How much the world changes: the same woman that some army acquaintances made fun of me for dating because she was a little overweight would now be considered skinny by most.
She was 5’8″ or so, and weighed about 165 pounds, so a BMI of about 25.
Month: June 2022
On the Field
Another application: Why are empirical methods so arcane? Not necessarily because they grant us huge new insights, but because **institutionalized science has adversarial incentives** in a way that firms (mostly) don't. https://t.co/DxDvmVCDdQ
— Cameron Harwick 👾🏛 (@C_Harwick) June 24, 2022
I think about this a lot. I’m not a statistics expert, but a lot of tools (both software and mathematical) in statistics are 1000x harder than they need to be, to produce only 5% better results, with higher mistake rates because they are so difficult to use. I don’t think this has a thing to do with better science, but rather an arms race within the field to weed out those who won’t devote ridiculous hours and efforts to competing within that field.
A lot of fields are like this (mine included).
Defend and Attack
To defend the libs somewhat before trashing them again as they deserve, I do think power imbalances in a relationship can be harmful, particularly if a narcissist is involved (and, yes, narcissists can be and often are women). However, believing that power and its imbalance is the only thing that matters is roughly like believing the only consideration in what to eat is how many calories the food contains.
Also, relevant to the above point, PMC libs can only conceive of one sort of power, which is the HR-defined sort. They can’t even think about other forms that matter and often take precedence over what I’ll refer to as managerial power.
Just a totally broken worldview.
2S
Heron uses a dead bug for bait while fishing!!
Cc: Gamer200431 pic.twitter.com/hgKNYLr68t— DAPPER DON DHARSHI โข K A M I L โข (@SoloFlow786) June 25, 2022
Ok, now they are getting too smart.
Cohere Cothere
There is no coherent liberal agenda.
We can't enact policy the way Republicans do because that's authoritarianism, but we need to uphold the policies passed by authoritarians because that's democracy, and we have to vote for Democrats, but we can't expect them to do anything,
— Ian Danskin (@InnuendoStudios) June 25, 2022
This is one of the major problems, along with the great and pointless effort liberals have put into policing words and people’s personal relationships rather than achieving anything useful.
D and Z
The first ten on today’s playlist:
The Z
Zeynep Tufekci is the only human being alive that I trust more than myself to evaluate evidence and its application to the real world.
I really need her when I’m Galactic Overlord.
Ex Clev
The Fat Acceptance movement is particularly clever in that it has an enormous (pun intended) effect on children, which locks in food company profits for decades into the future.
Extremely slick.
Preg
Unfortunately, while I was a big fan of thermal screening for pandemic mitigation, the potential use of thermal cameras to remotely detect early pregnancy either immediately, or through logging longitudinal variation makes this measure unacceptable.https://t.co/peHO878IfP
— Naomi Wu ๆบๆขฐๅฆๅงฌ (@RealSexyCyborg) June 25, 2022
Well shit.
Now Inevitable
By 2024 at earliest and 2028 at absolute latest, the US will be under soft fascist (but still fascist) minority party rule.
It is now inevitable.
Roamin’ Decline
If half of the population is effectively designated as second class citizens, what exactly does the United States offer to the world in this era of great power competition?
— Rita Konaev (@RitaKonaev) June 25, 2022
Nada.
Easily Stumped
I think the first time I mentioned digital surveillance being used to target women seeking abortions in NYT was 2014? 2012?
โSeriousโ people literally mocked us for raising the possibility. Privacy advocates were mocked as alarmist luddites for a long time.
Well, here we are. https://t.co/llbmJgivRw
— zeynep tufekci (@zeynep) June 24, 2022
I remember those days. I also remember being personally mocked and banned from a forum in 1998 for saying the DMCA would inevitably be used by corporations to prevent people from repairing physical objects.
Most people have the imagination of a tree stump.
Find Out
“Delete this app/turn off this option” guidelines are proliferating.
Sure delete that and turn off the option.
But here’s reality: it won’t be enough in today’s surveillance environment, especially with law-enforcement powers.
Probably not even enough to avoid many vigilantes.
โ zeynep tufekci (@zeynep) June 25, 2022
I don’t think people realize how pervasive our surveillance infrastructure is now. It’s about me, Zeynep, and some guy in Croatia who really understand it.
But you’re about to find out, especially if you live in a red state. Oh yes you are.
Very Various
The first ten on today’s playlist:
Declination
if red states thought they had an issue with attracting or retaining medical professionals before Roe fell, well, hoo boy
— Faine Greenwood (@faineg) June 25, 2022
Ayup. Red states are gonna get pretty hellish in the near future. Their economies and standards of living will decline quite a lot, inevitably. The fall of Roe won’t be the only reason (more is coming), but it will be the start of it.