Jun 23

Jun 23 REPOST: Andrew "Garbage Day" Miller, "Dream Theater vs. The Mars Volta"

REPOST, Animals Cartoons Games Music Other

I grew up during early internet days. I still yearn to turn on a clunky desktop with my big toe, and patiently wait for it to boot. Hell, I’ve even thought of making my laptop’s fingerprint scanner learn my big toe.

Jun 18

Jun 18 REPOST: Arielle Lana LeJarde (Resident Advisor), "'Anonymity is a lost art': Why some artists are taking breaks from social media"

Guy Ginton

Dating & Preferences, REPOST, Technology

“UK drum & bass artist Halogenix posted his concerns about the social-media landscape. ‘I refuse to participate in this relentless game of social-media-driven visibility… The insatiable appetite it creates to be constantly seen is destroying not only my mental health, but the core values and qualities of the [music] culture that I fell in love with.’”

Jun 11

Jun 11 REPOST: Robin Hanson, "Women As Worriers Who Exclude"

Guy Ginton

Controversial, REPOST

I do not agree with the author. The book he cites references female competition with other females. He brings up #metoo, missing that #metoo was focused on exposing men. His analysis is wacky at best.

Jun 11

Jun 11 REPOST: Eliezer Yudkowsky, "The Fallacy of Gray"

Guy Ginton

Philosophy & Time, REPOST

“Everything is shades of gray, but there are shades of gray so light as to be very nearly white, and shades of gray so dark as to be very nearly black. Or even if not, we can still compare shades, and say “it is darker” or “it is lighter.””

Jun 5

Jun 5 REPOST: Roee Goldberg, "Barack Obama Pinpointed Online Toxicity As A Major Threat To Our Future: Here’s What We Can Do"

Guy Ginton

Technology, REPOST

“But, as many commenters have pointed out and academic studies have shown, trying to eliminate hateful speech by removing individual actors or groups rarely has the intended effect.”

Jun 1

Jun 1 REPOST: Matt Reynolds (Wired), "You’re Allergic to the Modern World"

Guy Ginton

REPOST, World

Are allergies caused by toxins, climate change, hate for our mothers or something else? Read this Wired post to not get a straight answer.

Jun 1

Jun 1 REPOST: Max More, "Who are the Experts on Cryonics?"

Guy Ginton

REPOST, Technology

“We must face the fact that experts – even the best experts we can find – are often wrong or biased”

May 21

May 21 REPOST: Paul Voosen, "'It’s just mind boggling.' More than 19,000 undersea volcanoes discovered"

Guy Ginton

World, Technology, REPOST

With only one-quarter of the sea floor mapped with sonar, it is impossible to know how many seamounts exist… The vast majority—more than 27,000—remain uncharted by sonar.

May 18

May 18 REPOST: Brooke Houghton, "Someone In Toronto Asked Me Out IRL..."

Guy Ginton

Dating & Preferences, REPOST

“Seeing how someone acts in real-time — and when they don't have the opportunity to curate or edit themselves — creates a much more authentic interaction."

May 15

May 15 Defending Eurovision's Cha Cha Cha

Guy Ginton

World, Animals Cartoons Games Music Other

Finnish group Käärijä was undoubtedly the fan favorite. The public vote confirmed what we all knew. Everytime they got on, the crowds cheered. Even when I make a first edit of this, I hear my neighbor singing it.

May 13

May 13 REPOST: Philip Ball, "A New Idea for How to Assemble Life"

Guy Ginton

REPOST, Controversial

“assembly theory provides a consistent and mathematically precise account of the apparent historical contingency of how things get made — why, for example, you can’t develop rockets until you first have multicellular life, then humans, and then civilization and science. There is a particular order in which objects can appear.”

May 9

May 9 REPOST: Sunny Labh, "Tracing the Origins of Mathematical Symbols: =, +, -, ×, ÷, √, ∞, π, Σ, ∫, f(x)"

Guy Ginton

REPOST

It was in 1557 when the Welsh mathematician Robert Recorde who introduced the equal sign. In “The Whetstone of Witte,” Recorde explainedhis choice of two parallel lines to represent equality, as “nothing could be more equal.” The symbol has since become universally recognized.

May 2

May 2 REPOST: Radimentary, "Pain is not the unit of Effort"

Guy Ginton

Controversial, REPOST

Oftentimes the defining difference between the protagonist and the antagonist is that the antagonist did not have enough pain tolerance and allowed the (unbearable physical) suffering in his life to drive him mad.

Apr 30

Apr 30 Ask Chat GPT -- Writing vs Typing Math

Guy Ginton

If you have learned to visualize fractions in a vertical format, you might find it challenging to read typed-out math that displays fractions in a horizontal format (numerator / denominator). However, with practice, most individuals can adapt…

Apr 28

Apr 28 REPOST: Neia Balao, "Woman sneaks into Columbia University’s surf-and-turf event, reflects on institution’s ‘hypocrisy’"

Guy Ginton

USA, REPOST, Dating & Preferences, Controversial

Brenna Lip (@brennalip), a New York City-based content creator, posted a TikTok in which she admits to attending a surf-and-turf brunch at Columbia University despite not being a student herself. What started off as a harmless ruse, however, soon turned into an eye-opening look into “the hypocrisy of this whole place.”

Apr 24

Apr 24 The Keffiyah, Pal-Chilean and Pop Star-Politician Farce

Guy Ginton

Controversial, USA, World, Animals Cartoons Games Music Other

Claims of Palestinian thobs and jillayehs undermine distinct Arab cultures for pan-Arabism. These claims amount to, “Well, actually, the warring Arab tribes all identified as Palestinians! [citaiton nonexistent]”

Apr 18

Apr 18 On Joke Theft

Guy Ginton

Controversial, Dating & Preferences

Comedy is delicate. So we ignore that everyone has retold someone else’s joke.

Apr 9

Apr 9 REPOST: Selena Simmons-Duffin, "'Live free and die?' The sad state of U.S. life expectancy"

Guy Ginton

USA, REPOST

"Everybody has a pet thing they worry about and say, 'it's oral health' or 'it's suicides' – everyone has something that they're legitimately interested in and want to see more attention to," says John Haaga, who was the director of the Division of Behavioral and Social Research at the National Institute on Aging at NIH, before he retired. "The great value of an exercise like this one was to step back and say, 'OK, all of these things are going on, but which of them best account for these long-term population level trends that we're seeing?' "