in the 1990s we had conquered racism. no one was genuinely racist anymore because that was cringe
the development of a new e-meter-like technology in the late 90s and its application led to the new field of identifying secret kinds of racism
conveniently this test was labeled "not useful for individuals" because it "lacks even internal validity" but the IAT was still used to detect whatever kind of group-level ambient racism was useful to any given social engineer
im finally getting around to processing some episodes I recorded . . . last week?
paternity has been kind of a haze and I think my last fortnight was just lost to history
anyway this episode went off the rails real fast
we talked a bit about using hallucinogens in Minecraft, but then pivoted over to @BecomingCritter's convictions that (i) time is fake and (ii) that people who think about ethics are morally depraved
i cant say i walked away thinking he was wrong necessarily
so the thing I was made to understand about this stuff is that the target audience is typically the boss or commissar of whoever makes it. "what is my political overseer mad about"
seems like the contents of this cartoon are quite compatible with that model
reminiscent of that wolf in sheep's clothing thing
apparently Chinese students will often get a set of somewhat stale western fairy tales and fables and so maybe the idea is that these are deeply resonant for extremely online westerners in 2021
also the Aesop tweet has VERY STRONG Thomas Friedman energy to it
reportedly this line of research was finally opened after a mother found out that open heart surgery was performed on her infant without the use of anesthesia
kind of interesting that Matt chose this as his free article rather than a subscribers only one
he was discussing this on the wright show a few weeks ago, apparently you make your best article free and use it to get people to sign up for the other ones
2 added to My Authors
