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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 05:23:21 JST 
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Domain Seizures and German ISP Blockade Add to Libgen’s Troubles
https://torrentfreak.com/domain-seizures-and-german-isp-blockade-add-to-libgens-troubles-241222/
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What’s Next?
Pirate sites are ultimately expected to encounter these types of issues and many respond by registering new domain names. That said, LibGen’s owners have been rather quiet lately.
The lack of communication doesn’t come as a complete surprise. At the beginning of the year, the site already appeared to have some internal struggles, as the person in charge of the site’s coding had been ‘inactive’ for some time.
As far as we know, the site isn’t actively managed as it once was. The homepage still promotes a domain name that is no longer active, for example. Whether the site will eventually break down completely is unknown, but the publishers will do everything they can to frustrate its operation. -
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Sunday, 22-Dec-2024 21:25:04 JST
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https://x.com/thatbloodybird/status/1870731706019537337
> Terfs, if you’re ever looking for something to read, you can’t go past Francis Grose’s Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue from 1811. It’s the great-great granddaddy of our modern Urban Dictionary, hilariously filthy, and a fascinating look at how our ancestors joked. -
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Sunday, 22-Dec-2024 21:23:42 JST
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https://x.com/DesexingSociety/status/1870731559885836314
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Under Labor, @VICLiberalTeam have remained silent on the medical scandal of child gender transitioning with its epicentre at Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital.
I was advised by a NSW MP to get in touch with Crozier - the Shadow Minister for Health - cos she's allegedly against childhood transition. She's certainly never said so publicly and instead vilified Moira Deeming for the same views.
I sent Crozier my podcast series and her assistant scheduled a 10min phone call with me. I cancelled the phone call when it became clear to me (in my honest opinion) that Crozier was fishing for dirt that her, Southwick and Pesutto could use against @MoiraDeemingMP.
Crozier isn't someone who cares about the Victorian people. Certainly not gender confused children.
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Sunday, 22-Dec-2024 14:15:48 JST
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https://x.com/blackthugcat/status/1870607881416081755
> As simplistically taught to Victorian children in years 5-6 via @VicGovDE Respectful Relationships.
> Just as they're heading for puberty & all the physical discomfort that brings.
> Proudly endorsed by @BenCarrollMP @NinaTaylorMP -
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Sunday, 22-Dec-2024 11:00:29 JST
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Great speech in case you missed it
> MP Moira Deeming's Maiden Speech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUzi3hTo0Js
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Sunday, 22-Dec-2024 07:51:41 JST
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Wondering if Aaron Swartz were alive how he would comment on the sorry state of reddit. But he might turn woke himself who knows
https://suedonym.substack.com/p/in-which-i-ask-some-questions
Yet it is also a place where lesbians cannot speak freely. If they refuse to include men in their spaces, they are banned for hate speech. They will be banned from participating in a raft of the online spaces that Reddit calls ‘subreddits’. If they try and express their disgust with the situation to Reddit’s administration, they are banned. They hop from private space to private space, desperate to avoid detection. The spaces that claim to be ‘lesbian’ walk on eggshells around men who claim to be lesbians, or are run by and for them.
Meanwhile, those very same men who insist on being included in their spaces can write long and detailed fantasies about raping lesbians. About corrective rape. About committing hate crimes against lesbians. Including in forums that are meant to be for lesbians. Long lengthy posts about some man’s long lengthy penis is apparently ‘lesbian’ these days and perfectly fine to post in lesbian spaces, and if you object, you’re a bigot, a hater, and a TERF.
But on subreddits where ‘lesbian’ is a category of pornography, those men are freely able to ban biological men from being in the videos or posting about themselves. Men are allowed to know what a lesbian is.
Actual homosexual women do not get the same privilege. For them to do such a thing is hate speech. Lesbian is a clearly defined category of pornography, but apparently when lesbian women try defining their identity, it’s ha to be all inclusive or they’re transphobic. -
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Sunday, 22-Dec-2024 07:24:39 JST
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The cash acceptance mandate consultation paper: https://treasury.gov.au/consultation/c2024-604832
Open to public comment until 2025-02-14.
