Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, Leigh Brackett, Vonda McInTyre, CJ Cherryh, Mary Shelley. I could go on. History is full of women writers who wrote great books for men and women alike.
The paucity of today's mainstream publishing culture isn't "women are there" it's because it's a narrow monoculture focused on moral signalling rather than being a broad culture interested in profit and entertainment. It's not "It's run by women" but "It's run by a very narrow subset of women from a handful of schools and a single thin slice of the social strata."
Hannah-Jones includes some version of the word "unequal" 15 times, "segregation" 25 times, and "resources" 4 times, but not one instance of "accountability," "union," or "standards."
I agree. Prison is a 19th-century Quaker abortion. We must retvrn to exclusively corporal/capital punishment, without “insanity” defense.
Crime itself is the horror that must appall us
@xwanyex OK, but if you try to build a society without any lies, you get Chinese Legalism. Which nobody likes.
So then if you're actually practical, you have to choose the best lies, IE. you get kinda Straussian.
The real fear behind this is the chuds having access to open source AI, and building something unhindered that blows their models out of the water.
They fear 4chanAI, they fear the resurrection of Tay.
Okay Dan here's an easy one, let's see if you can hit the slowest pitch I can throw
Ilhan Omar and Zohran Mamdani clearly do not believe in the idea of America
Are they American? Can we denaturalize and deport them?
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