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   Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 04:48:25 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

   You know there was a time in 2003'ish when it was so hard to find anyone writing anything useful about Lisp, and so sometimes I'd read things Paul Graham would write with interest

   But this article, The Origins of Wokeness, is so *incredibly bad* it hurts my brain to read it https://paulgraham.com/woke.html

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 04:49:28 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     > Was it sexist to propose that Darwin's greater male variability hypothesis might explain some variation in human performance? Sexist enough to get Larry Summers pushed out as president of Harvard, apparently.

     oh my god

     > And yet it does seem plausible that greater male variability explains some of the variation in human performance. So which should prevail, comfort or truth?

     what the fuck

     bhaugen repeated this.
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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 04:55:51 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     Oh cool he's saying "the Bud Light brand might have been permanently damaged" for, wait what was it... having an advertisement with a trans woman

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     Stefano Zacchiroli (zacchiro@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 05:14:12 JST Stefano Zacchiroli

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     @cwebber do you need help to stop reading that (also incredible long) piece? should we send someone? *g* *hugs* (I, for one thing, thank you for saving me from reading it…)

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 05:15:24 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     • Stefano Zacchiroli

     @zacchiro I didn't even manage to read all of it

     I just scrolled and read a few paragraphs and skipped more and read a few paragraphs and skipped more and everything I read was completely rancid

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     Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️ (xgranade@wandering.shop)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 05:25:10 JST Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️

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     @cwebber The Trump election has really given these guys permission to go fully mask-off, huh? Fucking wild.

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     Stefano Zacchiroli (zacchiro@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 05:25:19 JST Stefano Zacchiroli

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     @cwebber good random sampling