Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
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Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
20d ago
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
20d ago
Sure, but the degree of portrayal of interracial couples in media is not anywhere near that density.
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
20d ago
Was it bad when whites and white men were over-represented in media? Did that make it difficult for you to enjoy a piece of media?
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
20d ago
What shows or stories are obliged to change their casting decisions in response to other shows casting decisions?
If there was a murder mystery series and it turned out the murderer was a Jew 75% of the time, and it wasn't set in Israel, it wouldn't be wrong to infer that the writers must have something against Jews.
This works in the context of a particular series. I am not sure it works in the context of many different sets of writers on many different series.
No, because that pairing actually reflects reality rather than distorting it.
I don't see how this is true. According to PEW (as of 2017) 11% of interracial relationships in the US were white/black compared to 15% that are white/asian. Black men are twice as likely to have a white spouse as black women, while about 50% more asian women have a white spouse compared to asian men. That's 7% of all interracial marriages that are black man/white woman compared to 9% of interracial marriages that are white man/asian woman. Hardly a substantial difference.
Obviously not.
Why not? Surely it would be propaganda against race-mixing then.
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
20d ago
One thing that I don't understand is why nobody "inside the kitchen" don't notice how weird their attempts at propaganda seem.
I don't think most people think "white woman protagonist with black man love interest" is "propaganda." Like, propaganda for what? Would it be propaganda if they were both white? If it was an asian woman and a white man? What is the non-propaganda interracial pairing? What makes such a pairing not propaganda?
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
25d ago
Much like how it supports the Jewish settlers in the West Bank I don't see why Israel can't support a resettlement project of the Gazans into the West Bank too. It'll cost billions sure, but that's still worth it if Israel annexes Gaza once it's done with its operation. Instead we don't really have any good plan for what will happen to the civilian Gazans after Israel razes their entire land to get at Hamas.
Israel cannot do this because they also want to annex the West Bank and moving more Palestinians there will make that harder.
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
1mo ago
First, your rights are not obligations. A right is simply an option that you can choose to exercise or not. The obligation pertains to others, who are obliged to get out of your way. The right to have a homeland is not, therefore, an obligation to have one. Some peoples may be content within multiethnic states. If they are, they are not obliged to change anything. However, if they aren’t happy — if they believe that independence is necessary for them to maintain their identity and way of life — then they have the right to exit and create their own homeland, and everybody else is obligated to get out of their way.
Then it seems like Johnson should have no problem with the state of affairs as they exist! Speaking strictly empirically, it would not be impossible for various states he imagines as potential white ethnostates to become less racially diverse. If the ethnics he imagines wanting their own state sufficiently desired it they could make it happen. They merely don't. Indeed, since countries have been much more ethnically homogeneous in the past it seems clear it was their will to become more ethnically diverse since that was the actual result of the policies they preferred.
The nice thing about sovereignty is that peoples get to define themselves.
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An Irishman can become an American, but a Nigerian simply can’t.
What if the people who constitute "Americans" believe a "Nigerian" can become an "American?" I guess Johnson must know better than the ethnics themselves who can or cannot be a member of their ethnicity.
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
1mo ago
On a more general note, "the people paying attention to the message are the people who don't need to hear it" is probably a problem common to essentially all political activism in democratic societies.
Indeed, so much so Scott wrote an article about it a decade ago.
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
1mo ago
Where did I claim that peer harassment could not be actionable? "Harassment" can, and often does, involve more than speech.
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
1mo ago
I am skeptical scotus lets this go into effect. The fifth circuit can potentially get it going temporarily but I doubt it lasts long.
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
1mo ago
Your first quote is from some university administrator who is, obviously, wrong about how the law works. I also note none of the students in question seem to have actually sued over their punishment. They should have. I think they would have had an excellent chance. Courts do not just insert themselves in disputes to vindicate rights, someone has to ask them to. Here is a pretty good breakdown of how Title IX actually works from the congressional research service.
Freedom of speech went up against Title IX, and Title IX won. The only reason I can see this being any different is that it's not supported by the Biden admin.
There are many differences. Title XI, for example, generally requires some individual(s) be subject to discrimination or harassment. Abbott's order contains no such language.
If the government can require that a school investigate and expel a student for "misgendering," why can't they require the same for yelling "gas the jews"?
Can you give me some examples of the US government requiring a student be expelled for misgendering?
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
1mo ago
Some university will sue the relevant entities in federal court (or some student will sue a university in federal court) and the order (or universities compliance with it) will be permanently enjoined. The policies the universities are to develop are straightforwardly content based restrictions on speech. This means they must satisfy strict scrutiny. There is no way this order, or policies flowing from it, satisfy strict scrutiny. Especially if the IHRA's definition of antisemitism is to be a guide to sanctioned speech.
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
1mo ago
I mean, he did try to get his Vice President to unilaterally throw out Electoral College votes so that he would be elected President. Not sure if that counts as "nefarious electioneering."
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
1mo ago
Probably my favorite article on this topic is BloodKnife's everyone is beautiful and no one is horny.
And muscles—giant, pulsating, steroid-enhanced muscles—returned to screens. But the new muscle era lacks the eroticism of Eighties action cinema. Arnold Schwarzenegger showed his glutes in Terminator; Sylvester Stallone stripped for First Blood and Tango & Cash; Bloodsport shows more of Jean Claude Van Damme’s body than that of his love interest.
For the most part, though, today’s cinema hunks are nevernudes. The Marvel Cinematic Universe is strictly PG-13, as one expects from a Disney product. And even in the DC universe, there’s very little of human sexuality. Capefans’ demands for more “mature” superhero movies always mean more graphic violence, not more sex. They panicked over Dr. Manhattan’s glowing blue penis in Watchmen, and they still haven’t forgiven Joel Schumacher for putting nipples on the batsuit.
