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A case for knowledge over ignorance.Content note for anti-trans, scientifically illiterate nonsense. Ignorance on display. A couple weeks ago, I came across this rather remarkable Twitter post from Benjamin Ryan, a so-called writer about trans issues,...
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A case for optimism.There’s absolutely no brand-new insight in this post. A huge amount of credit goes to various philosophers and thinkers, especially folks like Aaron Rabinowitz, for shaping my views. Any errors in it are my own. In the natural world, everything that occurs is the result of a...
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I guess we’re having this conversation again.As of this writing, it appears that another open-source project lead has rejected a proposal to replace gendered he language with they, citing vague concerns about “politics.” (Please refrain from contacting the project about this; it’s...
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Storing caches in an ephemeral spot.I used to use this as a place to write long-form thoughts, but with the demise of Twitter I want to also write short-form posts here under the #shorts tag. I also post on Mastodon but that’s a little more ephemeral and less searchable than this blog. Let’s say...