The #WAWeffect and the #misandry in our sense-making institutions and in our collective psique are so pervasive that most people are blind to the absurdity and the blatant injustice of memes like this — and when exposed will make up all kinds of rationalisations to downplay its importance.
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/06/lead-headline-and-sub-header-for-the-new-york-times.html
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@proto_azure @tripu It's linked to in the Marginal Revolution blog post, which is linked to from his old toot at mastodon.technology, linked above in the OP.
(#SSC author to be doxxed by #NYT)
I'm worried about Alexander's naïve comments about the journalist's intent (“it probably would have been a very nice article”; “by all indications, this was just going to be a nice piece saying I got some things about coronavirus right early on”). The experiences of #SamHarris, #EricWeinstein, #JordanPeterson and others on the #IDW have proved already that when mainstream reporters approach these contrarians, with seemingly sophisticated and supportive intentions, they end up writing the most disparaging and dishonest pieces. “Anything you say can and will be used against you.”
https://slatestarcodex.com/
“Make no mistake about it, #scientists, #technologists, #engineers and #mathematicians: your famous immunity to political concerns will not protect you against what is coming fast.”
#culturewars #university
https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/political-correctness/the-missive/
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Someone made a "face depixelizer" that turn a low-res pic of a face into a high-res one and of course the first thing they did is try it out with Doomguy and honestly that's pretty impressive but also hilarious
https://twitter.com/tg_bomze/status/1274098682284163072?s=19
https://twitter.com/tg_bomze/status/1274098682284163072?s=19
(Or as I tooted last year)
#MensHealthWeek ♂️
I hope you all had a great #MensHealthWeek♂️!
EU: https://emhf.org/
US: http://www.menshealthmonth.org/week.html
“While disgust at #corruption has played a role, the political strains of today [in #Spain] owe more to the slump and the emergence of rival #populisms in the form of #Catalan nationalism, #Podemos (with its mixture of Leninism and Peronism) and #Vox.”
https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2020/06/20/a-historian-sets-out-to-explain-spains-tumultuous-past
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I wanted to show a foreigner a picture of what blackface looked like. I wanted a modern day picture in color so it was easier for them to recognize.
Problem is when I look on google images the only results that come up are that of a Christmas Elf called Zwarte Pete from Holland.
I had guessed that this may be intentional censorship so as not to give this particular form of hate speech a voice by eliminating it from search results.
To me this is a perfect example of why such censorship is counterproductive. The end result was I was unable to educate someone about this form of hate speech effectively.
@freemo a recent episode of the #FreeThoughts podcast delves into some of the horrible bad policies that create the bad incentives that contribute to #policebrutality — and also offers some bold ideas for reform:
https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/free-thoughts/our-criminal-injustice-system-jason-brennan-chris-surprenant
The five or six main problems with #capitalism today — the ∪ of #RebeccaHenderson's & #RussRoberts's sets on #EconTalk podcast:
• Accelerating inequality / people who are left behind.
• Failing to deal with major environmental risks.
• Decreasing government capacity.
• The epidemic of loneliness.
• Control of information (govt vs tech).
https://www.econtalk.org/rebecca-henderson-on-reimagining-capitalism/
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@tripu I absolutely agree with this, but it also isnt the central problem causing police brutality (though the unions does touch on it)... The central problem is a lack of police accountability and there are several ways in which that happens.
Any real solution must focus on fixing police accountability as a top priority. Social services are a great focus, but it is secondary to the immediate problem.
“The real roots of black suffering in America don’t lie just with #racism, but also with an unconscionably inadequate social-safety net, underfunded schools, self-interested #police unions that protect bad officers, a disastrous #warondrugs, and a prison-industrial complex whose profiteers feast on human misery. These are massively complicated problems that can’t be addressed with new-age religious ceremonies or self-lacerating Facebook posts from preening white suburbanites.”
https://quillette.com/2020/06/09/for-journalists-the-new-york-times-social-justice-meltdown-is-a-sign-of-things-to-come/
@dansup Good luck!
This is of little comfort, but if genealogy is their [main] concern, your being gay does not imply that they won't have *genetic* grandkids. In 10 or 15 years (you seem quite young) it might be even possible for two males to pass on their genes to a baby.
https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/two-father-babies-could-soon-be-possible-no-egg-donor-required/
OS modal windows (upgrade available, error occurred, background operation finished, unsolicited tip) that spring up unexpectedly, stealing the keyboard focus, and are accidentally accepted or dismissed because you happened to be typing — perhaps not even looking at the screen, or at *that* screen: how #$% is this still a thing? #usability #antipattern
For me, it's #Ubuntu #GNU/Linux. But I'd be (pleasantly) surprised if it didn't happen on other OS's.
Those #modals should have a little timer, or perhaps wait for more deliberate interaction (like mouse hover / ⇥, then Esc / ↵).
