All in Dating & Preferences

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

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.’”

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

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.”

REPOST: Slate Star Codex (Scott Alexander), "BLACK PEOPLE LESS LIKELY"

REPOST: Slate Star Codex (Scott Alexander), "BLACK PEOPLE LESS LIKELY"

Guy Ginton
Controversial, REPOST, Dating & Preferences

The eight points above add up to a likelihood that black people will probably be underrepresented in a lot of weird subculturey nonconformist things. This is not a firm law – black people will be overrepresented in a few weird subculturey nonconformist things that are an especially good fit for their culture – but overall I think the rule holds. And that’s a big problem.

In Defense of Filming Crime

In Defense of Filming Crime

Guy Ginton
Controversial, Dating & Preferences, Technology, World, USA

So I say we should be ashamed of the crime rates and apartheid of St. Louis, where this man managed to murder and walk the streets for hours. We should be more ashamed of the media that pushes this content on us. And we should be even more ashamed of the social media that prioritizes clicks over mental health, wanting us to see content we explicitly do not want to see, just because it gets a reaction. We should never shame the bystandards of horror for their natural reactions. After all, most of us would do the same.

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