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"Sports bettors are overwhelmingly male. Compulsive sports betters are almost universally male. ā¦
Nearly half of men believe they could land a passenger jet with zero training. Of course a lot of them also believe that they can beat the house."
~ Jill Filipovic
#men #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #betting #sports
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I feel I need to say something about Artemis as a former NASA employee, Space scientist and engineer.
I hope more than anything that the astronauts get back safely. But let us not be fooled by what this is.
Is it spectacular, yes. Is it a feat of engineering, yes. Does it make any advance in science, no. Does it help mankind explore the universe, dubious at best.
Why exactly are we sending humans to the moon? With our technology we will never send humans much further than Mars. The only way humans can possibly go further is through a scientific breakthrough. Good luck with that when Trump is gutting science.
Human exploration needs money spent on long-term advances - not using the same technology to do what we did before, however, glamorous it is.
So why do this and why do it now? Political theatre, a win for a Trump led NASA if it succeeds.
So I hope all works well and all return safely. But let us be clear what this is and why it is being done.
This is my opinion, I do not represent anyone.
LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer
#tech #technology #BigTech #IT #enshittification #microslop #microsoft #LinkedIn #social #media #SocialMedia #data #security #safety #InfoSec #internet #web
Microsoft is running one of the largest corporate espionage operations in modern history. Every time any of LinkedInās one billion users visits linkedin.com, hidden code searches their computer for installed software, collects the results, and transmits them to LinkedInās servers and to third-party companies including an American-Israeli cybersecurity firm. The user is never asked. Never told. LinkedInās privacy policy does not mention it. Because LinkedIn knows each userās real name, employer, and job title, it is not searching anonymous visitors. It is searching identified people at identified companies. Millions of companies. Every day. All over the world.
Today is Trans Day of Visibility, and I fight to be as visible as I can every day, because other people's visibility saved my goddamned life, but more importantly because being trans is fucking beautiful.
Let me repeat that.
Being trans is fucking beautiful.
I wouldn't want to be any other way.
I hope your Trans Day of Visibility today is fierce and joyful.
When we're visible, we win. Always.
Audre Lorde's "master's tools" speech was not about tech platforms. So why does tech discourse keep citing it as if it were? I write about what happens when a Black feminist theorist's words get borrowed, stripped of context, and made to do work they were never meant to do.
https://tarakiyee.com/on-the-enshittification-of-audre-lorde-the-masters-tools-in-tech-discourse/ #enshittification #AudreLorde #techpolicy
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