Yes, I had the same question. I want to find the data. afaik, and at least in my country (Spain), there are _more_ female journalists than male journalists.
Still, the answer doesn't absolve UN Women, because they've stated their point of view regardless of the actual ratio and without contrasting the % or murdered female journos with % of female journos overall.
It's amazing that we're not amazed by those instances of #GammaBias. What the hell are they thinking?
> _“Of all journalists killed in 2021, 11% were women. In 2020, this was 6%. (Source: @UNESCO). On the International Day to #EndImpunity for Crimes against Journalists, let us say out loud: 𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐏 𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐆𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐖𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐍 𝐉𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐍𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐒. #ProtectJournalists”_
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Did you know that the European Union had an official Mastodon instance where only official EU institutions could open an account?
https://social.network.europa.eu/explore
No need to pay for a blue checkmark, accounts on this instance are, by definition, officials.
That’s Fediverse done right!
The #OECD's “Better Life Index” seems to correlate (even) better than #GDP with subjective well-being:
https://2ndhandecon.substack.com/p/perhaps-i-treated-you-too-harshly
My own country 🇪🇸 #Spain ranks no. 21 in BLI:
https://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/countries/spain/
I'd love to see it used more widely, and more work on this and other metrics of #wellbeing and #happiness.
Definitely! Freedom is complex and multi-faceted.
What I meant is that, whatever the definition of “freedom”, I suspect “suffering” takes precedence.
Some anecdotal evidence:
I (think I) would prefer to live under a tyranny or behind bars, than in excruciating pain. A higher proportion of people living in excruciating pain (be it physical or psychological) want to end their lives, and do end their lives, than prisoners for life or citizens in autocracies do, right?
Punching someone in the face (ie causing suffering) feels worse, and I think is punished more severely, than holding them for an hour or keeping them locked inside a room the whole morning (restricting freedom).
Think what we do in advanced nations to reduce our #suffering in contrast to what we do to increase our #freedom — individually and as a society. I would argue that more of our public spending, R&D, political discourse, economic activity, social advocacy, individual decisions, purchases, etc is aimed at suffering less than at having more liberty.
WDYT?
I admit I used “epistemology” there in a loose way. Perhaps #math is not an epistemology, stricto sensu.
I'm interested in using #mathematics to solve problems, in general. In particular I defend a numerical, analytical approach to ethical questions, well-being, and personal day-to-day decisions.
I have elaborated in other toots, eg:
@freemo, please refresh my mind: are you accepting small donations to support QOTO (in crypto or in fiat)? I can't seem to find that on [the about page](https://qoto.org/about/more)...
(Also: are you seeing a surge in users? If so, how are your systems coping with it?)
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Another #Mastodon tip…
Use this search link to find Mastodon accounts for people you follow on Twitter (if they've tweeted about them):
Julia Galef's “The Scout Mindset” summarised by Anthony Fleming
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/eQgLREsGCo252HRmo/scout-mindset-poster
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A few years ago I made this flow chart of which Mastodon posts end up in which timelines!
So, you can see how each instance will have a different local timeline, and even a slightly different federated timeline - and you can see why the federated timeline moves so much faster than the local one, too.
This is why it's important to boost good posts and use hashtags - the fediverse is fragmented and harder to search by nature.
Beautiful #painting, and beautiful #ideas:
> _“I favor selectively shining a light on the offending symbols, imagery, and language, both past and present, as a reminder of our history and of how far we still have to go as a society… and of how vigilant we need to be.”_
> _“I’ve never believed my role as an #artist was to make work that ensured comfort. My paintings are purposefully subject to alternate interpretations, and a reading of Comparative Religions 101 that provokes anger is certainly possible if the viewer is a literalist. But I can’t explain the humor and irony in the work to a literalist, any more than I can explain Red to a person who is (red/green) colorblind.”_
— [Ben Sakoguchi](https://www.sakoguchi.info/comparative-religions-101)
The four #virtues of #Stoicism:
* #Justice
* #Temperance
* #Wisdom (Latin: _prudentia_)
* #Courage (Latin: _fortitudo_)
The four cardinal virtues of #Christianity:
* Justice
* Temperance
* Prudence
* Fortitude
Just sayin'!
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Ross Ulbricht - Silk Road founder after 10 years in jail https://dt.gl/ross-ulbricht-the-silk-road-founder-writes-after-10-years-in-jail/
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"The scrollbar is a displeasure to my sensitive designer eyes, I will make it razor thin to turn it into a usability nightmare instead"
To the best of my knowledge, nothing summarises best what's “good” or “bad” or “important” than **#suffering** (avoiding it, preventing it, reducing it).
Not wellbeing, pleasure, flourishing, happiness, freedom, transcendence, detachment, or love.
And nothing seems better to me to measure and describe reality, what reality could be like, and how exactly it can be changed, than **#math** (rationality, logic, science).
Its contenders all look clearly inferior: intuition, empathy, revelation, tradition, authority, serendipity, chance, art, anecdote…
That is what “reasoning from first principles” means to me.
The causal chain may be long sometimes, with many logical steps involved. And there is room for uncertainty and for epistemic humility. But the ultimate goal is to evaluate ideas and to make decisions reducing them all to lower-level equivalents based on a few core propositions.
“#Freedom matters”
Very often more freedom means individuals accomplish more of their stated preferences, and very often those preferences point towards less suffering for them (and sometimes for others, too).
Freedom is (usually) good because it (usually) reduces suffering. But it's not a given.
(Needless to say, this is not a justification for despots or kidnappers, who do not reduce but increase suffering.)
