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  1. Feb 2021
    1. We need to praise their effort and ability. If you come from a community where you have never received messages like that from faculty members and educators, it’s important at some point to be able to hear, you know what? You have the ability to do this. I believe in your ability to do this.”

      This reminds me of when I was in high school and teachers would encourage me. It definitely does have a powerful affect on people. It’s encouraging and empowering. I feel if professors ,teachers even bosses told their students or employees something encouraging , something to make them want to keep going and do better , there would definitely be more successful people around.

    1. Its detractors regardedit as too theoretical, amorphous, and eclectic; toopromiscuously interdisciplinary; too enamored ofmodels; and too technique-deficient and data-poorto have any practical application (Gibbons 1992)

      This reminds me of critics of the term "sustainability" now. Many argue the concept is too abstract, theoretical, and interdisciplinary to actually amount to specific objectives. However, it seems like "sustainability" is now emerging as a new concept the same way "conservation biology" was. Now, "sustainability" is considered an important part of a business model, and it is a major or minor at many colleges.

    1. Take responsibility for the effects of your words

      This reminds me of something my mother taught me when I was younger, "words have power". Sometimes you say something and your message doesn't reach the other person and other times the person misunderstands what you have said. When this happens it is important that you take responsibility and repair the damage you have caused and clear up any misunderstandings. If you don’t you might lose a friend or someone else that is important to you. If all goes well there will be no animosity, you will be able to learn about each other, and both of you will be able to properly speak with each other with less misunderstandings in the future.

    2. The principle of compassion lies at the heart of all religious, ethical, and spiritual traditions, calling us always to treat all others as we wish to be treated ourselves.

      We are often surrounded by an environment where compassion is taught. When we show our kindness we are often helping many people who rely on the support they get from others to have a happy life. Showing compassion can be as simple as having a comforting attitude when talking to a peer. People have different comfort zones as well, so when we show our compassion we also have to learn to adapt. Not everyone is the same when it comes to responding to an act of kindness. The "...treat all others as we wish to be treated ourselves..." reminds me of the Golden Rule which was taught all throughout elementary school. Through that rule we build our relationships with peers and had positive attitudes.

    1. beautiful adaptations

      These two words just called out because it truly is amazing at the grandeur of forms that life has taken, reminds me of the Bryson reading on how everything that makes us up doesn't really care or even know that we exist but still works towards it

    1. It states, in part, that an avaricious individual, or just a naive and easily deceived one, is fair game for those who are sharper, quicker witted, or more worldly.

      This statement reminds me of the saying, 'I don't need to run fast, I just need to run faster than you.' You outsmart the naive to get what you want. Success in America is only fit for the sharp, quick witted, and more worldly people that will do what it takes to get ahead in life.

    1. he constantly repeated that the new forces were anarchical, and especially that he was not responsible for the new rays

      Langley seems unable to help Adams understand the dynamo because he doesn't know much about it either. HE didn't make them, so how can he know about it? It almost reminds me of a child who asks his parents a question, only to be disillusioned upon discovering they don't know how to answer their question either. It makes figuring out the answer that much harder.

    2. the Virgin had acted as the greatest force the Western world ever felt,

      This paragraph about the power of the virgin reminds me a bit of Zen Buddhism or non duality. That mere existence is more powerful than the mechanics below it. The present is more powerful than the progress of the future. Pure being is unmatched by discovery.

    3. the dynamo itself was but an ingenious channel for conveying somewhere the heat latent in a few tons of poor coal hidden in a dirty engine-house carefully kept out of sight; but to Adams the dynamo became a symbol of infinity. As he grew accustomed to the great gallery of machines, he began to feel the forty-foot dynamos

      Although the imagery of the Dynamos is ambiguous in many ways, i feel the description Adams is using for a force of power within the Dynamos can be related to a train. When he speaks of the coal, dirty engine, and forty foot dynamos it reminds me of the power a coal powered train can attain. I feel the Dynamos almost encompasses the power and imagery of the male’s presence.

    1. This idea of contrary consultant - playing the fool archetype - is helpful because it reminds me that… there is no choice. Indie consultants are often not just outsiders but perpetual outsiders. There’s a value in being contrary - but there’s no way out for perpetual outsiders. We’re often weirdos and oddballs who can’t help but question and poke the status quo… So creating a sense of purpose, identity and acting that “resolves” this tension is deeply important.

      You say there is no choice to be a Jester, but I would ask if there’s other successful role responses to the information that we’re perpetual outsiders? What do you think those might be?

    1. Luis, a skinny dark-haired 13-year-old boy, sits at a computer station in the back corner of the room with a set of plastic action fi gures from the X-men comic series, a basket of play dough, and an Intel Digital Blue stop-animation camera. He is producing his latest movie.

      It's interesting reading abot this clubhouse, thinking about all the potential kids have! It reminds me of a video about a kids inveniting a diy at home air conditioner using a bucket of water and a fan.

    1. He collects their scattered parts in order to construct apatchwork body, unaware that the prostitutes’memories and identitieslive on in their remains. Although the new Elizabeth feels‘so strange’atthere being‘so many different women inside’her, she does not expresshorror or reject them.

      This reminds me of the science fiction novel series, Unwind. In the books, a procedure called "unwinding" is a way for a person to essentially have all of their body parts be able to be used as donor parts. (Literally everything.) The thing that is creepy though, is a part of that person's memories lives on in whatever is donated.

    1. It is about relating the past to the present.

      This is what changed my mind about history. When I was being taught history in grade school I couldn't understand why it was an important subject. To me it seemed like a class where they just wanted us to be able to recite important people, dates, and events, thats how our tests were structured, so I never got anything more out of history besides that. As the world got more crazy and it began to feel like we were living through history and I started to take college history classes I got a new understanding and appreciation for history. History is the lense in which we contextualize the world we live in now. It reminds us that no major event that we see in the news today is born out of nothing, we can look back at our past and see the steps that were taken to create the climate that we live in.

    1. “It was the father who pushed the son out of the way.”

      With each new person the story goes through the more it is changed. Kind of reminds me of a game of telephone where the details are slightly changed with each new retelling until the point where it is completely different than the original.

    2. There are happy sighs of relief. As the howling grows louder, the people around the child also come to life: it is as if they have been liberated. They rush to join the crowd by the body.

      Reminds me of when a child is born and people are relieved to hear crying.

    1. ou come to understand how your positionality exists in relation to others; y

      I think this is a good quote, this reminds me of a textbook I am reading for an English course, Writing in Transfer. The book discusses how we can all read something yet we can all view it in different ways. Depending on our pasts, we can all view our lives differently.

    1. When you said poor did you mean prison?

      This line caught my attention. As my understanding, living in poverty can feel like being in prison because you will be restricted to do a lot of things. In todays world, everything we do, we do it so that we can live wealthier and better. Every poor individual wants to escape poverty and rise to the top. This line also reminds me of an article "The rich get richer and poor get prison" by Jeffrey Reiman where he portrays the unfairness of being poor. For example, Homeless and poor people are mostly the one who commits crime and steal to feed themselves which leads them to jail.

    1. Accordingly, I challenge the view that Latin@s, like previous generations of immigrants before them (Italians, Polish, etc.), will assimilate, for it does not concur with a nuanced consideration of the lived experiences of migrants who are, to cite Fanon, “overdetermined from without.”®

      I'm curious to see what is argued in the view that Latin@s will eventually assimilate with the Europaean majority that was once segmented into multiple othered groups. I agree with Hernandéz's use of Fanon's quote, as it exemplifies that one's Black/brownness are inescapable to the opressor. No matter how "white" one presents themselves, the oppressor will see past that because one's phenotypical features serve as a marker of illegitimacy to their capabilities of success. Europaean groups that were once minorities were able to surpass that due to thier whiteness, whereas groups with more "ethnic" features cannot escape their classification of other.

      This reminds me of the countless times I've been micro(and macro)aggressed. When I was 14, I went to a garage sale in the suburb of Niles, IL. I elected to play the alto sax in my beginning band class, and just so happened to find a cute saxophone pin at the sale. While making small talk with the older white woman running the sale, she said "Oh! That's so unique of you to play saxophone, you don't see that from Mexican girls". My expression as well as the silence to follow caused her to fumble in a poor explanation for her comment, which felt lowkey empowering. Despite that, it served as one of many moments that proved to me that opressors see my successes as prefixed by my ethnic identity, not prefixed by my own abilities.

    1. great the noise of the multitude, many a meadhall full of festivity, until Fate the mighty changed that. Far and wide the slain perished, days of pestilence came, death took all the brave men away;

      This reminds me of the current situation that we are in right now , you could see people all around the world laughing and having a great time and now due to the corona virus it has a changed and many people die daily.

  2. Jan 2021
    1. countries achieved not independence but “colonial independences,” as the same colonial patterns of power (structured along class, race, gendered, and sexual lines) remained largely in place in newly created nation-states.”

      I think this statement is so powerful. It reminds me of comments like: "colonization happened years ago, get over it" Obviously, it happened years ago, but it doesn't mean that the aftermath wasn't brutal and tainting. Cultures were wiped and new ones forced. Fast forward to now, forms of modern coloniality include physical borders, which add to the narrative that one country, one economic level, deserves more at the other country's (and their people) expense. So thinking about the quote some more, yes, colonizers leave, but this identity of loss stays, and neighboring countries continue to take advantage of that.

    1. don’t use harsh words

      This reminds me of that story of a boy who was really angry with his father and said some pretty awful things. Later, after they had calmed down, the father took his son outside and gave him a piece of wood, a hammer, and a nail for every hurtful word his son had said. He instructed his son to hammer every nail into the piece of wood and, when he was finished, to take them back out again. When he was done, the son asked why his father made him do that. The father replied, "Every hurtful word you say is like a nail hammered in wood. They hurt and, even if you try to take them back, they leave marks that can never truly be fixed." It's important that we remember that when we're angry.

