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Monday, July 08, 2013

Ingress: Tri-State Resistance Should Attempt Complex Fielding

I happen to think complex fielding is the most exciting aspect of the game, and the most challenging, certainly. I would like to suggest that the tri-state Resistance attempt some complex fielding. That is one aspect where the tri-state agents have been sorely lacking in.

The six zones I have identified in the first image are all blue strongholds. As in, we got the territory and we got the agents who have plenty of keys to the portals there. All we now need is some coordination. First your circle the city, and not only do you circle it but you maintain the fortress. If any field is brought down, you build it back up right away. Maintaining the fortress is also going to bring up opportunities to connect the zones in ways that we paint the whole city blue, from afar.

Step 2 would be to fan out as shown in the second image. Talk about squeezing the Enlightened. Once these two stages of fielding have been completed the game in the city is going to be much more fun for the Resistance.

Monday, July 18, 2011

"It Was A Nigger!"

Entertainment Weekly: Rosewood (1997)

In 1923, the residents of Rosewood, a tranquil all-black agrarian village in central Florida, bask in their hard-toiling prosperity. Several generations removed from slavery, they have farms, businesses, a community. They have freedom — or, at least, a hermetic approximation of it. For it's a freedom they can share only with one another. In the adjacent, comparatively poor all-white town of Sumner, the citizens look at Rosewood with suspicion and envy. The very power of American upward mobility has shaken the firmament of Dixie — its racial-social hierarchy. ...... When one of the whites gets beaten up by her extramarital lover, she's so flooded with rage and guilt that her hysteria explodes like shrapnel at the most convenient available target. ''It was a nigger!'' she wails. There are rumors of a recently escaped black convict, and with this mythical culprit in mind, the men of Sumner form a lynch mob. They never do locate the suspect, but in a sense they start to see him everywhere — in the face of any innocent black man who knows nothing of the crime. Out for ''justice,'' the mob consumes its own purpose, becoming an end in itself, a jamboree of lynching, shooting, burning, slaughter.

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Tim Berners-Lee: The Internet Is Not A Country
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Caroline McCarthy On Gender

Tuesday, May 04, 2010

Paul Carr's Frank Talk On Race

I believe in having frank discussions on race, although the guy who I supported mightily in the presidential race, Barack Obama, proved a polar opposite approach can work wonders. He has done as much for race relations as anyone in history and he has done so by not bothering to have fluffy discussions on race.

Paul Carr, in this TechCrunch post, talks frankly about race, and that is of interest to me. "If I am wrong enough to think it, I am wrong enough to say it," Eminem once said in defense of his homophobic lyrics. What I like in addition to the frankness is Carr's exploration of the online medium and how that impacts the social discourses on that touchy topic: race.

TechCrunch: NSFW: #Ebony and #Ivory – The Brave New World of Online Self-Segregation

......the more recent story of a British holidaymaker who demanded that a hotel in Florida keep all “people of color” (or those with “foreign accents”) away from him and his family.......“black people represent 25% of Twitter users, roughly twice their share of the population in general” ......Twitter feels like one of the whitest sites in the world to me: full as it is with self-important middle-class hipster kids retweeting New York Times stories and the fact that they’re having sushi for lunch.....If apartheid or the new laws in Arizona represent the 1984 future, then there’s a real possibility that the Internet – and social media specifically – will eventually lead us into an even more terrifying Brave New World future. A future where the tools that once promised to help us meet people with different backgrounds and ideologies from our own actually end up being used, quite unintentionally, to segregate us from those same people......

Since when did having sushi become a white thing to do? This world is becoming cosmopolitan by the day.

I am a Third World guy. For me race talk has to go way beyond fluff to make sense. If you want my attention, talk to me about Kiva, for example.

Paul Carr: Bringing Nothing To The Party

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