That Queer Writer

Maybe it's because, as he recently revealed, Newsom can't read. Hearing an adjective describe a noun is inherently repellent to him. But no, it's because he's a wealthy misogynist with a connection to the capitalist class's pedo cult.

Everyone who lost a friend or loved one, or wound up permanently crippled during the pandemic, should be allowed a free punt right in this insane loser's dick and balls

24 hours ago - Politics & Policy Scoop: Dems working on secret report found Gaza cost Harris votes

This economic idea transfixed Wall Street and Washington. It may be a mirage. Massive investment in AI contributed “basically zero” to U.S. economic growth last year, Goldman Sachs has calculated. Today at 5:00 a.m. EST

Love when the news starts to catch up to what everybody who isn't a spineless grifter has known for years

much like housing and feeding people the 'solution' is very simple - provide restrooms

and it is impossible under capitalism for the same reason: those who fund our political parties do so to avoid funding *anything* else via taxation

civic elimination of public restrooms is best viewed as a conscious tactic to erode solidarity with and demonize the homeless by political parties who love a handy scapegoat for their failed policies

I don't know about you, but if I were a tech company or a policymaker, I would read that response as a warning—people are tired of having for-profit technologies that corrode their lives and communities rammed down their throats against their will. And some are willing to destroy them.

Well this story blew up. Went to the front page of reddit, hacker news, Gizmodo. People donated thousands of dollars to the legal fund of Jeff Sovern, who dismantled 13 Flock surveillance cameras. The response was near-universal enthusiasm for the project of smashing invasive, exploitative tech.

It really is fascinating how overt it now is that there are certain - really not controversial - ideas that you aren’t allowed to say on television.

as we edge ever closer to a completely arbitrary war with Iran, the obvious geopolitical lesson of this era is that you should acquire nuclear weapons by any means necessary

They were like, "This is GREAT! It's just like all my buddies that I pay!"

I do think a big reason tech CEOs also cooked their own minds on the AI chatbots they foist upon us is that having personalized automated yes-men to chop it up with doesn't diverge much from the environments they've cultivated where everyone they speak to's livelihoods depend on uncritical agreement

Molly Shah pointed out this morning that Gavin's political career was funded by a man named Gordon Getty. A quick search shows him all over the Epstein files talking about women's reproductive value with Robert Trivers.

I’m sorry please correct me if I’m insane and wrong…

but is this newsom saying he “fell prey” to not being “culturally normal” because he was supportive of same sex marriage?

This guy gets it.

Photo of Charles Ponzi, dressed like The Music Man or the monorail guy from The Simpsons

One day in the future, people will look back at crypto and AI founders like how we look at this picture of Charles Ponzi today, thinking "how could anyone fall for a scam perpetuated by a guy that looks like a cliche fraudster and has the same name as a famous scam?"

Wow you’re a chad that’s mogging him? Did you win the internet too?

Looksmaxxing picking up steam now is extra annoying because it’s like 2012 era internet terminology. Thats like the body dysmorphia slang version of getting into Gangnam Style.

of the Devil on Steam Immerse yourself in neon, smoke, and high-stakes legal gambles as a Defense Attorney with uniquely Killer insights in this episodic, diabolically stylish visual novel adventure game.

Okay, yeah, y'all were right. I finally got round to playing Of The Devil - a cyberpunk Phoenix Wright-esque legal drama daventure - and it is as good everyone says.

The demo is fantastic, by the way, and if you're not sold after that, you're probably not interested in the genre, and that's okay.

meanwhile:

The White House Weighs in on White Genocide Weird Little Guys | iHeart <p>In February of 2012, racist skinheads in California rallied at the capitol building in Sacramento. They were trying to raise awareness for an imaginary problem...

why are white supremacists in the US so obsessed with South Africa, apart from the super obvious? @socialistdogmom.bsky.social has dug into the history in a recent miniseries starting here:

“white genocide” has long been a white supremacist conspiracy theory, mainstreamed through variants such as “the great replacement” and these fictions about white South Africans. for 60 Minutes to “investigate” this conspiracy theory as if there are facts to uncover is to further mainstream it.

Let's go for a drive together :) twitch.tv/grastreams

I'm going to stream Pacific Drive in a bit.

