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On a larger scale, our diversity efforts are not improving the most important social issues in the industry. Tech’s racism will not be solved just through throwing in a few more people of color, and it certainly will not end just because white women are better represented. Adding more minorities won’t address our abusive manufacturing processes in other countries, gentrification in tech-heavy cities, or income disparity in the United States. The current feminist landscape puts so much focus on getting women into positions of power, but those positions of power still serve to marginalize and harm others. We share article after article about how to get women promoted into leadership positions, but we don’t ask why women should want to lead an unethical corporation. We idolize unicorn startups making life easier for the millennial with disposable income, but we rarely ask where the startups focused on empowering marginalized people are. This isn’t the industry we should want to inherit. More privileged women can join the elite inner circle of tech, but that can hardly be considered a win when so many others are still disadvantaged.

“The Pie is Rotten: Re-Evaluating Tech Feminism in 2016″ by Amy Nguyen on Model View Culture (December 14, 2015)

Read the whole article. It's important.

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Homemade red bean bun (Tau sar pau 豆沙包) for first day of 2016. Recipe from Vivian Pang Kitchen.

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SQUEEEEEE

Ruby-crowned Kinglet

Stewart Park, WI

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Варим кофе ❤

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Aww babies!!!

Pufferfish Trapped in Twirling Bubble Lasso

In the Socorro Islands, the collision of cold and warm currents causes swirling vortexes of bubbles to form. Pufferfish, being weak swimmers, are trapped by the suction.

via Smithsonian

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This drawing is dedicated to all female astronauts and all aspiring ones, too. Round 1 of friend requests. Prompt was “Drops of Jupiter.” One more to go! 

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something fun I’m doing :D art for friends, where I do drawings for friends based on a theme or a description or a song, send them a scan + the original.

Round #1 Request completed 20 Oct 2015. Prompt: “About me and the ocean or octopi."Sketched in pencil and drawn over with black marker, took 1.5hrs to imagine, plan and execute. All paper materials bought second-hand from the Scrap Exchange. 3 more to go! 

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Sunday was spent rightfully outside under the sun, at Rocky Face climbing area with Duke Adaptive Climbing. Belaying adaptive climber folks, having lunch and afterwards getting to try out the routes ourselves and watch other experienced climbers do lead climbs.

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Albatross.

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Just wanted to make sure 

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this is my day today

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new comix on duck academy 

Human-feeder

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Rust fungi uredinium with two lovely round blobby uredinospores, all ready for sexual reproduction. If I remember the mycology right.

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Slime mold powdery bits!

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Even before Category 4 Hurricane Joaquin hits, its effects are well felt. Charleston, South Carolina and other parts of the East Coast faces unprecedented flooding. We hear from Beaufort, coastal North Carolina where the Marine Lab is that the roads have all flooded. Homecoming weekend coincides with some pretty fierce weather and an official state of emergency. Safe travels.