Today’s stars are action figures, not action heroes. Those perfect bodies exist only for the purpose of inflicting violence upon others. To have fun is to become weak, to let your team down, and to give the enemy a chance to win, like Thor did when he got fat in Endgame.
The short version is that our bodies are not a thing we inhabit, the medium to experience the world. Instead we objectify ourselves. Our bodies are another Attribute To Be Maximized, dissociated from any purpose. Our art merely reflects this change in orientation.
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
1mo ago
I'd like to hear more about why we can't argue in that direction. Is this like a hypocrisy claim? That since science isn't literally true it would be hypocritical to criticize theism for not being literally true? Or is this more that the acknowledged limits of scientific inquiry do not permit disproving theism?
I am content with believing that the particular empirical claims theists make seem to all have non-theistic explanations. If there is some causally inert god or gods out there, who do not interact with our reality in an empirically testable way, I am not that concerned with their existence.
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
1mo ago
The people who want to be sure they are talking to TheNybbler? Or that no third parties are listening to their traffic? I think it is good that browsers (at least mine, Firefox) allow people to click through invalid SSL cert prompts if people don't care, but I think the ubiquity of cert issuance is good for computer security and privacy generally.
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
1mo ago
I don't agree. Knowing who you are talking to and that no third party is listening to your content is good.
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
1mo ago
By this logic nobody should ever get a cert. I guess we should just transmit everything over the internet unencrypted for anyone to hoover up.
Gillitrut
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1mo ago
Ok. I similarly think it is possible for parents and teachers to suggest that I do something or that doing something would be good for me without an implied threat of coercion.
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
1mo ago
Which platforms did not comply with the government's requests?
Most of them did not comply with the government's requests at least some of the time
What is more, the record shows that platforms routinely declined to remove content flagged by federal officials, yet neither respondents nor the Fifth Circuit suggested that any federal official imposed any sanction in retaliation for platforms’ refusal to act as the government requested. See, e.g., C.A. ROA 23,234-23,235, 23,240-23,243, 23,245-23,256 (emails declining to remove flagged content). Indeed, the district court cited testimony that the platforms rejected half of the FBI’s suggestions. Id. at 26,561; see App., infra, 107a, 191a. And Twitter entirely ceased enforcement of its COVID-19 misinformation policy in November 2022, yet suffered no retaliation. C.A. ROA 22,536.
What exactly do you think government is for?
The government does lots of things that are not directly coercive. I am sure you can come up with some examples.
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
1mo ago
What adverse action did the government take against those platforms that did not comply with its requests? More generally when a friend or family says to you that it would be good for you to do X or that they would like you to do X, do you understand them to be threatening to coerce you to do X? Apparently in this case we are to understand that the government coerced social media companies to do X even when the government took no adverse action when the social media companies did not obey and we do not ordinarily understand the forms of communication the government used as carrying the threat of coercion. Remarkable!
Aguinaga is actually more conciliant in response than what I believe - yes, when the FBI reaches out to you and says, "we think it would be good if you did X", it is always coercive. The nature of the FBI is that it does not have the ability to merely encourage - every single thing that comes as a "suggestion" from the FBI is inherently coercive to a private party. Thinking otherwise seems like an example of someone that is so lawbrained that they're unable to relate to the experience of a private individual interacting with a powerful federal agency.
I assume this extends to requests by the government? If so I think I'd be alright with it but SCOTUS will never go for it. Abolishing the notion of a consensual search for Fourth Amendment purposes would be quite radical.
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
1mo ago
On the one hand I am inclined to be sympathetic to this genre of complaints. I think the proliferation of Trusted Platform Modules and Intel's AMT are real problems with user control of the software running on their computer. On the other hand, I don't really see how these complaints relate to the White House advice on using memory safe languages. Rust is licensed under the MIT license. Python's license is GPL-Compatible. What is un-free about those? C and C++ do give you lower level control over memory but lots of developers mess that part up and write insecure code. Unless you need to be managing that lower level memory for some compelling reason you probably should use a language that provides more memory safety.
All code will need to be signed. Maybe you can self sign code you've written on your local system, but nobody else will be able to run it. Unless they go through the added hoops of adding your key to some sort of key store for "recognized" code. But eventually the self signed qualities of the code will catch up to you, and Windows may just refuse to accept self signed code certs anymore. But no fear! Maybe Github or other organization will offer to sign your code for you. Assuming it meets their TOS, nobody on social media has cancelled you, and their AI hasn't rejected your project for hallucinated reasons. But eventually, however well relying on a 3rd party like Github to allow your code to run on your locked down operating system and your locked down hardware starts off, it will become a barely viable solution. And then free and open software is over.
Maybe once upon a time "it's hard to get a cert" was a valid complaint but today there exist fully automated services like Let's Encrypt. Their root certificate even comes default as trusted on my new windows installation. They even issue certificates to websites that may be phishing or malware. There is not really any excuse for your site to be lacking some kind of cert for auth and signing in 2024.
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
1mo ago
Sure, big is the target population here? My impression is this only works for people who think (1) Roe was too permissive on abortion and (2) many Republican proposals are too strict. Not sure how many people that describes.
I don't think this is surprising. A lot of Ukraine's ability to resist was predicated on US assistance, which has become increasingly rare due to resistance from House Republican leadership.
This is so bizarre to me. Ukrainian women are... people? They are not the property of Ukrainian men. They are not obliged to restrain from forming relationships or otherwise trying to live their lives because they happen to be refugees.
I do not think "maintaining the territorial integrity of Ukraine" is an "abstract geopolitical goal of NATO."
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