tripu @tripu@qoto.org
Technologist, Spaniard, male, 42
Joined May 2020
sex, genitals, gender dysphoria
Why do I impose such difficult #reads on myself?
- Some #books are way better than others, were much more original when published, or have a much larger influence today.
- My own taste, my personal bubble’s recommendations, and current trends — none of them are reliable indicators of quality.
- Books that seem huge today may be forgotten in a decade; what persists for generations or even centuries is more likely to be worth reading.
- The opportunity cost of reading “Trendy Fantasy Saga” instead of “Universal Masterpiece Of Five Centuries Ago” may be high.
The British Psychological Society, also on the issues of #men (in this case, male suicide and #ToxicMasculinity)
Eight years, one month and twelve days to #Skynet
https://www.metaculus.com/questions/5121/date-of-artificial-general-intelligence/
En mayo estaré en #esLibre2023 contando cómo se libera un sistema de diseño corporativo completo
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Más info:
This proves that strong criticism of modern #feminism is not a fringe position in 2023 by any means, and that even among women and even among the youngest generation a large proportion of people (ranging from ⅓ to ½) are sceptical, resisting, or noticing discrimination against #men.
It’s a 32-country survey of 22+K adults by #Ipsos (the world’s third largest research agency) and the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership (King’s College London).
Not all aggregates are representative because some countries with large populations (eg India, China, Indonesia) probably skew less feminist than others. But even the figures for specific Western democracies (and those are accurate) show less than clear enthusiasm, even from women themselves.
This will be surprising.
To some people.
The World Health Organisation groups all causes of death into three large categories.
These were the global ratios men/women in the last year available (2019) for those categories.
Happy #InternationalWomensDay!
First it was #LouisePerry’s case against the sexual revolution.
Then came #MaryHarrington’s reactionary feminism.
TIL about #ChristineEmba rethinking sex.
What’s going on?
❌ Extinction Rebellion
✅ Communication, challenges and gentle advocacy
A todos los que están promoviendo en 🇪🇸 España el Día Internacional de la Mujer y la Niña en la Ciencia quiero recordarles, este año otra vez, que en #España,
- según Eurostat, hace dos años ya había más mujeres que hombres «empleadas en ciencia y tecnología», que
- según el INE, hace dos años las mujeres ya representaban el 54% de todas las personas «empleadas en ciencia y tecnología», y que,
- también según el INE, hace como mínimo seis años que las mujeres ya son mayoría entre los estudiantes matriculados, y entre los que obtienen titulaciones, en todas las áreas de estudio, y eso incluye «ciencias» y «ciencias de la salud» (única excepción: «ingeniería y arquitectura»).
#InternationalWomenInScienceDay #DiaDeLaMujerYLaNinaEnLaCiencia #11febrero #WomenInScience #IDWGS2023
④ #Tolerance:
“Liberals are in their personal lives more intolerant of conservatives than vice versa across numerous dimensions in the US and the UK. Those on the left are more likely to block someone on social media over their views, be upset if their child marries someone from the other side, and find it hard to be friends with or date someone they disagree with politically.”
— https://richardhanania.substack.com/p/why-is-everything-liberal
Sources here, with lots of interesting surveys and charts: https://noahcarl.medium.com/who-doesnt-want-to-hear-the-other-side-s-view-9a7cdf3ad702
② Mental #health:
“White (and especially ‘very’) liberals are far more likely than all other ideological-racial subgroups to report being diagnosed with a mental health condition.”
① #Marriage and family life:
“Conservatives are more likely than liberals to be happily married, simply because they’re more likely to be married in the first place. […] Ideology predicts marital status among Americans about as well as income or education.”
— https://ifstudies.org/blog/more-than-money-the-liberal-conservative-divide-in-marriage/
Possible flaw: I suspect age correlates with both probability of being married and with probability of leaning right, so when you look at who’s married today, some of those (happily) married who declare to be conservatives would have been singles who identified as liberals two or three decades earlier. In other words: perhaps it’s not that being a liberal makes you less likely to marry, but that being married and having children moves you closer to conservatism!
Technologist, Spaniard, male, 42
Joined May 2020
