Poptimism (also called popism), a portmanteau of pop and optimism, is a mode of discourse which holds that pop music deserves the same respect as rock music and is as authentic and as worthy of professional critique and interest.

via: https://jude-doyle.ghost.io/po/

the tension between the black and asian american community is complicated. with asian american immigrants being both foreigners and racial minorities, how does this position them in a black-white socioracial framework?

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A CRDT stack with browser and server storage, with supporting backends.

Shawn Hatosy discusses HBO Max’s hit show The Pitt, his guest role as Dr. Abbot and the ‘meaningful response’ he’s gotten from the medical community.

This Article studies the intersection of race and gender, examining it through the lens of Western imperialism. Even though both critical race and feminist scholarship have addressed this intersection,few if any offer a precise theory for understanding the imperialized experience. This Article seeks to fill that void. The social inequality minority women face, in particular those of Asian descent, can be best articulated by a theory this Article calls white sexual imperialism.

This is an extremely harrowing piece, but it does show there is a way.

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via: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46289918

There were faster ways to get to Budapest, but Joe had spent half the year restoring an ‘81 280E and he was dying to take it out on a real drive.

BOB Konferenz, Best of Breed Konferenz für Software-Entwickler und Entscheider in der Softwareentwicklung.

The “fast and lightweight browser” you’ve probably been overlooking

It is impossible to disentangle technical innovation from technical debt. Machine learning feels theoretical, but in practice it runs on benchmarks, leaderboards, and social norms. In this post, Ben Recht reflects on why ML progress is driven more by engineering culture and empirical testing than clean theory. And why that tension is impossible to escape.

The data professions (data science, analysis, engineering, etc.) are highly technical fields, and much online discussion (in particular, on this blog!), conference presentations and classes focus on technical aspects of data work or on the results of data analyses. These discussions are necessary for teaching important aspects of the data trade, but they often ignore the fact that data and analytics work takes place in an interpersonal and organizational context.