American Words - Still Everywhere
20 Jun 2018From a great interactive piece in the New York Times about the genocide currently being perpetrated against the Rohingyan Islamic minority in western Myanmar. It looks like the export of American language is alive and well 😕 [1]
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Related reading:
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An overview of who the Rohingya are and why they aren’t “fake news” and a call by The Economist hold the Myanmar government accountable at the International Criminal Court.
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When I cross posted this on my Medium on 06/27/19 I added some reflection:
[1] This is an ongoing mess that has gotten a bit better but is still bad
Standing invitation (inspired by Patio11 who also has some good tips on how to approach this): if you want to talk about hard tech or systems, I want to talk to you.
My email is my full name at gmail.com.
- I read every email and will almost always reply.
- I like reading things you’ve written.
- I go to conferences to meet people like you.
- Meetings outside of conferences are tougher to fit with my schedule - let’s chat over email first. Specificity and being concise makes it easy for me to reply :)