• Gmail And Yahoo Inbox Updates & What They Mean For Senders | Mailgun
    https://www.mailgun.com/blog/deliverability/gmail-and-yahoo-inbox-updates-2024

    The requirement from both Gmail and Yahoo is to set up strong authentication with “SPF, DKIM, and DMARC for your domain.” Previously not a requirement, this move towards implementing DMARC is something Sinch Mailgun’s Jonathan Torres had already predicted in our guide on email security and compliance.

    (...) For­ DMAR­C you will­ need­ to set at mini­mum a p=no­ne poli­cy. (...)

    Il ne suffit plus d’avoir SPF et DKIM, il va aussi falloir implémenter l’enregistrement DMARC, en mode « none » au minimum.

    • Je ne comprend pas pourquoi le standard mail n’évolue pas.
      Si les corps de mails étaient stockés sur le serveur d’émission et non sur celui de réception, le stockage des spam serait à la charge de l’émetteur. Du coup :
      1. les serveurs de réception pourraient accepter beaucoup plus facilement les entêtes
      2. le corps pourrait être scanné pour les spams uniquement lorsque l’utilisateur demande l’affichage d’où une réduction de charge.
      3. le volume global de transaction et de stockage serait beaucoup plus faible (seuls les entêtes seraient copiés pour un mail à plusieurs destinataire)

      En fait on est resté sur un modèle basé sur les lettres papiers.

    • After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel. The oligopoly has won.
      Carlos Fenollosa
      https://cfenollosa.com/blog/after-self-hosting-my-email-for-twenty-three-years-i-have-thrown-in-the-
      Le problème est plus grave. Das Internet ist kaputt. L’exclusion des petit prestataires est sytématique. Depuis au moins deux ans je ne propose plus l’hébergement de boîtes email (sur mes serveurs). Ce monsieur espagnol explique pourquoi.

      September 04, 2022 — Many companies have been trying to disrupt email by making it proprietary. So far, they have failed. Email keeps being an open protocol. Hurray?

      No hurray. Email is not distributed anymore. You just cannot create another first-class node of this network.
      ...

      #monopoles #oligopoles #email #internet

    • De mon côté, depuis 2 ans, ça va mieux.

      Mieux : les serveurs Microsoft se font jeter par Google, et réciproquement. Parce que ponctuellement, les uns et les autres ne sont pas capables de respecter les RFC. Quand ça tombe sur un client que j’ai été contraint de migrer vers MS, ça fait plaisir de pouvoir lui dire que Microsoft n’est pas la panacée non plus.

      Ça va mieux au sens où MS et Google ont cessé de filtrer sur des règles arbitraires (surtout MS d’ailleurs). Il reste Orange, avec des règles absurdes, mais c’est vraiment rare qu’on doive intervenir.

      On en reste de notre côté à 3 points à contrôler :
      1) Les DNS conformes : SPF, DKIM, DMARC ; parfois, DKIM est compliqué, selon l’hébergement final utilisé
      2) Les IP émettrices identifiées et en nombre limité : ici, on concentre les flux sur deux IP RIPE
      3) La surveillance des DNSBL, pour être toujours au vert ; pas mal de temps qu’on n’a pas eu besoin de faire quoi que ce soit à ce sujet

    • De ce que je lis ici, l’enregistrement #DMARC est imposé uniquement si on envoie plus de 5000 e-mails par période de 24 heures sur un service (GMail ou Yahoo donc) :

      https://www.it-connect.fr/fevrier-2024-google-et-yahoo-imposent-utilisation-spf-dkim-dmarc

      En dessous, la norme reste SPF et/ou DKIM. Par contre, "Tous les domaines et adresses IP utilisées pour émettre des e-mails doivent avoir un enregistrement DNS de type « PTR » (reverse) correctement configuré" et ça, je ne sais pas trop ce que ça veut, si quelqu’un·e a des infos...

      Bon, j’imagine que ce n’est qu’une première étape et ça sera généralisé à terme.

    • L’enregistrement PTR, c’est de s’assurer que si ton serveur de messagerie répond qu’il se nomme toto.domain.tld, il faut que l’IP publique émettrice réponde « toto.domain.tld » à une recherche inverse.

      En mode Linux, avec la commande host, je vérifie la résolution dans les deux sens, nom vers IP et IP vers nom (PTR) :

      $ host seenthis.net
      seenthis.net has address 217.182.178.243
      $ host 217.182.178.243
      243.178.182.217.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer seenthis.net.

      Et là, je vérifie ce que répond le serveur de messagerie dans sa réponse d’accueil :
      $ nc seenthis.net 25
      220 seenthis.net ESMTP Postfix (Debian/GNU)

      Tout est conforme, donc.

  • Le Business du bonheur

    De la légendaire Lise Bourbeau à la reine du rangement Marie Kondo, en passant par la star du développement personnel Tony Robbins, le bonheur est une industrie qui fait des millionnaires. C’est aussi une idéologie : le culte de l’optimisme, de la résilience et de la performance individuelle. Mais alors que la consommation d’antidépresseurs ne cesse d’augmenter et que les burn-out se multiplient dans nos sociétés, que cache cette obsession contemporaine pour le bonheur ?

    https://www.film-documentaire.fr/4DACTION/w_fiche_film/66144
    #film #documentaire #film_documentaire
    #développement_personnel #management #positivité #bonheur #psychologie_positive #choix #marché #coaching #individualisme #science_du_bonheur #Martin_Seligman #psychanalyse #Freud #thérapie_comportementale #optimisme #pessimisme #espoir #forces_Clifton #Don_Clifton #leadership #volontarisme #self-help #protestantisme #la_recherche_du_bonheur #recherche_du_bonheur #self-made_man #méritocratie #responsabilité_individuelle #inégalités #agency (#pouvoir_d'agir) #USA #Etats-Unis #libéralisme #éducation_positive #émotions #psychologie_sociale #team-building #cache-misère #travail #chief_happiness_officer #volonté #convivialité #docilité #happiness_economics #Richard_Layard #center_of_economic_performance (#CED) #bien-être_individuel #David_Cameron #programmes_d'activation_comportementale #chômage #rapport_Stiglitz #Gallup #adaptation #privatisation_de_la_souffrance

