2023-03-24


celebrity gossip

  • Brandon Sanderson Is Your God

    Sanderson has millions upon millions of fans all over the planet; it doesn’t matter that some losers at a single magazine (even if it is one of the nerdier ones) had never heard of him. On the other, the ignorance goes far beyond WIRED. As far as I can tell, Sanderson, who has been topping bestseller lists for the better part of the 21st century, has not been written about in any depth by any major publication ever.

    I find Sanderson depressingly, story-killingly lame.

  • Police sue rapper Afroman for using footage of home raid in his music videos


Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

  • Most trans adults say transitioning made them more satisfied with their lives

  • Define Wokeness! Or how you shall know a word by the company it keeps

    Left-leaning news media tends to use the terms woke and wokeness in the vicinity of terms such as bogeyman, trumpists, denigrate, deride, vilify, ridiculed, reactionaries, pejorative, fearmongering, demagoguery, and racism.

    Right-leaning news media tend to use the terms woke and wokeness in the vicinity of terms such as lunacy, tribalism, transgenderism, nihilistic, illiberal, orthodoxy, dogma, conformity, idiocy, insufferable, puritanical, claptrap, orwellian, fascism and condescension.

    AI however also holds the key to a potential solution. Politically neutral AI systems that provide balanced sources and a diverse set of legitimate viewpoints for most normative questions that cannot be conclusively adjudicated and for which a variety of legitimate human opinions exist could facilitate communication between different communities by constructing common reference points along which communication is enabled.

TechSuck

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania