Just thinking about the genders of the emotion characters in Inside Out (with Toni). If I recall, in Riley, the main character (who is a pre-teen girl), Joy, Sadness and Disgust are all portrayed as women. Fear and Anger are men. In her father, all the emotions are men; in her mother, they are all women.
What is all this saying? Are children's emotions less gender essentialised than adults'? Anger is a stereotypically masculine emotion, so does that mean Joy and Sadness are feminine? Joy and Sadness are also the main characters, and portrayed as the main players in Riley's emotional life. So emotion itself is kind of feminised in the movie, which I suppose fits the stereotype. Disgust is also a woman, and I suspect this is because she is assigned the role of making fashion choices. Lots to chew on, anyway!
(And yes, I'm still thinking about this movie after a few weeks)
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"Perhaps developing nations have reached “peak stuff”? That may mean the Chinese manufacturing model, along with the manufacturing models of other nations, will prove less potent than we had thought." Marginal Revolution
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Wow, so it turns out Eric Clapton is a big ol' racist :(
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*Vegan propaganda alert*
[Seriously, some very upsetting images and videos at the link]
Basically, the egg industry is terrible and produces huge amounts of unnecessary suffering. The focus here is on the US, but my understanding is that there are similar practices in most developed countries.
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There's really a missed opportunity for engagement here. It was not that long ago that evolutionary theory was abused to justify denying rights to black people, and black South Africans in particular. So Vavi's comments are not coming out of nowhere. Scientists need to acknowledge this history and engage with these fears, rather than simply asserting that everything is different nowadays.
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"Publishing photos of sensitive keys, after all, is a well-understand screwup in the world of physical security, where researchers have shown for years that a key can be decoded and reproduced even from a photo taken from as far away as 200 feet and at an angle." Wired
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I certainly don't agree with everything in this piece, but this is good:
"Rather than painting student activists as censors — trying to dictate who has the right to say what and when — we should instead see them as trapped in a corporate architecture of managing offense. Have you ever been to corporate sexual harassment training? If you have, you may have been struck by how little such events have to do with preventing sexual harassment as a matter of moral necessity and how much they have to do with protecting whatever institution is mandating it. Of course, sexual harassment is a real and vexing problem, not merely on campus but in all kinds of organizations, and the urge to oppose it through policy is a noble one. But corporate entities serve corporate interests, not those of the individuals within them, and so these efforts are often designed to spare the institutions from legal liability rather than protect the individuals who would be harmed by sexual harassment. Indeed, this is the very lifeblood of corporatism: creating systems and procedures that sacrifice the needs of humans to the needs of institutions." NYTimes
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I should think the intersection of Harry Potter and formal logic fandom is actually quite high (mostly because the first set is just so large)
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Love me some logistics :)
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"A third of all premature deaths [due to air pollution] were the result of using smoky fuels such as wood and coal for heating homes or cooking and using dirty diesel generators for electricity, all well-known hazards. This domestic energy use causes half the 645,000 annual deaths in India and a third of the 1.4 million annual deaths in China.
But the research found that agricultural emissions of ammonia had a “remarkable” impact, according to Professor Jos Lelieveld, at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Germany, who led the research. A fifth of all global deaths resulted from these emissions, which come mainly from cattle, chickens and pigs and from the over-use of fertiliser." Guardian
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“In terms of bang-for-buck and desired effects, I don’t think there’s a single research chemical out there that competes with MDMA. Drugs are a capitalist commodity; people have a finite amount of money to get off their faces and they make choices based on availability, quality and risk. And I think they make the right choice.” Guardian
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This is glorious
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This is exciting
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Quite long, but very worthwhile
"An ignorant mind is precisely not a spotless, empty vessel, but one that’s filled with the clutter of irrelevant or misleading life experiences, theories, facts, intuitions, strategies, algorithms, heuristics, metaphors, and hunches that regrettably have the look and feel of useful and accurate knowledge." PSMag
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Good piece on the economics of Dark Web drug markets. Particularly interesting to see how dealers mitigate the risks of ordering in bulk through the mail
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Thoughts?
"Until now, at any rate, the poor have in the main remained loyal to the African National Congress. Everyone, even those in the remotest villages, has seen someone they know rise.
The politics of the poor has been suffused with hope.