  • La voix des bègues
    https://metropolitiques.eu/La-voix-des-begues.html

    Réunies dans des groupes de self-help, les personnes bègues peuvent parler entre elles, loin de la stigmatisation habituelle. La non-mixité favorise une mise à distance des normes du bien parler, mais elle n’annule pas les inégalités langagières entre personnes bègues. Dossier : Espaces non mixtes : l’entre-soi contre les inégalités ? Dès le début du XXᵉ siècle, des mouvements de patient·e·s ont remis en cause le contrôle social exercé par l’institution médicale (Barbot 2002 ; Pinell et Broqua 2002). Nés aux #Essais

    / non-mixité, #handicap, santé, #stigmate, #langage

    #non-mixité #santé
    https://metropolitiques.eu/IMG/pdf/met_bourguignon.pdf

  • Pour une médecine féministe, avec #GYN&CO

    « On se lève et on se casse. » Pour sa saison 2, Genre aux poings se consacre aux féminismes de 2021 et à leur bouillonnement. Quelles stratégies coexistent contre la domination patriarcale ? Quelle force et quels moyens sont mobilisés pour se battre ? Cette semaine, Mélanie et Charline du collectif Gyn&Co nous parlent de leur travail et de la définition d’une médecine féministe.

    Épisode 9 : Pour une médecine féministe, avec Gyn&Co

    C’est quoi une médecine féministe ? Qu’est-ce qu’un‧e soignant‧e safe ? Charline et Mélanie, toutes deux membres du collectif Gyn&Co, créé en 2013, mettent en avant un principe d’écoute des besoins et des douleurs des patient‧es. « C’est être à l’écoute de ce que la ou le patient‧e exprime, son vécu, son besoin et qu’aucun acte ne lui soit imposé. C’est se départir de ses préjugés racistes, sexistes, transphobes, et être conscient‧e de ces oppressions dans le milieu médical. »

    Les discriminations liées au sexe et au genre s’immiscent aussi dans les cabinets médicaux et les services des hôpitaux. Depuis une dizaine d’années, les témoignages s’accumulent de patient‧es qui dénoncent les violences sexistes et sexuelles subies lors de consultations. Souvent, les champs de la gynécologie et de l’obstétrique concentrent beaucoup de témoignages. Le 19 novembre 2014, le hashtag #PayeTonUtérus fait émerger plus de 7000 témoignages de femmes en moins d’une journée.
    Renverser une médecine oppressive

    Au-delà de recevoir ces témoignages de #violences et de #discriminations, Gyn&Co se veut une initiative permettant de renverser plus profondément la pratique de cette médecine longtemps exercée par des hommes et pour des hommes. « On s’inscrit dans une tradition féministe du ‘#self-help’. Les mouvements des années 70 ont offert la #réappropriation_des_savoirs et des pouvoirs sur nos #corps. L’institution médicale a eu pour objet de nous déposséder de ces #savoirs », précise Charline.

    https://radioparleur.net/2021/05/01/medecine-feministe-avec-gynco
    #féminisme #médecine_féministe #gynécologie #femmes #audio #podcast

    • Trigger Warnings | Centre for Teaching Excellence

      A trigger warning is a statement made prior to sharing potentially disturbing content. That content might include graphic references to topics such as #sexual_abuse, #self-harm, #violence, #eating_disorders, and so on, and can take the form of an #image, #video_clip, #audio_clip, or piece of #text. In an #academic_context, the #instructor delivers these messages in order to allow students to prepare emotionally for the content or to decide to forgo interacting with the content.

      Proponents of trigger warnings contend that certain course content can impact the #wellbeing and #academic_performance of students who have experienced corresponding #traumas in their own lives. Such students might not yet be ready to confront a personal #trauma in an academic context. They choose to #avoid it now so that they can deal with it more effectively at a later date – perhaps after they have set up necessary #resources, #supports, or #counselling. Other students might indeed be ready to #confront a personal trauma in an academic context but will benefit from a #forewarning of certain topics so that they can brace themselves prior to (for example) participating in a #classroom discussion about it. Considered from this perspective, trigger warnings give students increased #autonomy over their learning, and are an affirmation that the instructor #cares about their wellbeing.

      However, not everyone agrees that trigger warnings are #necessary or #helpful. For example, some fear that trigger warnings unnecessarily #insulate students from the often harsh #realities of the world with which academics need to engage. Others are concerned that trigger warnings establish a precedent of making instructors or universities legally #responsible for protecting students from #emotional_trauma. Still others argue that it is impossible to anticipate all the topics that might be potentially triggering for students.

      Trigger warnings do not mean that students can exempt themselves from completing parts of the coursework. Ideally, a student who is genuinely concerned about being #re-traumatized by forthcoming course content would privately inform the instructor of this concern. The instructor would then accommodate the student by proposing #alternative_content or an alternative learning activity, as with an accommodation necessitated by a learning disability or physical disability.

      The decision to preface potentially disturbing content with a trigger warning is ultimately up to the instructor. An instructor who does so might want to include in the course syllabus a preliminary statement (also known as a “#content_note”), such as the following:

      Our classroom provides an open space for the critical and civil exchange of ideas. Some readings and other content in this course will include topics that some students may find offensive and/or traumatizing. I’ll aim to #forewarn students about potentially disturbing content and I ask all students to help to create an #atmosphere of #mutual_respect and #sensitivity.

      Prior to introducing a potentially disturbing topic in class, an instructor might articulate a #verbal_trigger_warning such as the following:

      Next class our discussion will probably touch on the sexual assault that is depicted in the second last chapter of The White Hotel. This content is disturbing, so I encourage you to prepare yourself emotionally beforehand. If you believe that you will find the discussion to be traumatizing, you may choose to not participate in the discussion or to leave the classroom. You will still, however, be responsible for material that you miss, so if you leave the room for a significant time, please arrange to get notes from another student or see me individually.

