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Washington at Green Bay (-7.5)
CHFF pick: Green Bay 30, Washington 27
Final score: Green Bay 38, Washington 20
Result: A loss for CHFF ATS, Win SU
Game in Review: Through two weeks of football, the Redskins have been shredded by the Packers (580 yards, 38 points) and Eagles (443 yards, 33 points).
In the first half of those games, Washington has been outscored 50-7, a fact much more offensive than any nickname.
Green Bay, by the way, ranks second in Real Quarterback Rating following Aaron Rodgers' 34/42 for 480 yards and four touchdowns performance. Ho hum.
If the NFL was the old 8-bit Oregon Trail video game, Rodgers and the Packers assault on the Redskins would have resulted all the buffalo meet a Pioneer family could handle.
The Redskins defense and U.S. government: bloated and inflated in Washington D.C.
*You are welcome to come up with your own offensive Washington item at your leisure.
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These are both important bases of power for him. The Army and his own party. Mahinda is a wily old fox and he can definitely win, but Sirisena isn't a political noob or obvious loose cannon like Fonseka. On a good day Mahinda's margin of victory would be 5% and with his own party fracturing at the top, it's suddenly a race.
For a long time people have been saying that the only real opposition would emerge from within the SLFP. Ranil has crashed the UNP, making it a vote bank more than a party that can actually win elections. Any politician with a brain and mouths to feed has crossed to the SLFP, even if they weren't happy there.
At the same time, Mahinda has turned the SLFP into a bit of a personal fiefdom as well. People that cross over have tended to get plum positions, over people that have been with the party forever. Furthermore, the vast majority of the budget is controlled by him and his family (the Ministries of Finance, Defence, Ports/Aviation, Law & Order for Mahinda and Economic Development for Basil). Ministers get cars and stuff, but Mahinda's sons have more power.
Old-school SLFPers haven't been happy for a while, but it's still a pretty big risk for Maithripala to come at the throne like this.
Who is this guy? Don't really know. His son has only thrashed a bugger once, which is good I guess. He's the Minister Of Health and the General Secretary of the SLFP, he's from Polonnaruwa and polled 90,000 preferential votes in the 2010 General, 75% of his party's voters giving him the nod. He's been in politics since 1989.
Word on the street is that a bunch of SLFPers are going to jump ship with him. I've heard 15 but who knows. The question is, where are they jumping ship to? Will they run under the UNP? Will they run as an independent party?
So far his platform is abolishing the Executive Presidency within 100 days, but while that's a good idea, it's also highly impractical. If he abolishes his job, the Prime Minister would be the leader, and who would that be? If he wanted to preserve the peoples mandate he'd need to abolish the Presidency at a certain date, dissolve Parliament, run for Parliament, win that election, be appointed PM, and then tada. But what a strange and improbable contortion. Except he's saying Ranil will be made Prime Minister, which plays into the House Of Tards theory. It seems weird that he'd risk his neck to hand power to Ranil. I don't know.
Regardless, things have just gotten interesting. No matter how undemocratic Sri Lankan institutions are, no matter how much their rigged to prevent competition, democracy is like a weed here. We've survived dictatorial types like JR and Premadasa and even Mahinda has to fight for his pudding. Shit just got real.]]>
In House Of Cards, Senator Frank Underwood angles for the US Presidency by moving pieces around, getting people to resign, etc. It's not especially democratic, but there's a similar way for Ranil to get, if not the Presidency, then power.
This election the opposition seems to be running against the Presidency, not the President. The different parties don't have a common candidate, but they have agreed that whoever wins will abolish the Executive Presidency.
Ranil's quote on the matter is the funniest, explaining that his Uncle created the Presidency to help the country but Mahinda is using it to enrich his family. His actual problem is that the Presidency didn't stay in the family, but nevermind.
So, let's presume that the opposition A) finds a candidate and B) that candidate wins. Unlikely, but bear with me here.
If the opposition wins the Presidency, it's more likely that they'd win the general election to be held shortly after. In that hypothetical (magical) election the UNP, led by Ranil, would win the most votes. That would make Ranil the Prime Minister.
Then the opposition candidate, say Ven. Sobhitha Thera, would abolish the Presidency, ie his own office. Since he wouldn't simultaneously be a member of Parliament, the leadership of the country would then fall to Ranil, the magical Prime Minister. Thus, in a few highly improbable but possible steps, Ranil would become leader of the country without winning the Presidential election.
Of course, this won't come to pass. At least, I hope not. This is why the Executive Presidency is so hard to give up. Nobody is going to put themselves out of a job to see some other mutton-chop get it. The bigger reason, however, is that it's also unlikely that any opposition candidate could defeat Mahinda head-to-head. What we'll likely end up with is Mahinda as President and Ranil as opposition leader, presumably until one of them dies of old age.]]>
Above is an idea from Team Strikers, A.P.Yasindhu and Sajith Dushmantha from the University Of Jaffna. They're using an Arduino motherboard thingy to connect a computer to a light switch. They're then running some basic voice recognition to turn on a lightbulb. A long way from a marketable product for, say, hotel rooms, but basically a perfect demonstration of invention. Turning on the lightbulb and all.
Some of the other ideas that got thru:
Regarding these ideas. For Tracklers, the investors saw a viable product and an obvious market for it. Lanka Angel Networks is a network of 70+ dudes so if the product works they can basically sell it. We saw a really pro demo showing them turning on a sprinkler from a smartphone. If they can connect it to temperature sensors, etc it really can be a cost savings to agribusiness.
The bus stuff, there are always hackathon ideas about buses and the investors are always interested in something that's making money in India (like RedBus). The Sri Lankan bus sector, however, is highly cartel-ized and resistant to change. That said, the dudes doing bus bookings are focusing on the popular Jaffna/CMB route which is both popular and highly inefficient. That could be an opportunity. The service that reads the next location is pretty cool and it's hardware, so they could just go bus to bus and sell.
The GPS traffic and docs things are very close to existing products (both Google), but the have angles. One is that Waze doesn't really operate here and Sri Lankan roads are weird and somewhat immune to foreign solutions. The other is that Google Docs gets very expensive for large organizations and the UI for managing documents sucks.
