20210419

Mon Apr 19 06:00:02 EDT 2021 ======================================== Slept from ten to seven. Woke briefly around five. Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Work ---------------------------------------- Randy's father died over the weekend. He'll be off Wednesday through Friday. - work on schema for Entrata cache Done. Twenty-five-minute walk at lunch. Overcast. Not especially cool. Dandelions, tulips, and irises blooming. Saw a flying turkey vulture. EdgeRouter 4's were finally back in stock. I ordered a couple, despite the fact we might go with a non-Ubiquiti product in the near future. Home ---------------------------------------- Ed sent this NYT link with the comment: > We’re gonna get genocided dude, no joke https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/11/opinion/tucker-carlson-white-replacement.html?smid=em-share > On Thursday, Fox News host Tucker Carlson caused an uproar by promoting the racist, anti-Semitic, patriarchal and conspiratorial “white replacement theory.” Also known as the “great replacement theory,” it stands on the premise that nonwhite immigrants are being imported (sometimes the Jewish community is accused of orchestrating this) to replace white people and white voters. The theory is also an inherent chastisement of white women for having a lower birthrate than nonwhite women. > As Carlson put it: > “I know that the left and all the gatekeepers on Twitter become literally hysterical if you use the term ‘replacement,’ if you suggest that the Democratic Party is trying to replace the current electorate, the voters now casting ballots, with new people, more obedient voters, from the third world. But, they become hysterical because that’s what’s happening, actually. Let’s just say it: That’s true.” > Carlson continued, “Every time they import a new voter, I become disenfranchised as a current voter.” FFS, immigration is not genocide of the white race, you fascist loon. In a democracy, you're not always in the majority, and _that's OK_ — that's why a functional democracy has to protect the rights of minorities. Fuck. https://github.com/scottbez1/splitflap https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26858741 Like those old flip display alarm clocks! I like the mechanical analysis in the [second video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAQJJAQSg_g). Hmm, Herman Miller is apparently buying Knoll for $1.8 billion. https://jpmens.net/2021/04/09/the-unix-magic-poster/ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/article/japan-hikikomori-isolation-society > In Japan, observes photographer Maika Elan, “there are always two sides that oppose one another. It is both modern and traditional, bustling and very lonely. Restaurants and bars are always full, but if you pay close attention, most are packed with customers eating alone. And in the streets, no matter the hour, you find exhausted office employees.” > The counterpart to people living solitary lives in public might well be those who have chosen to shut themselves away. Known as hikikomori, these are people, mainly men, who haven’t participated in society, or shown a desire to do so, for at least a year. They rely instead on their parents to take care of them. In 2016, the Japanese government census put the figure at 540,000 for people aged 15-39. But it could easily be double that number. Since many prefer to stay entirely hidden, they remain uncounted. > At the parents’ request—and at a cost of about $8,000 USD per year—women like Ayako regularly contact the recluse, starting with letters. The process takes months as he goes through the motion of opening them, writing back, chatting on the phone, talking through the door before finally allowing her in. Many more are required before he ventures out with her. The goal is to get him to go live in New Start’s dorm and participate in its job-training program. > Ayako, whose role as a ‘rental sister’ might be best understood as that of a social worker, claims to have helped between forty and fifty of them out of their isolation in her decade-long career. > Elan shadowed Ayako on visits to eleven different hikikomori, and after five or six meetings was allowed to take pictures. “At first, I thought they were lazy and selfish,” she admits, but over time as she got to know them, she learned not only how thoughtful and perceptive they can be. “There are so many people out there working themselves to the ground; the hikikomori, in a way draw Japan into balance.” Ayako Oguri giving a written letter to Masahiro Koyama http://maikaelan.com/ https://witness.worldpressphoto.org/it-felt-safe-here-adcb41725fc2 > When their parents get old and pass away, hikikomori fall into an even more dramatic condition. After losing their source of financial support, many of them quickly become severely destitute. In other cases, the parents leave behind considerable assets, hoping that their offspring will be able to get by in isolation by scrimping and gradually drawing on the inherited savings. > New Start has a live-in community center, as well as a restaurant and cafés, where hikikomori can interact with the community through work experience and social activities. During the two months, I went three times per week to join them for lunch. I would try to learn about their stories and become friends with them. I also joined the weekly Saturday evening party, with food prepared by people from the center. Locals are invited each week to come and meet some of the hikikomori, in an attempt to break down the stigma associated with the condition. To stay in New Start, the parents have to pay between $2,000-$3,000 a month, depending on their child's condition. > It was a very long process. Most of the hikikomori didn’t want to meet me at first, but I continued to go with the rental sister, standing at the door and saying hello outside of the house. Meetings between the hikikomori and the rental sister usually take around two hours. After two or three times, the hikikomori would eventually accept me and allow me to go in the house and wait in the living room. After visiting three to five times, they would then allow me to go into the room, join the meeting, and take some pictures. > Usually, it will take a rental sister about one to two years to draw the hikikomori