Let’s clarify terms; Socratic method still works

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Let’s clarify terms; Socratic method still works

Let’s clarify terms; Socratic method still works

@MatthewKahn15

Social media are public accomodations which, in DC, can’t deny service for political affiliation. Make that true everywhere.

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ajay kumar yadav
ajay kumar yadav@ajayJournalist_·
Hollywood was never a pure meritocracy. For decades, the Oscars were driven by nepotism, lobbying, insider circles, and political trends; nobody complained then. Now suddenly, diversity is the death of ‘merit’? If great films truly have merit, broader competition shouldn’t threaten them.
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Katie Miller
Katie Miller@KatieMiller·
A decade ago, Hollywood decided it would no longer honor films based purely on merit but also on the diversity of the cast and production team. In 2020, they formally tied Best Picture to diversity. The Academy expanded its membership by roughly 40% in a decade through an explicit push to diversify its ranks. The Oscars will proudly tell you that last year’s invitees were: >41% women >45% people of color >55% from overseas For 88 years, the Academy selected members and honored achievement based on merit. For the last 10 years, invitees went from 112 per year to over 900 to meet diversity targets. This devalues and dishonors great American films and creates perverse incentives that lead studios to inflate diversity numbers in hopes of recognition by their woke peers. Meritocracy must be restored to film.
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Suz Robinson
Suz Robinson@OKtownBiz·
@KatieMiller Let’s not pretend that Hollywood didn’t spend decades shutting out minorities or relegating them to servant roles with few lines. #OscarsSoWhite came from decades of discrimination. Marin Brando sent Little Feather to decline his Oscar in 1973 and it changed nothing.
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Andy Pargh
Andy Pargh@TheGadgetGuru·
At some point Hollywood will have no choice but to embrace AI and make better movies and TV shows more efficiently. For example, the Law & Order franchise often bases scripts on "ripped from the headlines" events. Suppose they loaded every Law and Order script into Grok and when a news event happened, tell it to write a script based on the news story in the format of Law & Order episodes. That script would be generated in a few moments and could be production ready. While AI will take away some jobs, the consumer could see better content and not storylines based on someone's political views or the demands of the Hollywood culture. The per episode cost could dramatically decrease. I'm waiting for the day when a TV network has the courage to create a 100% AI TV show. The creative folks can work with AI to create new actors (not based on existing ones) who have new personalities and voices. That brings up a question: Elon, will we one day see Grok TV with 100% AI content made by a new breed of independent creators?
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Brian Roemmele
Brian Roemmele@BrianRoemmele·
“Let loose the dogs of war…”
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Alexander Witpas
Alexander Witpas@alexanderwitpas·
@DrDaniS Women attempt suicide just as often (or more often) than men. The fact that more men die as a result is down to the lethality of the means, not the intention in the population.
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Dr Dani Sulikowski 🎗️
I have a lot of respect and regard for Rachel Wilson, but I do wish people would stop doing pop-evo psych. If women's susceptibility to radical movements lies in their maternal instincts, then why are all the radical movements that suck women in anti-natal at heart? If women are so much more emotionally vulnerable than men are, why are men committing suicide at 7-times the rate of women? If women are so obligatorily drawn to protect the weak, and this motivates their radicalisation, then why are radical leftist activists higher on narcissism and psychopathy than the average person? None of these observations are consistent with the notion that "female radicalisation" is essentially a co-opting of maternal instincts. The claim that female radicalisation lies in women's inherent emotional vulnerability and misdirected motherhood motives is wrong. Plain and simple. There is a better explanation that accounts for all of the above observations: intrasexual competition. It needs to make it into mainstream thinking about women.
jack neel@jackhneel

Rachel Wilson Explains Why Radical Movements Target Women “Women are just much more maternal, and we feel this innate drive to protect anything weak, anything helpless.” (Via Jack Neel Podcast)

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Indeed@one_indeed·
@TheProjectUnity @Megalithic12000 As I don't think this is sandstone or any other easily carvable rock, if it was it would be way more weathered. So what type of tool that could fit in the hand, did they have that could make such detailed carving on such a small scale on such hard rock?
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Megalithic Mysteries
Megalithic Mysteries@Megalithic12000·
What ancient site do you think deserves way more attention than it gets?
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Cynical Publius
Cynical Publius@CynicalPublius·
Is it possible to arrive in Europe as a tourist and acquire something in Europe that can reliably be used for self defense purposes, without getting arrested?
Benonwine@benonwine