Some teams didn't get through the first round but they had the chance to refine their pitches and try again. Of those, these guys have gotten through to the finals:
One team which didn't make it was Armates, who had a virtual reality overlay system. You could use an app to point at a press ad and then a 3D image would pop out of it. I thought that was pretty cool, but they passed on it. LAN passed on YAMU as well so it's not a death sentence.
Firstly, this is more than came out of the recent CMB Hack, and a lot of it is properly fundable. Also the presentation skill, tech and UX were really high quality. There were a lot of teams from the south that came up to pitch, which is also cool. Jaffna really is a good place for tech and I hope the Yarl IT Hub keeps promoting it.
What I also learnt/saw for presenters was that pitches need to be simplified (and we really should have helped them with it before hand. Some teams talked so much that they never got to show their demo. Teams should just demo first, go through a quick market sizing (which very few teams did) and then whatever. That's all the judges seemed to care about.
All in all, this Yarl Geek Challenge was awesome and I think some real companies are going to get funded out of this. Much respect to everyone at the Yarl IT Hub and LAN for organizing this. It's just the beginning. The finals are on November 22nd.
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I saw Pusswedilla a few days ago and it is, above all things, entertainment. It is closer to Andare than harsh political satire that actively tries to shame and blame. Pusswedilla is the modern court jester for Sri Lanka. Telling the truth, but in such a way that you can laugh at it and, if you feel like it, ignore the obvious conclusion. Honestly, people in power ignore obvious conclusions all the time so this isn't something you can blame on Puss. You can be thankful that it at least lets you laugh in the meantime. If you want to thin there's plenty of information in there, but if you don't want to think they're not beating you over the head with it. I think that's OK.
Gehan says that Puss is bad satire, but, well, what is satire? Satire can be expose social evils in a harsh way or it can gently expose social folly. I know this only from reading Wikipedia just now, but that would be Juvenalian and Horatian satire, respectively. I think Pusswedilla falls squarely in the camp of Horatian satire, it 'playfully criticizes some social vice through gentle, mild, and light-hearted humour'. It may not be the type of satire Gehan likes or wants, but it is satire. Of that type, I'd say it's pretty good.
The fact is that Pusswedilla is the only time I've heard anyone talk about the sheer number of suspects that die in police custody as something wrong. In the mainstream news they simply publish that X suspect drowned in handcuffs without question. Pusswedilla (the character) doesn't care about it, but he acknowledges it as reality, which is a novelty in Sri Lankan media. The audience is also able to collectively acknowledge how messed up and absurd this is, which I think is something.
The play also quite publicly criticizes of all the wasted airports, ports etc. You could say that laughing at these subjects trivializes or helps people accept them, but you could also be missing the point. Whether people accept this waste or not is their business and I don't think it's the playwright's job to compel them to believe one thing or another. Feroze Kamardeen simply encourages you to think about it.
What's perhaps more important is that he encourages us to think about it together, in public. Nobody else can really get both sides of our divided polity in the same room, let alone reality. The nature of Pusswedilla is that people who vote for and against the President (still roughly 50/50) can both watch it and enjoy themselves. Which is quite a feat. It also manages to insert and balance commercial interests (it's full of embedded advertisements, which are actually really good) and sell out seat after seat.
Is it censored or self-censored? Yes. It goes through the censor board (why do we have this?) and there are countless pressures on it from every direction. Through it all I think Feroze Kamardeen (the playwright) manages to strike an amazing balance. It is damn hard to organize a play, it is near impossible to make it profitable, and throwing politics in there is like adding gunpowder to a souffle. He pulls it off and, on a purely technical level, props to that.
On a social level, if this play isn't compelling people to think what you think, then the jokes on you. Literally, sanctimonious English-speaking elites are one group Puss sends up, along with Israelis, Americans, Ministers, the Opposition, etc. As I said, this is the closest I've seen to political agnostic commentary, it doesn't believe in anything except entertainment. This isn't a donor-funded play where someone in Europe is like 'talk about human rights", it's a commercial and, by now, market-driven product. It's not trying to prove a point, and it doesn't have an agenda. Puss is quite honestly agnostic about all that crap and it tries above all to be funny, to be profitable and to sell seats. It's connected to people, not preaching to them, and in that way it ends up being an honest reflection of what Sri Lankan politics is. A ridiculous mess with no clear good guys and a lot of losers.
If you don't like what you see then you're missing the point. The point is that Pusswedilla is connecting with a mass audience in a way that a scolding, scalding satire couldn't. What people chose to do with that information is actually up to them. Which is how it should be.]]>
Ranil was cool in 2001, competitive in 2005 but after losing he never stepped down and allowed the UNP to rebuild itself. He sat out the election in 2010 (the first time in Sri Lankan history that the UNP hasn't run) and the opposition has atrophied even further. There's talk of a common candidate, but unless that common candidate is the next Buddha I don't see it going anywhere.
In addition to one side not even playing, this political game is completely rigged. The person in power can call the election when they choose, and Mahinda has been leading up to election time by announcing a bunch of spending on the national credit card (ports, roads, highways, new Colombo stuff, etc) and a bunch of other give-aways (reduced electricity and gas prices). These amount to election incentives and they're hard to beat.
Of course, this doesn't include the rampant use of state resources (from buses to offices to police) during elections, or the use of violence.
In addition to the unfair advantages he has, Mahinda also has some fair ones. As far as Sri Lankan leaders go (low bar) he's been pretty good. Probably the best. He's less racist than JR, whose government precipitated and ignored the 1983 riots, as well as less dictatorial (JR's mangled Constitution gave birth to this regal Executive Presidency). He's more productive than CBK or anyone really, none of whom could end the war or create actual development. He's less murderous than Premadasa, more awake than Wijetunga and less economically disastrous than Srimavo.
In Mahinda's time we have seen unprecedented growth and prosperity and comparatively less violation of human rights and civil liberties than usual. Which is a really sad and desperately low bar – the benchmark being outright war and bodies burning in the streets, ie, not how a country should measure itself.
