitter, week, socialmedia, linkdump]
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summary: Tweets for the Week of March 07th, 2022
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thumbnail: /blog/assets/CLM_14456_71r_detail.png
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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. But I now add most of my commentary here, where I'm not restricted by the message length.
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I also don't generally attach pictures to posts with quotations.
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## 9:03 -- Mon 07 March 2022
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[<i class="fab fa-twitter-square"></i>](https://twitter.com/jcolag/status/1500834402368208907) [‘Yes, He Would': Fiona Hill on Putin and Nukes](https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/02/28/world-war-iii-already-there-00012340) from Politico
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> It's not that we should be intimidated and scared. That's exactly what he wants us to be.
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Among the interesting points that Hill makes is her comment that World War III has been fought for many years, not in a conspiratorial way, but because the globalized world that we all benefit from means that just about every military action has immediate and global consequences. What remains to be seen is whether we can bring it to a close without losing hundreds of millions of lives.
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However, you'll notice that the solution revolves around something that I've mentioned more than once: Everybody that we would currently hate to see *win* a world war fund themselves primarily by oil money, suggesting an obvious way to push for peace.
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## 12:02 -- Mon 07 March 2022
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[<i class="fab fa-twitter-square"></i>](https://twitter.com/jcolag/status/1500879449306255361)
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> Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
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{% cite Louisa May Alcott %}
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## 9:04 -- Tue 08 March 2022
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[<i class="fab fa-twitter-square"></i>](https://twitter.com/jcolag/status/1501197042017837061) [The tech industry talks about boosting diversity, but research shows little improvement](https://theconversation.com/the-tech-industry-talks-about-boosting-diversity-but-research-shows-little-improvement-177011) from The Conversation
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> ...minimal increases in diversity in their professional labor force, primarily driven by small increases in the employment of Asian men and Asian women...
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It's not nearly ready to go, but I've been working on a post on an adjacent topic, about how companies talk about how "you can't improve what you don't measure," then refuse to measure anything about their hiring process beyond "butts in seats."
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## 12:05 -- Tue 08 March 2022
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[<i class="fab fa-twitter-square"></i>](https://twitter.com/jcolag/status/1501242591995592704)
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> The reins of government have been so long slackened, that I fear the people will not quietly submit to those restraints which are necessary for the peace and security of the community.
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{% cite Abagail Adams %}
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I'm not saying that Adams is *definitely* talking about the trucker protests---where truckers suddenly have enough savings to take weeks off, after decades of barely eking out a living, because they're afraid to get vaccinated---but...
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## 9:05 -- Wed 09 March 2022
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[<i class="fab fa-twitter-square"></i>](https://twitter.com/jcolag/status/1501559681642233859) [Let's Recall What Exactly Paul Manafort and Rudy Giuliani Were Doing in Ukraine](https://www.propublica.org/article/lets-recall-what-exactly-paul-manafort-and-rudy-giuliani-were-doing-in-ukraine#1270987) from ProPublica
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> According to the Senate report, Manafort met Kilimnik twice in person while working on the Trump campaign, messaged with him electronically and shared "sensitive campaign polling data" with him.
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As Fiona Hill mentions in the Monday article, this invasion has been in the works for many years, with the Trump campaign at the center of it. In addition to these shady business dealings, don't forget Trump's "perfect call" with Zelenskyy trying to extort information by stopping promised military aid *or* the administration's constant attempts to weaken and undermine NATO.
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## 12:03 -- Wed 09 March 2022
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[<i class="fab fa-twitter-square"></i>](https://twitter.com/jcolag/status/1501604476645380097)
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> To live is so startling, it leaves but little room for other occupations.
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{% cite Emily Dickinson %}
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## 9:02 -- Thu 10 March 2022
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[<i class="fab fa-twitter-square"></i>](https://twitter.com/jcolag/status/1501921314457620484) [Ukraine's war unleashes flood of racism by media and politicians against Arab war victims](https://globalvoices.org/2022/03/02/ukraines-war-unleashes-flood-of-racism-by-media-and-politicians-against-arab-war-victims/) from Global Voices
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> As thousands took the life-threatening journey of crossing the Mediterranean Sea to reach Europe and start over, European countries have set up laws, policies, and barriers to stop them from entering their countries...
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What's interesting to me is how this incident has laid thoroughly bare the situation in corporate media. What I mean is that there is the *kernel* of the idea of good reporting in these statements; the public could probably have benefited from journalists saying something like "we have tended to focus our attentions on the violence among non-white populations, so many white viewers might find it jarring to see victims of war that look like them. It's jarring to us. We will try to do better in the future."
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That's not what any of them are saying, though. The "liberal media" (ha!) is saying that, in their eyes, war is supposed to be something that happens among brown people, and that being able to identify with victims is a new experience for *them*.
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## 12:01 -- Thu 10 March 2022
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[<i class="fab fa-twitter-square"></i>](https://twitter.com/jcolag/status/1501966361207066652)
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> It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.
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{% cite Willa Cather %}
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## 9:01 -- Fri 11 March 2022
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[<i class="fab fa-twitter-square"></i>](https://twitter.com/jcolag/status/1502261084446670860) [GOP Hostility to Ketanji Brown Jackson Goes Beyond Hypocrisy](https://otherwords.org/gop-hostility-to-ketanji-brown-jackson-goes-beyond-hypocrisy/) from OtherWords
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> When a party thwarts that right...they negate the Supreme Court's legitimacy.
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There isn't anything particularly new to this article, but it does keep attention on the simple fact that the Republican Party is now openly opposed to democracy, *especially* if any of the people that the government is for, of, and by happen to be Black.
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## 12:04 -- Fri 11 March 2022
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[<i class="fab fa-twitter-square"></i>](https://twitter.com/jcolag/status/1502329504391335939)
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> Any time while I was a slave, if one minute's freedom had been offered to me, and I had been told that I must die at the end of that minute, I would have taken it---just to stand one minute on God's earth a free woman---I would.
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{% cite Elizabeth Freeman %}
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## Bonus
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Because it accidentally became a tradition early on in the life of the blog, here are any additional articles that didn't fit into the week, but too weird or important to not mention.
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<i class="fas fa-square"></i> [DNA from ancient African foragers indicates cultural change](https://www.futurity.org/ancient-african-dna-foragers-2703312-2/) from Futurity
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> Researchers long assumed that major changes in the archaeological record about 50,000 years ago reflected a shift in social networks and maybe even changes in population size. However, such hypotheses have remained difficult to test.
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I'm admittedly not convinced that social systems are connected to DNA, but this is still remarkable research.
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<i class="fas fa-square"></i> [The Single-Legged Stool of the Horseshoe Left's Apology for Putin](https://www.emptywheel.net/2022/03/02/the-single-legged-stool-of-the-horseshoe-lefts-apology-for-putin/) from emptywheel
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> For years, Putin has portrayed any popular uprising for democracy as a CIA plot, a claim that many anti-imperialists championed, thereby denying those calling for democracy any agency.
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Especially if you read [the **Entropy Arbitrage** newsletter](https://entropy-arbitrage.mailchimpsites.com/), you might think that I hammer too hard on this concern about left-wing support for fascists, as long as they're not Western. However, I'm convinced that it's one of the most important forces in Western politics, certainly a factor in how we ended up with fascists as heads of Western governments.
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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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