[#024] TacocaT / Forever / Romantic Animal / Mitten
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Forever (portland, or)
Romantic Animal (greensboro, nc)
Mitten (brooklyn, ny)
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“ The thing is, it’s patriarchy that says men are stupid and monolithic and unchanging and incapable. It’s patriarchy that says men have animalistic instincts and just can’t stop themselves from harassing and assaulting. It’s patriarchy that says men can only be attracted by certain qualities, can only have particular kinds of responses, can only experience the world in narrow ways. Feminism holds that men are capable of more – are more than that. ”
On claiming to be a stupid man who doesn’t know anything « Zero at the Bone
Exactly this. This is why I despise it when men refuse to have a conversation with me about these issues and instead play dumb.
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“ In 1968, he accepted a teaching position at the University of Southern California. But he was recruited by Harvard Law School, where students were pressuring the administration to hire a black professor. Mr. Bell conceded that he did not have the usual qualifications for a Harvard professorship, such as a federal court clerkship or a degree from a top law school. In 1980, Mr. Bell became the dean of the University of Oregon School of Law, but he resigned in 1985 when an Asian woman was denied tenure. After returning to Harvard in 1986, he staged a five-day sit-in in his office to protest the school’s failure to grant tenure to two professors whose work involved critical race theory. In 1990, he vowed to take an unpaid leave of absence until the school, which had never had a black woman on its tenured faculty, hired one. Two years later, the school refused to extend his leave, effectively ending his employment. By then, Mr. Bell was teaching at New York University Law School, where he remained a visiting professor until his death. Harvard Law School hired Ms. Guinier in 1998. “Most people think of iconoclasts as lone rangers,” Ms. Guinier said. “But Derrick was both an iconoclast and a community builder. When he was opening up this path, it was not just for him. It was for all those who he knew would follow into the legal academy. ”
Derrick Bell, Law Professor and Racial Advocate, Dies at 80 - NYTimes.com (via harrietsdaughter)
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RevNaomi Tumblr: 5 Smooth Stones of Liberal Religion (for children)
I appreciate James Luther Adams’ complex and rewarding essay on the five smooth stones of liberal religion. I translated it into a simplified form for use in adult programming, but then that still didn’t pass the five-year-old-test.
I’d like us to be able to use the five smooth stones in our…
Dropbox Lied to Users About Data Security, Complaint to FTC Alleges | Threat Level | Wired.com
Yes, it seems the whole Internet is talking about this story. That said, here is the general rule of thumb we all should be aware of as a blanket statement of security about everything:
If you want your data to be 100% secure, here’s the solution:
Don’t have data.
Anything on or attached to the Internet could be accessed no matter what. This is especially true of anything you willingly give to someone else, no matter what they promise. The only way to be safe is to locally encrypt all of your data and never, ever, attach it to the Internet. Though, that is only as safe as someone taking your machine and breaking the encryption which, well, the government could surely do if they wanted to.
The bottom line is that the moment you even have data it is at some level of risk. So the real question is how much risk are you comfortable with?
For instance, I’m reasonably sure my hosting provider could read my IMAP based email anytime they want to. I’m also reasonably sure that, someone with the right skills could hack into my local machine from afar and read whatever they wanted. Therefore, I’m not at all surprised that a company that syncs data to the cloud that I allow it to and then to other machines has the ability to read that data and hand it over to authorities if pressed to do so under threat or law.
By connecting with the Internet in the first place I’m assuming some level of risk. Having my email hosted by a 3rd party I’m assuming another. Put any of my data in the hands of anyone else (Dropbox in this instance), well, that is yet another.
Osama Bin Laden spent years not connected to the internet and encrypting his data. This still has not stopped our government from taking his machine and finding his porn stash.
I’m trading security for personal convenience in all of these cases and it’s a risk I have, thus far, been comfortable with in the instances I have done so. A big part of that comfort comes from knowing that most of our ideas about security are stories we like to tell ourselves and each other to help us sleep comfortably at night. The Internet knows much more about us then most of our friends do from the moment the cable guy flips the switch.
So, yes, back to the Dropbox thing…
Just be reasonably careful so you can be reasonably comfortable and know that there is no such thing as secure data.
Have a nice day!
RevNaomi Tumblr: 5 Smooth Stones of Liberal Religion
The five smooth stones of liberal religion are from a Unitarian Universalist theologian & ethicist, James Luther Adams.
1. Revelation & truth are continuously revealed.
2. We freely choose to be in relationship with one another.
3. We have a moral obligation to create a just & loving community.
(Paris, May 1968) Beauty is in the Street (by ledatape
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