      A version of the foregoing trigger warning might also preface written materials:

      The following reading includes a discussion of the harsh treatment experienced by First Nations children in residential schools in the 1950s. This content is disturbing, so I encourage everyone to prepare themselves emotionally before proceeding. If you believe that the reading will be traumatizing for you, then you may choose to forgo it. You will still, however, be responsible for material that you miss, so please arrange to get notes from another student or see me individually.

      Trigger warnings, of course, are not the only answer to disturbing content. Instructional #strategies such as the following can also help students approach challenging material:

      – Give your students as much #advance_notice as possible about potentially disturbing content. A day’s notice might not be enough for a student to prepare emotionally, but two weeks might be.

      – Try to “scaffold” a disturbing topic to students. For example, when beginning a history unit on the Holocaust, don’t start with graphic photographs from Auschwitz. Instead, begin by explaining the historical context, then verbally describe the conditions within the concentration camps, and then introduce the photographic record as needed. Whenever possible, allow students to progress through upsetting material at their own pace.

      – Allow students to interact with disturbing material outside of class. A student might feel more vulnerable watching a documentary about sexual assault while in a classroom than in the security of his or her #home.

      – Provide captions when using video materials: some content is easier to watch while reading captions than while listening to the audio.

      – When necessary, provide written descriptions of graphic images as a substitute for the actual visual content.

      – When disturbing content is under discussion, check in with your students from time to time: #ask them how they are doing, whether they need a #break, and so on. Let them know that you are aware that the material in question is emotionally challenging.

      – Advise students to be #sensitive to their classmates’ #vulnerabilities when they are preparing class presentations.

      – Help your students understand the difference between emotional trauma and #intellectual_discomfort: the former is harmful, as is triggering it in the wrong context (such as in a classroom rather than in therapy); the latter is fundamental to a university education – it means our ideas are being challenged as we struggle to resolve cognitive dissonance.

      https://uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-teaching-excellence/trigger

    • Why Trigger Warnings Don’t Work

      Because trauma #survivors’ #memories are so specific, increasingly used “trigger warnings” are largely #ineffective.

      Fair warning labels at the beginning of movie and book reviews alert the reader that continuing may reveal critical plot points that spoil the story. The acronym NSFW alerts those reading emails or social media posts that the material is not suitable for work. The Motion Picture Association of America provides film ratings to advise about content so that moviegoers can make informed entertainment choices for themselves and their children.

      Enter stage right: Trigger warning.

      A trigger warning, most often found on #social_media and internet sites, alerts the reader that potentially upsetting information may follow. The words trigger warning are often followed by a subtitle such as *Trigger warning: This may be triggering to those who have struggled with _________. Fill in the blank. #Domestic_abuse. #Rape. #Body_image. #Needles. #Pregnancy.

      Trigger warnings have become prevalent online since about 2012. Victim advocate Gayle Crabtree reports that they were in use as early as 1996 in chat rooms she moderated. “We used the words ‘trigger warning,’ ‘#tw,’ ‘#TW,’ and ‘trigger’ early on. …This meant the survivor could see the warning and then decide if she or he wanted to scroll down for the message or not.” Eventually, trigger warnings spread to social media sites including #Tumblr, #Twitter, and #Facebook.

      The term seems to have originated from the use of the word “trigger” to indicate something that cues a #physiological_response, the way pollen may trigger an allergy attack. A trigger in a firearm is a lever that activates the sequence of firing a gun, so it is not surprising that the word was commandeered by those working in the field of #psychology to indicate objects and sensations that cause neurological firing in the brain, which in turn cause #feelings and #thoughts to occur.

      Spoiler alerts allow us to enjoy the movie or book as it unfolds without being influenced by knowledge about what comes next. The NSFW label helps employees comply with workplace policies that prohibit viewing sexually explicit or profane material. Motion picture ratings enable viewers to select movies they are most likely to find entertaining. Trigger warnings, on the other hand, are “designed to prevent people who have an extremely strong and damaging emotional response… to certain subjects from encountering them unaware.”

      Say what?

      Say hogwash!

      Discussions about trigger warnings have made headlines in the New Yorker, the Los Angeles Times, the Guardian, the New Republic, and various other online and print publications. Erin Dean writes that a trigger “is not something that offends one, troubles one, or angers one; it is something that causes an extreme involuntary reaction in which the individual re-experiences past trauma.”

      For those individuals, it is probably true that coming across material that reminds them of a traumatic event is going to be disturbing. Dean’s definition refers to involuntary fear and stress responses common in individuals with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder characterized by intrusive memories, thoughts, or dreams; intense distress at cues that remind the individual of the event; and reactivity to situations, people, or objects that symbolize the event. PTSD can result from personal victimization, accidents, incarceration, natural disasters, or any unexpected injury or threat of injury or death. Research suggests that it results from a combination of genetic predisposition, fear conditioning, and neural and physiological responses that incorporate the body systems and immunological responses. Current theories suggest that PTSD represents “the failure to recover from the normal effects of trauma.” In other words, anyone would be adversely affected by trauma, but natural mechanisms for healing take place in the majority of individuals. The prevalence of PTSD ranges from 1.9 percent in Europe to 3.5 percent in the United States.

      The notion that trigger warnings should be generalized to all social media sites, online journals, and discussion boards is erroneous.

      Some discussions have asserted that because between one in four and one in five women have been sexually abused, trigger warnings are necessary to protect vast numbers of victims from being re-traumatized. However, research shows that the majority of trauma-exposed persons do not develop PTSD. This does not mean they aren’t affected by trauma, but that they do not develop clinically significant symptoms, distress, or impairment in daily functioning. The notion that trigger warnings should be generalized to all social media sites, online journals, and discussion boards is erroneous. Now some students are pushing for trigger warnings on college class syllabi and reading lists.

      But what?

      Balderdash!

      But wait, before people get all riled up, I’d like to say that yes, I have experienced trauma in my life.

