It also continues the underlying cultural ethos that certain ways of human existence are something that can be "disagreed with." That "worry" (not reality) is enough of a legal basis to justify discrimination.

It's feelings that don't care about facts.

A federal judge in Utah has ruled that drag shows are protected by the first amendment. "Public spaces are public spaces. Public spaces are not private spaces. Public spaces are not majority spaces. The First Amendment of the United States Constitution ensures that all citizens, popular or not, majority or minority, conventional or unconventional, have access to public spaces for public expression," begins the opinion.
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https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.utd.139943/gov.uscourts.utd.139943.63.0.pdf

[Four #native #languages spoken by #tribes in #Sarawak are now #extinct according to the national literary & cultural agency Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka.
Sarawak director, Abang Haliman Abang Julai, said that according to #researchers the #Seru , #Pegu , #Bliun & #Lelak languages were now no longer in use.]

https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2023/03/19/four-tribal-languages-in-sarawak-go-extinct

#linguistics #IndigenousLanguage #NativeLanguage #TribalLanguage #LanguagePreservation #LostLanguages #Malaysia #AsianMastodon #Asian #GlobalSouth #LostCulture #Asia

Garden sprites

After a cold night and low morning sun, the moisture captured in the wood of my garden fence evaporates into wisps of steam that dance and sway in the breeze. It is mesmerising to watch.

#photography #BlackAndWhite #steam

So, don't tell anybody, but we're going to announce Palm Pilot emulation in the browser at Internet Archive in the next week or so. I've still got to get descriptions in for the hundreds of apps that are uploaded, and add a few more classics. But if you want to help with that, or just let me know how it's going, ping me here.

But don't tell anybody! It's a secret!

https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_palm