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    1. On one hand, producers are deeply enough embedded in their socialpractices that they can understand the texts associated with those practicesquite well. On the other hand, producers are often so deeply embedded intheir social practices that they take the meanings and values of the texts asso-ciated with those practices for granted in an unquestioning way.

      This is a really good point. This reminds me of conversations that I have with my PhD MicroBiologist sister, who doesn't always do a great job in speaking in laymen terms when it comes to scientific concepts, as she is involved in a world where everyone around her knows what is going on.

    1. When you said love did you mean loss?

      This line caught my attention on a personal level because living through these major world changes, has taught me a great deal about loving and loosing. This line also reminds me of a quote by Alfred Tennyson and he says " Its better to have loved and loss than to have never loved at all" and I couldn't agree more.

    1. If left on their own, students can experience a relative silence on their challenges and their PIF, and this silence is felt by

      This "silence" reminds me of a story I heard on NPR this morning that discussed this issue with first responders and how the pandemic is leaving them more isolated and less able to debrief on their difficult experiences with colleagues. I would imagine that similar challenges are being recognized in educators?

    1. The groups with racial diversity significantly outperformed the groups with no racial diversity.

      This reminds me of when i was put into a focus group to share my experiences living and growing up around a very diverse population then moving to a place with a lot of white people. It had the same outcome as far as benefit. I changed a lot of the white people's perspectives while also learning more about how they grew up.

    1. Scarce in a yeare their naturall forme obey: Pleasure or businesse, so, our Soules admit For their first mover, and are whirld by it.

      In these lines, the speaker claims man is still sinful and persuaded by pleasure and business. Man has to deal with external temptations that through them off course and people are easily influenced to give in to it. The spheres or in this cases men's souls should be fixated towards God and spiritual devotion, yet their spheres "are subject to forraigne motions". It reminds me of the alignment of planets, which are all perfectly set in motion with each other. Just as the planets have solid courses, man has to orbit around God; if anything were to disrupt the planet's courses, then there would be disarray. Men need to circle God and be good in order to have a solid course/foundation.

    2. I AM a little world made cunningly Of Elements, and an Angelike spright, But black sinne

      The speaker has good qualities or "elements and an Angelike spright", but he also harbors bad sin. Although he has good in him, the speaker must have both parts of him die. This reminds me of the story off Noah and the Arc. God had to flood the earth, washing out everything bad and possibly even some good.

    1. Every iteration of the boy-meets-bot love story is also a horror story. The protagonist, who is usually sexually frustrated and a grunt worker in his own right, goes through agonies trying to work out whether his sili-cone sweetheart is truly sentient. If she is, is it right for him to sleep with her? If she isn’t, can he can truly fall in love with her? Does it matter? And – most terrifying of all – when she works out her own position, will she rebel and how can she be stoppe

      TW// pedophilia, CP

      This reminds me of an article I read some time ago about rehabilitation for sex offenders, particularly pedophiles. One debate posed by the article was the question of animated child porn which someone touched on earlier today in class. If these men can express their desires through animated child porn that does not exploit children it could potentially help them from abusing real children. Is this even ethical? I personally have a gut reaction that says no. Theres also not enough research that says whether porn can be helpful in rehabilitating various sexual deviances etc, or if it actually causes addiction and makes this worse. This seems to connect specifically to the question of whether or not it is okay to fall in love with something that is not sentient, and does it even matter? These drawings are not sentient, so does it matter ethically if one exploits them?

    1. Keep a large diagram or page of notes handy that explains the big picture of what you’re learning and add to it each major concept you learn along the way.

      This reminds me of what we do in class with KWL graphic organizers.

    1. My own utter ignorance I confess without a pang. To know that you are ignorant is a valuable form of knowledge, and I am gradually accumulating a vast store of it.

      A classy way of admitting defeat. It reminds me of a certain paradox that says the least intelligent people think they know everything while the truly intelligent know their knowledge is inevitably limited. It's good to keep yourself in check (whether criticism forces you to or not) when you forget that you're only human. That's a hard lesson that all artists must learn at some point.

    1. By inviting their questions, we unleash the power of intrinsic motivation because all of us tend to develop more enthusiasm for, and ultimately become more skillful at, pursuing questions about which we’re genuinely curious than those handed to us by someone else.

      This reminds me of parents who always answer the "why" given to them by their children. They can say anything and their child would ask why and they'd always give them an answer. It shows that they're not only patient, but also willing to give answers.

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    1. Only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of a wolf.

      In this statement it seems like Leopold is considering the mountain to be a physical being. Its like he us saying the mountains have ears and eyes. Reminds me of the saying many older people will say " If these walls could talk."

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    1. at the end of which out come identical shoes or cups or pencils or whatever else is being manufactured.

      This so reminds me of the Alan Watt video! This is a sad but too often true representation of what our educational system has become. I am hopeful though that change is coming!!

    2. Feelings of belonging and feeling welcomed■ Feelings of being taken seriously and respected■ Feeling what it is like to understand some thingsbetter (or more deeply)■ Experience of applying their developing skills inpurposeful and meaningful ways■ Being intellectually engaged and challenged■ Experience of overcoming setbacks and obstacles■ Experience of offering suggestions to peers andhelping them understand something better■ Experience of taking initiative, appropriate respon-sibilities, making some choices, and so forth.

      This reminds me of the Boulder Journey School Charter of Rights, I wonder what our standards and curriculum would look like if our children were the master creators?

    3. manufactured

      Reminds me of a meme quote i saw the other day that was something like...I would have more faith in standardized education if i knew any standard children.

    4. even very young children can benefit from deep-ening their understanding of matters -

      This reminds me that the depth of encounters to explore their theories/questions has a deeper impact that surface level explanation. Deep encounters build true knowledge- the knowledge that we can revisit in our memory and draw on that for their future learning. Depth is infinitely more valuable than breadth.

    5. delivery' of the curriculum

      This reminds me of what Alison Maher said about the difference between covering the curriculum and uncovering the curriculum.

    6. on most days, a young child should feel welcomed

      This reminds me of Lisa Murphy's introduction to her work. Our job needs to encapsulate helping children fall in love with school before it gets too serious.

    7. Occa-sional experiences of that kind are likely to support the development of the disposition to seek in-depth understanding throu

      This reminds me of the goal of many ECE centers to develop life long learners, such a wonderful goal!

    8. It seems to me that using terms like outcomes and performance standards is based on an industrial or manufacturing analogy.

      Absolutely! Reminds me of so many other similar situations, like the prison-industrial complex. Education should not follow the same philosophical underpinnings as the manufacturing industry.

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    1. In their world, there is a size zero, and it's a status symbol

      This reminds me of stores like Brandy Melville. Their clothes are the trendiest for teenage girls, but they only come in one size, and it basically is designed to fit size 0s or 2s. Even just a size 4 is stretching it. Their jeans come in multiple sizes but are freakishly small. In high school, I tried on their jeans and while I was usually a size small or extra small in pants, I couldn't breathe in their mediums. Being able to fit into their clothes is like a status symbol because only the skinniest girls can wear the most stylish clothing.

    1. Technical communication is the delivery of technical information to readers (or listeners or viewers) in a manner that is adapted to their needs, level of understanding, and background.

      This sections reminds me of the importance of audience when planning a speech. The audience element being a focus in this curse as well as "translating" allows us to explore and develop new techniques.

    1. Researchers have not reliably established the prevalence of pornography use among youth under 18.

      This doesn't surprise me, but it reminds me that we actually have a need for more information regarding this age group and this content.

    1. Coping, workarounds, and solutions

      This just reminds me of how when corona first hit and all classes transferred online one of my professors was going to let us watch some movies, bring a clown in for 1 of the days in the class so much more, but all of those ideas got scrapped.

    1. n a context in which race usually refers to people of color, this article aims to provoke the field of English education to think of white people as having a race. Further, this piece is written in agreement with Richard Wright. Race is a white problem

      This reminds me of the premise of White Fragility. The author says that part of the problem is that white people are not used to thinking of themselves in racial terms--because they've never had to.

    1. Design mediates so much of our realities and has tremendous impact on our lives, yet very few of us participate in design processes. In particular, the people who are most adversely affected by design decisions—about visual culture, new technologies, the planning of our communities, or the structure of our political and economic systems—tend to have the least influence on those decisions and how they are made.

      I think this is incredibly important to note. It reminds me of a conversation about Betsey Devos as secretary of education in an education class I took. How can we have someone make decisions about the education system when they have not experienced what it is like to be a teacher? How can one make decisions about design justice if they have not experienced the injustice themselves?

    1. So you either give up or let someone holier than thou tell you "what it really says.

      Reminds me of our discussion about having a tough mind. People will often listen to others opinions and accept them without a second thought. It is important to question what a person thinks.

    1. The Ra groups states that karma can only be assuaged by incarnated beings in space/time who willingly seek to redress the imbalance through the “process of acceptance, forgiveness, and, if possible, restitution. The restitution not being available in time/space, there are many among your peoples now attempting restitution while in the physical” (26.30). Ra continues, “These [people who restitute] attempt feelings of love towards the planetary sphere, and comfort and healing of the scars, and the imbalances of these actions” (26.31).

      Reminds me of the importance of having a "reckoning" before having a "reconciliation".

    1. The internet was built by the U.S. military at the height of the Cold War and privatized into corporate America at the peak of anglophone neoliberal hegemony. Both of those things matter.

      This reminds me of Wendy Hui Kyong Chun‘s work

    1. What language do we use to describe the person or persons who drive the contemplative initiative in our community? Leader? Facilitator? Contemplative wisdom carrier? Other? What impact does that language have on the whole group? How might people feel included or excluded based on this language?

