The #ConservativePartnershipInstitute (#CPI) has become a breeding ground for the next generation of #Trump loyalists & an incubator for policies he might pursue. Its fast growth is raising questions.
Mitchell was among ~150 #conservative#donors …who gathered …to celebrate the ascendancy of a group that has become a well-paying sinecure for #Trump allies & an incubator for the policies TFG could pursue if elected. The participants toted gift bags in the sunshine & swapped golf clothes for business attire at a dinner where they applauded as 2 Black speakers— #BenCarson …& Rep #ByronDonalds of FL —extolled conservative values while condemning the racial #identity#politics of the #left.
Some Narrative Conventions of Scientific Discourse
Rom Harré, 1990
"The academic ‘we’ might seem at first glance to be just a version of the editorial ‘we’. Like the latter it is mutedly egocentric but it is not mainly used to imply teamwork. Rather, it is used to draw the listener into complicity, to participate as something more than an audience. "
"Trust, then, is a relation, but can be grounded in the faith of only one of its terminal members. Trust belongs to the same category of personal attributes as beliefs, though trust is more like implicit belief than like opinions which are overtly expressed. It is what is taken for granted in a relationship, whether between people or between people and things. It is usually called into question only when it is violated."
Wow! This one here is a real pageturner! I'm still in the middle of it and I'm enjoying it a great deal! Have you read it? #lisasee#bookstodon@bookstodon
The #UnitedStates federal government updated how it classifies people by #race & #ethnicity for the 1st time in over a quarter-century, aiming to better capture an increasingly #diverse country & give policymakers a fuller view of the #Americans their work impacts.
Karin Orvis, the #UnitedStates’ chief statistician, said in a Thurs blog post on the WH website that the revision will “enhance our ability to compare information & data across federal agencies, & also to understand how well federal programs serve a #diverse#America.”
… Such data guides how federal ofcls analyze everything from #HealthCare outcomes to the redrawing of #CongressionalDistricts.
"The Seattle hospital said in a statement that it had 'successfully fought' the 'overreaching demands to obtain confidential patient information.' A judge in Austin dismissed the lawsuit Friday, saying the parties had settled their dispute."
An entrepreneur -- who doesn't yet want to be publicly identified -- ran a session here at #IIW why he's pivoting his company out of the #SSI Self-sovereign Identity / #VC Verifiable Credential space after years of trying to make a business there.
It was extremely interesting and I hope he will publish his lessons learned both for the #identity community and any new technology market really that has similar challenges.
P.S. Much resonated with my reasons why I never got deep into SSI myself.
Thanks Evan, there's a bit to digest there, some of which I agree with, and some of which I don't, between what both you and the OtherEvan had to offer.
It's good to get this stuff right out in the open, especially as the Fediverse is currently undergoing yet another paradigmatic shifts, perhaps an evolutionary step, but certainly, a complete game changer from much of the perspective offered in the Evan <==> Evan Essays ;)
#KERI checks as many security and privacy-concerned ✔️ boxes as possible composing common cryptographic primitives, addressing #identity and key rotation, providing the necessities and comparatively few prescriptive opinions. https://keri.one/ #DWebResearch
The tail of a whale - one of two humpback whales that we came across whilst cruising in our Zodiac at Meusnier point around the Antarctica peninsular. They were in a feeding frenzy having come across a krilling field. Apparently the tails have fingerprint like capability enabling them to be uniquely identified.😍 😎 😜 #photography#travel#nature#antarctica#whale#humor#humour#identity
Self-Made Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians by Tara Isabella Burton
In a technologically-saturated era where nearly everything can be effortlessly and digitally reproduced, we're all hungry to carve out our own unique personalities, our own bespoke personae, to stand out and be seen.
Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity by Michele Norris
Peabody Award–winning journalist Michele Norris offers a transformative dialogue on race and identity in America, unearthed through her decade-long work at The Race Card Project.
The prompt seemed simple: Race. Your Thoughts. Six Words. Please Send.
New EUCJ decision: storing two fingerprints on the chip of an identity document is acceptable but needs updates to the legal framework. Note that the decision is only about storing them on the chip. Not a free pass to store all fingerprints in one big database. Press release: https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2024-03/cp240050en.pdf Decision text not yet published.
> Digital Identities aren’t something unique to the fediverse and it’s not something Mastodon could stop if they wanted to. Nomadic identity is coming to the internet. The only question is who is going to own your identity. VISA/Mastercard, your government, Google, Microsoft, or you.
TOMORROW is the deadline for applications to the #Trust and #Identity Incubator #Mentorship Programme (TIM). #Students can get paid while they study, and learn from the best in the field.
"I didn't realize until years later, thinking back about that, was I was three years old. I lived with my birth mother, and then I didn't anymore.
And I was a three year old. I was talking to her. I forgot over [00:27:00] a while, over time what I was doing. And in the book I talk about it that way. I forgot what I was doing, but I kept doing it. And in, the way that I forgot my name, I had no idea what my name was and I had to find it."
"What does it feel like to speak your primary language in an accent from your secondary one? I would later find out."
In today's new Longreads essay, Montserrat Andrée Carty writes about growing up with different languages and cultures—and embracing different versions of herself.