Just got a hand-delivered letter from a PI

[conuly]

Sad thing is, I don't know the person it's for. She certainly does not live here.

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How Deaf Children in Nicaragua Created a New Language

The Bizarre Story of the Seattle Mystery Vending Machine

Fifth-century mosaics offer clues on life in a medieval Jewish village

Wolf Puppies Are Adorable. Then Comes the Call of the Wild.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever

Street network orientation in major cities

Cool vintage ad

Cities of ladies

The American Revolution’s Greatest Leader Was Openly Gay

The Crucial Southern Blackberry

Should We Share Human Cancer Treatments With Tumorous Turtles?

The Tragic 1925 Cave Rescue That Captivated the Nation

‘It keeps us safe’: An NYC bathroom set up to stem overdoses

What we buy can be used to predict our politics, race or education — sometimes with more than 90 percent accuracy

Despite detente, sanctions on North Korea fan TB epidemic

As Arctic warms, reindeer herders tangle with new industries

Just How Transparent Can a Criminal Justice Algorithm Be?

A movement to let the formerly incarcerated cut hair and drive taxis is gaining ground.

All Things Ill-Considered: NPR’s Sexist Blunder

Will Trump Be Meeting With His Counterpart — Or His Handler?

Kids fleeing Venezuela left hungry, sick and even abandoned

Immigration Story Missing Context of Hunger and Freedom

Officials admit they may have separated family – who might be US citizens – for up to a year

Cleaning Toilets, Following Rules: A Migrant Child’s Days in Detention

Mike Picarella wanted to protect a co-worker from humiliating sexual harassment. He didn't expect his own life to be destroyed in the process. (Note: Explicit discussion of the harassment in question)

Home may be forever lost for displaced within Syria

Why many women in India refuse water during a heatwave

Comments

[author_by_night]

I would be really interested to know how US citizen got caught up in the mess. Not because I'm dubious, but because I'm horrified by the implications for Americans of Hispanic and Latin descent.

[kengr]

Didn't you know? They've been deporting US citizens who look Hispanic for more than 100 years!

Including some mass deportations where they just gathered up anybody who looked "Mexican" and hauled *thousands* across the border with no attempt to see if they were citizens or not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Repatriation

And if you follow the right sources a case or two hits the news every year. Not having your ID on you, or having ID that the ICE agents think "looks fake" and you get dumped across the border.

Due process? What's that?

Among other things, you aren't entitled to a lawyer in immigration hearings (if you even *get* a hearing)

[stardreamer]

In addition to that, they're now working on ways to revoke naturalization. This is ethnic cleansing, pure and simple, and the eventual goal is a lily-white USA.

[conuly]

Did you hear about the two women in, what, Colorado who were accosted by an ICE agent because he happened to overhear them speaking in Spanish?

Legally you do NOT have to carry your ID on you at all times, but they could've just been swooped up, just like that.

[sabotabby]

You should insinuate that you do know something, if only to increase your potential to get in over your head with femme fatales and men who spend far too much time smoking in front of Venetian blinds. The state of the world is just so horrifying that you need an escape.

[conuly]

If my escape ends up leaving me in Chinatown, I'm gonna be pissed.

[greghousesgf]

as always, thank you for some very interesting articles!

[conuly]

:D

[wpadmirer]

I like the mystery vending machine story.

As for blackberries, there are wild ones growing on the grounds where I work. Our maintenance guy shares them with me when he goes out to do the well testing. He picks whatever is ripe and brings it back and we split it!

[conuly]

Yum.

[siderea]

"One story claimed Von Steuben loved to host cocktail nights for his favorite cadets... no clothing allowed."

Wow, rev war historical reenacting just got so much more interesting.

Kit also got way easier. At least for the men.

[conuly]

Wow, rev war historical reenacting just got so much more interesting.

Indeed.

[siderea]

All Things Ill-Considered: NPR’s Sexist Blunder

OMG

[stardreamer]

Yeah. Just like it's never deliberate when a "Best X" booklist contains only books by white men. That's just the way it came together.

[conuly]

Oh, they always include one woman author. See, totes not deliberate! She's the one who qualified!

[siderea]

That sort of thing at least has plausible deniability and is entirely subjective.

Who authors a book is not a subjective opinion, but an objective – and checkable – fact.

Which pushes this incident into a different ethical realm. Now we're talking about journalistic integrity.

This isn't just about some men didn't feel women were good enough to be included. This is a man sanding off the woman's credits to misrepresent what he was reporting on.

This is the sort of "oops" that should get a reporter fired. And I've suggested as much to NPR's ombudsperson – who handles complaints about journalistic integrity.

I recommend everyone else do too.

[conuly]

Yes, I too thought "blunder" was putting it lightly.

[siderea]

Yeah, that's an mistake in the sense that licking a live lightbulb socket is a mistake: it was bad judgment, sure, but it in no way was accidental.

[thewayne]

Many years ago at my condo I used to get calls for a Ms. X. Never heard of her before, and she wasn't the previous occupant (who was a convicted felon). Finally I asked why everyone was looking for her: multiple credit card fraud. I explained that I had just gotten this landline Y years ago, and the calls stopped.

[conuly]

Seems self-evident to me that anybody deadset on perpetrating multiple credit card fraud isn't going to use their real phone number to do it. Did they really think otherwise?

[halfshellvenus]

I loved the story about the mystery vending machine in Seattle. Now I want to visit it!

[conuly]

Doesn't it sound so cool? I'd almost like to set up a copycat, but stocking it - oof!