out. https://www.reddit.com/r/Keep_Track/comments/mu0pj0/far_right_lawmakers_create_white_nationalist/ > A draft document outlining a new caucus led by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) was leaked to the media on Friday, sparking widespread backlash from both parties. The ‘America First Caucus’ includes Reps. Paul Gosar (R-AZ), Barry Moore (R-AL), and Louie Gohmert (R-TX); Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) tweeted Friday that he would also be joining. In its introductory document, the Caucus aims to support “uniquely Anglo-Saxon political traditions” and only accept immigrants who “have demonstrated respect for this nation’s culture”. These white nationalist tropes have been seen before in America, in the early 1900s: > > In the 1920 publication “The Rising Tide of Color: The Threat Against White World Supremacy," Lothrop Stoddard made the same claims, warning that white Americans were being engulfed by the more "fertile" nonwhite races. Americans of “Anglo-Saxon origin,” he insisted, had to restrict immigration to preserve their country for “future generations who have a right to demand of us that they shall be born white in a white man’s land.” > > ...This popular panic over immigration helped revive the Ku Klux Klan, which pressed the issue aggressively in the early 1920s. The Klan's imperial wizard warned in 1922 about "the tremendous influx of foreign immigration, tutored in alien dogmas and alien creeds, slowly pushing the native-born white American population into the center of the country, there to be ultimately overwhelmed and smothered." > Faced with backlash from even House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, Greene walked back the very existence of the Caucus the next day... despite her spokesperson seemingly affirming the group hours earlier. > > "Be on the look out for the release of the America First Caucus platform when it's announced to the public very soon," [Greene’s spokesperson Nick] Dyer said in a statement to CNN Friday. > > "The Congresswoman wants to make clear that she is not launching anything. This was an early planning proposal and nothing was agreed to or approved," he said in an email to CNN [on Saturday afternoon]. > Rep. Gosar also tried to distance himself from the Caucus, claiming he never heard of the leaked document before media reports. “I will continue to work on America First issues in the House Freedom Caucus,” he said in a written statement. “I will not let the lying media deter me from the America First work I have been championing for years in the House Freedom Caucus and with President Trump”. > The nationalist and anti-immigrant themes of the America First Caucus came on the heels of Tucker Carlson’s embrace of “replacement theory” live on Fox News. The previous week, Carlson told his audience that Democrats are trying to “replace the current electorate” with “more obedient voters from the Third World” (clip. The Anti-Defamation League immediately called out the white nationalist roots of such an argument: > > While couching his argument in terms of what he described as the Democratic Party attempting to replace traditional voters with immigrants from third-world countries, Carlson’s rhetoric was not just a dog whistle to racists – it was a bullhorn. > > Make no mistake: this is dangerous stuff. The “great replacement theory” is a classic white supremacist trope that undergirds the modern white supremacist movement in America. It is a concept that is discussed almost daily in online racist fever swamps. It is a notion that fueled the hateful chants of “Jews will not replace us!” in Charlottesville in 2017. And it has lit the fuse in explosive hate crimes, most notably the hate-motivated mass shooting attacks in Pittsburgh, Poway and El Paso, as well as in Christchurch, New Zealand. > The ADL called for his firing; Fox News CEO Lachlan Murdoch refused and Carlson doubled down on his position: “Now, I know that the left and all the little gatekeepers on Twitter become literally hysterical if you use the term ‘replacement,’ if you suggest that the Democratic Party is trying to replace the current electorate, the voters now casting ballots, with new people, more obedient voters from the Third World. But … let’s just say it: That’s true.” (Clip). > Further reading: “Tucker Carlson Is Giving ‘Red Pills’ To Millions. White Nationalists Are Thrilled,” HuffPost. “White nationalists praise Tucker Carlson's full embrace of their “replacement” conspiracy theory,” Media Matters. “The 'white replacement theory' motivates alt-right killers the world over,” The Guardian. https://www.adl.org/news/media-watch/adl-letter-to-fox-news-condemns-tucker-carlsons-impassioned-defense-of-great > Last night, in a segment on his program dealing with voting rights and allegations of voter disenfranchisement, Tucker Carlson disgustingly gave an impassioned defense of the white supremacist “great replacement theory,” the hateful notion that the white race is in danger of being “replaced” by a rising tide of non-whites. While couching his argument in terms of what he described as the Democratic Party attempting to replace traditional voters with immigrants from third-world countries, Carlson’s rhetoric was not just a dog whistle to racists – it was a bullhorn. > Make no mistake: this is dangerous stuff. The “great replacement theory” is a classic white supremacist trope that undergirds the modern white supremacist movement in America. It is a concept that is discussed almost daily in online racist fever swamps. It is a notion that fueled the hateful chants of “Jews will not replace us!” in Charlottesville in 2017. And it has lit the fuse in explosive hate crimes, most notably the hate-motivated mass shooting attacks in Pittsburgh, Poway and El Paso, as well as in Christchurch, New Zealand. > In short, this is not legitimate political discourse. It is dangerous race-baiting, extreme rhetoric. This white replacement theory is exactly what Ed is spouting. ☹️ Spent an hour before bed working on the south-east section of the level zero maze for my megadungeon. Servings: grains 6/6, fruit 2/4, vegetables 2/4, dairy 2/2, meat 2/3, nuts 0/0.5 Brunch: banana, two hot dogs, cucumber, coffee Lunch: apple Dinner: cheese curls, ramen with avocado

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