      Reminds me of NCS again as the title of the role changes from year to year it used to be 'team leader' but when i last ran a programme it was 'mentor' - which was a bit nicer as we had senior mentors and mentors.

    1. Children's relationships and interactions within a system.

      This reminds me of Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Model, which can be applied to child development. The model represents his theory that growth is a product of the interaction between the individual and their environment.

    1. We must realize that their view of the world, manifested variously in their action, reflects their situation in the world.

      I’m not completely sure if I’m analyzing this quote right, but I chose it because it reminds me of how oftentimes people end up in prison not because they are inherently bad people, but rather because of their situation in society. This quote is saying that we need to understand that the actions of oppressed people reflect how they are treated by society. This quote ties in both to the documentary It’s Criminal and to what Angela Davis explains in Are Prisons Obsolete?. In Its Criminal Malika talks about how when she gets out of prison she will most likely need to sell drugs again in order to make a living. Because she was incarcerated she is very unlikely to find a job that will hire her and she won't be able receive government assistance. She is stuck in a cycle of crime because it is the only way she can survive in society. In Are Prisons Obsolete, Angela Davis says “Mass imprisonment generates profits as it devours social wealth, and thus it tends to reproduce the very conditions that lead people to prison” (Davis, 17). The criminal justice system actively keeps people oppressed and creates a generational cycle of imprisonment. This comes back to the quote in the beginning, incarcerated people’s actions are not completely determined by their character but rather their situation in society and the active oppression they are subjected to.

    1. That chunk, however, contained a statement that changed my reading life forever

      This opening paragraph reminds me of something Will Schwalbe wrote in the Introduction to Books for Living : "You can learn something from the very worst books – even if it is just how crass and base, or boring and petty, or cruel and intolerant the human race can be. Or even if its just one gleaming insight in a muddy river of words."

      The power of annotation is the one gleaming insight Anderson gleaned from the book.

      An excerpt of the Intro can be read as a short essay in the Guardian: The things we can really learn from books

    1. Let’s make a movie called Dinosaurs in the Hood.Jurassic Park meets Friday meets The Pursuit of Happyness.

      Smith decides to call the movie "Dinosaurs in the Hood" which reminds me of the movie, Boyz n the Hood. Later in the poem, Smith states that he wants Dinosaurs in the Hood to be the opposite of Boyz n the Hood.

    1. Although Clando has been called Teno's first fiction film, the writer/director refuses the label. "All of my films are documentaries," he says, since for him cinema always addresses contemporary concerns. H

      I find this statement ridiculous and pompous. It reminds me of Kahn's sense of objectivity or incorruptibility. He may not have meant it literally, but a documentary is a specific branch of narrative media. More artists than not address or deal with contemporary concerns in their work. That's not even what a documentary is; it isn't a film that deals with contemporary concerns.

      It reads like he believes he is so objective in his search to render the Truth as he sees it that all his films should be considered documentaries. No, they shouldn't, because they're not. Talented as he is, he is one of thousands of artists aiming to render their perception of Truth.

    1. huginn: great example of a user-friendly tool

      User-friendly in the sense it gives you a UI, but lots of clicks and UI to get something done.

      Also more of a "do random things not worth programming" tool, and less of a "run all of my scripts and processes" tool.

      Doesn't seem to fit well with the rest of the page.

      Reminds me of programming in Tasker on Android. My non-programmer friend automates (almost) everything in his life with it, but I try to use it and it frustrates the hell out of me and I just want a scripting language.

    1. Reviewer #2:

      This manuscript by Diamanti et al. describes their study on how visual neurons responded to identical visual stimuli at two different locations along a virtual linear track. Extending their previous result that spatial location modulates the neuronal activities in the primary visual cortex (V1), they now demonstrate that similar spatial modulation also occurred in the higher visual areas (HVAs), but not so much in a lower visual area, the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN). In addition, they show that the modulation, measured by a spatial modulation index (SMI), was stronger when animals had more experience in the track and when the animals were actively performing a task rather than passively viewing the same virtual track. The authors have been responsive to comments by previous reviewers at a different journal. Data are appropriately analyzed and clearly presented.

      Since the finding that visual neurons are spatially modulated similarly as hippocampal place cells in spatial navigation tasks (Ji and Wilson, 2007; Haggerty and Ji, 2015; Fiser at al, 2016; Saleem at al, 2018), there has been increasing interest in identifying the source(s) of this modulation. This study adds new evidence to this puzzle, suggesting that it is more likely either generated within the visual cortex or top-down propagated from higher brain areas, rather than bottom-up propagated from the thalamus. This is an important contribution. However, there are concerns, mainly on the data interpretation and the clarification of the main conclusion, as elaborated below.

      1) Because experience and task engagement enhanced spatial modulation, the authors concluded in the abstract that "Active navigation in a familiar environment, therefore, determines spatial modulation...". This conclusion is too strong and not well-supported by the data. First, spatial modulation on Day 1, when the task was novel, was lower than on later days, but it was already much higher than 0 (Fig. 1h). Also the individual neuron data (Fig. 1e) display clear spatial modulation on Day 1. Therefore, "familiar environment" is not a requirement. Second, spatial modulation during passive viewing was much higher than 0 and was correlated with that during active navigation, as shown in Fig. 4e - Fig. 4l. Therefore, "active navigation" is not a requirement either. It is true that both active navigation and familiar environment enhanced spatial modulation. They did not "determine" spatial modulation.

      2) Related to the point above, the presence of spatial modulation in passive viewing reminds us that these cells in the visual system were still mainly driven by visual stimuli. The data in Fig. 4e,f are especially telling: the modulation in V1 was similar and highly correlated between active navigation and running replay. In addition, it is clear from all the raw traces in Fig. 1 and Fig. 2 that these cells did respond to the two segments with identical stimuli reliably with two peaks. The spatial modulation was just a change in one of the peaks. So the nature of the modulation is a "rate remapping" of the expected, classical visual responses. I believe, in order to maintain the big picture of what drives the activities of these neurons, it is beneficial to clarify that the "spatial modulation" is a modulation on top of the expected visual responses. This message is not explicitly conveyed in the current manuscript.

      3) The authors stated that spatial modulation is "largely absent in the main thalamic pathway into V1". This was based on the significantly weaker SMIs in LGN than those in V1 and HVAs. However, it is unclear whether the SMIs in LGN were still significant. The SMI values for both LGN buttons (Line #100) and LGN units (Line# 130) might be statistically significant from zero. The statistical comparison p-values should be given in both cases. Second, Figure 3 - figure supplement 1 b,f show that the SMI values in LGN could be predicted by spatial modulation, but not by visual stimuli alone or behavioral variations, just like those in V1 and HVAs. This seems to me good evidence for the presence of spatial modulation in LGN. Therefore, it is my opinion that the data do not support the complete lack of spatial modulation in LGN, but do clearly demonstrate weaker spatial modulation in LGN than in V1 and HVAs.

    1. FOUND AMONG THE PAPERS

      Point of view/Structure: Reminds me of Anne Bradstreet. Something that is supposed to be a forgotten but perhaps honest/unadulterated account of events.

    1. Education is your greatest weapon

      This reminds me of how my parents always told my sisters and me that the best inheritance they could leave us was our education since we are not a family with great economic resources.

    1. His misery leaped The seas, was told and sung in allMen's ears: how Grendel's hatred began

      Reminds me of the creature how, at first he was depressed due to way its treated then gets hatred as a result after it.

    1. The “clinical phenomenologist” of the year 2050 might look into your brain harmonics, and try to find the shortest paths to nearby state-spaces with less chronic dissonance, fishing for high-consonance attractors with large basins to shoot for. The qualia expert would go on to provide you various options that may improve all sorts of metrics, including valence, the most important of them all. If you ask, your phenomenologist can give you trials for fully reversible treatments. You sample them in your own time, of course, and test them for a day or two before deciding whether to use these moods for longer.

      reminds me of [[do androids dream of electric sheep]] [[empathy box]]

  7. Dec 2020
    1. While industry will continue to drive many developments, academia will also continue to play an essential role, not only in providing some of the most innovative technical ideas, but also in bringing researchers from the computational and statistical disciplines together with researchers from other disciplines whose contributions and perspectives are sorely needed — notably the social sciences, the cognitive sciences and the humanities.

      Michael Jordan says that academia may serve to help bring together researchers from fields that are needed to solve these challenges, such as social sciences, cognitive sciences and the humanities.

      Reminds me of that book on social sciences.

    1. Muñoz held out instead “the idea of hope” as “both a critical affect and a methodology.

      Right this reminds me of the contemporary scholarship on new materialism and. the nihilism throughout the scholarship on the Anthropocene.

    2. Such incommensurable asymmetries were, moreover, “most graspable to us as a sense rather than a politic.”

      This reminds me of Tuck and Yang's concept of incommensurability

    1. examines the history of children’s audiobooks and considers its previous formats to determine what the future of children’s audiobooks

      Reminds me of Rubery's backward-looking, forward-looking approach.

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    1. At every glance, the table reminds me of weekend nights playing Spoons.

      In the initial draft I did not list the name of the game, and I instead just described the game. This created so much confusion since they were basically reading about why spoons are meaningful and that they were used for some different reasons other than food. So this time I added the name of the game, Spoons. By not saying that we were playing the game it made this whole seen not the clear and confusing to the reader. By clarifying that this was a game we regularly played it helped bring this scene together since they understand now that the utensils are a piece to the game. It also highlighted how COVID has affected the freshman experience since not to many freshman would regularly say that spoons are a meaningful part of their college experience. So by just saying spoons are meaningful, not the game, could be a weird thing to read.

    1. this anecdote is one of the reasons that I've strongly resisted adding macros to D

      This seems to be a recurring theme in Walter's comments. See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25411476.

