The people of Muskogee will have their revenge on Jack Dorsey

A shame. Seems like they were clearly inspired by it … I guess you can’t copyright a vibe.

I hope Toni Basil and the Ting Tings get big royalty cheques.

“Isn’t this a racist thing to say? Not according to Hitler!”

Only got a paragraph in because of the cheerful citation of aporia (the big Nazi website)

I love how he goes on and on about how it actually totally makes sense for the average IQ in Malawi to be 60 because most people don’t graduate school, ignoring that Lynn’s methodology wasn’t up to any basic standard

And by love I mean I fucking hate it

I read it in high school. Iirc, the main character in 1984 deeply hates a woman he works with and his violent fantasies about her are tied up in his desire to rebel against the regime. He later overcomes his desire to commit violence against her by having sex with her. His contempt for her fairly leapt off the page when I read it. I’m sure it’s arguable what Orwell meant or intended.

In another scene, the middle-class protagonists watch a working-class woman hanging out washing and tell themselves that if there was any hope for freedom, it lay in “the proles” (members of the mass underclass, like that woman). But the way they look at her and talk about her is dehumanizing.

It’s probably easier to just read 1984 yourself and make up your own mind. it’s not a very long book.

Eurgh. I’m now feeling angry at the thought of someone who is doing a degree in global health but gets persuaded that AI safety is more important.

Isn’t this just an economic move dressed up as an ideological one?

If only all those sneaker companies had thought to say they had to move their factories from America to Chinese sweatshops because American workers were too woke.

The backlash already happened - it’s been a few years of far right protests against drag shows and prides. Not that it can’t get worse!

Eugenics in action:

Danish parenting tests under fire after baby removed from Greenlandic mother

Psychometric tests are widely used in Denmark as part of child protection investigations into new parents, and have long been criticised by human rights bodies as culturally unsuitable for Greenlandic people and other minorities.

In a 2022 report, the institute said that because the tests were not adapted to take cultural differences into account, Greenlandic parents ran “the risk of obtaining low test scores, so that it is concluded, for example, that they have reduced cognitive abilities, without there being actual evidence for this."

Psychological assessments of her were made by a Danish-speaking psychologist. Kronvold, whose first language is Kalaallisut (West Greenlandic), is not fluent in Danish.

I think it happens often enough when someone rich and/or famous becomes disabled or has a disabled kid. See the whole world of alternative treatments for autism.

With a touch of, and maybe I’m being mean, “this particular bad thing shouldn’t happen to someone like me! it must be that no one else tried hard enough to fix it till now”

I thought it was particularly telling that he says someone else in the “metabolic health” world warned him not to be mean about RFK. Take that as a sign that you’re in kooksville!

It’s very “should RFK Jr become a completely different person to the person he is and has been for years, he could really do some great stuff”

Please sneer at this article. I thought it was pissweak myself.

Edit: “Hear me out: RFK Jr could be a transformational health secretary”

Will a Republican-controlled Congress allow for more government regulation – even if it saves lives?

No. Next question.

We’re going to be answering two essay questions in an in-class test instead of writing a paper this year specifically to prevent chat gpt abuse. Which he laughed and joked about because he really believes chat gpt can produce good results !

It was there and gone fairly quickly and I wouldn’t say I’m a model student so I didn’t say anything. I’ve talked to him about Chat GPT before though…

Did the human pet guy write this

He’s using it to give examples of exam question answers. The embarrassment

My professor is typing questions into chat gpt in class rn be so fucking for real

I hope it’s just a stunt. If they’re serious the US could be in (even more) trouble