When you’re the Head of Saying There Are No Pedophiles at PedoPlayground dot com it is very important you mention your website is fully loaded with pedophiles but not to worry because it’s really only like that when parents aren’t watching because pedophiles are Boos from Super Mario Bros

The Specter of Motherhood: Culture and the Production of Gendered Career Aspirations in Science and Engineering - Sarah Thébaud, Catherine J. Taylor, 2021 Why are young women less likely than young men to persist in academic science and engineering? Drawing on 57 in-depth interviews with PhD students and postdocto...

Now, we don't have the PhD student's side of the story. But there's research on women PhD students and postdocs in STEM fields showing that they often leave their programs because of the sexist mistreatment they face from men like this.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

To: Jeevacation[jeevacation@gmail.com] From: roger schank Sent: Mon 1/4/2010 12:53:33 PM Subject: Re: there is a simpler explanation about women and intelligence wrong; one; my very best PhD student was female; smartest woman I ever knew; she has decided to quit being a professor and is now an accupuncturist; that is the point; no matter how smart, she wanted to be liked or some such crap; also she failed to be brilliant when I made her leave Yale; she needed a man in order to be smart; they all do roger schank http://www.rogerschank.com/ On Jan 4, 2010, at 7:27 AM, Jeevacation wrote: > It's the tail of distribution , no really smart women ---none > Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 4, 2010, at 7:15 AM, roger schank • t > wrote: » intelligence comes about in part from real focus (goal-directed >> behavior); (this is why you have the absent minded professor » caricature) >> it is a rare woman who is not first and foremost focussed on what >> others are thinking and feeling about her >> >> hard to be brilliant if you are worrying if you look fat or why >> another woman hates you or why you dont own a kelly bag

Note how Schank also takes credit for his former PhD student's brilliance, saying "she failed to be brilliant when I made her leave Yale; she needed a man in order to be smart; they all do."

This is the logic that allows men to justify exploiting women's intellectual labor for their own gain.

To: Jeevacation[jeevacation@gmail.com] From: roger schank Sent: Mon 1/4/2010 12:53:33 PM Subject: Re: there is a simpler explanation about women and intelligence wrong; one; my very best PhD student was female; smartest woman I ever knew; she has decided to quit being a professor and is now an accupuncturist; that is the point; no matter how smart, she wanted to be liked or some such crap; also she failed to be brilliant when I made her leave Yale; she needed a man in order to be smart; they all do roger schank http://www.rogerschank.com/ On Jan 4, 2010, at 7:27 AM, Jeevacation wrote: > It's the tail of distribution , no really smart women ---none > Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 4, 2010, at 7:15 AM, roger schank • t > wrote: » intelligence comes about in part from real focus (goal-directed >> behavior); (this is why you have the absent minded professor » caricature) >> it is a rare woman who is not first and foremost focussed on what >> others are thinking and feeling about her >> >> hard to be brilliant if you are worrying if you look fat or why >> another woman hates you or why you dont own a kelly bag

Epstein responds in the affirmative, insisting "no really smart women---none." Schank, in turn, admits that his "very best Phd student was female," but laments that she "decided to quit being a professor," adding "that is the point; no matter how smart, she wanted to be liked or some such crap."

To: Jeffrey epstein[jeevacation©gmail.com] From: roger schank Sent: Mon 1/4/2010 12:15:13 PM Subject: there is a simpler explanation about women and intelligence intelligence comes about in part from real focus (goal-directed (this is why you have the absent minded professor caricature) it is a rare woman who is not first and foremost focussed on what thinking and feeling about her hard to be brilliant if you are worrying if you look fat or why hates you or why you dont own a kelly bag roger schank http://www.rogerschank.com/

Relevant to today's conversation about AI's inherent sexism, here's an email from cognitive psychologist and early AI theorist Roger Schank, arguing to Epstein that women can't be truly intelligent, because they care too much about what other people think.

Morrowind is my New Vegas. My transness stat is indelibly linked to my ever increasing alchemy skill

knowing that nobody at the BAFTAs spoke to Delroy or Michael, that apparently there was a 'sorry if you were offended' apology, and the fact that the BBC took time to edit "free palestine" and not the slurs has made an already ugly no win situation much worse