Links: being a human

This IS Kalapuyan Land with guest curator Stephanie Littlebird Fogel. I have plans to bike over to see this as soon as there's a Saturday with non-miserable weather.

What happens when a museum known for pioneer history turns over curatorial authority to a young Indigenous artist and writer? For Five Oaks Museum, the result is a bold, self-critical exhibit about the Tualatin Valley’s first people.

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The Gift of a Bicultural Upbringing by Sandhya Fuchs.

“I think we intuitively learn to fit in,” says a friend whose anthropologist mother also dragged her around the world. “I don’t mean in a follow-the-peer-pressure kind of way. I mean in the sense that you kind of always know what it means to make community and be part of it. And you realize that the process is the same wherever you go.”

Humanae Project. "Humanae is a work in progress, who intends to deploy a chromatic range of the different human skin colors." Pantone color squares matching the skin color in photographs of many different humans. Fascinating!

Tips on reducing biased and oppressive language by chadloder . Twitter thread. Lots of phrases to avoid, and why. I hadn't known this one!

The phrases "grandfather clause" and "grandfathered in" originate in a racist Reconstruction-era policy to deny formerly enslaved people the right to vote.

The most popular last name in every country in the world, and what they mean by Matthew Meltzer.

If everyone in America named Smith formed their own state, it would be the 35th most populous state in America.

being overwhelmingly tempted to do a thing irrespective of how it is wrong? by theunitofcaring .

I have been in a place in my life where I struggled with things like this, and it was a symptom of being desperately short on things I needed, and once I instead got the things I needed it went away.

Elder caregiver decisions in abusive families by CZEdwards . Twitter thread. I don't agree with some of the statements, for example "no elder care, no inheritance." But it's still interesting reading about the decisions one group of siblings made on this difficult topic.

Dante’s Nine Circles of Hell, Reimagined for Linguistic Transgressions by John Rauschenberg.

Web Design: The First 100 Years by Maciej Cegłowski.

The basic configuration of an airliner has not changed in sixty years. You have a long tube, swept wings with multiple engines mounted underneath, and a top speed of around 900 kph.

So what happened to the future?

'Smart cities' urged to look beyond rich, white men by Megan Rowling.

Cities on a digital path to a greener future risk excluding the poor, elderly and disabled - and women need a bigger voice as well