Matthias' Bla: 2024-10-06

Meine Güte, was für'n Blah!

26 Suchtreffer

2021-04-29

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“It’s like being stuck behind plexiglass watching your children being tortured and unable to do anything.”

@Canada #Children #Gender #Language #Prison #Sex #Transgender

2021-04-24

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#Gender #Language #Linguistics #Science #Sex #Women

2021-01-22

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‘Gender-neutral speech doesn’t make biology go away: it just removes the analytical tools to understand and address it.’
— Dr Kath Murray (@kathmurray1) January 22, 2021

#Biology #Gender #Ideology #Language #Sex #Transgender @USA #Women

2021-01-14

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An impressive collection of examples for Twitter’s war against biology and women.

#Gender #Language #Ideology #Sex #Transgender @Twitter @USA #Women

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Fantastic piece, although it still endorses the idea of sex-role stereotype discomfort disorder (the 'Science' of this lower in the thread).
— Dr EM (@PankhurstEM) January 14, 2021

#Gender #Health #Language #Ideology #Sex #Sports #Transgender @USA #Women

2021-01-04

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Good piece by an Irishwoman forensically dissecting the ridiculous and revolting letter from Amnesty and others saying women who know what bio sex is such be silenced
— Helen Joyce (@HJoyceGender) January 4, 2021

@Amnesty_International #Gender #Ideology @Ireland #Language #LGB #Sex #Transgender #Women

2021-01-01

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Die Ironie, wenn etwas als modern & als "Menschenrecht" verkauft wird, was unlogisch, kaum erforscht, schädlich, verstümmelnd & vor allem einfach Konversionstherapie für Homosexuelle, meist jugendliche Lesben, ist.
Hier mal die weiteren Befunde.
"Trans the gay away."
— V. Firestone 📕 (@TeaTea1337) January 1, 2021

#Gender #Language #Science #Sex #Transgender

2020-12-30

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If anyone wants an insight into why many university staff are intimidated to criticise gender identity ideology or speak out about impact on women, children, gay people, etc. I've collated some highlights from uni trans policies here:
— Kathleen Stock (@Docstockk) December 30, 2020

#Education #Gender @Great_Britain #Language #Ideology #Religion #Science #Sex #Transgender

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The outlets I write for have been supportive of my using phrases like ‘teen who identifies as transgender’. It’s important to make it clear that there’s a difference between how individuals want to be seen & who they are. We have a choice when reporting.
— Jo Bartosch (@jo_bartosch) December 30, 2020

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#Gender #Language #Journalism #Sex #Transgender @WoLF

2020-12-19

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Einige werden sich erinnern:
Vor 9 Tagen wurde Prof. Dr. Kathleen Stock wegen "Herabwürdigung" von einer Veranstaltung des deutschen ZAS Berlin unter dem Titel "Oppressive Speech, Societies & Norms" wieder 'ausgeladen'.

Hier eine kleine Dokumentation:
— V. Firestone 📕 (@TeaTea1337) December 19, 2020

#Free_Speech #Gender @Germany #Ideology #Language #Sex

2020-12-16

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Some guy tried to criminalise criticism – and fell flat

#Gender @Great_Britain #Language #Sex #Transgender #Women

2020-12-13

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The use of language is important

#Ideology #Language #Racism #Religion #Tolerance #Transgender

2020-09-18

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Alice Sullivan, Professor of Sociology at UCL, presented this piece during our event “What are the ethics of collecting data on sex and gender?” held on Friday the 18th of September 2020.

#Biology #Gender @Great_Britain #Language #Science #Sex #Transgender #Women

2020-06-28

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How language gets changed to promote a world view

#Gender @George_Orwell #Ideology #Language #Sex #Transgender

2020-06-27

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Rassismus in Gesellschaft und Sprache

@Germany #Language #Police #Racism

2020-06-13

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“Master” branch and racism

For some time there are discussions about terms like “master” and “slave” in IT. The terms were used there e.g. to describe the roles of hard-disks quite some time ago and “master” is used by git to name the default branch of a software project. While the former is outdated due to technical progress the latter it still in wide use – including my own projects.

The current racism debate was a good enough reason to change that. While I don’t think that the term master is inherently racist and in fact predates slavery and is used even now in many other contexts – like master/apprentice, or master in the sense of a original (book, movie, audio-track etc.), or master in terms of accomplishments, or master in context of devotion etc. – it’s not worth the time to argue about some word that might make feel some people uncomfortable. So I wrote a small shell script to automate the process as far as possible (with some help):

#!/bin/sh
#
# Change git `master` branch to `main`.
#
# 2020-06-12  Matthias Watermann  <support@mwat.de>
#-------------------------------------------------------

git branch -m master main || exit
git push -u origin main || exit
git symbolic-ref refs/remotes/origin/HEAD refs/remotes/origin/main || exit
#
echo "
See the web-page shown above and change the default branch on GitHub to 'main'"
read -p "press <RETURN> when done." REPLY
#
git branch -d master 2>/dev/null
git push origin --delete master
git push -u origin main --tags
echo

# _EoF_

After running that script in all my private and public repositories I was finally un-mastered …

Since I didn’t find a way to programmatically change the default branch on ‘GitHub’ the script above pauses for a while until I manually changed the default branch there from master to main.

After running this script in all my git projects there was a single problem remaining: How to make sure that a new git project would start with main as its default branch?

Well, for the locally created git repositories the easiest way I found is setting a command alias:

git config --global alias.init '!git init && git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/main'

Lamentably that doesn’t work. Apparently one can not ‘rename’ an already existing git command. So try it with a new command:

git config --global alias.new '!git init && git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/main'

Now it works and a new git repository gets created with main as its default branch.

Now, what remains is configuring GitHub to use main as the default branch’s name. As far as I see, however, that’s not possible at the moment. Whenever a new GitHub repository is created the default branch is named master. Which means that after creating the new repository one has to create some file (e.g. .gitignore) to make sure that the branch is actually in use and only then change the default branch’s name to something else, e.g. main. – A few days later Microsoft (the now owner of GitHub) declared that they will change the master name.

As a side note: Much more important than to get rid of master branches in software development I feel it necessary to replace terms like blacklist and whitelist which clearly have a racist connotation: black==bad and white==good. However, since I personally don’t use those terms in my development there’s nothing I can do about (apart from talking to others about it).

#Computer #Git @GitHub #Language #Programming #Racism

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@Germany #Language

2020-03-06

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How the use of words changed over time in German parliament.

@Bundestag @Germany #Language

2020-03-05

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How the use of words changed over time in German parliament.

@Bundestag @Germany #Language #Parliament

2020-02-23

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Some thoughts about (GB|US) English style.

@Great_Britain #Language #Literature @USA

2019-12-22

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A nice free site I hadn’t seen before for looking up definitions in multiple dictionaries all at once (Robert J. Sawyer)

#Culture #Dictionary #Language #Literature @OneLook

2018-02-20

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Exceedingly rich, white men (and women) who invest in biomedical companies are funding myriad transgender organizations whose agenda will make them gobs of money.
“These include but are not limited to @Jennifer_Pritzker (a male who identifies as transgender); @George_Soros; @Martine_Rothblatt (a male who identifies as transgender and transhumanist); @Tim_Gill (a gay man); @Drummond_Pike; Warren and Peter Buffett; @Jon_Stryker (a gay man); @Mark_Bonham (a gay man); and @Ric_Weiland (a deceased gay man whose philanthropy is still LGBT-oriented).”