Category: Bookmark

Read Revelations About Johns Hopkins, The Man (wypr.org)
The story passed down for generations was that the wealthy Quaker merchant Johns Hopkins was also an abolitionist. After he died in 1873, his multi-million-dollar bequest for the university and hospital bearing his name seemed an extension of an enlightened vision. So the discovery of census records that Hopkins owned enslaved people—one in 1840, four a decade later … is shocking. Hopkins president asked Professor Martha S. Jones, an authority on African-American history, to lead continuing research about the founder’s links to slavery. We ask why it’s important.
I’ve bookmarked the audio file to listen to shortly. Depressing that after all these years of thinking of him as an abolitionist that he apparently had slaves. Can’t wait to hear Dr. Jones’ research and thoughts.
Bookmarked A Defense of Abortion by Judith Jarvis Thomson (Philosophy & Public Affairs, Vol. 1, no. 1 (Fall 1971))
Most opposition to abortion relies on the premise that the fetus is a human being, a person, from the moment of conception. The premise is argued for, but, as I think, not well. Take, for example, the most common argument. We are asked to notice that the development of a human being from conception through birth into childhood is continuous; then it is said that to draw a line, to choose a point in this development and say "before this point the thing is not a person, after this point it is a person" is to make an arbitrary choice, a choice for which in the nature of things no good reason can be given. It is concluded that the fetus is, or anyway that we had better say it is, a person from the moment of conception. But this conclusion does not follow. Similar things might be said about the development of an acorn into an oak trees, and it does not follow that acorns are oak trees, or that we had better say they are. Arguments of this form are sometimes called "slippery slope arguments"—the phrase is perhaps self explanatory—and it is dismaying that opponents of abortion rely on them so heavily and uncritically.
ᔥ Ben Burgis in Judith Jarvis Thomson (1929–2020) ()
Bookmarked Grow the IndieWeb with Webmentions by Amber WilsonAmber Wilson (amberwilson.co.uk)
When I re-made my site with Eleventy, the pages didn't change much, but I had loads of fun adding new features. The most fun was webmentions and I'm here to convince you to add them! First, let me step back and explain why webmentions exist—the IndieWeb.IndieWeb Check out this official description...
Bookmarked Web Data Render by gpiresnt (webdatarender.com)

This website is a valid JSON!

Check the source code. Instead of the habitual HTML and CSS, you will see just a plain JSON with the website's information.

WDR is a format to separate the website's information and design.

The website is readily available to be consumed outside the browser via JSON, but also still presentable to users accessing through the web browser.

An interesing(?) idea, but there’s not much I can do with this page because of it’s structure. I’d need a huge amount of infrastructure to be able to parse and read this page with so many tools I use on a regular basis. Even my website parser chokes on it. Ugh…

While it seems nice in concept, it just isn’t compatible with much else on the web… What problem is this really fixing? I only see it making new problems.

Bookmarked Velox Theme by David WolfpawDavid Wolfpaw (GitHub)
Development repository for the Velox Theme for WordPress - davidwolfpaw/velox-theme

Cool! Looks like another IndieWeb friendly WordPress theme on the horizon. I’ll need to take a look at it soon.

ᔥ David Wolfpaw in #80945 (THEME: Velox – 1.0.5) – WordPress Themes ()

Bookmarked Linguistic Profiling by John BaughJohn Baugh (Black Linguistics: Language Society and Politics in Africa and the Americas (Routledge))
The concept of "linguistic profiling" is introduced here as the auditory equivalent of visual “racial profiling.” We ultimately argue that linguistic profiling is more finely tuned to diversity among Americans than are dissatisfactory racial classifications that have been used in the courts and for controversial...
Thinking a bit this morning about the cognitive biases involved in dialect differences and how they impact racist ideas and help effect racist policies. John Baugh’s work on linguistic profiling seems like a good place to start. 
Bookmarked On the Media | Breaking News Consumer's Handbook | WNYC Studios (WNYC Studios)
Breaking news reporting often gets essential facts wrong. In fact, the rampant misreporting can be so common as to be predictable. And so, On the Media has developed formulas (with the help of experts) for how to spot spotty coverage. Rather than counting on news outlets to get it right, we're looking at the other end. We have some tips for how to sort good information from bad -- whether the breaking news is about a tragic mass shooting or a stock market crash, an epidemic or a rash of election polls. Below is our collection of Breaking News Consumer's Handbooks, and it's growing all the time. Each one comes with a printable PDF that you can tape to your wall the next time you encounter a big news event.
I’ve listened to many in this series over time, but there are a few I’ve missed and would like to revisit.