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Dec 30, 2019 11 tweets 2 min read Read on X
mad at the feminist zeitgeist rn
.@selentelechia was making a delicious Stew and just talking about how much she loved cooking

and kind of segued into a discussion of how much she liked tidying and taking care of kids

and then a really excited and unprompted "Yeah! I wanna be your housewife! YEAH!"
and IM mad because you know what *I* like that idea too!

no one else in the world would do a better job of taking care of our kids than she will, and this is the thing that matters most to me in the next thirty years of my life
I mean what if we didn't even HAVE to deal with child prisons?
And I'm partly Mad that she was made to feel bad about wanting what she wanted but I have already explored this sentiment before

What was new was that what the hell it didn't occur to *me* as a possibility even a bit

But it's probably the best fit for the life I want to make
Stupidly necessary caveats

1. I 10000% support @selentelechia in working as much as she wants in the future and it is completely up to her

2. Wanting to work as a mom is Extremely good and valid and important. My mom worked herself almost to death and I love her for it.
3. We're in a relatively privileged position in that this is even an option for us.

3a. . . . and I kind of wish it were an option for more people and that policy supported it.

Anyway I'm going to eat STEW that my FIANCEE made

ilu
god that was good

special thanks to @illiteralworst buddy you made our night and I owe you a beer
@amelapay @vgr @diviacaroline Heh

Schools as credentials are maybe not long for this world and the alternative is gonna be wild
@amelapay @vgr @diviacaroline Apres ce, le deluge
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May 14
@jason_a_w the overton window _in my replies_ is that pseudonymity is sacred

so you can see the irony in making this specific argument in this specific place from behind a pseudonym
as I've written before--I can't find the thread--pseudonymy is easily defended. it has had a substantial tradition in american discourse since the founding

and there are very good reasons for maintaining it, even--*especially*--in a political context
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May 14
been thinking about this a lot today

the thought foremost in my mind is, education is going to become much more important for our children. not as a means of earning a living but as a means of becoming realized and independent humans in a dehumanizing age
the notion of education in the latter 20th century being wholly a matter of practical knowledge rather than of personal development has always been exaggerated

but set aside practicality; imagine a world where bodily survival and provision are not dependent on such learned skill
there is still a purpose to education in conveying to children the ways of living, thinking and acting and speaking, that we have found worthy

that is, the point of such education is guiding a child to becoming the kind of person who it is worth being for a lifetime
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May 7
kind of wonder how widespread this gets

like one has to imagine some schools are bitter clingers about this right. certainly grievance studies depts wont take this lying down

but otoh schools seem prone to preference cascades starting at the top
i was curious if or how they might justify any such moves

explicitly calling it "compelled speech" in a public statement is much more assertive than I'd expected

i wonder where this new respect for speech freedom is coming from ha ha Image
but fr i hadn't expected this and it feels like a big deal

it's the first meaningful rollback of Awokening policy, and MIT doing it in these terms gives significant elite cover to other schools that might _want_ do it

it also raises in my mind some questions
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Apr 28
this isnt just netflix or doritos this is every product

the main reason it tends to be more pronounced in tech products is that tech products have vastly better and cheaper telemetry than legacy industries and it's easy to run sufficiently-powered A/B tests on consumers
facebook in particular was when i was there incredibly well-developed in this kind of measurement; their internal tooling and organizational practices in product analytics were afaik the best in the world

it was an exquisite organizational and technical accomplishment
i won't get into details although I don't think it's much of an industrial secret

but basically, the impact of every feature change and every product team could be rigorously measured and tracked and usually were

there was a ton of upside to this but perhaps one major downside
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Apr 28
i think this is empirically false

mockery is extremely effective at convincing undecideds in particular by perhaps credibly demonstrating that

1. affiliation with a position will lead to status attacks

2. ppl affiliated with that position are not dominant enough to retaliate
once more tapping the sign
amzn.to/3Wgx0ry
agree with the first part, second part I'm not sure i do; public result maybe the same but not the private one
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