I still consider Mahinda's government almost completely unethical, deeply corrupt and generally uncool, but as far as awful Sri Lanka leaders go, he's not so bad. Given another 6 years, Sri Lanka would certainly have stability and would likely grow into a quite prosperous country, although not the best it could be.
Why wouldn't I vote for Mahinda? Well, honestly, 'good' leaders of this type have no sort of error correction when they really go bad, and they tend to go bad a few terms in. I wouldn't want that on my conscience.
That still isn't much of a rallying cry for the opposition. What a pointless and sad election this will be.
Christopher Columbus was a pretty awful dude. Besides not discovering that the world was round (people knew that) he enslaved natives, cut off their arms and hands when they didn't bring him enough gold, raped and sold their women (including girls as young as nine or ten), and basically started the genocide of the original Americans. He should probably have an AMC television show, but not a national day.
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In order to sustain content, you need to stuff it as much as possible with distractions, but not so much that people actually leave. At the highest level there are ads which people like to watch (Superbowl ads, any of those viral ones) but the bread and butter of both content and business is basically interrupting and annoying people.
In Sri Lanka the Daily Mirror is one side of that ledge, where advertising overwhelms the content. On the other end you have Facebook and Google which actually make ads useful and appealing, sort of. At YAMU we're really trying to find a balance. One example I like is Uncrate, but we have both higher overheads and smaller clients.
It's a fact that content – good, human-driven content – requires money. It requires a lot, lot less than it did in the print and distribute days, but it still requires some. At YAMU we burn at least Rs. 600,000 a month, bill about Rs. 400,000 and collect probably half of that any given month. Realistically, we actually need to bill about Rs. 1 million per month to be anywhere near break even, on a cashflow basis, and we have to really double that to be profitable and grow.
Yet, the issue we have is that we can't simply get there by selling more banner advertising. Right now we run about three ads per page and we never want to go above five. At that point advertisers aren't getting value and readers are getting annoyed, we think. At the same time we (mainly me) have to change the culture of looking at advertising as a necessary evil but as something good that we do for clients that we care about just as much as our readers. Which means rethinking what advertising is.
So what's the answer then? I honestly don't know. We're still thinking about it. Maybe I'll start updating what I'm thinking about here. It certainly isn't politics.
In recent memories we've seen
In most countries even being involved in a scandal of this sort would cause enough damage to the government that the person would resign. Note that I said being involved, not necessarily being legally liable. In mature democracies politicians – when they're caught and publicly exposed – actually resign.
In Sri Lanka and India and younger democracies, people seem to give less of a shit. There is, in my memory, no scandal severe enough to make a politician resign. You can have affairs (with any gender or age-group really), kill people, take money, sell drugs, whatever. The only punishable offense is disloyalty to whoever's in charge.
What we get is thus mafia democracy, wherein once you're made you can get away with murder, and we make these guys by voting for them. The biggest scandal in Sri Lankan politics is that there are no scandals.
When the police execute prisoners, it's routinely reported as they were killed while trying to escape. Recently someone reportedly ran away, with handcuffs on, and drowned in a canal. It beggars belief. You would think that suspects would also stop showing police where they hid weapons and then grabbing them, but according to the media they do this all the time.
I wouldn't say that Sri Lankan media is censored. I'd say that it's self-censored. The government has previously employed violence and economic pressure to create this cowed beast that goes crazy for stories about people falling or dying or impossible earthquakes or prostitutes with snakes. Essentially the Daily Mail, without the occasional reporting.
Thankfully there is still some reporting going on via blocked websites, social media and the Sri Lankan grapevine is still strong. The trouble is that in the absence of mainstream media reports, nothing is official. We live in an almost pre-literate environment of hearsay, rumor and the evidence of ones own eyes. Right now the greatest evidence in omission. Some information is definitely missing here.]]>
Jayalithaa is no friend of Sri Lanka, calling for annexation of one of our islands, separation of the the country and generally making her state, Tamil Nadu, incredibly hostile and dangerous for Sri Lankans. She was, however, also pretty hostile to the LTTE. Perhaps politically, ie once that terrorist group was eliminated and there was not a physical threat to her or an actual possibility of action on her rhetoric, she started ramping up her attacks on Sri Lanka. After the war had ended and a separate state was no longer a possibility, she started calling for one, I suppose like Arab countries exploit the Palestine issue without actually doing anything about it. It was rather cynical and really poisoned relations between us and our nearest neighbor on a personal level – average Sri Lankans in her state were harassed and even assaulted.
None of which has anything to do with her conviction. That's just how I know her.
What she was convicted of with corruption, the sort that honestly seems pretty obvious and blatant on the sub-continent – using political office to acquire land and wealth – but which almost never gets prosecuted. Her trial was delayed and stymied for 18 years, finally having to be moved out of her state to Bangalore.
And now, shockingly, she has been convicted, seemingly at the height of her power in Tamil Nadu. Something like one-third of ministers in the Indian government face criminal charges, but it's amazing to see one being actually convicted.]]>
IKEA has a wonderful new ad poking fun at Apple by marketing their print catalog in the same breathless style. It's a charming take on the merits of a book (no charging required, high resolution photos, instant loading) and really quite smart advertising. That said, it's also a bit ironic. Don't you think? 75% of the product images in this book are computer generated.
Today, around 75% of all IKEA's product images are CG, and they have a 'bank' of about 25,000 models. "These are all created at a ridiculously high resolution," explains Martin, "We render them in 4Kx4K, and they need to hold up to that resolution. We need to be able to do whatever we like with the renderings – print them on large walls in the stores if we need to. Even if most of them are only ever used on the website, they all have the capability to be printed very high-res." (CG Society)
I still find that amazing and a bit disturbing. What you see isn't what you get with IKEA, what you see is most likely a computer model of what you might get. After you assemble it.
Most of the coverage of this is about how cool it is, but I honestly think it's a bit weird that a company is advertising fake products. I mean, McDonald's catches hell for making their food seem unrealistic. IKEA's kinda doing the same.
As much as they joke about the low-techiness of their catalog, it's actually a really sophisticated use of technology in the end.
