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Lots of people talking about the pandemic like it's over.

It's not.

If you have a kid under the age of 5? Still unprotected. Kids between 5 and 12 are just getting within a week of the second dose.

This. Is. Not. Over.

Look at the numbers in Europe. Watch the numbers in the states in the coming 2-3 weeks.

It will be a long winter.

This is NOT a bummer post. This is a reminder that we are NOT DONE.

STAY ALERT.

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What does anti-bias training have to do with audio engineering?

One time, a film maker called me up because she wanted to use a hubub of voices as a music statement but it wasn't coming off. I listened to the audio and knew just the thing! A resonant 70s style low pass filter would keep the timbres but jettison the words. I ran her vocal recording through my synthesiser and proudly returned with the improved audio.

She listened. "This does sound a lot better," she said, "but you've completely prioritised the men's voices and removed the women."

Cis normativity aside, she was right. My process had made altos much softer and pretty much nuked sopranos. I had to go back and organise each audio sample by vocal range and run the filter multiple times. It was time consuming, but the result was much nicer.

She noticed this because she knew what it was to be silenced according to vocal range - something that has gradually faded from my mind as its no longer a regular occurrence for me. If I'd been working with a fellow tenor or a bass, we might never have noticed. The audio would have been worse and the while project subtly effected by unconscious bias.

Instead, when the film was released, a reviewer praised the sound in that section.

Unconscious bias isn't just unfair, it makes *your* work worse.

the existence of allosaurus suggests the existence of acesaurus

https://twitter.com/topherflorence/status/1462541449476542471?s=20

WE HAVE TO CHANGE EVERYTHING

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Old lady sitting next to me on the Tube asked why I was carrying a flower, so I explained about Trans Day of Remembrance. She said she didn’t understand why there was so much fuss about trans people now when they’d been around all her life, and she was sorry it had become political
#TDoR

www.thenation.com/article/activism/white-anti-racism-must-be-based-in-solidarity-not-altruism/

"The dominant liberal conception of white anti-racism emphasizes altruism. In this mode, white people must set aside our own self-interest in order to extend kindness to those less fortunate. Humanitarian assistance is rewarded, and those who practice it are hailed for their self-sacrifice and generosity.

"White people are encouraged to defer, shrink, and assist. It is not our fight, the white-altruism mode says, so we must strive to decenter ourselves and support black people’s “advancement” as peripheral allies, doing what kindnesses we can to compensate them for the privileges we enjoy....

"Time and again, white people acting as allies in other people’s “progress” have not just failed to address racist power relations; they have entrenched white dominance. Altruism cannot be the basis for white anti-racist action. There’s only one thing that can: solidarity.

"Solidarity is about unity, not around like-mindedness or affinity but around common interests. Neither having the same opinions nor even mutual fondness is required for one to enter into a solidarity relationship with another. All they need is the acknowledgement that, to achieve liberation, “I need you and you need me.”...

"Only when white people come to see that our own liberation is bound up in the liberation of others can we achieve solidarity and have a basis for white anti-racism that does not produce the colonial outcomes generated by altruism.

"White people in and adjacent to poverty have solid grounds for this type of solidarity; they are directly victimized by a politics that relies on racist rhetorical appeals.

"In the “privilege” framework, racist inequality induces white people to feel guilty, which produces inaction. In the “universal-rights” framework, it induces us to feel fury, which inspires action. No longer is it, “I feel bad for even thinking it, but thank goodness I don’t have it as bad as those who are worse off.” Instead, it becomes, “let’s get together and collect our due.” "

hey if any of my mutuals near seattle/tacoma could help my girlfriend move her stuff from a storage container in federal way to a truck waiting outside

this is the last thing before she has housing for the first time in months

it would be an absolutely huge help

Here's the *cutest* picture of Cathy ever, by https://twitter.com/cutepencilcase ! I love how the electronic parts of her look!

friend is planning to cover their lawn in wildflowers that are illegal to destroy so that no one can demand she mows the lawn cause fuck lawns

An adorable little cow coming through a doggy door #happycowgifs #cows https://redd.it/qx4x6g

Unpopular opinion: One should never call themselves an expat. Sure, it used to have a specific meaning, but nowadays, its meaning is just "privileged (white) immigrant".

Ever since I moved to Berlin, I made a point to call myself an immigrant, and it was surprising how many low-key racists got confused by that, as they preferred to call white immigrants expats to differentiate that from "the bad ones".

Note, you're not bad for calling yourself an expat, but it's worth a reevaluation.