      I wore a skirt the first time George hit me. I know this because I remember scrunching my skirt around my waist and balancing in heels while I squatted over a hole in the concrete floor to take a piss. We were in Tijuana. The stench of excrement made my stomach queasy with too much tequila. I wanted to retch.

      We returned to our hotel room. I slid out of my blouse and skirt. He stripped to nothing and lay on the double bed. He was drinking Rompope from the bottle, a kind of Mexican eggnog: strong, sweet, and marketed for its excellent spunk. It’s a thick yellow rum concoction with eggs, sugar, and almond side notes. George wanted to have sex. We bickered and argued as drunks sometimes do. I said something — I know this because I always said something — and he hit me. He grabbed me by the hair and hit me again. “We’re going dancing,” he said.

      “I don’t feel like dancing — “

      “Fine. Stay.”

      The world was tilting at an angle I didn’t recognize. The mathematician Matt Tweed writes that atoms are made up of almost completely empty space. To grasp the vast nothingness, he asks the reader to imagine a cat twirling a bumblebee on the end of a half-mile long string. That’s how much emptiness there is between the nucleus and the electron. There was more space than that between George and me. I remember thinking: I am in a foreign country. I don’t speak Spanish. I have no money. We went dancing.

      Labeling a topic or theme is useless because of the way our brains work. The labels that we give trauma (assault, sexual abuse, rape) are not the primary source of triggers. Memories are, and not just memories, but very specific, insidious, and personally individualized details lodged in our brain at the time of the trauma encoded as memory. Details can include faces, places, sounds, smells, tastes, voices, body positions, time of day, or any other sensate qualities that were present during a traumatic incident.

      If I see a particular shade of yellow or smell a sickly sweet rum drink, I’m reminded of my head being yanked by someone who held a handful of my hair in his fist. A forest green Plymouth Duster (the car we drove) will too. The word assault does not. The words domestic violence don’t either. The specificity of details seared in my mind invokes memory.

      Last year a driver slammed into the back of my car on the freeway. The word tailgate is not a trigger. Nor is the word accident. The flash of another car suddenly encroaching in my rearview mirror is. In my mid-20s, I drove my younger sister (sobbing, wrapped in a bed sheet) to the hospital where two male officers explained they were going to pluck her pubic hair for a rape kit. When I see tweezers in a hospital, I flash back to that awful moment. For my sister, other things may be triggers: the moonlight shining on the edge of a knife. The shadow of a person back lit in a doorway. An Hispanic man’s accent. If we were going to insist on trigger warnings that work, they would need to look something like this:

      Trigger warning: Rompope.

      Trigger warning: a woman wrapped in a bed sheet.

      Trigger warning: the blade of a knife.

      The variability of human #perception and traumatic recall makes it impossible to provide the necessary specificity for trigger warnings to be effective. The nature of specificity is, in part, one reason that treatment for traumatic memories involves safely re-engaging with the images that populate the survivor’s memory of the event. According to Dr. Mark Beuger, an addiction psychiatrist at Deerfield Behavioral Health of Warren (PA), the goal of PTSD treatment is “to allow for processing of the traumatic experience without becoming so emotional that processing is impossible.” By creating a coherent narrative of the past event through telling and retelling the story to a clinician, survivors confront their fears and gain mastery over their thoughts and feelings.

      If a survivor has had adequate clinical support, they could engage online with thoughts or ideas that previously had been avoided.

      According to the National Center for Health, “#Avoidance is a maladaptive #control_strategy… resulting in maintenance of perceived current threat. In line with this, trauma-focused treatments stress the role of avoidance in the maintenance of PTSD. Prolonged exposure to safe but anxiety-provoking trauma-related stimuli is considered a treatment of choice for PTSD.” Avoidance involves distancing oneself from cues, reminders, or situations that remind one of the event that can result in increased #social_withdrawal. Trigger warnings increase social withdrawal, which contributes to feelings of #isolation. If a survivor who suffers from PTSD has had adequate clinical support, they could engage online with thoughts or ideas that previously had been avoided. The individual is in charge of each word he or she reads. At any time, one may close a book or click a screen shut on the computer. What is safer than that? Conversely, trigger warnings perpetuate avoidance. Because the intrusive memories and thoughts are internal, trigger warnings suggest, “Wait! Don’t go here. I need to protect you from yourself.”

      The argument that trigger warnings help to protect those who have suffered trauma is false. Most people who have experienced trauma do not require preemptive protection. Some may argue that it would be kind to avoid causing others distress with upsetting language and images. But is it? Doesn’t it sometimes take facing the horrific images encountered in trauma to effect change in ourselves and in the world?

      A few weeks ago, I came across a video about Boko Haram’s treatment of a kidnapped schoolgirl. The girl was blindfolded. A man was digging a hole in dry soil. It quickly became evident, as he ushered the girl into the hole, that this would not end well. I felt anxious as several men began shoveling soil in around her while she spoke to them in a language I could not understand. I considered clicking away as my unease and horror grew. But I also felt compelled to know what happened to this girl. In the 11-minute video, she is buried up to her neck.

      All the while, she speaks to her captors, who eventually move out of the frame of the scene. Rocks begin pelting the girl’s head. One after the other strikes her as I stared, horrified, until finally, her head lay motionless at an angle that could only imply death. That video (now confirmed to be a stoning in Somalia rather than by Boko Haram) forever changed my level of concern about young girls kidnapped in other countries.

      We are changed by what we #witness. Had the video contained a trigger warning about gruesome death, I would not have watched it. Weeks later, I would have been spared the rush of feelings I felt when a friend posted a photo of her daughter playfully buried by her brothers in the sand. I would have been spared knowing such horrors occur. But would the world be a better place for my not knowing? Knowledge helps us prioritize our responsibilities in the world. Don’t we want engaged, knowledgeable citizens striving for a better world?