Some randomly cool features
Stuff I don't quite dig is its reliance on Siri (which, in my experience sucks for dictating messages and basic functions like that), the fact that it's square (but that's basically unavoidable for a display device), and I dunno, that it's a watch at all. Also that it requires an iPhone to work (no SIM card or connectivity of its own), but I guess that's also a feature in ways (as per handover above).
I still think the absolute best watches are mechanical (for the wonder of it) and the comfort I get in a watch is something that doesn't run out of battery and remains useful during a zombie apocalypse.
That said, this is still a pretty cool thing and I think Apple will sell a bunch of it. They even have gold ones.
The Solution: Surf the gravity around planets, moving slower but at little to no energy cost.
In the 1400s the oceans were as huge and seemingly impassable as space is to us today. And early Chinese and European explorers were basically surfing, they had zero fuel to burn. But they did it. They used knowledge of the environment to their advantage and they found winds that could carry them across the world. It took timing, it took patience and it took skill, but that was the early exploration that shaped the world.
Today, we face similar resource constraints in space. We have fuel, but the weight of the fuel makes it a very scarce resource for interplanetary travel. Luckily, however, we also have something similar to the trade winds. All of the planets and objects in our solar system have gravity, and played carefully they can guide and land objects (and people) where we please. Just not when we please, but that, I assume, comes later.
Nowadays we freak out if we don't have fuel, but our ancestors actually explored the world without it. They simply relied on the ocean currents and the wind. It was counter-intuitive sometimes (you'd sail away from your destination), but it worked.
They learned, in order to reach South Africa, they needed to go far out in the ocean, head for Brazil and around 30°S go east again.
In space we have a similar problem (paucity of fuel) and a similar solution. In 1990 a Japanese moon probe needed to get into orbit and it didn't have enough fuel. The answer was to send it 1.5 million km in the opposite direction, allowing it to catch a gravitational 'wind' back.
Belbruno got Hiten to the Moon by spiralling it out 1.5 million km from the Earth, allowing our planet's gravity to slow the probe. It manoeuvred into position and the engines were turned off. Hiten was then pulled back towards Earth and into a capture trajectory with the Moon.
(Interplanetary Superhighway)
Boom. Same thing. It's slow like sailing (this procedure would take 2 years for what fuel could accomplish in a few days) but given the constraints of space, something like this seems necessary, for cargo at least.
The amazing Medium article cited above calls the whole thing an 'Interplanetary Superhighway', but that's perhaps not the right metaphor. This method of travel is really efficient but slow. A more apt comparison is to the trade winds of yore. Interplanetary Trade Winds would be my terminology.
This is apt, I think, because it's similar applications. The first round of global exploration wasn't about sending lots of people around very fast, it was about exploring first and then moving a lot of goods around very slow.
The way this can work for modern space exploration is simple. You set up space 'stations' years in advance and stock them with fuel and whatever you need to reach the next station. These need not be full blown space stations like the ISS, they can just be orbiting caches of fuel and oxygen and food.
In the planetary subway map above you can see the 'stations'. This map is based on straight rocket transfers, but you could make it more efficient by surfing the gravity winds. The stations (AKA orbits) would be the same. You could use rocket transfers for moving humans around, but that's it. All the heavy stuff would be sent in advance.
It would still be quite a cost and effort getting supplies out of earth orbit (easier with a space elevator) but from there we could pinball little caches off supplies into orbits around planets throughout the solar system.
It requires another way of thinking about space travel, but it's not a new way of thinking. It's how humans explored our own planet centuries ago.]]>
1. Payments Don't Work
We can't process in-app payments, at all. None of the app stores connect to Sri Lankan banks, PayPal doesn't work, etc. There are really rough workarounds (get a foreign bank account, etc) but nothing that is actually usable in a competitive way.
For stuff like pizza ordering (which we've been testing) we just do cash or credit card on delivery and reconcile payments with the provider later, which is not how this should be done, either from our perspective or the users.
2. Developing Multiple Apps Sucks
This is really a problem with apps in general, not just in the developing world.
In many ways, apps are a step backward for the open web. For Android, iOS, Windows, Blackberry, etc we have to develop multiple apps. In Sri Lanka if we outsource it we have to hire people that usually outsource to the west, so it costs like $2,000 and up, easy. Plus we have failed every single time we've outsourced something.
Our solution has been to use something called Cordova that lets us develop in HTML5 (capacity we have in-house) but even though this is supposed to be deployable to multiple devices, it's not. We still have to customize it each time. That means we ship an Android update within a day, iPhone within two weeks and Windows forever in the future. Blackberry never. This is unlike web pages where browsers and devices accept an open standard and work with you. Here you have to work with the device.
It's a pain, it's expensive and it goes against a lot of the initial value in the open web. That said, for certain intense apps like Hyperlapse you do technically need to develop native apps. For 90% of apps, however, you don't, the functionality could be done in HTML+.
In this view, the new Firefox phone (which runs HTML apps and is cheap at about $40) is awesome.
And I though there'd be more but that's about it. Beyond that it's the usual problems of getting people to download it (relatively easy) and then getting them to use it (hard) and figuring out whether to add new features to the same app or launch new apps altogether (dunno).]]>
To some degree 'awareness building' is a codeword rich people use to enjoy cocktail parties guilt-free. On another level, however, they really do drive dollars and attention towards worthy causes. See below:
If you look to the left of this graph by Vox, you can see that the causes with the best awareness campaigns tend to attract the most donations. What you can also see, however, is that these aren't necessarily the things that kill us. That is, awareness-driven donation isn't especially efficient.
With ALS, he [William MacAskill] said that $56,000 would provide one quality-adjusted life year to a sufferer. On the other hand, he said, "the same amount of money could provide 500 quality-adjusted life years if you give money to bed nets for malaria." (Vox)
In Sri Lanka the discrepancy is especially glaring cause millions of us are affected immediately by drought and the campaigns to collect bottled water for their immediate needs are much weaker than those to dump water on our heads.
The trouble with anything driven by 'awareness' is that human awareness of broad social issues is notoriously shit. Take the amount of attention and money and blood devoted to 'terrorism'. Dogs kill more people that terrorism, but people are so aware of these rare disasters that trillions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of lives are sacrificed to the cause of 'fighting terror'.
