I am just a speck of dust inside giant's eye...

Did you know that soda machines at restaurants and movie theaters spy on you? That most common new cars now record your sexual preferences and send it to the manufacturer (and also data about anyone who also gets in your car, walks by your car, and maybe happens to be within visual range of your car)? That grocery stores are trying to force customers to download an app to scan barcodes on shelves instead of putting up prices, so the app can scan the phone, decide how much that customer should be squeezed for, and adjust the price? That more and more innocent people are being sent to jail for crimes committed hundreds of miles away because an AI facial recognition algorithm spit their faces out and the cops didn't bother to do the most basic of checks?

I'm thinking again of how much of a waste it was that season two didn't explore the Robby-Samira-Langdon nexus. There were a million ways the season could have been better with only minor changes and shifts in focus, but I'm also now thinking of a different version of this story, where Robby's total ambivalence towards Samira's career prospects – the lack of interest in discussing what she actually wants, the pushing her towards something that doesn't interest her, the encouraging her to settle for something noncompetitive that he clearly doesn't respect, the failure to offer her actual help or even just question why she wanted to go to Abbot instead of him – was reframed as being connected to how supportive he was of Langdon's pursuit of an explicitly competitive fellowship and how deeply he felt let down. As if he's unwilling to demonstrate that kind of faith in a resident again.

“Teachers are often unaware of the gender distribution of talk in their classrooms. They usually consider that they give equal amounts of attention to girls and boys, and it is only when they make a tape recording that they realize that boys are dominating the interactions. Dale Spender, an Australian feminist who has been a strong advocate of female rights in this area, noted that teachers who tried to restore the balance by deliberately ‘favouring’ the girls were astounded to find that despite their efforts they continued to devote more time to the boys in their classrooms. Another study reported that a male science teacher who managed to create an atmosphere in which girls and boys contributed more equally to discussion felt that he was devoting 90 per cent of his attention to the girls. And so did his male pupils. They complained vociferously that the girls were getting too much talking time. In other public contexts, too, such as seminars and debates, when women and men are deliberately given an equal amount of the highly valued talking time, there is often a perception that they are getting more than their fair share. Dale Spender explains this as follows: “The talkativeness of women has been gauged in comparison not with men but with silence. Women have not been judged on the grounds of whether they talk more than men, but of whether they talk more than silent women.” In other words, if women talk at all, this may be perceived as ‘too much’ by men who expect them to provide a silent, decorative background in many social contexts.”

Mel reaches the part of her pregnancy when her filter doesn't last the whole 12 hours of a shift. At some point, her exhaustion wins, and nice, kind and gentle Mel becomes a menace, but exclusively to clueless patients who rudely ask about her body like they have any claim to it:

Mel reaches the part of her pregnancy when her filter doesn't last the whole 12 hours of a shift. At some point, her exhaustion wins, and nice, kind and gentle Mel becomes a menace, but exclusively to clueless patients who rudely ask about her body like they have any claim to it:

”Well, Tim is dating a Kardashian sister.”

when I was in high school I had a literature teacher who had a policy of unlimited extra credit. All you had to do was read a book by a notable author (his discretion) and have a little chat with him after school to prove that you read it. No limits, no need for variety (one month I decided I really loved Kurt Vonnegut and just read everything of his I could get my hands on).

People who work within a system: okay so studies show that the normal system works 90% of the time, but because it’s very bad when it doesn’t work, we’ve set up a process to manage those outliers. We need six well-trained workers to run the system 100% of the time without any serious incidents.