      Recently, the idea of trigger warnings has leapt the gulch between social media and academic settings. #Universities are dabbling with #policies that encourage professors to provide trigger warnings for their classes because of #complaints filed by students. Isn’t the syllabus warning enough? Can’t individual students be responsible for researching the class content and reading #materials before they enroll? One of the benefits of broad exposure to literature and art in education is Theory of Mind, the idea that human beings have the capacity to recognize and understand that other people have thoughts and desires that are different from one’s own. Do we want #higher_education to comprise solely literature and ideas that feel safe to everyone? Could we even agree on what that would be?

      Art occurs at the intersection of experience and danger. It can be risky, subversive, and offensive. Literature encompasses ideas both repugnant and redemptive. News about very difficult subjects is worth sharing. As writers, don’t we want our readers to have the space to respond authentically to the story? As human beings, don’t we want others to understand that we can empathize without sharing the same points of view?

      Trigger warnings fail to warn us of the very things that might cause us to remember our trauma. They insulate. They cause isolation. A trigger warning says, “Be careful. This might be too much for you.” It says, “I don’t trust you can handle it.” As a reader, that’s not a message I want to encounter. As a writer, that is not the message I want to convey.

      Trigger warnings?

      Poppycock.

      http://www.stirjournal.com/2014/09/15/trigger-what-why-trigger-warnings-dont-work

    • Essay on why a professor is adding a trigger warning to his #syllabus

      Trigger warnings in the classroom have been the subject of tremendous #debate in recent weeks, but it’s striking how little the discussion has contemplated what actual trigger warnings in actual classrooms might plausibly look like.

      The debate began with demands for trigger warnings by student governments with no power to compel them and suggestions by #administrators (made and retracted) that #faculty consider them. From there the ball was picked up mostly by observers outside higher ed who presented various #arguments for and against, and by professors who repudiated the whole idea.

      What we haven’t heard much of so far are the voices of professors who are sympathetic to the idea of such warnings talking about what they might look like and how they might operate.

      As it turns out, I’m one of those professors, and I think that discussion is long overdue. I teach history at Hostos Community College of the City University of New York, and starting this summer I’m going to be including a trigger warning in my syllabus.

      I’d like to say a few things about why.

      An Alternative Point of View

      To start off, I think it’s important to be clear about what trigger warnings are, and what purpose they’re intended to serve. Such warnings are often framed — and not just by critics — as a “you may not want to read this” notice, one that’s directed specifically at survivors of trauma. But their actual #purpose is considerably broader.

      Part of the confusion arises from the word “trigger” itself. Originating in the psychological literature, the #term can be misleading in a #non-clinical context, and indeed many people who favor such warnings prefer to call them “#content_warnings” for that reason. It’s not just trauma survivors who may be distracted or derailed by shocking or troubling material, after all. It’s any of us, and a significant part of the distraction comes not from the material itself but from the context in which it’s presented.

      In the original cut of the 1933 version of the film “King Kong,” there was a scene (depicting an attack by a giant spider) that was so graphic that the director removed it before release. He took it out, it’s said, not because of concerns about excessive violence, but because the intensity of the scene ruined the movie — once you saw the sailors get eaten by the spider, the rest of the film passed by you in a haze.

      A similar concern provides a big part of the impetus for content warnings. These warnings prepare the reader for what’s coming, so their #attention isn’t hijacked when it arrives. Even a pleasant surprise can be #distracting, and if the surprise is unpleasant the distraction will be that much more severe.

      I write quite a bit online, and I hardly ever use content warnings myself. I respect the impulse to provide them, but in my experience a well-written title and lead paragraph can usually do the job more effectively and less obtrusively.

      A classroom environment is different, though, for a few reasons. First, it’s a shared space — for the 75 minutes of the class session and the 15 weeks of the semester, we’re pretty much all #stuck with one another, and that fact imposes #interpersonal_obligations on us that don’t exist between writer and reader. Second, it’s an interactive space — it’s a #conversation, not a monologue, and I have a #responsibility to encourage that conversation as best I can. Finally, it’s an unpredictable space — a lot of my students have never previously encountered some of the material we cover in my classes, or haven’t encountered it in the way it’s taught at the college level, and don’t have any clear sense of what to expect.

      For all these reasons, I’ve concluded that it would be sound #pedagogy for me to give my students notice about some of the #challenging_material we’ll be covering in class — material relating to racial and sexual oppression, for instance, and to ethnic and religious conflict — as well as some information about their rights and responsibilities in responding to it. Starting with the summer semester, as a result, I’ll be discussing these issues during the first class meeting and including a notice about them in the syllabus.

      My current draft of that notice reads as follows:

      Course Content Note

      At times this semester we will be discussing historical events that may be disturbing, even traumatizing, to some students. If you ever feel the need to step outside during one of these discussions, either for a short time or for the rest of the class session, you may always do so without academic penalty. (You will, however, be responsible for any material you miss. If you do leave the room for a significant time, please make arrangements to get notes from another student or see me individually.)

      If you ever wish to discuss your personal reactions to this material, either with the class or with me afterwards, I welcome such discussion as an appropriate part of our coursework.

      That’s it. That’s my content warning. That’s all it is.

      I should say as well that nothing in these two paragraphs represents a change in my teaching practice. I have always assumed that if a student steps out of the classroom they’ve got a good reason, and I don’t keep tabs on them when they do. If a student is made uncomfortable by something that happens in class, I’m always glad when they come talk to me about it — I’ve found we usually both learn something from such exchanges. And of course students are still responsible for mastering all the course material, just as they’ve always been.

      So why the note, if everything in it reflects the rules of my classroom as they’ve always existed? Because, again, it’s my job as a professor to facilitate class discussion.

      A few years ago one of my students came to talk to me after class, distraught. She was a student teacher in a New York City junior high school, working with a social studies teacher. The teacher was white, and almost all of his students were, like my student, black. That week, she said, one of the classes had arrived at the point in the semester given over to the discussion of slavery, and at the start of the class the teacher had gotten up, buried his nose in his notes, and started into the lecture without any introduction. The students were visibly upset by what they were hearing, but the teacher just kept going until the end of the period, at which point he finished the lecture, put down his papers, and sent them on to math class.