This isn't really an accurate infographic because you need to imagine the cost of terrorism deaths at 1,000 times higher than shown. We're basically spending a lot of money on not a lot of death. The only people terrorism is efficient for is terrorist, insomuch as their goal is draining and weakening bigger countries like the US. Terrorism is a case of awareness gone completely haywire, human perception and emotion driving policy to a counter-productive and ultimately foolish degree.
None of which is saying you shouldn't donate to ALS (you should) or that you shouldn't work on causes personally important to you. Just be aware of the broader context as well, and the limits and biases of our own awareness.]]>
Unlike prolapsing, hyperlapsing is awesome. Above is an hours tour through Colombo compressed into a few minutes (and edited in iMovie). We shot it on an iPhone running the app Hyperlapse, from Instagram. The tech itself is amazing. I really think that personal video is on the cusp of becoming as ubiquitous and high quality as personal photography has done.
What's wonderful about this Hyperlapse thing is that it's one button with a bunch of tech behind it. In the background the app is stabilizing the image constantly by referencing the iPhones gyroscope. It essentially crops out the camera's vision to leave some extra on the side. When you tilt your hand it tilts the image to compensate, keeping everything within the crop steady. The Instagram Engineering Tumblr is worth reading on how they do it. It's really interesting and really impressive.
Image stabilization is the holy grail of personal video. It's what separates pro from per. Until now any personal video would be, in my words, janky. It would bounce up and down and be jarring to the eye and, ultimately, the storytelling.
As you can see above, that's a timelapse I did a few years ago of the Southern Expressway using a GoPro on a tripod mounted in front of a van. It's not stable. If you compare to the Hyperlapse videos it's night and day. As a note, the app Steady is also pretty good for stabilizing regular video, though Hyperlapse also lets you save stuff not sped up.
The other awesome thing about this app is that it brings joy to the mundane. This, for example, is Janith just running around the YAMU office.
It's a tiny moment but speeding it up makes it fun, it makes you perceive it in a different way, it brings joy.
In short, cool app.]]>
I would venture that this intentionally bad website is actually more readable than the Daily Mirror. The page today (August 27th) has 25 ads, 26 if you include the splash screen that takes over the page. While that seems to make money for them, it makes the site completely unreadable. I used to read the DM now and I just don't. Simply opening the page fills me with dread and the news stories are usually not much better than tweets. I get the gist from their SMS service (which is relatively good) and read more somewhere else, that is, on some site where it is possible to read without getting your retinas strobed.
Why is it like this? For one thing, it's because Sri Lankan web advertisers pay for space, not impressions. If you pay for space the same ad has to show up on every page served. If you pay for impressions (like Google or FB or modern sites do) you pay for say 10,000 pages viewed by some amount of people. After that someone else can have the ad slot. In this way big sites are able to earn, advertisers can get actual attention, and nobody gets ebola of the eyeball. You could say that it's thus the advertisers fault, but if anyone could, the Daily Mirror could educate them and change the system.
In this case they give advertisers exactly what they think they want and it ends up being a horrible experience for readers and advertisers alike.
Not that we don't struggle with this issue at YAMU. Right now there's a big bloating and acid reflux ad on the top of our site (ENO, try it out if you're feeling gassy), but we at least try to limit the advertising on our site rather than saying yes to everyone that asks. This isn't philanthropic, it's just that we value our readers and want to deliver value to advertisers as well, which sometimes means restraint.
I guess the Daily Mirror is too big to care and nobody's going to take a risk and go for less revenue, but it does make them a bit of a dinosaur as far as online goes. I like them, but their website sucks and a more discerning competitor could possibly take them out. At the least, it would be great if someone would compete. As it is I just get my news from social media, or maybe Republic Square.]]>
I like Islam in the sense that my Islamic friends are pretty cool and I appreciate what I've read of the Koran. I don't like, however, the fact that women can't and don't pray with men and can't lead prayer. Same goes for the Catholic Church on the latter. I find it simply incomprehensible that God would favor one lot of us based on our genitalia. I mean, peeing upright is amazing, but I don't think it brings me any closer to God.
Leaving men to run government and religion alone leads, I think, to more violent versions of both. Not that women aren't violent or that women can't lead wars but they are a bit less violent and they do naturally have a bit more invested in protecting children and the weak and general stability. Plus it's just 50% of your population that you're not using for really important social functions, which I think is madness.
As far as I know the Prophet Muhammed (pbuh) emerged with the support of a strong woman, the wealthy Khadijah, and his message was carried on by the intelligent Aisha. I really don't think that Islam is naturally hostile to women.
I do think, however, that men are naturally hostile to women, and given control of X they'll use it to justify what they were feeling anyways. Not that men are naturally bad, we are stronger than women and there are years of evolution supporting us being violent dicks. I mean, it works. Genghis Khan anyone?
That said, our social evolution has progressed a lot faster than our natural one and even though men can still beat women in a fight, we try not to resolve things that way anymore. Except of course for the big questions, which we do resolve by fighting like damn apes, but we recognize that this is bad and we're trying to reduce it more and more.
On most days it's not a good way to prosper and grow and we recognize that in word if not in deed. Which is why I think it is so important to have women in positions of power. They both hasten our progress towards a less violent society and benefit from that sort of society. In many ways the empowerment of women is tied with economic and social progress for everyone. As, again, it obviously would be because you're unleashing a neglected 50% of your human capital.
This is what makes ISIS such an atavistic thing. They call themselves a caliphate, but they're really a return to the lawlessness and thuggery that pre-dated Muhammed. It's a step back in everything and one obvious way is that 50% of the population is hidden from view.
what a bunch of jack-asses
The cases of Israel and Sri Lanka are somewhat similar. Both countries faced a military/terrorist threat embedded in a civilian population. The difference, however, is in proportionality. Essentially value for violence. In Sri Lanka attacking and finishing the LTTE was proportional to ending the 30 year civil war once and for all. In Palestine, bombing has killed thousands of people, mostly civilians, destroyed infrastructure ranging from electricity to water and sewage and produced … not even nearly an end to that conflict, probably an aggravation.
