Repost: Arielle Lana LeJarde (RA), "Anonymity is a Lost Art: Why some artists are taking breaks from social media"
DnB DJ Halogenix, “The insatiable appetite {social media} 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: Robin Hanson, "Women As Worriers Who Exclude"
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.
Repost: Eliezer Yudkowsky, "The Fallacy of Gray"
“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.””
Repost: Roee Goldberg, "Barack Obama Pinpointed Online Toxicity As A Major Threat To..."
“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.”
Repost: Matt Reynolds (Wired), "You’re Allergic to the Modern 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.
Repost: Max More, "Who are the Experts on Cryonics?"
“We must face the fact that experts – even the best experts we can find – are often wrong or biased”
Repost: Paul Voosen, "'It’s just mind boggling.' More than 19,000 undersea volcanoes discovered"
With only one-quarter of the sea floor mapped with sonar, it is impossible to know how many seamounts exist… The vast majority remain uncharted by sonar.
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: Philip Ball, "A New Idea for How to Assemble Life"
“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.”