Good Things Friday (272) and Link Love
May 10, 2024
1. We need more of this: Columbia And Barnard Alumni Announce A Boycott Of University Reunions And Plans To Send Funds From Alternative Events To Aid In Palestine
2. Can’t say I expected a seminary to be the first one but good on them! Union Theological Seminary votes to divest from companies profiting from Gaza war
Challenges this week: still grieving. Still sick.
A friend hit a big milestone: Q1 2024 Plan Update: We’re Millionaires!
Nothing bad is allowed to happen to this kid: Teen grabs wheel when driver passes out and school bus veers into traffic
I can’t follow the math or theory, whether it’s brain fog or just my poor mathing skills I don’t know, but good on those kids!: 2 High School Students Prove Pythagorean Theorem. Here’s What That Means “Two high school students have proved the Pythagorean theorem in a way that one early 20th-century mathematician thought was impossible: using trigonometry. Calcea Johnson and Ne’Kiya Jackson, both at St. Mary’s Academy in New Orleans, announced their achievement last month at an American Mathematical Society meeting.
In their talk at the American Mathematical Society meeting, Jackson and Johnson said a trigonometric identity called the law of sines didn’t depend on the Pythagorean theorem and that they could use it to prove the theorem.”
From one warrior princess to another, Lucy Lawless explores life of Margaret Moth
Cat climbed into Amazon return box, found alive 630 miles away
This is awful: PenguiCon 2024 Postmortem or How Not to Handle Cyberstalking
CW, child abuse, this country is absolutely garbage at protecting kids from abuse, and then turns around and incarcerates them for trying to escape the abuse: Bresha Meadows Thought You’d Understand “At the age of 14, she killed her abusive father. Before she pulled the trigger, it hadn’t occurred to her that she would go to jail.”
That’s the way a lot of straight white guys think of the world — they think that it requires an active hatred on your part to be prejudiced, bigoted or to be a participant in white supremacy. The notion is that if you’re not actively doing something to oppress somebody, then you’re not part of the problem. As opposed to quietly enjoying all of the privilege that’s been bestowed on you by generations of this dominance.
That was the fundamental failure of my perception. It’s been a process of enlightenment for me to realize and accept that my very status as a white guy in America is the product of institutional prejudices, that I’ve enjoyed the benefits of them, passively and actively. And I’m responsible for accepting my role in the patriarchy, and in white supremacy, and in the subjugation and abuse of minorities of all kinds.