Meanwhile Israel continues to besiege Gaza, keeping people from getting in or out and restricting access to fishing, agriculture and trade. The Israeli assault on Gaza has not been proportional to the gains. In the whole conflict Israeli has incurred three civilian casualties. It's hard to say that the conflict was proportional at all.
As awful as it is, there has been very little value for violence in Gaza. The conflict hasn't ended and Hamas is stronger if anything. Israel is still hemming those people into a tiny strip of land and periodically 'mowing the grass' by killing them every few years. I'd say that they're military action isn't proportional at all, even in the face of a terrorist threat. It's also not proportional in the sense that destroying tunnels is worth destroying so many lives.
In reality, the only just war is one that ends. Israel isn't fighting to end the war, to end Hamas and certainly not for the eventual citizenship of Gazans. It's just an instinctive lashing out against troubling but mostly managed terrorism to the detriment and collective punishment of people already isolated and denied sovereignty and basic rights.
That, in my opinion is the difference between the fighting in Sri Lanka and Gaza. Both tragedies, but the actions by Israeli were not, in the language of 'lawful' war, proportional at all.]]>
Achchi putting flowers on the little fellow's grave.
He was a good cat. Compared to Sri Lankan cats he was a giant. Despite his ominous name, he was quite tender to the people he knew. He was a good guy to watch TV with. Near the end of his life he was sick on-and-off and he got grumpy but over his last few days he was purring to the touch. Last night he crawled under some furniture and my Amma petted him and went to bed. In the morning he was gone.
We wrapped him in an old sari and buried him in Galkisa. The family pet cemetery is actually our (kind) neighbor's yard. Holding his body for the last time it really sinks in that our little cousin was alive just like us and now he's gone. He looked peaceful.
Damian Poosa, June 2000 to 4 July, 2014.]]>
It's like the eightfold path to not being a Buddhist:
1) Find or manufacture an outrage
2) Distort
3) Bring a mob
4) Riot
5) Hope for a counter-reaction
6) Riot some more
7) Wait for the government to tell 'both sides' to calm down
8) Repeat
For example, take Aluthgama
1) The BBS gets mad about some Muslim kids yelling at a monk's driver
2) They distort the story so that it becomes some kids beating up a monk
3) The bring 7,000 jobless people, largely from outside
4) These people riot, burning, looting and targeting places in a premeditated way
5) Some Muslims try to defend themselves
6) The BBS thugs continue being zombie warlords
7) The government says extremists on both sides got out of hand
8) And then they tried to do it again in Badulla
Badulla? What happened there? Well, nothing, because it is possible to stop this bullshit. See what happened there.
1) Some girls claim that they're being filmed in a Muslim shop. By DBS's report they weren't, there was nothing on the phones of the accused and nothing apparent in the changing room or on the CCTV cameras outside.
2) BBS types come and assault the shop and the shopkeepers
Now we're up to the incident stage, which is where it gets remarkable. The police do their jobs, they investigate the allegations, find nothing to support them and arrest the mob that attacked the shop.
3) The BBS holds a demonstration on the 16th asking for their thugs to be released, which gets nowhere. They plan a bigger rally to inspire a pogrom against Muslim businesses.
Which is where things get interesting again. The courts ban the rally. The police enforce it. It's not like things are magical in Badulla, but they're not zombie apocalypse like Aluthgama.
So it is possible to stop this. If the police and courts prevent people from inciting violence, you don't get violence. What's great is that this is actually built into our Constitution. I never thought I'd be happy to say this, but I get it now. We have restrictions on fundamental rights, including the right to speech.
15. (2) The exercise and operation of the fundamental right declared and recognized by Article 14(1)(a) [free speech] shall be subject to such restrictions as may be prescribed by law in the interests of racial and religious harmony or in relation to parliamentary privilege, contempt of court, defamation or incitement to an offence.
15. (7) The exercise and operation of all the fundamental rights declared and recognized by Articles 12, 13(1), 13(2) and 14 shall be subject to such restrictions as may be prescribed by law in the interests of national security, public order and the protection of public health or morality, or for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others, or of meeting the just requirements of the general welfare of a democratic society.
In Sri Lanka we have these restrictions largely for national security issues. If ethnic tensions, if rioting break out it's a threat to all the people and the state. That sort of violence is unpredictable and it can spool out over generations. That's why it's so important that the courts and the police do what they did in Badulla.
Restrict rallies that threaten racial and religious harmony and marches which incite people to violence. It's in the interest of national security and it is possible to nip this ignorant, incredibly dangerous violence in the bud.]]>
Pirith string at a Sarvodaya ceremony.
The teachings of the Buddha, namely the Dhammapada, literally say nothing about race. Race, as we know it, is a somewhat modern concept but divisions between people are nothing new. What the Dhamma does talk about is caste. The Buddha taught and associated with everyone who came to him, kings and outcasts, men and women, gentlefolk and thieves. In his day caste was very powerful, especially the Brahmins. Those are the sections which I think are relevant to what we call race, or religion.
There's an entire chapter of the Dhammapada devoted to what a Brahmin really is, essentially turning the whole system on its head. I've include a few verses here, I recommend reading the whole thing. The Buddha's words are remarkably concise. In fact, most verses are the size of a Tweet.
By birth one is no brahmin,
by family, austerity.
In whom are truth and Dhamma too
pure is he, a Brahmin's he.
What's the coiled hair for?
For what your cloak of skins?
Within you are acquisitive,
you decorate without.
In whom there is no wrong-doing
by body, speech or mind,
in these three ways restrained,
that one I call a Brahmin True.
Who utters speech instructive,
true and gentle too,
who gives offence to none,
that one I call a Brahmin True. (Chapter 26, The Brahamana)
If I may offer my unenlightened commentary, my impression here is that being a Brahmin is not something you're born into, or something you get by virtue of your clothes. It is your actions and – above all – your self-control that makes you virtuous.