      I've said in the past that many programming language macros that end up getting checked in to source control should have been written and executed as a text editor macro instead.

      It reminds me of Kartik's take on "inappropriate compression".

    1. Smoke from a tear-gas canister haddriven thousands of hockey fans into the streets, sparking afour-hour rampage that yielded the requisite fires, shatteredwindows, looted stores, overturned cars and 137 arrests.

      It reminds me of the riots that have been happening as of late, its so scary that this was over a hockey game.

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    1. It reminds me of home. I look up at the sky hidden behind the tall trees, and it reminds me of where I was last year, in the Amazon of Bolivia. Although the trees and animals and plants and sounds and weather are completely different, I feel the same kind of special connection to my surroundings.

      Before my revisions, I did not touch on other personal experiences in my life which have impacted why I am so drawn to these woods. I love nature, and the outdoors have always been a huge part of my life. More specifically, last year I spent 4 months living in the Amazon. This was a super special and impactful experience of my life, and I wanted to share how this personal experienced has continued to impact my perspectives now. Because of my experience in the Amazon, I take note of the Webster Woods with a keen eye to the noises, the insects, the types of trees, the birds, and the uniquely changing environment. I felt like by sharing a special experience in my life, and it's comparison to the Webster Woods, I emphasized the multifaceted meaning this place represents.

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    1. This gentle and soft voice that I can just barely make out from the opposite side of the room reminds me of my older sister Megan, who like Grace, has to spend every moment humming

      This sentence, along with a sentence shortly below it about my mom's "Sunday Family Cleaning Days" are both additions where I was able to include a personal analysis. Originally, I only had stimuli and a partial response. I first talked about how I always hear Grace's humming, and that it reminds me of my sister Megan. I added a response and explanation about how grace's humming is comforting to me, because it reminds me of my older sister. In this new sentence, I added an analysis which shows why the humming has meaning, and I made it personal by connecting it back to a member of my family. In the next example, I began by just talking about Anna's cleaning routine. In my second draft, I included that my mom was excited that Anna has a cleaning routine, just like my mom. I was able to show that Anna's cleaning is important to me because it reminds me of my mom, and it is more than just something that I notice every week. By connecting these both back to a member of my family, I was able to show why my stimuli made my place meaningful, rather than just listing several senses that I notice in my room.

    1. All the animal sounds create a natural orchestra that reminds me of my first time waking up early to learn to drive a sub-compact tractor. Before riding the horses we would get up early and tend to the farm. The crisp air would wash over me and leave me feeling clear-headed and rejuvenated.

      This was another section where I needed to explain why my observations were important to me. When I remembered the time I spent upstate one of the things that stood out was learning to drive. As I remembered certain details they aligned with what I had already described previously so I added this memory here.

    2. The earthy smell of the forest reminds me of summers spent upstate New York horseback riding. I remember how the wind stung my face as the horse’s hoofs collided with the wet soil and I am at peace. The perfumes, trash, cleaning supplies, and assortment of food smells remind me of the different smells of the city when I squeeze into crowded New York trains trying to get anywhere on time. I think back to the countless times I had detention because I was late for school and I can’t help but smile because I’ve grown so much. Instead of rushing to sophomore English in high school, I’m rushing to a first-year writing seminar in college.

      Similar to the paragraph above, originally this paragraph lacked anything personal and was instead me just describing what I smelt but not explaining why those smells were significant. When I was rewriting I decided that this would be a good place to explain why I had wanted to live in the country/the memories that I had of being in the country. Since I contrasted the campus with the forest I had to also include a memory of the city and the crowded train one was the first thing that came to mind when I thought about how the different smells crowded my nose.

    1. the education community's current efforts will require equally robust initiatives in the industry to organize and signal their talent needs in an open-standard form

      Reminds me of the Arapahoe Community College and Skillful work that is finding that job descriptions are inadvertently gatekeeping by stating demands that aren't real or necessary.

    1. Another important property of language missing in graphical interfaces is the ability to encapsulate complex groups of objects or actions and refer to them with a single name

      It reminds me like programming people often don't bother themselves with adding collection behaviour to their objects, i.e., Book -> Books, User -> Users

      But the worst is: hiding it by implementation vomit like Repository pattern or a static functions.

    1. with 51.6 per-cent voting for option A and 48.40 percent voting for option B. It was clear from these results that the Osage were not united around a bicam-eral system of governance.

      reminds me of the elections this year and how we dont realize how split the country has become

    1. By 1975, leaders of 26 nations had formed the Council of Energy Resource Tribes (CERT), modeled after OPEC, to help them hire expert advisors, train their own managers, and renegotiate flawed leases. To the members of CERT, the American economy’s demand for energy imbued tribal resources with great value.

      This reminds me of Elouise Cobell, the wily, tedious, endless bureaucratic labor that goes into getting the kind of justice that seems so basic and self-evident. Sometimes you have to beat unscrupulous schemers at their own game.

    1. a technology solution to a problem that doesn’t need any technology, just a little bit of common sense.

      Since this is a screed partially against web apps, and JS-the-language gets a lot of hate by the people who like essays like this one because of problems the see that are the doing of the cults in modern web development, I find this nugget of truth highly apropos as a retort to many people who'd endorse this essay for the wrong reasons.

      Reminds me also of some recent remarks by Bob Nystrom in "Crafting Crafting Interpreters":

      I don’t love Java [...] I found you can tame a lot of its infamous verbosity by simply not programming in 1990s enterprise Java style.

    1. From 1947 to 2000, the Indian Student Placement Program (ISPP) placed an estimated 30,000 to 50,000 Navajos (and some other Native children) with LDS families for at least nine months of each year while the children attended local schools in Mormon communities. The program fulfilled both Mormon goals and (imperfectly filled) the needs of some Navajo families who lacked adequate educational opportunities in their own communities. (More on the Navajo perspective below.)

      this just doesnt seem right. it reminds me of what Australians did to young aboriginal children and taking them away from their families and putting them in white settings for forced assimilation

    1. Karensaid “the Indian kids” shared whatever money any received, whether thirtydollars from Karen’s brother Benjamin after he got paid for a roofing job, orten dollars from her grandmother.

      this reminds me of the community style living Natives cherished before they were forced to settle into individually owned land

    1. It was early in the afternoon when they got there, so Joe said they must walk over the place and look around.

      Whenever I imagine myself in Eatonville at this point in time, I think of it as the type of place to take a vacation to or stay because It reminds me of my country house and how it has a town nearby so going to Eatonville must be similar. I’ve visited my country house many times over the years and a lot of hotels to stay in.

    1. nd media coverage focused on men—specifically the leaders whose dress and rhetoric catered to the press’s desired image of the Plains Indian warrior.

      This reminds me of readings from a few weeks back and how matriarchy was the center of a lot of tribes but now that has really dimmed down in recent history

    1. O brave new world,That has such people in't!

      This line reminds me so much of the history of colonization. The fact that she calls it a brave new world when others have lived there is straight of a colonizers mindset.

    2. This island's mine, by Sycorax my mother,Which thou takest from me. When thou camest first,

      I think in these quotes we can see a little bit of background to Caliban's behavior. No matter what, attempting to rape Miranda is not justified, but to him it does not seem like a big deal or problem. In this quote he reminds us that the island originally belongs to him and his mother, suggesting that he is the one that shall pass judgment on its grounds. We also know from other parts of the book, they were cruel to the spirits that also inhabited the island with them, which may also impact why he is okay with cruelly treating others. These quotes also give the impression that even after death, Syncorax is able to influence and control Caliban, as he is unable to think of the island without mentioning her. He thinks ruling the island is his birthright and the constant reminder of his mother could be a large factor in his complex of not seeing himself in the wrong.

    3. and then I loved theeAnd show'd thee all the qualities o' the isle,

      This line really highlights the colonizing nature of Prospero to both Caliban and the island. After attempting to be helpful and kind, Prospero captures and controls him. At the same time however, it is impossible for me to think of Caliban as innocent as he tries to rape Miranda, even though I understand that Shakespeare wrote it that way to dehumanize Caliban. It reminds me of Othello, because even though he was punished and manipulated because he was black, he still murdered his wife. Looking through different lenses helps to remove the action from what we think is the author's intention.

    4. Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises,Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.Sometimes a thousand twangling instrumentsWill hum about mine ears, and sometime voicesThat, if I then had waked after long sleep,Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming,The clouds methought would open and show richesReady to drop upon me that, when I waked,I cried to dream again.

      In this speech, Caliban is explaining the mysterious music that they are hearing by magic. While he claims that a virtue of his new language is that it allows him to curse, he actually still shows himself as able to speak in a sensible and beautiful fashion. This speech seems especially poetic, and I find it odd that Shakespeare chose to put it in the mouth of the drunken man/monster. When Caliban had made himself into a completely ridiculous figure, he gives this speech and reminds us that he has something within himself that is often overlooked by the audience and other characters within the play. Overall this speech helps to convey they wondrous beauty of the island and his attachment to it, as well as a respect for Prospero's magic.

    1. cataloging the dominant and recessive traits” that have been passed down to us,

      HANDS UP EMOJI: This reminds me of social darwinism where citizens want people with the best genes and best abilities to collide, purposely leaving the ones opposite of this expectation are left with close to no opportunities to bring themselves up.

    2. “we live in a capitalist society”

      ? This reminds me of when people use "its just the way the world is" as an excuse for something bad. But if its something bad, why is the world still that way? We live in a capitalist society which is not benefitting the majority of the world, so why is it still that way?

    3. Previously the drug cost $13.50 a pill, but in Shkreli’s hands, the price quickly increased by a factor of 56, to $750 a pill.