      My student was appalled. She liked these kids, and she could see that they were hurting. They were angry, they were confused, and they had been given nothing to do with their #emotions. She asked me for advice, and I had very little to offer, but I left our meeting thinking that it would have been better for the teacher to have skipped that material entirely than to have taught it the way he did.

      History is often ugly. History is often troubling. History is often heartbreaking. As a professor, I have an #obligation to my students to raise those difficult subjects, but I also have an obligation to raise them in a way that provokes a productive reckoning with the material.

      And that reckoning can only take place if my students know that I understand that this material is not merely academic, that they are coming to it as whole people with a wide range of experiences, and that the journey we’re going on #together may at times be #painful.

      It’s not coddling them to acknowledge that. In fact, it’s just the opposite.

      https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2014/05/29/essay-why-professor-adding-trigger-warning-his-syllabus

  • Quand les meufs ripostent - CQFD, mensuel de critique et d’expérimentation sociales

    Apprendre à réagir face à une agression, prendre conscience de sa puissance, détricoter les mythes sur la vulnérabilité : c’est l’idée de l’autodéfense féministe née dans les années 1970 de l’autre côté de l’Atlantique.

    http://cqfd-journal.org/Quand-les-meufs-ripostent
    https://lignesdeforce.wordpress.com/2020/02/22/notre-corps-nous-memes-un-classique-de-la-contre-informatio
    https://seenthis.net/messages/826639
    https://seenthis.net/messages/646765
    https://seenthis.net/messages/655611
    #féminisme #autodéfense #self-defense

  • Women don’t have the same rights to self-defense.

    When a bigger, stronger male beats up his much smaller wife, it’s almost impossible for her to kill him in self-defence (immediately and proportionately ie with nothing but her fists), and yet it’s the scenario through which she can hope to be acquitted or get a light sentence. That’s not a coincidence. The other two scenarios (and she will be despised if she picks either) are for her to
    1) kill him later (when he can’t use his physical advantage, eg when he’s asleep or has his back turned on her), but it won’t be self-defence because it won’t be immediate. (In the Jacqueline Sauvage case, one of the main arguments against her was that she shot her husband in the back at a time when he wasn’t actively beating her up)
    2) use a weapon, but it won’t be self-defence because it won’t be proportionate. Obviously this condition also benefits men, because when a woman gets punched by her husband and she punches him back, it’s seen as a proportionate response but it shouldn’t be, because her punch (typically) won’t do nearly as much damage as his. Anything else she does (like use a weapon) to try and hurt him as much as he hurt her will be considered a disproportionate response and will mean it wasn’t self-defence.

    The idea that killing your abuser in a honest face-to-face fight with your bare hands is honourable and forgivable, but killing your abuser in any other way is shameful and wrong, utterly benefits men and protects men. It’s also why poison was historically reviled as a ‘female weapon’ and as the most cowardly way to kill someone. Poison has been described as “a great equalizer” – no wonder men hated it. Men have always hated, and will keep hating, shaming, and outlawing, any form of attack through which women can compensate our disadvantage in strength and size, and they will keep praising as the only valid method of self-defence, the method that presents the smallest risk of being effectively used by women against them.

    Moral of the story? Woman leave a man, he kills her, medias romanticized his act as ‘he couldn’t live without her’ ‘he loved her too much’ passion crime

    Woman stay, he abuse her and eventually their children, woman is to blame because she stayed

    Woman protect herself with a weapon, murder and not self defense

    Woman try to protect herself with her own strength, man kills her and probably can argue he defended himself

    The only time a woman gets some sympathy is when she dies, kudos if she died protecting her children

    https://francoistremblay.wordpress.com/2017/05/29/women-dont-have-the-same-rights-to-self-defense
    via https://sporenda.wordpress.com/2019/12/02/women-dont-have-the-same-rights-to-self-defense
    #féminicide #self-défense #sexisme

  • #Africa_Rising documentary

    From Clover films and film maker #Jamie_Doran, comes a documentary examining the failure of western policies towards Africa and rethinking the role of western aid workers on the continent.

    Narrated by Tilda Swinton, Africa Rising takes a look at the benefits of ’Self Help’ in Ethiopia, a country potentially rich in resources, looking to find its own way out of poverty.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYS7T9UMrsA


    #film #documentaire #Afrique #développement #aide_au_développement #coopération_au_développement #Ethiopie #self-help #pauvreté #Afrique #famine #sécheresse #monoculture #agriculture #seasonal_hunger #malnutrition #cash_crops #semences #femmes #genre #micro-crédit #Sodo_region #syndrome_de_la_dépendance #dépendance_de_l'aide_internationale #santé #self-aid #désertification #self-help_Sodo #coopérative #coopérative_agricole #éducation

  • Why I Hate The Idea Of The “Side Hustle”
    https://hackernoon.com/why-i-hate-the-idea-of-the-side-hustle-347f6f0deb2e?source=rss----3a8144

    Originally Posted HereI hate the idea of the side hustle.Let me explain.Since I was 16 I had a knack for picking up 2–3 jobs at one time. Sometimes I did it on purpose, other times it honestly just happened.It started first when I was working as a cook in fine dining and one of the Chefs went to another restaurant and asked me to come along. Rather than quit my current gig, I decided to keep both jobs. Soon, that very same Chef asked me to deliver some micro greens (like micro beets, micro basil, etc) for 20 dollars an hour, which at the time (and even now) was amazing! So of course, I took him up on that offer as well. When I graduated from college I began working as a data engineer and this pattern continuedQuickly after entering the corporate world, I had a director who left come to me (...)

    #leadership #business #startup #self-improvement #development

  • Will Autonomous Vehicles Make Our Roads Safer ?
    https://hackernoon.com/will-autonomous-vehicles-make-our-roads-safer-a1cee347dbae?source=rss---

    Photo SourceSelf-driving cars are potentially on their way to becoming commonplace transportation in modern American households. Maybe you’ve heard about it, either through the news, a podcast, or an article on the internet. No matter what your familiarity with the concept is, one thing’s for certain: we could be sharing the roadways with self-driving vehicles in the next few years.Of course, when you think about the push of artificial intelligence (AI) into other parts of our day-to-day lives, it might not seem so crazy. With space exploration centers beginning to use AI droids in space, a self-driving vehicle seems pretty tame! But for now, they have yet to hit the roadways in a non-testing capacity.When they do, however, they are bound to change the roadways forever. Autonomous cars, (...)

