Repost: Brooke Houghton, "Someone In Toronto Asked Me Out IRL..."
“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."
Repost: Neia Balao, "Woman sneaks into Columbia University’s surf-and-turf event, reflects on institution’s ‘hypocrisy’"
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.”
On Joke Theft
Comedy is delicate. So we ignore that everyone has retold someone else’s joke.
Repost: Anton Cebalo, "The Social Recession: By the Numbers"
Repost: Slate Star Codex (Scott Alexander), "Black People Less Likely"
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.
Bad Questions 1: "Are you pregnant?"
Digging deeper down this rabbit hole — and by that I mean, more results on Google — brought up more of the same. “Never, EVER ask” and “you should never ask a woman when her baby is due unless you’re her gynecologist or you’re pretty sure you’re the baby in question’s father.” I read…
In Defense of Filming Crime
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.
Citation Needed
Citations at the end are the, “OH! NOW I GET IT!" of writing.
Bad Teachers… Are More Influential
Even with all the kind and great people in this beautiful world, a rotten minority can ruin it. The lesson is to ignore the rotten people and focus on the kind. I must have missed this lesson.