Interesting Links for 26-01-2024

[andrewducker]

1. Apple to allow rival app stores and browsers on iPhones in EU

(tags:Europe regulation iPhone Apple browsers apps )

2. A collection of stories of queer and trans Floridians who have fled the state

(tags:Florida LGBT transgender republicans bigotry )

3. Looking at how much male and female characters speak in the Disney Princess movies

(tags:viaElfy Disney language gender )

4. More states propose bills to exclude trans, nonbinary people from public life

(tags:LGBT USA law bigotry transgender viaBenWerdmuller )

5. A new global gender divide is emerging as young women shift in a more liberal direction and young men shift to the right

(tags:politics gender )

6. What if consciousness is a coping mechanism?

(tags:funny comic consciousness )

7. The "Code of Conduct" for Improbably Island is fantastic. Anyone running an online community should read it.

(tags:internet discussion behaviour regulation )

8. QWERTLE - like Worldle, but based on keyboard location. I got today's in 4.

(tags:words games keyboard )

Comments

5

[channelpenguin]

Seems equality/diversity is seen as zero-sum game by young men? Like the only way to "give" rights and respect to women and minorities is to "take" it from them (the young men). Like it's a thing of limited supply. A resource like land or money?

I guess both sides think life is kinda shit but want to move in different directions to solve it.

That and that super right wing society looks DEEPLY unattractive to women.

The UK looks oddly different with men actually still becoming more liberal, just more slowly (except maybe at the very end?)

Re: 5

[ckd]

The Weekly Sift's The Distress of the Privileged discusses the zero-sum viewpoint.

[kerk_hiraeth]

Not being allowed to access the nitter.net one; something about 'instance rate limited', which means nothing to me.

kerk

[andrewducker]

If you have a Twitter account you can replace "nitter.net" with "twitter.com" and it will work.

[kerk_hiraeth]

Not going to be able to read it then :-(

kerk

[andrewducker]

Sorry! Usually Nitter works as a reader for people without Twitter accounts, but it seems to be overloaded right now.

[darkoshi]

This site checks for currently working nitter mirrors and redirects to one of them: https://twiiit.com/
so you can replace "twitter.com" in URLs by "twiiit.com".

I only discovered it a few minutes ago, so I don't know yet how reliable it is.

[andrewducker]

Thank you!

[magedragonfire]

I've been doing content moderation and player mediation on various forums, games, and smaller-sized social media sites for just about two decades at this point, and I'm chuffed to see that Improbable Island's policies (and decisions to make those the policies) largely overlap with the policies of the friendly roleplay-focused site that I'm currently modding for. It's always nice to see another (figurative?) island out there that's waving the same flag you are.

[andrewducker]

I'm really glad that there are multiple places out there that have similar approaches!

[calimac]

7) Improbable Island's code reads as if it's a well-established and popular site. So I'm a little surprised that it doesn't have a Wikipedia entry.

Regardless, it does read well and seems in large part as if it's addressed at clueless young people who may transgress without intending to. A couple matters not specifically about the rules caught my eye:

"Most people don't know this, but you can actually plug a standard computer keyboard and/or mouse into most phones and tablets and use them like a proper computer." Really? I once bought on Amazon a plug-in keyboard that said it was specifically designed for the model of tablet I had. It didn't work.

"Because URL shorteners hide the URL to which they're redirecting the viewer, they're used almost exclusively by spammers" Really? I see them all the time with perfectly legitimate uses.

"When A asks for further specificity in the boundaries that V tries to erect, what A is really doing is looking for loopholes and further opportunities to pull another DARVO on V." No, not always. If they're young and naive, they may just be really confused. I remember as a child desperately trying to elicit from my parents what the rules were, because they'd come down on me like a ton of bricks when I inadvertently violated some rule I had no idea of, or sometimes when it was something they'd let pass on many previous occasions. It was especially traumatic because I was never the kind of child who deliberately misbehaved.

6. What if consciousness is a coping mechanism?

[maia]

Doesn't seem like what if consciousness is a coping mechanism, but rather what if the belief that you have free will is a coping mechanism?

Re: 6. What if consciousness is a coping mechanism?

[andrewducker]

Also true