Dan Keefe

Developer and Educator. Interested in words and code and learning.

[Evie ♡ @EFCevie]

people getting mad at teaching boys about misogyny are doing it because they think misogyny is ok and that lots of forms of sexual harassment, assault, and sometimes rape is ok. they don’t want to tackle misogyny and rape culture because they know they benefit from it

[𝙻𝚎𝚊𝚟𝚎𝙷𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚍𝙰𝚕𝚘𝚗𝚎 🇨🇦 @LeaveHeardAlone]

One in eight girls sexually assaulted or raped before turning 18.

Women and girls typically don’t need to read about rape and sexual assault to know it’s bad. We have our lived experiences for that.

We’re also tired of sexual trauma against women being used in fiction as short hand for “guy bad” or “system broken” — because when it happens in REALITY and not fiction it’s dismissed or ignored or we aren’t believed.

We’re tired.

But here’s the other thing with the 1984 discourse: if you’re acting like it somehow the most important book on authoritarianism or that someone is cripplingly lacking in their understanding of the world because they haven’t read that specific book — I’m going to assume you haven’t read a single book since you stopped attending classes that assigned them.

[Coconut Tree Faller Outer Ofer @Cam_Oflage]

This is esp annoying for stuff like "male loneliness crisis" where the correct analysis of reality is that it's stupid contrived reactionary propaganda but a thousand fingerwagging freaks on here will insist you have to always pander about it unless you want trump to win 3 terms

[yoshimi battles dracula @nise_yoshimi]

@Smitroverse When these types hype up homer, who they haven't read, they're really thinking of Vergil, who they also haven't read

[Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs) @agraybee]

Because the 25-year-old socialist at your office is going to lecture you about how your gatorade is made with the blood of the Global South but they're not going to do a mass shooting.

[nihilism disrespecter @meaning_enjoyer]

the problem with the "alien" "franchise" is that they're trying to build a mythology that explains the alien

this is remarkably inferior to the original premise "there is an alien and it kills you"

[onion person @CantEverDie]

“making grok anti-woke” and it starts praising hitler and divulging rape fantasies about real people is too on the nose it’s almost unreal

[Excited Utterance @ExcitedUttRead]

What Goes Wrong When We Write Ghazals in English by Anthony Madrid ⁦@parisreview⁩ https://t.co/XPBvG49vko

[Gyll King Post Skip Diplomacy @GyllKing]

The myth that Pakistani grooming gangs were protected by some kind of skewed PC/Woke deference is completely undermined by the reality that the 80% of grooming gangs that are white were also ignored. The scandal here is not race but the toxic disregard for working class girls.

[Mark Gillies @5goalthriller]

‘I’ve Got A Brand New Content Harvester’

[Faith Donkin @DonkinFaith]

@emilykmay When boys outperformed girls on exams it was viewed as a natural and correct sign of their high intellect and diligence. When girls started to outperform boys on exams it was seen as a national crisis schools needed to fix.

[jon repetti @pourfairelevide]

quite curious how the only men I know who don’t “feel welcome” by the literary world are talentless hacks who can’t stop being misogynistic freaks in public

[paddle @ipaddlearound]

whoops lost myself for about eight years there

[Dan Keefe @Peritract]

@readtoyourkid @bayesiandroll I think the issue you describe is *caused* by what you're proposing as the solution; you can't solve the problem of children not wanting to read 'boyish' books by defining even more books as 'boyish'.

[Lincoln Michel @TheLincoln]

Has anyone written about how the tech bros went from an obsession with "skill maxxing" and trying to "hack" body and mind to be superhuman to this "um, if you don't outsource everything to AI and let your mind and body turn into smooth slop you're a luddite" mindset?

[Peter Raleigh @PetreRaleigh]

Belated comment here but it is so, so funny that Richard Dawkins is identifying as "culturally Christian" now. This analysis of the New Atheists was made virtually the moment they emerged and they rejected it as the worst kind of slander

[Avery Edison @aedison]

I don’t think the LLM-evangelists realize that the rest of us can never again trust anything they claim to have made. “I wrote an essay on how AI has improved my life!” Why on Earth would I read that? You can’t be counted on to communicate your thoughts using your own words.

[Dan Keefe @Peritract]

@ladygreenkirtle @SketchesbyBoze The artist is Ivan Bilibin, and I think this page has the full set of illustrations. https://t.co/SRhUT85vBY

[Dan Keefe @Peritract]

@ladygreenkirtle @SketchesbyBoze It might not be the same book as you had, but I saw it in "Wizards and Witches", illustrating a story about Baba Yaga. https://t.co/eEeBMDhZPG