Still don't get why news outlets don't provide a link to the main document referenced in their articles. -
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Sunday, 22-Dec-2024 05:40:47 JST
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Pics of melbourne
> The Age photos of the week, December 21, 2024
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/the-age-photos-of-the-week-december-21-2024-20241221-p5l051.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_national_victoria
> The week in photos from our award-winning photographers at The Age. -
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 20:45:23 JST
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Smash The Technopoly!
https://www.afterbabel.com/p/smash-the-technopoly
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In Technopoly, Postman distinguishes between a tool-using culture and a technopoly. All cultures have tools, but some cultures have moral resources necessary to constrain and direct the uses to which tools are put.
As a clear example, he cites the example of the samurai warriors, whose refinement and use of the katana sword was strictly regulated and directed by powerful social norms. While wielding the sword surely gave someone feelings of strength and possibility, samurai culture restrained those feelings and channeled them towards productive, healthy ends. Thus, the demands of honor required only very specific uses of the sword, and also required the user to commit ritual suicide with the sword if that honor was severely compromised. This is an example of a social group that is in possession of a powerful tool, but which also retains collective control over when and how the tool is used. It is a tool-using culture.
But within a technopoly, the tool becomes the master. It takes on a life of its own, steamrolling over a great many prior moral convictions or constraints.
In 1991, viewers of the series Star Trek, The Next Generation watched in alarm as the crew of the Enterprise were rendered dull, lifeless, brainwashed addicts under the control of “The Game”, an augmented-reality visual pastime. Twenty-five years later, one-third of the people on public transit were staring in a dull, lifeless manner at a pointless, addictive game, and only rarely was anyone alarmed by this.
It didn’t matter that we all started out thinking that this would be super weird and creepy. We got over it, and we got over it quick. That is because we live in a technopoly. Unlike those who lived out the samurai code, we lack the moral resources to pump the brakes when our moral convictions are telling us that something problematic is going on. -
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 20:27:50 JST
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@Gnomeshatecheese
More nonsensical than a centrist's attempt on Trump's life? -
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 20:24:25 JST
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excoriation for wrong-think and its personal and professional impact on myself, my family, and my business.
We at FIRE even had to devise additional ways of disguising academics and their schools so others could not “out” them using their responses, including by describing certain schools in general terms such as “a flagship state university in the south.” As one professor remarked, “The fact that I’m worried about even filling out polls where my opinions are anonymous is an indication that we, as institutions and as society, have lost the thread concerning ideas.” This person isn’t wrong. -
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 20:24:22 JST
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College faculty are more likely to self-censor now than at the height of McCarthyism
https://www.thefire.org/news/college-faculty-are-more-likely-self-censor-now-height-mccarthyism
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This year, FIRE surveyed 6,269 faculty members at 55 major colleges and universities for “Silence in the Classroom: The 2024 FIRE Faculty Survey Report,” the largest faculty free speech survey ever performed.
What we found shocked even us here at FIRE. A deeply entrenched atmosphere of silence and fear is endemic across higher education.
We found that self-censorship on US campuses is currently four times worse than it was at the height of the McCarthy era. Today, 35% of faculty say they have toned down their written work for fear of causing controversy. In a major survey conducted in 1954, the height of McCarthyism, by the sociologists Paul Lazarsfeld and Wagner Thielens, only 9% of social scientists said the same.
In fact, the problem is so bad that some academics were afraid even to respond to our already anonymous survey for fear of retaliation. Some asked us by email, or in their free response replies, to keep certain details they shared private. Some asked us to direct all correspondence to a private personal email. Others reached out beforehand just to confirm the results would truly be anonymous. Still others simply refused to speak at all.
For some, the danger is clear and concrete. As one professor wrote, “I am not at liberty to even share anonymously for fear of retribution.”
For others, it’s more nebulous, but the fear is no less real.
“I almost avoided filling out the survey for fear of losing my job somehow‚” one professor told us, adding that they “waited about two weeks before getting the courage to take the risk.”