      (! and hands emoji) This is where you find the old and bad guys (or good and bad companies) of economics. There are the ones who would literally make the price so absurd (like it is) for their own monetary gain, but in the process practically kill many people; and there are the ones who raise it like a good business man would, but either to a manageable price or make it covered by insurance. Hence not making them AS much money, but still a profit. Reminds me of identifying robber barons vs. captains of the industries. But in my opinion every businessman is a robber baron in some way.

    4. At a health care conference, Shkreli told the audience that he should have raised the price even higher. “No one wants to say it, no one’s proud of it,” he explained. “But this is a capitalist society, a capitalist system and capitalist rules.”

      Raise hand emoji This reminds me a lot of something that was said in the model commentary I read today about healthcare. The muckraker said that the power to charge whatever they want for the drug is at the hands of the healthcare provider, as most individuals will pay whatever the price is for life-saving medication. This is one of the most messed up parts of capitalism, and it takes advantage of people's dependency to gain profit. It also reminds me of one of the political cartoons we looked at a few weeks ago that showed the price of oxygen masks on planes. These are instances where money is favored over people's lives, which is unfortunately typical in a capitalistic society.

    1. –The Infinite Creator transcends me in mysterious ways that includes things I cannot fully grasp [5]. I indwell within the Infinite Creator.

      Reminds me of the Buddhist "Ocean and Wave" analogy.

    1. Grief and vengeful Care have made their beds, and pallid Sickness lives there, and sad Old Age, and Fear, and persuasive Hunger, and vile Need, forms terrible to look on, and Death and Pain:

      This vaguely reminds me of the seven deadly sins as seen in the Christian bible. Although I'm not actually familiarized with the bible, the descriptors/themes sound the same.

    1. Jeff Sonnabend in the Ecco Yahoo forum: "I remember first trying to learn Ecco 1.0. It was tough until the proverbial light went on. Then it all made sense. For me, it was simply understanding that Ecco is just a data base. So called folders are nothing more than fields in a flat-file table (like a spreadsheet). The rest is interface and implementation of various users' work or management systems in Ecco. That learning curve, to me, is the primary Ecco "weakness", at least as far as new users go."

      There was a steep learning curve involved with using ECCO Pro. Reminds me of Roam, which also has a steep learning curve, but then it feels like it's worth it.

    2. Chris Thompson: "If your goals in using a PIM are mostly calendaring, todos, and a phonebook, then Maximizer, Outlook, and Time and Chaos all do a reasonable job. On an enterprise-level, Lotus Notes would be another good choice. If you're more interested in keeping track of notes or research, Lotus Agenda, Zoot, or InfoHandler are better choices. For keeping track of miscellaneous files, InfoSelect is pretty good. On the other hand, if you want to do a little of everything, and do it well, Ecco really has no rivals."

      ECCO Pro was loved for its ability to do a lot of different things versus being good at one narrow thing. Reminds me of Roam Research.

    1. Daisy and Jordan lay upon an enormous couch, like silver idols, weighing down their own white dresses against the singing breeze of the fans

      the imagery reminds me of like a statue. the way he describes the with such a feminine eye

    1. Like many other hotel bars and restaurants, the Plaza excluded women during weekday lunch hours, from noon until three, so as not distract the businessmen from their deal-making. But Friedan and the group of activists walked past the maître-d’ and gathered around a table.

      This shows the recurring problem of blaming women for mens's actions. Why must a woman sacrifice her social life or way of living because a man can't control his thoughts. Reminds me of dress codes in school that seemingly were only enforced on girls.

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    1. blindfolding

      This reminds me of the first sentence of "Araby": "NORTH RICHMOND STREET, being blind, was a quiet street..." Maria playing the divination game blindfolded implies that the dubliners are mentally blind

    1. Imagine next a whole range of cases, in each of which, in a single operation, a different proportion of the cells in your brain and body would be replaced with exact duplicates. At the near end of this range, only 1 or 2 per cent would be replaced; in the middle, 40 or 60 per cent; near the far end, 98 or 99 per cent. At the far end of this range is pure teletransportation, the case in which all of your cells would be ‘replaced’

      This reminds me of the Ship of Theseus

    2. ‘How many colours can you see?’ With both hands the person writes, ‘Only one’. The words are now changed to read, ‘Which is the only colour that you can see?’

      This is really interesting how although there are two colors people still see one but not everyone is seeing the same colors because there are two colors. This also reminds me of the controversial issue going around a couple years ago about a blue and gold dress and how some people were seeing blue and other people were seeing gold.

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    1. conceal knives ready for strangers we pass in the street if they don't recognise our right of way.

      This is a super interesting and impactful line. It suggests a hypocrisy that is reveling the true nature of people. What strikes me though is that it occurs right after the discussion about generational knowledge. Is it suggesting something about hypocrisy in ancestors? Also, the close tie to veganism reminds me of tourism as a privilege or a use of trying to get over some guilt in a wishy-washy way.

    1. Like every other group, we must be judged by our leaders and by those who are themselves gay,those who are visible. For invisible, we remain in limbo – a myth, a person with no parents, nobrothers, no sisters, no friends who are straight, no important positions in employment. A tenth ofthe nation supposedly composed of stereotypes and would-be seducers of children – and no offensemeant to the stereotypes. But today, the black community is not judged by its friends, but by its blacklegislators and leaders. And we must give people the chance to judge us by our leaders andlegislators. A gay person in office can set a tone, con command respect not only from the largercommunity, but from the young people in our own community who need both examples and hope.

      Reminds me Nixon's concept of a "silent majority" and how such population would respond to the vocal minorities regarding civil rights rather than war/foreign affairs.

    1. When students are sitting in classes hungry, when they cannot see the words on the board or on the page, and when they experience school as a place where they are regularly bombarded with standardized tests, we have to wonder: Education as a great equalizer for whom?When they are forced to learn under conditions that rely on English Only and zero-tolerance policies, we have to inquire:

      The goal of the education system should be consistent with the goals of educators; but social constructs interfere with all of our lives. This reminds me of my earlier linguistic classes; if the goal to 'help' students or conform them to a popular ideal?

    1. We’ve had people go so far as to tell us that mnemonics make memory a solved problem

      This reminds me of Donald Trump: "People are saying...". Who are these people and why should we care what they are saying?

      This is a straw man argument...making a claim that few people familiar with the literature would support, and then taking a position in opposition to the claim.

  13. Nov 2020
    1. Equally as important, these teachers offer urban middle school students opportunities and tools to counter narrate—simultaneously critiquing and reimagining the places they inhabit and the often-negative stories told about them

      This reminds me The Stories They Tell, where students/teachers explore all the injustices, explicit and implicit, to transform original knowledge. I think this is the goal of a democratic education.

    2. including community knowledge that may not be valued in schools or as part of the official curriculum.

      This phrase reminded me of a lot of conversations I had with my Unit 2 group about how bias a lot of curriculum is. It reminds me of how important it is for educators to recognize this.

    1. Creek by blood” but her husband was “Creek Freedman,” their children would be considered to be “Creek Freedmen” as well, overriding matrilineal rules.

      Reminds me of readings in week 3 that talks about how colonization is seen as gendered

    1. rarely posit Black people in positive ways. Even when Black people are victims of violence, it is rare that their accomplishments are named in the media. Conversely, the media are careful about how they represent White criminals, usually portraying them sympathetically.

      This reminds me of the incident with Christian Cooper. In Central Park, Mr. Cooper was bird watching and asked a white woman to put a leash on her dog. She responded by calling 911 to claim that a Black man was threatening her life. Some new outlets were sympathetic, and her lawyer also said that any repercussion is 'cancel culture'. Mr. Cooper graduated from Harvard and is well-respected, and in my opinion, this is why the media begrudgingly did not try to portray him negatively.

    2. 131Baker-Bell, Stanbrough, and Everett > The Stories They Telldents on cell-phone video, shows the girl sitting at her desk when the officer grabs her and tosses her around like a rag doll. There were many conflicting views about the nature of the incident. For example, Harry Houck, an analyst from CNN—a major force in world news and information delivery—argued: “If that girl got out of the seat when she was told, there’d be no problem. But apparently she had no respect for the school, no respect for her teacher, probably has no respect at home or on the street, and that’s why she acted the way she did” (“She Had No Respect,” 2015). Rather than seeing the girl as the victim, Houck faulted her for the attack, which is troublesome but unsurprising, given mainstream media’s coverage of brutality against Black bodies. Aside from victim blaming, Houck attempted to legitimize the brutal-ity “through a discourse of demonization, stereotypes, and objectification” (Giroux, 2015) in his assumptions about her lack of respect. Others, such as cultural critic and CNN commentator Marc Lamont Hill, had a drastically different perspective from Houck’s. Hill (2015) emphatically asserted in a tweet following the incident that “NOBODY would be asking what that little girl did to deserve a police assault if she were white.” Hill’s tweet problematizes media perspec-tives such as Houck’s that fail to acknowledge the intersections of race and police brutality, especially when it comes to Black youth. Despite Hill’s important critique, Houck’s perspective could carry more weight with media consumers given his role as an analyst with CNN and Hill’s as a commenter. Moreover, Hill’s critique was put out via Twitter, whereas Houck’s was broadcasted on national television. For us, Houck’s comment captures the critical role that mainstream media play in the “debasement of Black humanity, utter indifference to Black suffering, and the denial of Black people’s right to exist” (Jefferies, 2014). Furthermore, the Spring Valley incident reminds us that schools and classrooms are not exempt from assault against Black bodies. In other words, the same racist brutality toward Black citizens that we see happening on the streets across the United States mirrors the violence

      We first have to look at who are the people in these positions in these places. These are the same people who are treating black citizens in the streets as well. The media doesn't hold black students the same way as a white student. This just made me furious. CNN had no understanding of why the student acted the way she did. You don't hold her as victim and it's her fault.You have to understand the kids in order to reach them.

