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[Lisa Britton @LisaBritton]

The updated “for every 100 girls/women” list from @Mark_J_Perry. Look at all that male privilege!… 😑

[Fermin Quant @AulaitQM]

@zcode_ai It didnt work for me, i only got the 3M

[Fermin Quant @AulaitQM]

I got tired of opening five dashboards to answer one question: how much usage do I have left? I built an open-source Windows tray widget for the AI subscriptions I use. v0.1.5: https://t.co/0jQc2KThjl. Unsigned ZIP; verify the SHA-256 sidecar.

[Fermin Quant @AulaitQM]

@TheLeeFishman @thsottiaux Your post inspired me to build this: an open-source, Windows-first AI usage bar for Codex, Grok, Kimi, Ollama Pro, and OpenCode Go. It keeps provider sessions local and shows usage in the tray. v0.1.5 is live: https://t.co/wLHOZVshvC

[Alyona @askaya]

Feminists want the authority of a man.

The privileges of a woman.

And the responsibility of a child.

Sounds like nonsense, doesn’t? YET SOMEHOW THEY EXPECT THIS

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@nutribullet how do I open a smoothie that was vacuum sealed after mixing? A simple sealbable small hole in your cups would fix it, I'll have to buy rubber wrenches to open it.

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@Zoom please undo this change: https://t.co/82EvNCgLzU

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@NintendoAmerica @Crocs Why no toddler sizes?

[Jum @JesterJum]

Celebrating a woman for choosing abortion because it was "best for her" is like celebrating a father walking out on his kids because it was "best for him"

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@rasbt @ShowPwny So, Luna Max is better and cheaper than Terra Max? Or are the labels off by one in Terra as well?

[Vesper @vesperdigital]

𝗦𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝘀𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗵𝗶𝗺 𝟰 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀!

"Why should I, as a female, be forced to get undressed in front of a biological male?"

His answer: Because magic words.

🙃

[Fermin Quant @AulaitQM]

@thsottiaux UX

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@thsottiaux Frontend design is horrible

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@kkozmic not crazy, I feel it too, super lazy and dumb. Hopefully @thsottiaux notices and fixes this.

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@OpenAI Mobile codex works, but the desktop app doesn't get the messages unless you restart it

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"When words lose their meaning, people lose their liberty" - Confucius

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@pmarca You're not understanding who suffers from it.

[John Carter @martianwyrdlord]

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." - C. S. Lewis

[Penny2x @imPenny2x]

The past year or so I have been fascinated with IQ and the data / discussion surrounding it.

Sufficiently obsessed so that I bring it up in conversation opportunistically.

Believe it or not, I’m convinced a deep unfiltered discussion of IQ and what we can learn from it is at the heart of what is needed to continue healing from the woke mind virus.

Entirely too many broken mindsets and policies orbit the idea that all people are essentially interchangeable and that culture, education, and nutrition are more influential than genetics.

This is obviously untrue to anyone who bothers to think for a few seconds.

As an extreme example, the most well fed human on earth will never ever grow to the size of a blue whale.

Similarly, the most well fed and educated blue whale will never win the Boston marathon.

Our human genes have an upper bound to the size we can grow, and blue whales have their own limitations.

These are silly and obvious and indisputable because they are easily measured and without exception. They are also entirely uncontroversial because they are cross species.

To discuss and understand IQ in depth requires you to accept that human sexes and races also have measurable differences. This is a far more dangerous discussion, figuratively but perhaps also literally. There are many exceptions, but they don’t change the rule.

I was talking to a psychologist about the topic. They considered themselves an IQ expert, and so I knew the conversation was going to get interesting quick one way or another.

Unfortunately I wasn’t surprised to hear them immediately make a point that the test is biased against certain cultures.

It’s always that, or the uninformed argument that IQ only measures one type of intelligence…

She pointed out California case Larry P. v. Riles (1979) which prohibits testing African American students in CA for the purposes of special education placement.

I started to push back, asking to clarify how that was proof the test was bias. Their response was to insult my own intelligence. To assume I have no idea what test norms are or how they are created and applied.

I tried to respond to that, but they were already upset and made it clear they were finished with our talk.

Look, I get it. It’s not fun or convenient to admit that much of our success or failure is fate sealed in our genetics.

But it’s critical in the face of a delusional population to start facing difficult truths instead of denying them.

Else we end up with men playing women’s sports and entering their locker rooms.

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@robbystarbuck There are quite a few things, although very limited. Foreign policy and national security are the ones that come to me top of mind.