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yeloson1. The Berkeley Thai Temple avoids being shut down.
Ironically the discussion I keep coming back to is the ways in which gentrification is held up as an "innocent" process, one without intent (oh intent). The way in which cultural landmarks, places where communities gather and use as anchors are always the first targeted.
Specific to this case, the "innocent neighbors" did everything from accusing the monks of putting addictive narcotics in the food to showing up to yell at the monks and then call the police on the monks. Nevermind that a Christian church could draw 300-600 people every week and not be considered a "threat".
The way in which losing only a little is a victory these days.
2. Microsoft wants to go toe to toe with Apple stores.
I foresee a lot more of their time than they expected being dedicated to trying to explain to customers that they are not responsible for your computer crashing if you loaded it with 3 billion third party apps, illegally downloaded off the internet, and turned off all your firewalls in your urges for peer to peer pr0n... They'll probably also miss the point of free internet and attractive young people as two major draws to the store.
Microsoft needs to understand how it's business model fundamentally differs from Apple and stop trying to put the round peg in the square hole...
3. Karnythia is setting up her own small press publishing house for geeks of color.
As always, if we want to have a voice, it's us having to make space for it. Too bad I'm not a fiction writer.
4. Reading up more on Moorish Spain, I'm both facepalm/lulz about the level of "BUT THE MOORS WEREN'T BLACK PEEPLE, NO SIR" which echoes really, really closely to when the British lost a few thousand soldiers to the Zulus and then suddenly tried to claim, "Clearly the Zulus had Aryan heritage". Meanwhile we got dudes teaching Spain how to be fly, with deodorant and toothpaste.
Ironically the discussion I keep coming back to is the ways in which gentrification is held up as an "innocent" process, one without intent (oh intent). The way in which cultural landmarks, places where communities gather and use as anchors are always the first targeted.
Specific to this case, the "innocent neighbors" did everything from accusing the monks of putting addictive narcotics in the food to showing up to yell at the monks and then call the police on the monks. Nevermind that a Christian church could draw 300-600 people every week and not be considered a "threat".
The way in which losing only a little is a victory these days.
2. Microsoft wants to go toe to toe with Apple stores.
I foresee a lot more of their time than they expected being dedicated to trying to explain to customers that they are not responsible for your computer crashing if you loaded it with 3 billion third party apps, illegally downloaded off the internet, and turned off all your firewalls in your urges for peer to peer pr0n... They'll probably also miss the point of free internet and attractive young people as two major draws to the store.
Microsoft needs to understand how it's business model fundamentally differs from Apple and stop trying to put the round peg in the square hole...
3. Karnythia is setting up her own small press publishing house for geeks of color.
As always, if we want to have a voice, it's us having to make space for it. Too bad I'm not a fiction writer.
4. Reading up more on Moorish Spain, I'm both facepalm/lulz about the level of "BUT THE MOORS WEREN'T BLACK PEEPLE, NO SIR" which echoes really, really closely to when the British lost a few thousand soldiers to the Zulus and then suddenly tried to claim, "Clearly the Zulus had Aryan heritage". Meanwhile we got dudes teaching Spain how to be fly, with deodorant and toothpaste.