A knifeman stabbed a woman to death in front of terrified bystanders in Barcelona in what authorities believe was a random street killing. A woman has been killed in a shocking knife attack in the streets of Barcelona in full view of horrified bystanders. The stabbing happened at around 11am in Esplugues de Llobregat, just a short distance from the Camp Nou stadium. Witnesses watched as the attacker struck in broad daylight. The victim, described locally as a young woman, suffered multiple stab wounds to the throat, chest and stomach. She died at the scene. A 50-year-old man who tried to intervene was also injured, sustaining wounds to his arm. His injuries are not believed to be life-threatening. Police say they are still working to determine whether the attacker knew the victim. So far, there is no evidence of any relationship between them. Investigators are focusing on the possibility that this was a random attack. The suspect — described as wearing jeans, a hoodie and carrying a large black rucksack was arrested just hours later in the nearby Les Corts area. Images of the alleged attacker holding the weapon have since circulated, adding to the shock surrounding the incident. As the investigation continues, one thing is already clear: A normal morning turned into a scene of terror and a life has been taken in the most brutal way.

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Yossi BenYakar
Yossi BenYakar@YossiBenYakar·
A Christian British man was just arrested for quietly praying in the street. This is not an isolated incident. Christians in Britain are being arrested for praying silently or trying to share their faith. Meanwhile, Muslims can block entire streets with loud public prayers, disrupt daily life, and face zero consequences. This is the clearest example of two-tier policing in Britain today.
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Eve Keneinan 𝛗☦️ن
Eve Keneinan 𝛗☦️ن@EveKeneinan·
This does show artistry, but it is also sophistic art. It is an improper attack on flags and what flags represent: peoples, nations, patriotism and loyalty towards peoples and nations. The statue suggests that blind loyalty to a flag (or what one stands for) can blind your vision and lead to disaster (walking off a precipice while convinced one is boldly striding forward). And of course blind loyalty to a flag can do this. But abusus non tollit usum. Abuse does not cancel use. The problem is not flags or loyalty to flags but a vicious corruption of actual loyalty, one that misses the mark. The meaning of this statue is "loyal to flags can missed the mark by being too excessive; therefore, discard loyalty to flags, and embrace the vice of deficiency of loyalty to flags! Hate your own land and people! Because loving them can be taken to excess." The statue makes the point there is a vice of excess with regard to loyalty to one's people or nation. But it is sophistic art, because the vice of deficient loyalty to one's land and people IS THE PROBLEM OF TODAY. It is like denouncing puritanical sexual mores, and prudishness of manners. While a polity can certainly err be becoming excessively prudish and puritanical in its sexual mores, THAT IS NOT OUR PROBLEM. Why are you denouncing prudishness in the age of Bonnie Blue and OnlyFans and universal glorification of sodomy? Just as excessive sexual prudishness is NOT OUR PROBLEM TODA, so too is excessive idolatry of flags, peoples, and nations. We need MORE flags, not LESS. This statue is at the wrong time. If anything, the statue manages to show an unintended truth. Not its obvious anti-flag message, but something more like "the current managerial-elite class are still trying to fight battles of the 1930s."
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HIN News🇬🇧🇺🇸
HIN News🇬🇧🇺🇸@HerdImmunity12·
Breaking News🇬🇧: "We know that anti-semitism comes from the 'far-right' and the 'far-left' it's all racism...an attack on Jews is an attack on all of us". Mark Rowley Head of the Met Police. No Mr Rowley, you display cowardly and fudgingly views which do nothing to address the terrifying rising in radical Islamist acts of murder on British shores. Met Police Boss Rowley tries to conflate the latest demonic attack on British Jews on the 'far-right' as equally as the 'far-left', without a mention of the rising terrorist threat of Islam. What a disgusting yet unsurprising failure to specifically identify Islam as the root cause of Jewish and Christian attacks throughout London.
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Let’s clarify terms; Socratic method still works
@forestvanslyke No, but maybe for pre-perimenopause. Or for early pre-perimenopause. You can certainly test if you're in your 30's and that is by definition early pre-perimenopause. If you want to be in menopause, go ahead, you don't need permission from anyone.
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Forest
Forest@forestvanslyke·
Is there like a test for perimenopause?
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GB News
GB News@GBNEWS·
'Why are they standing up for a bloke who would sell them down the river just to save his own skin?' @PatrickChristys says hundreds of Labour MPs showed 'cowardice' in today's vote on whether Keir Starmer should be investigated over accusations he misled Parliament.
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Kemi Badenoch
Kemi Badenoch@KemiBadenoch·
Keir Starmer misled Parliament, sacked officials for his own failures, and risked national security with Mandelson’s appointment. MPs will now vote on referring him to the Privileges Committee. The Prime Minister should be held to the same standards he held others.
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Let’s clarify terms; Socratic method still works
Excellent article; let me respectfully add something only implicit in it: that the swaps facilities alleviate pressure to dump US Treasuries on the market when a country needs a lot cash dollars in a hurry. Raytheon doesn’t accept Treasuries, eg, nor do commercial suppliers of grain etc
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Let’s clarify terms; Socratic method still works
Essentially remarkable but you forget how many died when the bolsheviks used the same technique of redefining words, starting with their own label 'bolshevik' meaning 'majority' after *temporarily* holding such on the Central committee. After losing it they split, still naming themselves 'the majority' & despite becoming the minority, still employing that term powerfully.
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Wesley Yang
Wesley Yang@wesyang·
Trans activists have gone further in opening a breach in the mechanism that we rely on to separate truth from reality than any other faction ever has, and on a domain where the brazen falsity of the dogmas they are laundering as science could not be more self-evident. It is in itself a fiasco and a scandal, but as a model for what can be done through manipulation of language and corruption of science, it poses an existential risk to a society governed by science and law.
Colin Wright@SwipeWright