Who checks arising anger
as with chariot away,
that one I call a charioteer,
others merely grip the reins. (Chapter 17, Anger)
As you can see, there's nothing within Buddhism that gives pre-eminence to any race or caste, or even monks. You are encouraged to venerate and support enlightened bhikkus and arahats, but it's by virtue of their actions that they are evaluated, not simply their titles or appearances. There's another chapter on monks detailing what makes one a successful bhikku, and it's not simply donning the robes.
With hands controlled and feet controlled,
in speech as well as head controlled,
delighting in inward collectedness
alone, content, a bhikkhu's called.
Whatever bhikkhu tongue-controlled
speaks wisely and who is not proud,
who theory and practice can expound,
sweet as honey is his speech.
For whom there is no making 'mine'
towards all name and form,
who does not grieve for what is not,
he's truly 'bhikkhu' called. (Chapter 25, The Monk
In all ways, the Buddha I know was focused on the path, on action and on personal activity and hard perception. The dhamma was not something you got and carried around, it was something you strive for and perfect every day. This is something I struggle with still. Being a Buddhist is not comforting in itself. It's not something you can sit on and be proud of. It's a path and, to be honest, an arduous one.
Another vital point is that Buddhism rejects both the idea of self and no-self. Even at the weak levels of meditation that I've experienced, you can see that whatever you perceive is impermanent and not objectively real, at least not in a way that merits worrying about or getting attached to. That includes this idea that I, Indi Samarajiva am a self distinct from my environment and also the idea that I, Indi Samarajiva, am not. That logic, by extension, necessarily rejects race and caste as constructions of illusion upon illusion.
That is the vital point which makes Buddhist Racism an oxymoron, but the Buddha was prescient enough that he offers a lot more direct advice on the problems Sri Lanka is facing today. Namely, people who claim priority based on who they are rather than what they do.
Another relevant discourse which I only found in the course of looking this up is the Vasala Sutta, the discourse on outcasts. As the Buddha was begging for alms in Savatthi, a brahmin yelled at him saying
"Stay there, you shaveling, stay there you wretched monk, stay there you outcast." When he spoke thus the Blessed One said to the brahman: "Do you know, brahman, who an outcast is and what the conditions are that make an outcast?"
Again, the Buddha turned the definitions of the time (which were based on birth and largely just were) on their head. His definition of outcast was, like a Brahmin, based on your actions and choices. There are many things listed in the sutta (many of which you and I are guilty of), but the first three are pretty bad and I think applicable to the BBS.
1. "Whosoever is angry, harbors hatred, and is reluctant to speak well of others (discredits the good of others), perverted in views, deceitful — know him as an outcast.
2. "Whosoever in this world kills living beings, once born or twice born, in whom there is no sympathy for living beings — know him as an outcast.
3. "Whosoever destroys and besieges villages and hamlets and becomes notorious as an oppressor — know him as an outcast. (Vasala Sutta
Now, I have been angry, I have lied, I have been unkind but I can, in all honesty, say that I have never destroyed or besieged a hamlet. That is exactly what the BBS and their pseudo-Buddhist mobs have done in Aluthgama and all over the island. This is not to point fingers and say that I am better than them (though I think I am cause, you know, people were killed in Aluthgama), but simply to say that the Buddha would see right through their robes to the outcasts within. As he said, "Not by birth is one an outcast; not by birth is one a brahman. By deed one becomes an outcast, by deed one becomes an brahman."
The deeds of the BBS and their supporters in terrorizing, assaulting and killing Muslims and people different from them is truly repugnant, and truly contrary to the Dhamma.
As a Buddhist it makes me so very sad to see crude, vile and frankly untamed men like Gnanasara Thero in robes, practicing such harsh speech, inciting hatred against Muslims and actually being violent. It makes me sad because I do take refuge in the Buddha, in the Dhamma and the Sangha.
I have learnt from wonderful monks, from wonderful lay Buddhists (like my mother) and that community of practice is a refuge in a harsh and confusing world.
Mobs in robes like the BBS feel like they pollute that community, like they shame it, like they shame us in front of the world. I honestly find what they're doing far more detrimental to Buddhism than the Buddha Bar or a tourist with a Buddha tattoo.
It is a false comfort, however, to say that the BBS is bad and we're better than them. The mind-loop of Buddhism is such that it rejects such comfortable 'truths', any comfortable perception actually, everything has to be questioned.
The BBS and their like deserve our compassion understanding and love, even as they abuse, beat and murder fellow Sri Lankans. Which is, honestly, a hard idea to swallow, but that's what the Buddha said a true Brahmin is.
He used the word Brahmin cause those were the words of his time, but you could just as easily say Sinhala Buddhist or whatever you hold dear. Whatever you hold dear, whatever identity whatever affiliation, you need to re-evaluate whether that gives you special rights and privileges. That illusion leads to suffering for other people and ultimately yourself, hanging onto some thread, some category like that's going to carry you through the whirlwind of this existence. What really matters is not your identity but your actions. How you live your life. How you treat other people. That's what the Buddha said.
I'm a Sinhala Buddhist and I reject any advantages and rights this supposedly gives me over this island or over anything. The only definition that mattered to the Buddha was our actions – not who were are or where we come from. As Sri Lankans, as Buddhists, we need to live by our actions.
We need to comfort and support our Muslim, Christian and whatever brethren now. They need to know that they're not alone and that mobs aren't free to kill them and burn their homes. We need to offer them our words, our compassion and if need be (God forbid) our walls and homes. Sri Lanka has been through hell and we know all too well the suffering that hatred and ignorance brings to everyone, the victim and perpetrator alike. As a Sinhalese, as a Buddhist as, ultimately, none of the above – I reject any hoodlum in robes saying that their anger and their violence has anything to do with me.
I'm not Buddhist scholar, I'm not even a very good Buddhist, but it's not hard to read and understand what the Buddha was saying here. Don't practice hate speech. Don't practice racism. Don't hit or kill people. It's not Buddhist.]]>
Picture from the BBC, via Republic Square (RSQ).
What's perhaps most disturbing is not the violent echoes of 1983 – the race riots against Tamils that was really the start of a 30 year war. It's the fact that the media blacked out actual reporting of what was going on, the President issued a lukewarm condemnation, and a whole lot of people saw this coming. What's most disturbing is that we seem to have learned nothing from 1983 and that we still underestimate how dangerous and unpredictable this sort of violence and tension can be.