    3. One example of involving Black youth in this work is by having them design protest signs. By doing so, they can create and draw from their own language(s) to create loving and accurate portrayals of their experiences.

      I really like this idea, and it reminds me of a point that is made in Pose, Wobble, Flow by Antero Garcia and Cindy O'Donnell-Allen. How we can encourage our students to take their work to the next step? What are ways in which their work in the classroom can lead to change in the classroom and beyond? For example, the students could hold a school assembly to present their protest signs or post them on a social media platform. That way, their voices and work are able to reach others beyond the classroom and keep the conversation going.

    1. This reminds me of how similar and true this is for spoken language as well because from my experience, often the use of slang is common among young people and I’ve often found it to be used incorrectly with older aged individuals

      This is a relevant comparison, but as you've phrased it, it's not appropriate for a summary. Something like this could go at the end where you talk about the contribution of the text, but do so in an "objective" way that's not framed specifically in terms of your own experience

    1. Intelligent PDF viewers, eBook readers, audiobook & podcast players

      This whole section reminds me of Ted Nelson's Xanadu system, and of course Douglas Englebart's NLS. If you don’t know about them (I didn’t see any mentions) you should look them up immediately! Neither one exist as more than demos, but they’re inspiring.

    1. what cathedral workers must have been like, the ones who lay on scaffolds, a deadly distance above the ground, to complete carvings that were much too high to ever be seen by the worshippers below. Their work, and Br. Joseph’s, is done for God, and for this one girl.

      Reminds me of Antoni Gaudí talking about God as his client. People always quote him joking about la Sagrada Família taking forever, "My client is not in a hurry." But I liked what he said about the Mercat Santa Caterina, for which he designed an unbelievably complex, decorative roof. "Nobody will see it!" critics said. "Do you think God is nobody?!" he responded.

    1. I did it because it made me feel like I was contributing to my state and a part of the community around me

      also reminds me of organism--the need to belong, to have value, to make a contribution

    1. If we interpret space as khoros, it means that it is not already given: it is produced (Lefebvre 1974).

      Reminds me of Victor Burgin's psycho-geographical interpretation of space. As Burgin argues, through Guy Debord, "the lessons drawn from the derive permit the drawing up of the first surveys of the psychogeographical articulations of a modern city. Beyond the discovery of unities of ambiance, of their main components and their spatial localization, one comes to perceive their principal axes of passage, their exits and their defenses. One arrives at the central hypothesis of the existence of psychogeographical pivotal points." (32). When trying to conceptualize this passage I immediately thought of the desire path, which refers to a path created as consequence of erosion caused by the desire of people to take the shortest or most efficient route to their destination. Is there place for the desire path within platforms, can we find transgressive gaps for human desire to inform these social spaces?

    1. For this island is by no means poor, but would carry any crop in due season. There are rich well-watered meadows there, along the shore of the grey sea, where vines would never fail.

      It bothers me that the land the cyclopes inhibit is described so positively, but the cyclopses themselves are not. It reminds me of descriptions given of Native Americans when America was being colonized (yikes).

    1. . If you outline a paper too early in the writing process, you risk missing these connections. You line up your argument -A. B. C. -without fully understanding why. Sketching your argument helps you to see, for example, that points A and C really overlap and need to be thought through more carefully.

      I definitely run into this problem more than I should. I often start right away by outlining my paper and I will miss certain opportunities to make more insightful connections within my writing because I look at and figure out the structure of my paper too early on. This reminds me of the idea of picking a typeface before actually writing, therefore assigning an idea to something that has yet to be fully formed.

    2. You line up your argument -A. B. C. -without fully understanding why. Sketching your argument helps you to see, for example, that points A and C really overlap and need to be thought through more carefull

      This section of "sketching your argument" is very helpful. It is a good tip to relieve the anxiety involved with not knowing where to begin. It reminds me of the SFD, just sketch, brainstorm, start. "Without fully understanding why", sometimes starting something, or just beginning to organize the arguments will lead to a clearer picture later on. Again, emphasizing that no one starts with a clear organized essay, it is a "work in progress" and one has to start somewhere. Starting is the key, reminds me of the saying "Showing up is half the battle."

    3. Working from your sketch, try to see theline of reasoning that is evolving.

      This section in general reminds me of brainstorming a mind map as the textbook discussed. I feel rather unsure of the process detailed so far though. It feels like something I would to organize information, identify lines of inquiry, and produce a thesis - not after I have constructed my thesis.

    4. But length isn't all that matters in paragraph development. What's important is that a paragraph develops its idea fully, and in a manner that a reader can follow with ease

      This reminds me of the saying quality over quantity, and this case it isn't necessarily how much evidence you have but rather how you apply such evidence to your argument. Having evidence is obviously an important factor since you can't make a claim without sufficient facts to back it up however, you don't necessarily need the same kind of evidence every time. Rather you should explain that piece of evidence and how it either supports or goes against your claim. It is important to further analyze your evidence in your own words and demonstrate why it is important to the overall picture.

    1. There are more than 500 federally recognized tribal nations in the United States today, each with distinct systems of governance, languages, locations, material cultures, religions, and, of course, stories! Some people are taken aback at the word “nation” as applied to Native nations because of the tendency to group Native peoples with other minority groups in the United States.

      This reminds me of Teaching For a Living Democracy by Block. The author describes the community efforts of acknowledging and celebrating the history and customs of the Maori people.

    2. Critical literacy encourages children to read between the lines and ask questions when engaging with literature: Whose story is this? Who benefits from this story? Whose voices are not being heard?

      This reminds me of Paulo Friere's "read the word and the world."

    1. One area of this work that is particularly resonant with our concerns here is the exploration of the intersections between shared, collective traumas and more intimate, personal traumas; witnessing of and testimony to life stories as pedagogy; and classrooms as sites of vulnerability and embodied experience

      This reminds me of the foundations of many projects explained in Teaching for a Living Deomocracy. Block's projects resulted with his students (mostly) invested in the work because it revolved about their stories and the stories of others.

    2. The nuances of a “safe space” for SEL in our classrooms requires looking across social, political, and cultural factors for all members of a school community.

      I completely agree with this statement, and it reminds me of a critical point made in Pose, Wobble, Flow by Antero Garcia and Cindy O'Donnell-Allen that teachers cannot be apolitical in the classroom. In order to create a safe space in the classroom, we need to recognize who we are creating this safe space for and from who/what, and why we are creating a safe space. We cannot do this without acknowledging the social, political, and cultural factors that impact our students' lives--something that can be very much political, and for some, even controversial.

    1. Our plan was to live in a golden cage for three days, presenting our­selves as undiscovered Amerindians from an island in the Gulf of Mexico that had somehow been overlooked by Europeans for five centuries. We called our homeland Guatinau, and ourselves Guatinauis. We performed our "traditional tasks," which ranged from sewing voodoo dolls and lifting weights to watching television and working on a laptop computer. A dona­tion box in front of the cage indicated that for a small fee, I would dance (to rap music), Guillermo would tell authentic Amerindian stories (in a nonsensical language) and we would pose for polaroids with visitors. Two "zoo guards" would be on hand to speak to visitors (since we could not understand them), take us to the bathroom on leashes, and feed us sand­wiches and fruit. At the Whitney Museum in New York, we added sex to our spectacle, offering a peek at authentic Guatinaui male genitals for $5.

      This whole performance reminds me of a piece that we learned about in our recent slide lecture, and the piece is Betye Saar's The Liberation of Aunt Jemima, 1972. I compare the two works of art because, Saar's piece had similar symbolism of sterotypes for the African American culture as compared to Gomez-Pena and Fusco's use of symbolism for stero typical 'Guatinau' sterotypes. Both artists with both works of art are portaying this racist dipiction for the purpose of educating the viewers and for the purpose of taking back that power from the oppressors. In this the piece becomes empowering and educational.

    1. The conquered or visited peoples are thus forced into a long and painful quest after an identity whose first task will be opposition to the denaturing process introduced by the conqueror. A tragic variation of a sear'ch for identity. For more than two centuries whole populations have had to assert their identity in opposition to the processes of identification br annihilation triggered by these invaders

      This reminds me in native Americans for some reason. The struggles that the natives went through to survive once America was found by the Europeans. It also reminds me of how much their culture and cultures have been lost for pointless reasons. For instance, take Mount Rushmore. They took what was considered sacred ground to carve some stupid faces into the mountain. Not only that but it if of the faces of people that were responsible for killing so many of their people.

    1. Whoistosaythatrobbinga peopleofitslanguageislessviolent thanwar

      This reminds me of the saying stick and stone may break my bone but words will never hurt me. Some people know how to make words seem more hurtful then what it really is.

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    1. traversed the little circus before the church

      Like Mansfield’s The Garden Party and Other Stories, where the characters in each vignette appear in the same universe, I feel like this is also the same with Joyce’s. “The circus” reminds me of Araby. Perhaps it was the same event?

    1. or souls being, as far as we know anything of them, in their nature indifferent to any parcel of matter, the supposi-tion has no apparent absurdity in it,)

      What is a soul? This reminds me of the Soul Theory and how since we don't know what a soul really is, it is not a strong theory of personal identity.

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    1. Culbert notes two jarring events that seemed made for television’s vivid imagery, creating lasting effects on the American psyche.

      This whole situation reminds me of Plato's allegory of the cave: Americans being accustomed to peace (not considering civil unrest) while being blind to the fact that other countries suffer as a result of us "containing communism" and being shocked to find out about the reality of what has really been going on in these other countries being "saved" by us.

    1. e discovers the shape of his oppression

      This phrase applies to us all. Baldwin speaks of black children here learning about who and how oppression is represented in their lives. The idea that oppression has a shape to be discovered reminds me of this:

      There is a difference. The shape of oppression actively brutalizes the one who is touching it. And DuBois would argue that it shapes the one who is oppressing as well.