    #the-future-of-travel #autonomous-cars #self-driving-cars

  • Keeping Self-driving Decisions Simple: Starsky #robotics’ Behavior Planning
    https://hackernoon.com/keeping-self-driving-decisions-simple-starsky-robotics-behavior-planning

    When people ask me what I do for a living, the shortest answer I give is: I help build safe autonomous trucks. I’ve been working on the behavior planning layer of Starsky Robotics’ autonomous driving stack for the last two years. Put simply, I develop software that allows our trucks to make good decisions, and I work with the rest of the team to show that the system is doing the right thing.Starsky Robotics’ Autonomous Truck“Behavior planning” is a bit of an unusual term, even within the industry, so let me first explain what we at Starsky mean by it. The behavior planning layer is responsible for the high level decision making of the truck, which we take to be decisions that have a few seconds or more lead time, like lane changes, taking an off-ramp, or pulling over to the side of the road (...)

    #self-driving-cars #validation #decision-making #trucking

  • Don’t Forget Step Zero
    https://hackernoon.com/dont-forget-step-zero-48f0463821c5?source=rss----3a8144eabfe3---4

    Don’t forget Step ZeroI’m a physicist who works at a YC #startup. The biggest mistake I’ve ever made is that I spent too much time as a physicist. The second biggest mistake I’ve ever made is that I spent too much time working on the wrong startup idea.After I stopped being a physicist and started a startup, I realized I could get more done faster through a startup. After I stopped working on the first startup idea and started working on the second one, I realized I could get more done faster through the second idea.Over the years, I’ve bumped into this pattern a lot. So much so that I gave it a name: I call it forgetting Step Zero.Step ZeroHere’s what I mean by Step Zero. When you have a task, the first thing you do to start working on it what you’d call Step One. But there’s a step before Step (...)

    #entrepreneurship #work #step-zero #self-improvement

  • Technological Advancement vs Morality
    https://hackernoon.com/technological-advancement-vs-morality-c11125d791ca?source=rss----3a8144e

    The biggest challenge the engineering world will face — or rather, is facing — is to incorporate morality and ethical values while both designing an engineered product as well as while engineering a product from scratch.Are #ethics lost in the process of winning the competition?Today’s market is growing very fast and the number of players in the market has increased exponentially over the years, with so many companies and engineers trying to design the same end product, everybody wants to outsmart one another, in this process the ultimate moral values and safety aspects are sometimes ignored and the main focus is shifted towards producing the best goods in the market. A good example of this is Volkswagen’s Dieselgate emission scam, where Volkswagen had cars with “defeat devices” — software that (...)

    #future #self-driving-cars #artificial-intelligence #technology

  • #gdpr and Self-Sovereign Identity: What Lies Ahead
    https://hackernoon.com/gdpr-and-self-sovereign-identity-what-lies-ahead-56de20055d5c?source=rss

    https://medium.com/metadium/the-evolution-of-identity-and-metadiums-role-db88e70ba79dGDPR and self-sovereign identity share a lot in common. GDPR regulates “the right to be forgotten” and self-sovereign identity enables it for the decentralized web. So, when and how will these two #privacy functions intersect?Self-sovereign and decentralized identity (DID) solutions like Blockstack, Sovrin or Ethereum’s uPort represent innovative opportunities for data ownership that use blockchains to flip the current model of centralized identity management on its head.Identity management is an important component of online applications. Typically, when users sign up for an online service, a custom identity is created for that application. As a result, we sign up for new services and create new username (...)

    #self-sovereign-identity #blockchain #decentralization

  • 10 Great Articles On Data Science And #programming!
    https://hackernoon.com/10-great-articles-on-data-science-and-programming-eec816941896?source=rs

    Data science and programming are two topics that continue to expand and evolve as computation, knowledge bases and best practices continue to improve. This makes it very difficult to keep up with all the new articles and bodies of thought. So We compiled a list of 10 articles we or other people have enjoyed in the past year or so on the topics of programming, data science and machine learning. We hope they provide you new perspective as well as practical advice.1. Why businesses fail at machine learningby Cassie KozyrkovImagine hiring a chef to build you an oven or an electrical engineer to bake bread for you. When it comes to machine learning, that’s the kind of mistake I see businesses making over and over.If you’re opening a bakery, it’s a great idea to hire an experienced baker (...)

    #analytics #data-science #self-improvement #python

  • #competition in the Autonomous Vehicle Industry is Heating Up
    https://hackernoon.com/competition-in-the-autonomous-vehicle-industry-is-heating-up-22524d71ca5

    Over the past few years, there has been an increasing amount of news on the topic of self-driving vehicles and the inevitable future of unmanned driving. On February 15th of this year, Amazon announced a $700 million investment in Rivian, a competitor to Tesla, and $530 million in Aurora, an independent automotive startup. This race among the various technology companies with be closely watched, and it should determine the winners in this rapidly growing industry.According to research company Altimeter, the first fully self-driving cars are likely to appear in or around 2021. This is a realistic forecast based on an analysis of existing technologies and their prospects for immediate development, but not on consumer readiness in the market. Partially self-driving and fully self-driving (...)

    #self-driving-cars #artificial-intelligence #autonomous-vehicles #ai

  • #apple and #uber lagging in self-driving car league table
    https://hackernoon.com/apple-and-uber-lagging-in-self-driving-car-league-table-ac5162e8f43c?sou

    Self-driving cars are frequently in the news. The technology has progressed strongly, but we’re nowhere near ‘perfect’ yet. There are a significant number of companies working on test vehicles, especially in California, with the focus on improving safety and the cars’ software capabilities. As Niall McCarthy, a data analyst at Statista writes in Forbes, “Disengagements, and the reasons they occur, are a key part of that test process.” What are ‘disengagements’? A disengagement is what happens when the car’s software detects a problem, or the driver sees some danger coming, and is then able to take control of the car, so it is no longer self-driving.According to data from the California DMV published by website The Last License Holder, test models experience different levels of disengagement. (...)

