"U.S. officials cannot deny a passport application from an intersex Colorado resident based solely on a refusal to select male or female for gender, a federal judge said Wednesday."

"The ruling only applies to Zzyym, but Lambda Legal senior attorney Paul Castillo called it a "groundbreaking, first-of-its-kind" challenge to limited gender options on federal identification."

http://uk.businessinsider.com/ap-judge-us-cant-deny-passport-over-refusing-to-pick-gender-2018-9

"The oldest and thickest sea ice in the Arctic has started to break up, opening waters north of Greenland that are normally frozen, even in summer. This phenomenon – which has never been recorded before – has occurred twice this year due to warm winds and a climate-change driven heatwave in the northern hemisphere."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/21/arctics-strongest-sea-ice-breaks-up-for-first-time-on-record

Someone asked on the #OpenStreetMap mailing list how to record "dangerous"/"unsafe" areas. It's nice that so many OSMers pointed out the classist and racist nature of "this area is dangerous". 🙂

(And subjective things don't go in #OSM anyway)
Thread starts here: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2018-August/038469.html

I often find myself referring to "stretches of language"—by which I mean some segment of text/speech without reference to the structural/usage specifics—i.e., sentences, conversational turns, poetic lines, paragraphs, chapters, even n-grams (or unigrams) are all kinds of "stretches of language." is there an existing term for this that I'm not aware of?

("sequence" isn't quite right as it presupposes discreteness, which implies structure; a "stretch" in my thinking might begin and end mid-unit)