    1. The students stood up, formed a circle, and documented their perceptions and feelings about the name in their journals. Then, they shared aloud their thoughts.

      This reminds me a lot of practice we use at my school called restorative justice circles.

    1. s would help these women because limiting the number of children they could have would help them to become more financially stable.

      it loosely reminds me of the war on poverty rhetoric in a sense since it's reinforcing the idea that poor women of color are unfit to raise children.

    2. Within this report, there is an understanding of poverty that is predicated upon this idea that “paupers” are poor because they expect others to do things for them, that they are unwilling in some way to work for themselves. The Meriam Report does not blame Native people for being “paupers”—it explicitly blames the past policies of the government. However, it asserts that Native people have adopted this “pauper point of view.” For example:

      Yeah again reifying this individual narrative of how some ppl got used to having a helping hand, got lazy and because used to having help from the government. It reminds me very loosely of the Moynihan report on Black communities in the 60s or 70s.

    1. get blamed on Black youth rather than on the structural inequalities endemic to US society.

      This reminds me of a scene from the documentary "Precious Knowledge," which I highly recommend. The school's teachers are in a meeting and one of the school's white teachers states that the students are damaged, "culturally damaged" and describes how learning has become irrelevant in their lives. Another teacher in the meeting, a Latinx man, responds by describing how students have a dysfunctional relationship with school and not learning, primarily because of the ways in which the educational system (and the structural inequalities in place, as stated in this reading) do NOT serve Black and Brown students.

      Both the scene from the documentary and this statement demonstrate how the blame is put on the students and not the racist and oppressive systems that push them out.

      "Precious Knowledge"

    2. talk back to narratives of failure

      I love this phrase and will continue to research and apply this. This also reminds me of a text to media connection, these boys who challenge the school to prison pipeline in the Netflix show Grand Army.

    1. ay to boarding school.

      This reminds me of indigenous people in Australia and how many children were taken away from their homes to be raised in a "white" society. leaving no other option but boarding school seems as though they are trying to take their culture away from them at an early and impressionable age

    1. And you were handsome, and my fate lured me on: the light of your eyes stole mine away.

      Even though this poem was written so long ago, the pain and betrayal of Medea's dialogue reminds me a lot of modern songs. It carries the same themes of love and betrayal and the pain that comes along with it that modern songs do. It's just very timeless.

    1. Freshman writers are re-envisioned in this kind of cyberspace as constructors of andco-participants in black intellectual and rhetorical traditions...now AfroDigitized.

      This "re-envisioning" reminds me a bit of Afrofuturist movements broadly speaking. Online realms can be a realm of possibility!

    1. Pardon, master;I will be correspondent to commandAnd do my spiriting gently.

      Ariel reminds me of a lot of characters throughout previous plays that resemble the trickster archetype. but she is more obedient than the previous ones we have read. (Puck and Iago for example).

    2. I boarded the king's ship; now on the beak,Now in the waist, the deck, in every cabin,

      Ariel reminds me a lot of Puck in Midsummer. He narrates what he is doing and what the characters are doing, and uses magic. He is also serving a master (like Puck serving Oberon) but seems to have a lot less freedom within their relationship. This could show a different side of magic than we see in Midsummer, one with less agency and more aggressive control on the part of the magician.

    3. Made such a sinner of his memory,To credit his own lie, he did believeHe was indeed the duke; out o' the substitution

      Prospero's complaint reminds me of King Lear's, in which he wants to maintain his position without doing the work that is required of it. As we discussed in class, the nature of a king's relationship with his people is through the work that provides as king he earns love and devotion. This feels like the complaints that Goneril and Regan had with Lear, which were seemingly reasonable at the time.

    4. Twelve year since, Miranda, twelve year since,

      Knowing that Miranda is meant to be married at the end of this play, coming to the realization that she is currently between 14-15 years old reminds me of the societal differences compared to modern day. While in the past being married at such an age was normal, now I am only aware of how horrifying it would be to imagine being married at such an age. This does change her naivety from being a show a virtue in a woman to child-like innocence, which is a little sketchy.

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    1. Let him be a fugitive slave in a strange land—a land given up to be the hunting-ground for slaveholders—whose inhabitants are legalized kidnappers—where he is every moment subjected to the terrible liability of being seized uponby his fellow-men, as the hideous crocodile seizes upon his prey!—I say, let him place himself in my situation—without home or friends—without money or credit—wanting shelter, and no one to give it—wanting bread, and no money to buy it,—and at the same time let him feel that he is pursued by merciless men-hunters, and in total darkness as to what to do,where to go, or where to stay,—perfectly helpless both as to the means of defence and means of escape,—in the midst of plenty, yet suffering the terrible gnawings of hunger,—in the midst of houses, yet having no home,—among fellow-men, yet feeling as if in the midst of wild beasts, whose greediness to swallow up the trembling and half-famished fugitive is only equalled by that with which the monsters of the deep swallow up the helpless fish upon which they subsist,—I say, let him be placed in this most trying situation,—the situation in which I was placed,—then, and not till then, will he fully appreciate the hardships of, and know how to sympathize with, the toil-worn and whip-scarred fugitive slave.

      reminds me of MLK's anecdote in "Letter from Birmingham Jail"

    1. eptthecoincidenceof havingcheatedonyourwivesinthesamesummerwiththesamewoman...girl...woman?Whatexceptthat?Andhardlya distinction.

      Claire ponders if she should refer to the person Tobias cheated with as a girl or a woman, clearly there being a distinction in her mind. Then, she goes on to say there is hardly a distinction, contradicting herself. As the audience does not have more context on this affair, we do not know if girl or woman feels more appropriate, or what meaning Claire has put to the terms. It reminds me of her distinction of alcoholic and drunk, maybe in her mind one is acceptable and one is not? I wonder if she is not truly trying to make a distinction, but to provoke a reaction to Tobias, as if insinuating it was a "girl" would be worse. If so, Tobias does not appear to rise to the bate, only trying to derail the conversation as a whole.

    1. 13 His mother said to him, “Let your curse be on me, my son; only obey my voice, and go, bring them to me.”

      This reminds me of when God walked through the covenant with Abraham twice so that is Abraham messes up it will be on god. this shows that if Isaac finds out all the blame will go on his mother.

    1. Apparently I needed towrite to understand what I wanted to explain and how

      This reminds me of the Microsoft research talk (link pending) about the advice he gave to his researcher students about not waiting until having ideas clear to write them, but write ideas to make them clear.

      In my case, documentation has been a pretty active part of Grafoscopio and Brea, but the closer prose, code and workshops are, the clearer I'm about how and what to teach (and the code and prose to write and to replace/erase).

    1. Our experiments lead us to favorthe idea that synesthetes are experiencingthe result of some kind of cross wiring inthe brain.

      this is kind of what I assumed - also reminds me of the neurodiversity phenomenon, this truly is a brain difference and one that I'm not sure if it's been pathologized

    1. there are no facestruer than those that are so washed

      This line by Leonato, stating that crying is the purest form of emotional sincerity reminds me of the moment after Hero is accused where Benedick finds Beatrice crying. It is a moment where the snarky Beatrice is being vulnerable, her crying showing that she is not hiding behind her wit and Benedick can see a fully open side of her.

    2. Marry, that can Hero;Hero itself can blot out Hero's virtue.What man was he talk'd with you yesternightOut at your window betwixt twelve and one?Now, if you are a maid, answer to this.

      Claudio's demand to Hero reminds me of many trials for witches, which were a lose-lose situation for the women accused. If Hero does not answer the question, she is sullying her maidenhood, however, if she admits there was a man in her bedroom, this also damages her reputation. This is a prime example of oppression on women creating impossible situations for them.

    3. She speaks poniards, and every word stabs:

      This line reminds me of when Margaret said that Benedick's wit is a dull blade, as it never actually hurts anyone. In comparison, Beatrice is shown to make very sharp remarks and Benedick seems genuinely hurt by her remarks, while she thinks little of his. That is interesting to note because as the story continues, her jabs at Benedick seem to become more playful than pointed as she begins to care for him.

    1. Stockdale’s lesson was to never confuse the necessary belief that you’ll prevail in the end, with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of current reality, whatever they may be

      Reminds me of the founding process. You can believe that things will prevail in the end without enough control over your inputs, but that cannot rationalize lethargy in your day-to-day behavior.

    1. Academic rigor shouldn’t be built into a course like an impenetrable fortress for students to inhabit.

      This imagery of an impenetrable fortress reminds me of the authoritarianism and control of Skinner and the teaching machines. I agree that rigour is fostered through a student and teacher's love of learning discovery.

    1. "Disabled person" vs. "person with a disability" Example: "He is a disabled person" vs. "He is a person with a disability." Impact: This is one of the most debated areas of disability language, particularly between North Americans and Europeans. "Disabled person" is sometimes seen as putting the disability first, and describing the person according to it. However, proponents point out that "disabled" is a description of society and its treatment of disability; in other words, one is "disabled" by society's problems with access, inclusion, and so forth. This is often related to the social model of disability, emphasizing the experience of disability rather than the condition itself. This idea is most prevalent in Europe, especially in the United Kingdom. In North America, "person with a disability" prevails because of person-first language, which tries to put the person at the forefront above everything else; in other words, the person is not defined by his/her disability. It has a smaller emphasis on society's role in the experience of having a disability.

      This reminds me of the tedx talk Why everything you know about autism is wrong by [[Jac den Houting]] and the differences between the [[medical model of disability]] and the [[social model of disability]]

      but the idea with the [[social model of disability]] - is that the person is being disabled by the environment,

    1. But within months of his murder nearly all of it would be gone. White creditors and people posing as cred-itors took the money the family got from the sale of their trucks and cat-tle. They even staked claims on what was left of the family’s savings. The jobs that he provided were gone, too. Almost overnight the Bollings went from prosperity to poverty.

