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July 19 is Kevlin Henney Day

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@effectfully I have two states of mind while looking at Haskell:
- hot damn that's clever!
- you think you're so cute you fucking know-it-all

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@luke_winkie My reference for manly politics is H.L. Mencken not whatever this bullshit is

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@ChiefEgregore I am so sorry man, that's awful

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My politics is whatever puts people like this on a cross

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And here is a WEF Bioethicist talking about "human engineering" populations to eat less meat via the lone star tick

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@TheEconomist I'm sure there is an opinion I care about less right now, but at the moment I can't think of one

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@MilkTeaSept 🤗

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Ensemble cast, most of them female. There's also a half dozen male characters who could have been protagonists themselves in a different telling of the story, but this centered on the women.

Hundreds of pages. I could not put it down.

Why? Difficult practical problems. Cosmic stakes. Stupendous world-building. Massive challenges, overcome with superhuman courage and sacrifice. Interesting science concepts. This is excellent science fiction because the setup: "how the hell are they going to solve THAT?" has an extremely interesting payoff. The sex of the characters is just a side effect of the concept being explored and it's a compelling concept.

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@justalexoki C.S. Lewis

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@WakeMachine thanks for reading it to me like I was stupid (I am)

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@peterrhague We became so civilized and polite that we forgot how to tell tedious women to fuck off

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@katie_campione This is really going to piss you off but it just so happens that violence is an essential part of life.

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@EMassSurvivor @lamps_apple I might have healed from my extremist stage if Alex Jones had told me to get therapy

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Many such cases

[Apple Lamps @lamps_apple]

I asked Claude to analyze the last 300 videos from the "I've had it" podcast and to give me the world view of someone who relies on them for news.

Claude: "A person immersed exclusively in this ecosystem views the world through a lens of totalizing political paranoia and self-righteous outrage, reduced to a black-and-white spectacle of righteous resistance versus abject evil. Every complex geopolitical event, economic strain, or cultural shift is flattened into a single, sensationalized narrative: an imminent fascist takeover orchestrated by a comic-book lineup of "oligarchs," "whack jobs," and corrupt elites. Operating within a high-decibel echo chamber, they mistake vulgar catharsis and relentless mockery for sophisticated political analysis, consuming news not to understand the world, but to validate their own moral superiority and partisan disdain.

Ultimately, this worldview fosters a profound cognitive dysfunction, replacing civic discourse with paranoid conspiratorial thinking and performative activism. Complex institutional processes are dismissed as mere theater, while every political opponent is demonized as a bad-faith actor or cultist beyond redemption. By relying on a steady diet of apocalyptic warnings and therapeutic venting, the consumer becomes addicted to a cycle of perpetual grievance and righteous panic, rendering them entirely incapable of engaging with nuance, counter-evidence, or the lived realities of anyone outside their immediate political tribe."

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@lamps_apple That first sentence holy shit lmao

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@MakewiEatsSpam @memeticsisyphus The subject, and the architecture of the story. Boys want superlative archetypes who struggle and fail and then win. Something to aspire to be. They crave role models.

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@IterIntellectus I would only quibble with "let"

Thats not going to happen. The male authors are going to have to embody that hero and build a publishing edifice of their own. It is already happening. The stone the builders rejected will become the capstone.

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Bingo

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this is also why boys are reading so much less now that children’s publishing has become female dominated

men write archetypes. women write about themselves.

men write about heroes, villains, gods, monsters, extraordinary characters who embody something greater than themselves, heroes that boys can admire and aspire to become

women write characters who look like them, think like them, have their problems and insecurities, characters they can identify with and project themselves onto

men use writing as a vehicle for self-transcendence while women use it as a vehicle for self-recognition

it’s the difference between wanting to become Batman and wanting Batman to become you

it’s then obvious why boys craving the hero’s journey would rather retreat into video games than read yet another piece of autobiographical, gossip-filled, moralizing turboslop

if you want boys to start reading again you need to let men write again

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@SteveHemstreet @memeticsisyphus In this house we only bang grudgingly while looking at our phones and we couldn't be happier!

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@memeticsisyphus Scott Adams would say he's hallucinating that you made a more extreme assertion than you actually did.

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@s547bay @mellexnano @bbnkevin @EthicalSkeptic Is ES always this tedious?