Notes KW 02/17

Im schlechtesten Fall müssen Passagiere einen Aufpreis für ihren Sitz zahlen oder bekommen überhaupt bei der Suche nach Flügen nur teurere Angebote angezeigt. Angesichts der Intransparenz, die schon jetzt bei der Preisgestaltung von Flügen herrscht, würden Kunden davon nicht einmal etwas mitbekommen.

Mastercard errechnet Gewicht von Kunden aus Einkäufen – futurezone.at | als Paranoiker zahle ich meine Zigaretten immer bar.

I am going to spend much less time writing blog-posts in response to articles that seem designed only to provoke.

Witzig ist an Okawongas Manifest für 2017 eigentlich nur, daß es mir von jemandem in die Timeline getwittert worden ist, deren Arbeitgeber genau das zu nicht unwesentlichen Teilen tut. Und ich bezweifle, daß er in diesem Jahr damit aufhört.

Then it got weird. You see, the Marstons were also members of a polyamorous sex cult, which believed the best way to combat male authoritarianism was loving female submission. While Wonder woman was not drawn as particularly voluptuous, Marston made sure the scantily-clad heroine was tied up in every story. (She did a lot of tying up herself.) The whole bondage thing lent kinky undertones to the feminist comic.
Batwoman was brought in as a “beard” for Batman, after Wertham described his domestic life with pantsless sidekick Robin as a “wish dream of two homosexuals living together.”

Comic Books’ Scary Sexism Isn’t Going Anywhere – dose.com | Josh O’Connor mit einem auch für Nicht-Comic-Fans lesenswerten Artikel.

Interpretations-Trumpismus

Wissenschaft: Die postfaktische Universität – Zeit Campus (Allein für diese Wortschöpfung Pörksens, trotz Fugen-S bei gleichzeitigem Bindestrich)

Another 3,000 people still living have arranged to join them upon what cryonicists call “deanimation.” In other words, death.

Fifty years frozen: The world’s first cryonically preserved human’s disturbing journey to immortality | Superspooky.

Die Nachrufe gehen weiter

Ms. Hollingworth’s first husband, Vandeleur Robinson, whom she married in 1936, divorced her for desertion 15 years later. (“When I’m on a story, I’m on a story — to hell with husband, family, anyone else,” she told The Guardian in 2004.)

Clare Hollingworth, Reporter Who Broke News of World War II, Dies at 105 – The New York Times

Put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting ‘Vanity,’ thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.

Why we still need John Berger’s Ways of Seeing – dazeddigital.com

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