Me, after seeing a really bad jazz history take, typing up a heated subpost about it, and then letting it go without posting because I know nothing good will come of it.

GOOSFRABA

#MusicHistory #JazzHistory #BadTakes #AngerManagement #IFeelPretty

Man. Looks like Dragon Ball Z got a lot edgier than I remember it being in my youth.

#Anime #BadTakes

This is a pretty bad take. Comparing AI to 19th-century steam engines shows the author either completely misunderstands the argument they decided to take a stance on or is a bad faith actor (shocking).

I don't think the industrial revolution steam engines were illegally stealing something that literally belonged to the workers. I am talking about IP theft.

And maybe if you don't want to pay the cost of making large video games, make smaller games.

#gaming #videogames #noai #slop #badtakes

@tabmcleo unless you use a VPN / Reverse Proxy or Port Forwarding, just like Jellyfin.

It's only going to cost folks who want to continue to use the Plex servers for proxying their home server. Which is fair.

Unless you think they should continue to do that for free?

#badtakes #confidentlywrong

Whenever you see Mike Allen on MSNBC shows, remember this: his father was a speechwriter for the segregationist Alabama governor, George Wallace.

#MikeAllen #Axios #badtakes #familyhistory

Witch King of Angmar: I, for one, would like to hear what Aragorn has to say.

Eowyn claps back: I need hear no bad takes from men!

Eowyn stabs Witch King in the face.

#meme #LOTR #LordOfTheRings #WitchKingOfAngmar #Eowyn #ClapBack #BadTakes

Witch King of Angmar: I, for one, would like to hear what Aragorn has to say.

Eowyn claps back: I need hear no bad takes from men!

Eowyn stabs Witch King in the face.

#meme #LOTR #LordOfTheRings #WitchKingOfAngmar #Eowyn #ClapBack #BadTakes

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/if-books-could-kill/id1651876897?i=1000680910398

“Like everything he fucking writes it has the aesthetics of intelligence”

Holy heck that’s the meanest thing I’ve ever heard Michael Hobbes say

#podcast #IfBooksCouldKill #IBCK #BadTakes

The Worst Takes of 2024

Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 12/19/2024 · Bonus · Subscribers Only · 1h 9m

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Creating exam questions for intro stats, and defaulting, as I sometimes do, to IQ score examples because they're easy to think through (for me). Remembering several years ago a student asking me, with clear anxiety, whether they were "smart enough" for college based on their IQ score. As we talked it became clear they felt guilt and shame about their full-scale IQ score (they apparently got assessed in high school).

IMO the problems with IQ aren't psychometric (the Wechsler tests are extremely good tests, psychometrically speaking); they are cultural. We bundle some heavy stuff with "intelligence," like self-worth, value to others, and I even think I hear hints of morality judgments, sometimes. cognitive abilities don't work that way, but good luck convincing 300 million people. As a teacher one of the little threads of my teaching is helping students question the meaning of intelligence, not just IQ scores (the question of whether/how much those measure intelligence, and how to even define intelligence is a huge can of worms).

Your intelligence has nothing to do with your worth or goodness. It's been deeply disheartening to see the standard right-wing, white-supremacist, misogynist bad actors (incompetently) using IQ research to try to support their racist, misogynist, anti-LGBTQ rants.

As the cold war ended I really thought we were putting this behind us.

#racism #misogyny #iq #intelligence #nazis #whitesupremacy #badscience #badtakes