The lion’s share of discontent has instead come from the first three or four deciles of earners, among them those battering their fists against the glass walls of an elite steeped in white culture." BD
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If any of you find my body, no need to suspect foul play. It's quite likely I'll die laughing some time today :D :D :D
What is all this saying? Are children's emotions less gender essentialised than adults'? Anger is a stereotypically masculine emotion, so does that mean Joy and Sadness are feminine? Joy and Sadness are also the main characters, and portrayed as the main players in Riley's emotional life. So emotion itself is kind of feminised in the movie, which I suppose fits the stereotype. Disgust is also a woman, and I suspect this is because she is assigned the role of making fashion choices. Lots to chew on, anyway!
(And yes, I'm still thinking about this movie after a few weeks)
>>><<<
"Perhaps developing nations have reached “peak stuff”? That may mean the Chinese manufacturing model, along with the manufacturing models of other nations, will prove less potent than we had thought." Marginal Revolution
>>><<<
Wow, so it turns out Eric Clapton is a big ol' racist :(
>>><<<
*Vegan propaganda alert*
[Seriously, some very upsetting images and videos at the link]
Basically, the egg industry is terrible and produces huge amounts of unnecessary suffering. The focus here is on the US, but my understanding is that there are similar practices in most developed countries.
>>><<<
There's really a missed opportunity for engagement here. It was not that long ago that evolutionary theory was abused to justify denying rights to black people, and black South Africans in particular. So Vavi's comments are not coming out of nowhere. Scientists need to acknowledge this history and engage with these fears, rather than simply asserting that everything is different nowadays.
>>><<<
"Publishing photos of sensitive keys, after all, is a well-understand screwup in the world of physical security, where researchers have shown for years that a key can be decoded and reproduced even from a photo taken from as far away as 200 feet and at an angle." Wired
>>><<<
I certainly don't agree with everything in this piece, but this is good:
"Rather than painting student activists as censors — trying to dictate who has the right to say what and when — we should instead see them as trapped in a corporate architecture of managing offense. Have you ever been to corporate sexual harassment training? If you have, you may have been struck by how little such events have to do with preventing sexual harassment as a matter of moral necessity and how much they have to do with protecting whatever institution is mandating it. Of course, sexual harassment is a real and vexing problem, not merely on campus but in all kinds of organizations, and the urge to oppose it through policy is a noble one. But corporate entities serve corporate interests, not those of the individuals within them, and so these efforts are often designed to spare the institutions from legal liability rather than protect the individuals who would be harmed by sexual harassment. Indeed, this is the very lifeblood of corporatism: creating systems and procedures that sacrifice the needs of humans to the needs of institutions." NYTimes
>>><<<
I should think the intersection of Harry Potter and formal logic fandom is actually quite high (mostly because the first set is just so large)
>>><<<
Love me some logistics :)
>>><<<
"A third of all premature deaths [due to air pollution] were the result of using smoky fuels such as wood and coal for heating homes or cooking and using dirty diesel generators for electricity, all well-known hazards. This domestic energy use causes half the 645,000 annual deaths in India and a third of the 1.4 million annual deaths in China.
But the research found that agricultural emissions of ammonia had a “remarkable” impact, according to Professor Jos Lelieveld, at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Germany, who led the research. A fifth of all global deaths resulted from these emissions, which come mainly from cattle, chickens and pigs and from the over-use of fertiliser." Guardian
>>><<<
“In terms of bang-for-buck and desired effects, I don’t think there’s a single research chemical out there that competes with MDMA. Drugs are a capitalist commodity; people have a finite amount of money to get off their faces and they make choices based on availability, quality and risk. And I think they make the right choice.” Guardian
>>><<<
This is glorious
>>><<<
This is exciting
>>><<<
Quite long, but very worthwhile
"An ignorant mind is precisely not a spotless, empty vessel, but one that’s filled with the clutter of irrelevant or misleading life experiences, theories, facts, intuitions, strategies, algorithms, heuristics, metaphors, and hunches that regrettably have the look and feel of useful and accurate knowledge." PSMag
>>><<<
Good piece on the economics of Dark Web drug markets. Particularly interesting to see how dealers mitigate the risks of ordering in bulk through the mail
>>><<<
Thoughts?
"Until now, at any rate, the poor have in the main remained loyal to the African National Congress. Everyone, even those in the remotest villages, has seen someone they know rise.
The politics of the poor has been suffused with hope.
The lion’s share of discontent has instead come from the first three or four deciles of earners, among them those battering their fists against the glass walls of an elite steeped in white culture." BD
>>><<<
If any of you find my body, no need to suspect foul play. It's quite likely I'll die laughing some time today :D :D :D
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