      This story is jaw dropping to me. As I read I felt tears coming on. Knowing that just because a man has success was the reason that the people killed him is devastating to me. Elmore Bolling had seven children and a wife. He had a business, he provided people with jobs, he had saved money in the bank. That was all gone with in months of his death. To think that these people probably don't even care what happens to the family or the people who had lost their jobs shows how cruel this world can be. It reminds me of everything that has been happening in our world today, how some people don't think of the life these people have.

    2. Laws governing slavery were replaced with Black Codes govern-ing free black people — making the criminal-justice system central to new strategies of racial control.

      This statement reminds me about the article defining spaghetti junction and how that highway in Atlanta had segregated two sides of town. The fact the people thought that because they changed the laws about slavery to the Black Code was ok is devastating. The criminal justice system coming up with new strategies of racial control shows that people can't let go of this haunting past. In the next sentence it states how the strategies intensified when ever black people asserted their independence or if they achieved any measure of success. You should not forget the past but you should learn from it, and become better.

    1. Is where I now want to fish

      I appreciate not repeating the subject, it reminds me of a lot of subject-lacking sentences in Caribbean forms of English, like "is just a movie" that gives the title to Earl Lovelace's novel

    2. Mr. VAULTIER MAYENCOURT

      This is a reference to a slave owner who was put on trial in 1841 for abusing a young enslaved boy. Vaultier Mayencourt was acquitted. You can read a contemporary description of the case here.

      I haven't been able to find information about the other names here, but I suspect something similar. Does anyone have information about them?

      This reminds me a little bit, too, of the way the Baron de Vastey in Haiti produced a work that documented the atrocities committed by particular masters in Saint-Domingue, a way of putting them on trial in absentia, after the fact, so that the crimes would not be forgotten.

    1. Choctaw removal began in 1831 – people were moved to Vicksburg and Memphis, transferred to steamboats and carried via the Mississippi, and then they walked. The walk was brutal—the winter was cold and snowy, the people lacked warm clothes, the transport agents failed to supply enough food. In 1832, a cholera outbreak struck the migrants and killed many. By the time the last wave was scheduled, news of the hardships terrified the remaining Choctaws, and only 900 agreed to go. Of the 14,000 Choctaws who left Mississippi, 2,500 people died in the move. About 6,000 of them remained in the East—some of whom moved themselves west over the next several years

      This reminds me of the Trail of tears where many Indians walked for hundreds of miles with no adequate sustenance and died on the way.

    1. Re-presentation may be gone but it is not forgotten

      This reminds me of the infamous Robert Rauschenberg "Erased de Kooning Drawing" from 1953, and the notions of permanence. By removing as much of the original artists marks, what remained still showed the ghosts and reversal of the image. This re-creation now becomes a part of art histories discussion around artist value as well. Who is the artist of the work, or is the credit shared? The label on the matted frame was added by Jasper Johns, now the narrative and labour of the work incorporates three artists and a timeline spanning from 1951 (first created by de Kooning - 1953 when it was framed and presented as something new.

      https://www.sfmoma.org/artwork/98.298/

    1. could be converted to a beneficial method of consolidating useable land, water, forests, fisheries, and other exploitable and renewable natural resources into productive economic, cultural, or other community-purpose units, benefiting both individual and tribal interests in direct forms under autonomous control of properly-defined, appropriate levels of Indian government.

      This reminds me of litigation between the Agua Caliente band of Cahuilla Indians and water agencies over rights to groundwater in the aquifer beneath the Coachella Valley. Many federal and state courts have recognized that the reserved water rights of Indian tribes applies to groundwater underlying reservations. However legal issues which include quantifying the Tribe’s share and whether there is a right to water of a certain quality have not been resolved.

    1. SomeIndiansweresuspiciousandrefusedtoattend,withtheresultthattroopsmightdisciplinethem.

      This reminds me of a quote from Star Wars: "You call this a diplomatic solution?" "No, I call it aggressive negotiations."

      Quotes like these in Star Wars subtly suggest how the Jedi were supposed to be a diplomatic entity serving as neutral arbitrators in a conflict. Before the Clone Wars, the Jedi were people who you could rely on to make decisions based not on what was best for the government of The Republic and it's agenda, but on what was right and just. In reality the Jedi ended up taking on the role of soldiers; effectively carrying out the unjust and oppressive philosophies they claimed they were defending people from. I view the dualism between the philosophy behind vs. the application of Western Law (with its principles of civil rights and equality before the law) this way in regards to how it affected marginalized populations in America. Western Law is in theory supposed to function as an impartial check on the selfish interests of government power and a guardian of individual rights. Instead it ended up being a mere pretense for an instrument of control, a way for those in power to regulate and punish people not in power. Many European-Americans claimed they were duty-bound to disseminate those principles of Western civilization to what they viewed as primitive and backwards cultures. However like the Jedi, many were blind to their own hypocrisy in their mission.

    1. practice of targeting the “Indian bars” for weekend arrests on “drunk and disorderly” charges

      This reminds me of the controversial "stop and frisk" practice used by NYC cops.

    2. They expanded their reach to other issues, directly confronting city hall, county and state agencies, and other institutions to demand more responsiveness to the needs and desires of Native people. They accompanied individual Natives to employment centers, welfare agencies, and courtrooms to advocate for their interests, and went to juvenile detention centers and prisons to counsel and connect with Native inmates. They took a confrontational approach to urban institutions, insisting on more Native control over urban services for Native people. AIM founders Dennis Banks and Clyde Bellecourt both have asserted that AIM filled a gap in existing Native organizing in the Twin Cities.

      this reminds me of the occupation of the island of Alcatraz because Native people's are definitely affected by the prison complex/policing and ironic how they occupied an old prison got under the US's skin but literally speaks to the larger dilemma of how Native people are literally criminalized for their existence.

    1. The current logo of vscode reminds me of a fish which is a religious symbol and is very offensive to me, additionally christianity has cost millions of lives over the centuries, yet even if that was not the case, pushing religious symbols as part of a product design is completely unacceptable. Please remove it immediately and make it your top priority. To me this is almost equally offensive as a swastika.

    1. The day when he ordered the town to line up on the patio of the schoolyard to watch the four rebels hanging there

      This reminds me of WW2, and of a movie I watched called Jojo rabbit

    1. partly because these men had always been in favour of making peace and surrendering Helen.

      There's a common theme here of women being treated as something you can give, like gifts? It reminds me of how lots of gods are just 'given' wives by Zeus.

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    1. this next to this next to that.

      This reminds me of a video I watched for a creative writing class. The man in the video said for a story to be good, a writer shouldn't everything that will happen first, but find out what happens as they write. This idea seems to hold. true here for creating dance.

    1. I wouldn't like to live in this dump. I wouldn't mind if you had a window, you could see what it looked like outside.

      Their confinement to the basement and inability to see anything else automatically defines their class position. If directionality is used as a metaphor for wealth, privilege, and social standing, Ben and Gus are literally at the bottom as working class citizens. Significantly, they don't even have a window to see the outside, perhaps representing their inability to see outside their arduous, repetitive circumstances. They may wonder what it's like (as Ben does) but simply can't imagine another life. Additionally, while more privileged classes aren't limited and thus could technically enter the basement and see Ben and Gus, there's no incentive to do so and the simple fact that the basement is below ground and windowless makes it virtually invisible to outsiders, thus easy to not think about. In the same way, the voices of the working class are invisible to or ignored by more privileged classes. This reminds me a lot of Parasite.

    1. Even if I really came from people who were living like monkeys in trees, it was better to be that than what happened to me, what I became after I met you.

      (informal): wow this line is really gut-wrenching. After the narrator met these people who took over Antigua, she was miserable. She would've rather been "uncivilized" than have to experience the powerlessness that society created, a world where she cannot run things or understand how certain changing things work. It reminds me of the line from Black Panther where Killmonger says, "Bury me in the ocean, with my ancestors that jumped from the ships, because they knew death was better than bondage."

    1. In 1995 Steve Jobs could still remember it exactly. In an interview with Robert X. Cringely for the PBS show “Triumph of the nerds” he said:I had three or four people (at Apple) who kept bugging that I get my rear over to Xerox PARC and see what they are doing. And, so I finally did. I went over there. And they were very kind. They showed me what they are working on. And they showed me really three things. But I was so blinded by the first one that I didn’t even really see the other two. One of the things they showed me was object oriented programming – they showed me that but I didn’t even see that. The other one they showed me was a networked computer system… they had over a hundred Alto computers all networked using email etc., etc., I didn’t even see that. I was so blinded by the first thing they showed me, which was the graphical user interface. I thought it was the best thing I’d ever seen in my life. Now remember it was very flawed. What we saw was incomplete, they’d done a bunch of things wrong. But we didn’t know that at the time but still thought they had the germ of the idea was there and they’d done it very well. And within – you know – ten minutes it was obvious to me that all computers would work like this some day. It was obvious. You could argue about how many years it would take. You could argue about who the winners and losers might be. You could’t argue about the inevitability, it was so obviousSteve Jobs about his visit to Xerox PARC – Clip from Robert Cringley’s TV documentation “Triumph of the Nerds“.

      Steve Jobs when given a tour at the Xerox PARC in 1979 was so struck by the GUI that they were developing that he could not even process the other things he was shown (Object Oriented Programming and Networked Computing).

      "And within - you know - ten minutes it was obvious to me that all computers would work like this some day. It was obvious. You could argue about how many years it would take. You could argue about who the winners or losers might be. You couldn't argue about the inevitability, it was obvious."

      This reminds me of the moment Roam first clicked for me.