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Tue 12 Mar 2019 09:26:52 AM EDT Slept from eleven to seven. Woke briefly around five. High of forty-five and sunny today. Work: - Patch Tuesday Done. - Thin clients Thirty-minute walk lunch. Crescent moon in the blue key. Still cool, but not cold. Home: - Prepare BP graph Done. - Go to bed by 10 PM https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/03/on_surveillance.html > In a blog post about this report, Cory Doctorow mentioned "the adoption curve for oppressive technology, which goes, 'refugee, immigrant, prisoner, mental patient, children, welfare recipient, blue collar worker, white collar worker.'" I don't agree with the ordering, but the sentiment is correct. These technologies are generally used first against people with diminished rights: prisoners, children, the mentally ill, and soldiers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kusanagi > Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi (草薙の剣) is a legendary Japanese sword and one of three Imperial Regalia of Japan. > Due to the Shinto priests' refusal to show the sword, and the rather unreliable nature of its historical references, the current state of, or even the existence at all of, the sword as a historical artifact cannot be confirmed. https://sarkos.tumblr.com/post/183383315038/aoc-feints-towards-fully-automated-luxury > During a talk at SXSW yesterday, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez got an audience question about automation and jobs and answered by saying, “We should not be haunted by the specter of being automated out of work. We should be excited by that. But the reason we’re not excited by it is because we live in a society where if you don’t have a job, you are left to die. And that is, at its core, our problem.” > This is the underlying premise of what’s semi-seriously called “fully automated luxury communism” – the idea that automation could usher in an era of universal comfort and plenty, but only if its dividends are shared among workers and owners of capital. There’s no justice or glory in the fact that all of us use toilets and only some of us have to clean them, after all – but if we figured out how to automate toilet cleaning, there would be even less justice and glory in discarding the people who’ve been cleaning toilets all along. https://www.wikiwand.com/en/DTrace https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/03/microsoft-brings-oracles-open-source-dtrace-tracing-to-windows/ https://www.metafilter.com/179845/Surprisingly-one-thing-you-wouldnt-always-find-in-a-tea-room-was-tea https://daily.jstor.org/the-top-secret-feminist-history-of-tea-rooms/ > In the early 1900s, tea rooms were the answer for single women who wanted some sort of career. They were well suited to widows or wives hoping to supplement family income, or teachers who wanted to continue working during the summer (many of them set up shop for only a few months in fashionable vacation spots). > What was the impetus for so many women to start tea rooms? Much of it had to do with women’s inability to dine publicly unaccompanied in regular restaurants, according to the Americanist Cynthia Brandimarte’s article, “‘To Make the Whole World Homelike’: Gender, Space, and America’s Tea Room Movement.” The tavern and hotel scenes were dominated by men. Women weren’t welcome in some places at all, and only with a man in others. The tea room, so often either a home or a homelike environment, gave women chances to dine out—whether she was a working woman on a lunch break, taking a break from shopping, or touring with friends in the newly invented automobile. > The menus were also full of salads, most of them of the fruit or mayonnaise variety. You might recognize tiny finger sandwiches, but many of them had unfamiliar fillings to a modern palate. One example is a “Novelty” sandwich, which Whitaker describes as chopping an onion, ten pitted olives, one green pepper, and a dill pickle, all mixed together with cottage cheese. Surprisingly, one thing you wouldn’t always find in a tea room was tea. https://www.citylab.com/design/2018/12/history-womens-bathroom-design-lounge/576742/ > “The Victorians ... valued privacy and modesty, and we see that translated into the public restrooms, especially these lounge spaces attached to women’s rooms,” said design historian Alessandra Wood. “If you think about Victorian garments, they were very big—hard to get in and out of—and you’d actually need a space to get undressed to go to the bathroom, and then get dressed again.” > “Interestingly, ornate lounges for women preceded public restrooms by several decades,” Kogan explained, noting that there were parlors for women in public buildings many years prior to when most of America had indoor plumbing. In other words, gender separation and protecting women’s virtue was initially the justification for these spaces, and the toilet came later. Servings: grains 1/6, fruit 3/4, vegetables 4/4, dairy 1/2, meat 2/3, nuts 0/0.5 Breakfast: migas, mandarin, banana, carrots, cucumber, coffee Lunch: carrots, tomato, banana, yogurt Afternoon snack: coffee Dinner: gyro 120/77

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