It is totally unacceptable that this is a reality on today’s campuses.
For what I’m paid to teach the courses that I do, it’s just not enough to outweigh the risk of potential public -
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 20:19:43 JST
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This sounds like deleting dead code by reviewing and applying patches generated by LLM. Not sure if it is a good idea
> Ohio Is Using AI to Cut Red Tape. DOGE Should, Too
https://www.city-journal.org/article/ohio-is-using-ai-to-cut-red-tape-doge-should-too
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The Ohio Common Sense Initiative, a project led by Lieutenant Governor Jon Husted, has used an AI tool called Reg Explorer to review hundreds of years of rules and regulations issued by Ohio state government. “Regulations, while well intended, have consumed our time and our resources as they pile up on one another over time,” Husted told me. “Over the course of 200 years, we passed laws, and you have agencies write rules, and they add up. And it becomes overwhelming.”
“It’s never been anybody’s job to clean it up,” Husted added. “We have made it our job to clean it up.”
A small team of staffers within the lieutenant governor’s office is tasked with manually reviewing rules and regulations identified by AI as exhibiting outdated, redundant, or anachronistic characteristics; the team then shares its recommendations with experts at state agencies for input. Executive action can cut much of that red tape, but some changes require the state legislature’s consent.
So far, the Common Sense Initiative has identified 2 million words and 900 rules from the administrative code as unnecessary. The program has eliminated 600,000 words of text from the state’s building code alone and has slashed several outdated paper-filing and in-person-appearance requirements. The state projects that the initiative will save $44 million in tax dollars and 58,000 hours of labor by 2033. -
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 18:41:26 JST
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Lol the ABC does start using anti-trans-rights rally rather than anti-trans rally in this new article
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-21/vic-liberal-party-analysis-meeting-moira-deeming-john-pesutto/104751736
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 18:28:43 JST
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Not requiring 20+ captchas when creating an anon twitter account over tor would be a good start -
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 18:17:36 JST
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@erici
I would very much appreciate an abridged version of Jordan Peterson podcasts, without all the bizarro biblical references which his guests have to entertain -
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 18:15:08 JST
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@taylan
I suppose it's like using monopoly and cluedo as getting into board games
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 18:09:21 JST
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Never thought coursera would recommend bible study one day -
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 16:21:31 JST
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Cash will remain king in the supermarket – but not at the bottle-o
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/cash-will-remain-king-in-the-supermarket-but-not-at-the-bottle-o-20241220-p5kzwj.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_politics_federal
> The government is mandating cash for essential services across the country. Supermarkets and petrol stations are in – but bottle shops and cafes are out. -
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 16:16:26 JST
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This is the best article on Deeming v Pesutto I've read so far.
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> The lies of John Pesutto.
https://msediewyatt.substack.com/p/the-lies-of-john-pesutto
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What O’Callaghan gave Moira Deeming that John Pesutto did not, and that gender-critical women are failing to receive in Australia, is a fair hearing.
The rhetoric is used by Pesutto and his colleges, by the ABC, by the Age and the Nine papers and by the progressive left, referring to women with safeguarding concerns as “anti-trans” and “far-right”, sits atop a flimsy scaffold that was easily taken apart by Justice O’Callaghan.
The arguments presented at Deeming V Pesutto are the very best arguments that money can buy, against some prominent advocates for single sex safeguarding. This trial will cost John Pesutto millions, and without more grubby donations, he could well face bankruptcy. Nobody could accuse Pesutto of not giving his slanderous lies, against a child safeguarding advocate, his very best shot.
People who support John Pesutto with donations and votes in the party room, are supporting these flimsy, dishonest, slanderous arguments against women who are trying to protect themselves and their children.
What we have in Pesutto’s arguments, that he has not disavowed, is a dangerous trope that women are bigots when they enforce sexual boundaries. Australian Women, like Moira Deeming and like Angela Jones, who have tried to raise issues about women’s sexual boundaries and safe boundaries around our children, are regularly called transphobes for refusing to believe that men change sex with magic words.
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