    #cars-market-share #self-driving-cars #automotive-market-share

  • Elon Musk is not reading articles online about how to become Elon Musk
    https://hackernoon.com/elon-musk-is-not-reading-articles-online-about-how-to-become-elon-musk-d

    If you Google ‘How to become Elon Musk’, you will come across thousands of articles that address that question in one way or another. Either they are answers on Quora to that specific question itself, or they are indirect answers to that question with titles ranging from ‘10 ways to think like Elon Musk’ (Forbes) to ‘8 things that Elon Musk does before 8am’ (Medium).You can substitute Elon Musk with any successful entrepreneur, author, sports person, actor, CEO, musician, politician, nobel laureate and you will see similar results.The Internet is full of literature on how to do things like, how to think like and how to become any of these successful people.The Internet is full of this literature because it attracts clicks.People love short cuts. They want to learn how to become successful in (...)

    #life-lessons #progress #success #elon-musk #self-improvement

  • Introducing City Scale HD Maps
    https://hackernoon.com/introducing-city-scale-hd-maps-2c70e9774290?source=rss----3a8144eabfe3--

    A Very Big Step Forward towards City Scale HD MapsAt CES 2019, we launched a new product called City Scale HD Maps and demonstrated some core functionality of achieving city scale HD mapping operations. Looking back we have accomplished very large milestones since then.A small loop requested by a Car manufacturerAt Civil Maps, we saw a disconnect between the Proof-of-concept HD Maps requirements for R&D teams at car manufacturers and the scalable production requirements from procurement. If Self Driving Vehicles need to go to market, they need a scalable map operation. Upon deciding that we needed to create a city scale map to prove scalability; Civil Maps allocated new resources in a division called Team MapX.Team MapX stands for team map expansion and the focus of Team MapX is to (...)

    #self-driving-cars #augmented-reality #autonomous-cars #hd-maps #virtual-reality

  • Publish0x — Where Writers AND Readers Get Paid
    https://hackernoon.com/publish0x-if-medium-and-steemit-had-a-baby-d16839cf9a68?source=rss----3a

    ?? Publish0x — Where Writers AND Readers Get Paid✍? A #self-publishing Platform ReviewI am always on Medium and Steemit. So I am excited to have found another platform where writers get paid for publishing articles. Publish0x is like a mix of the two. What I found unique about Publish0x though is that they consider themselves to be a “crypto agnostic publishing platform”, where both authors and readers are rewarded. It is the only self-publishing platform I have ever seen where you don’t have to be an author to earn. You can earn just by reading. That kind of blew my mind. ?Anyways, the process I went through to get approved to be a writer was pretty easy. I only had to answer a couple questions, include a link to my Steemit/Medium #blog, and I got approved overnight. Since then I have been cross (...)

    #share2steem #writing #blockchain

  • Solutions to our distraction addiction – Forthright Magazine
    http://forthright.net/2019/02/19/addicted-distraction

    According to Nielsen, the average American adult spends over 11 hours per day consuming media. If the amount of time lost doesn’t shock you, a study from Ofcom shows the average person in the UK checks their cell phone every 12 minutes.

    #technology #smarphones #self-control

  • How Hyperbolic Discounting Leads to Terrible Life Choices
    https://hackernoon.com/how-hyperbolic-discounting-leads-to-terrible-life-choices-69cde3c4359?so

    Nir’s Note: This guest post is written and illustrated by Lakshmi Mani, a product designer working in San Francisco.Have you ever had a mounting pile of work you know you need to do but for some reason didn’t? There’s an important deadline looming, your boss is breathing down your neck, the pressure is on — all signs are pointing to you getting it done. Yet you put it off, turn on Netflix, and fantasize about how you’re going to crush it tomorrow.Hyperbolic discounting is a cognitive bias, where people choose smaller, immediate rewards rather than larger, later rewards.Nir’s note: I’ve created a handy research-based workbook to help you to overcome hyperbolic discounting and stay productive. Download the free PDF “How to Keep Hyperbolic Discounting from Killing Your Productivity” (...)

    #startup #marketing #self-improvement #tech #business

  • The Cult Of Personality And How You Are Harmed
    https://hackernoon.com/the-cult-of-personality-and-how-you-are-harmed-50bf3939f723?source=rss--

    Musk On The Cover Of Ashlee Vance’s BiographyThe cult of personality is waging a war in your mind but you many not even be aware of its existence.The cult of personality is designed to stunt your growth and I’m about to show you how. The cult of personality is best personified by none other than Elon Musk. I never thought I’d be #writing this kind of article because I may be one of the biggest fans of Elon Musk. In fact, three years ago, when I came across one of his videos by accident, it was much like being struck by lightning. My mind went on fire. Last year, I even sent Musk a custom-designed portfolio that contained a proposal for Uber drivers to be paired with Teslas.I have a long tradition of sending things to people I greatly admire and respect. I’ve been doing this since I was a (...)

    #media #personal-development #elon-musk #self-improvement

  • Will #blockchain Really Disrupt The #self-publishing Industry?
    https://hackernoon.com/will-blockchain-really-disrupt-the-self-publishing-industry-9c29bb9e89d9

    Talk of the blockchain and its disruptive potential is everywhere these days. From finance to gaming, believers champion it as the technology of the future, a revolutionary advancement sure to redefine entire industries.Believe it or not, blockchain fever has hit the world of self-publishing, too.In a way, it makes sense. The blockchain promises a model wherein creators can sell their work straight to consumers — cutting out the middleman, so to speak. And in traditional #publishing, the middleman is notoriously greedy.Many #authors are, as a result, excited about the potential of the blockchain. They want to connect directly with readers and enjoy more total control over their products and the rewards they reap from selling them. They no longer want to wait 90 days for payment from (...)

    #blockchain-publishing