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   Chicken :cqlgusu: (lookitmychicken@blorbo.social)'s status on Monday, 28-Oct-2024 14:22:01 JST Chicken :cqlgusu:

   #KpopMonday #HowIMetMyBias

   It took a couple of months of devouring #StrayKids content before #Seungmin became my unshiftable bias.

   It happened during Kingdom and the Mayfly performance of Love Poem, which Ive already shared.

   There are some moments in the lead-up to the actual performance that had me going omg this motherfucker I adore him.

   The first one-on-one meeting with Eunkwang of BtoB, where Seungmin starts off by *winking* at him. Sunbae 10 years his senior, Seungmin should've been at least a bit intimidated, but nah.

   :youtube: https://youtu.be/vkUGJoTDI7I?t=150

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   Dr Ro Smith (rhube@wandering.shop)'s status on Saturday, 02-Mar-2024 01:15:04 JST Dr Ro Smith

   This is a shot in the dark, but I'm looking for an audiobook on the history and archaeology of Troy/Hisarlik, preferably reflecting more recent academic work than 2011 (the date of the work I've just been listening to). I'm interested in a work by an academic who really knows what they're talking about, not popular history with unexamined bias.

   It's OK if it's situated within a broader history of Ancient Anatolia or similar, as long as it covers Troy in detail. Any recs? @bookstodon

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   Jens Finkhäuser (jens@social.finkhaeuser.de)'s status on Monday, 15-Jan-2024 22:36:20 JST Jens Finkhäuser

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   @carnage4life survivorship bias.

   It truly hit home at a conference I was in '11, that startup success advice is little more than that.

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   novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️ (anarchopunk_girl@kolektiva.social)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Aug-2023 04:35:42 JST novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️

   in reply to

   @JohnShirley2023 @vantablack

   If it's a small subset then why are they focusing on it when a lot of the rhetoric around trans women is designed to paint us as sexual predators and monsters, so focusing on something a small minority of trans women might be doing can only hurt us by giving people this perception that we are more notibly sexually dangerous than others, and giving pop something to paint us all like that, and reinforcing the cultural narrative around us?

   Also, if every group has their bad apples why is it newsworthy that there are a few bad apples among trans women too? I don't think saying that trans people are new to the scene justifies focusing on something about us that you don't focus on for anyone else, because people wouldn't assume that we are perfect angels just because we are new to the scene, so they don't *need* to release an article proving that we aren't to disabuse people of that notion, which is what you are implying. In fact, once again, it is quite the opposite — the prevailing notion of trans women is as monsters and sexual predators and perverts, so this article isn't actually responding to an epistemic need that needs to be clarified about us, it's just playing into existing prejudice through confirmation bias.

   It's like if they ran an article talking about how, I dunno, a few powerful bankers happen to be Jewish and are in collusion to do something that will tank the economy or something. Whether it's strictly true or not, it's harmful, because it feeds into prejudiced assumptions through reinforcement bias and cherry picking.

   Moreover, one of the cis lesbians platformed by the article went on to write an incredibly hateful screed that literally called for the lynching of multiple famous trans women explicitly and BY NAME. Many of the others quoted in the article have links to anti-trans hate as well iirc. And the actual stories behind their claims of being pressured are likely distorted by the fact that they're transphobic: if they turn down a trans woman in an extremely transphobic and misgendering way, and people get mad at them for being transphobic, they're going to interpret that as people getting mad at them for not getting with a trans woman, and if you actually look at what they say you get the sense that's probably what happened.

   Additionally The Guardian claims they've reached out to some prominent trans figures for comment and no one took them up on it, and *that's* why there are no perspectives from trans women to actually balance out the score in the article, but at least one prominent trans person to my memory says she attempted to reach out to The Guardian to offer herself up for an interview when this article was going through and they just ignored her. So.

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   Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Monday, 06-Mar-2023 23:18:47 JST Evan Prodromou

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   @photovince so, first, read about social desirability bias.

   It's the tendency to give answers that conform to one's image of oneself, rather than to one's actual behaviour.