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How to do a good bad job « trying » with your loved one’s transition

Liked How To Do A Good Bad Job « Trying » With Your Loved One’s Transition by Daniel Lavery (The Chatner)

Trail off immediately [after using the right pronoun] if you can, to demonstrate that the effort has drained your slender resources. “The store…” What were you saying? Who can remember? Your voice has been stolen. This is so hard!!!

After the excellent Avoiding transition by family committee, here’s the other side of the coin: How to do a good bad job « trying » with your loved one’s transition. Hilarious, and horribly true, as usual.

deprecating content

Liked Advent of Technical Writing: Deprecating Content by James James (jamesg.blog)

This is the tenth post in the Advent of Technical Writing series, wherein I will share something I have learned from my experience as a technical writer. My experience is primarily in software technical writing, but what you read may apply to different fields, too. View all posts in the series.
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This is something I never quite know how to approach at work. Thanks for writing it, James − it’s going to be shared with my colleagues!

Palo Alto by Malcolm Harris

Read Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World by Malcolm Harris ( )

The first comprehensive, global history of Silicon Valley, from railroad capitalists to microchip assemblers, showing how Northern California created the world as we know it

Palo Alto is nice. The weather is temperate, the people are educated, rich, healthy, enterprising. Remnants of a hippie counterculture have synthesized with high technology and big finance to produce the spiritually and materially ambitious heart of Silicon Valley, whose products are changing how we do everything from driving around to eating food. It is also a haunted toxic waste dump built on stolen Indian burial grounds, and an integral part of the capitalist world system.

I forced myself to not take any notes or highlights when reading this book, and ended up with three (3) highlights on a 700+ page book, which I consider a win. Palo Alto was a really good book at some points, and felt like a chore at others. I think the images and narratives are…

Yes, men are losing rights in the age of feminism

Liked Yes, men are losing rights* in the age of feminism (tacit.livejournal.com)

That’s the pesky asterisk in “men are losing rights*”. And it’s a different argument than “ha ha ha LOL shut up you haven’t lost any rights.” Men have lost rights. Unpacking why, and whether we shoud’ve ever had them to begin with, is a different conversation, and one I think we need to be willing to have if we are to deconstruct the weird entitlement of the manosphere.