The BBS is a racist Sinhala nationalist organization ostensibly led by monks, but they are – for the most part – little more than thugs in robes. They practice none of the compassion, slowness to anger and right action or speech that is true entry to the Sangha. Not to mention the incompatibility of identity politics with a religion based on the entire renunciation of self.
In response to an alleged attack on a monk's driver in Aluthgama, they staged a huge rally there, saying "This country still has a Sinhalese Police, this country still has a Sinhalese Army. It will be the end of all [Muslims] if a Muslim at least lays a finger on a Sinhalese," (via RSQ). Now, Sri Lanka's constitution has free speech with limitations, one limit being not stirring up racial or communal tensions. In this case the BBS seems to be literally calling for genocide if one Muslim hits a Sinhalese. Which I think would rile up some tension.
What happened since is a blur.
"I don't know who attacked first but once clash started it was like a war " BBC reporter in Aluthgama who escaped unhurt #lka
— Azzam Ameen (@AzzamAmeen) June 15, 2014
As above, most of the news I got was from Twitter because sites like the Daily Mirror would only cryptically say that a curfew was imposed in these areas, with no description of why. A lot of news reports have (reportedly) left out that there was a BBS rally at all.
What did happen is that Muslim homes and businesses were burnt and scores injured in the ensuing violence. But that's not the scary part.
The BBS, perhaps learning from their friend the Buddhist Bin Laden in Burma, believe in a highly restricted role for Muslims in Sri Lankan society. They came to prominence over issues like halal certification and the hijab which, quite honestly, bother a lot of mainstream Sinhalese (with some reason), but their real agenda is more centered around conspiracy theories of Muslims taking Sinhalese women, making men infertile and generally taking over the country. While even I have an opinion on the halal and hijab issues, they are not discussing that stuff with an eye towards co-existence. Their agenda is a racist Sinhala state.
What's scary is that the government tolerates and even supports groups like this. It was this misconception that radicals can be controlled which led to so much bloodshed and toppled governments in the past. It is this appeasement of racism which sows the seeds of discord and war.
It's like we've learned nothing from the past 30 years. There was ample warning that the BBS rally would inflame tensions in Aluthgama. They have ample history of racism and stirring up communal drama, not to mention violence. Yet when violence happened, the media blacked it out and the government said they'd 'investigate'. But there's really little to investigate.
Groups inciting racial or religious tensions need to be brought to book and at the least, not have the tacit backing of the Sri Lankan state and police/military. Groups like the BBS are a threat to national security and they are in no one's control. If the government is blind to this cliff then I hope at least that the people of Sri Lanka aren't. The last war was really shit and there's far less room for food writing or home building or start-ups if we go back to war again. Even if the result isn't war, we don't know that, and we as a nation are far too burnt to play with fire.]]>
Protestors in Bangkok. Photo by Thomas Galvez
If you look at Colombo you can see that it's the only place that the UNP (nominal opposition) wins anything anymore, but it's also the seat of national power, which is almost wholly SLFP (Mahinda). This situation is a lot like the relationship between Bangkok and Thailand. There, protestors are besieging a government in Bangkok that has broad support in the country at large. If you ever wonder what a Colombo Revolution would look like, you don't have to look much further than east. It'd be like Thailand – undemocratic, unrealistic and shit.
Thailand is one of the few countries I know of where people, including the main opposition party, are protesting against elections. Not rigged elections but elections in general. Instead they're advocating replacing elected government with an appointed (by whom is vague, but broadly the opposition) council. Because they can't win elections. When the government responding by calling elections, the opposition has been actively sabotaging voter registration. They've also crippled Bangkok with protests at various points and shut down the airport in the past.
If the Colombo elites ever rebelled, this is what it would look like. A group which can't (or won't) try to win elections conventionally resorts to overthrowing a hated family (in Thailand's case, the Shinawatras) by urban street protests. Because they don't actually represent a majority the result is either a crippling stalemate or military coup (or they lose). Underneath it all is a belief that elections don't work, that the electorate is too ill-informed to decide and that eliminating the ruling family justifies the undemocratic means.
Those beliefs exist in the Colombo elite as well, but thankfully they're not acted upon. Colombo elites that oppose the Rajapaksas remain content to grumble about how hopeless the ruling family is without actually getting out on the streets. If they did, we might look a lot like Thailand. Which would be bad.
I wrote about this issue previously in 2008, under the title Thai Brats]]>
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The NSA's work is to bug, spy on and hack people – from friendly heads of state to, well, like everyone in the US. Them getting all aggrieved when someone hacks them is a bit rich.
The NSA can crack security from phone companies to foreign nations, yet all of their information is available to an outside contractor a few months in on a job? I mean, really? There's one level of hacking which is malicious and another where the company being hacked is actually negligent. In this case, being the NSA and not, say, Target, you have to conclude that their security was a bit crap.
I mean, it's not a case of your front door was open it's OK to rob you (which it isn't). This is, however, a house of secrets, a lot of them dubious and unconstitutional, and for them not to guard the secrets they steal is more akin to the Forty Thieves losing their treasure to Ali Baba than a poor innocent being robbed. They had a stupid password and they stole all the stuff anyways, so nobody should really feel sorry for them. Same for the NSA.
If the NSA has access to seemingly all of the world's information, why can't the US design a healthcare exchange. Couldn't they just use the info they have and sign everyone up automatically? Why does anything requiring citizen permission need to be outsourced.
So do I feel sorry for the NSA? Hells no. If you're stealing secrets and somebody steals from you, don't be surprised if no one cares.]]>


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Speaking at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute's 37th Annual Awards Gala in Washington on October 2, President Obama gave a rousing "get out the vote" speech, imploring this audience: "Si, se puede … si votamos. Yes we can … if we vote."
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On September 9, 2012 the FUMC Church Conference voted to continue ministry at the Christian (now Outreach) Center. The approved motion also included hiring a full-time staff person to serve as youth director and coordinator for outreach ministries at the Christian Center.
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