Once a biological anchor for the term “sex” is gone, policy will go wherever activists want to pull it. When enough papers circulate claiming that sex has “no consensus” definition, judges can present themselves as choosing among competing expert views. x.com/SwipeWright/st…

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Let’s clarify terms; Socratic method still works
Sometimes I think I should collate all the emails I’ve received featuring, “I agree with you but say anything publicly,” invite 50 of those people to a gathering, hand them binders of all the emails and tell them that we either all speak publicly (or sign an open letter etc) or I will out all of them.
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Levi Pay
Levi Pay@soppystern·
I remember sharing an office with four other university service directors back in 2015. One afternoon, we chatted about “trans kids” and puberty blockers. It was at the time when that Louis Theroux programme was airing and the issue was starting to surface. Every single person in that office thought the whole thing was nonsense. They saw straight through it and were saying things like, “Why can’t we just accept feminine boys and masculine girls for who they are?” before I even had to say a word. In fact, the colleagues who were already parents were more strident and clear-headed about these issues than I was at the time. I am willing to bet that these four people haven’t said much, if anything at all, at work about these issues over the past few years. I’ve certainly not seen them say anything on social media. So, yes, other medical scandals might have involved deference towards flawed and dangerous professionals - with devastating effects on people’s lives. However, I struggle to think of a medical scandal that comes anywhere close to the invention of the “trans child” when it comes to forcing otherwise sane, normal people, against their better judgement and against every instinct they have to protect kids, to shut up and say nothing.
Mia Hughes@_CryMiaRiver

There have been many scandals through the history of modern medicine. But none even come close to "gender-affirming care." Think about it: A political movement just conjured into existence a type of young person that defies every single thing known about child and adolescent development, demanded that this fictional patient cohort be pumped full of toxic unproven drugs in the complete absence scientific justification, then insisted that these innocent youth be ushered into the operating theatre to have healthy body parts needlessly lopped off. Extremists of this movement took over the leading professional association in the field (WPATH), set about creating garbage standards of care based on their unhinged ideology, infiltrated the Endocrine Society and the American Academy of Pediatrics and engaged in a conspiracy to manufacture scientific consensus for their despicable, unethical experiment. And every major medical association just went along with it! Fell for the stunt these crackpots pulled! Just accepted that a group of healthy kids needed to have their bodies destroyed because they possess a mystical inner gender essence, that these modern-day lobotomies are “medically necessary” and “life-saving” because a bunch of unhinged fanatics said so.

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Wall Street Apes
Wall Street Apes@WallStreetApes·
This woman lives in Boston, Massachusetts. She has a 6 month old child and needs childcare but she heard it was expensive She films herself walking into KinderCare, she got a quote: - 2 days a week cost $2,450 per month - 3 days a week cost $3,115 per month + $200 initiation fee yearly “Like that is crazy” “This is a true problem in the United States. Like this is really a legitimate problem that needs to be addressed because people can't afford childcare” Foreigners and illegals get this 100% for free, paid for by taxpayers Americans can’t afford to have kids but we’re paying for foreigners to have kids and replace us
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Pramila Jayapal
Pramila Jayapal@PramilaJayapal·
Elon Musk's net worth: $805 billion. That's more than the bottom 53% of Americans combined. His effective tax rate: 3.3%. A truck driver pays 8.4%. Tax the rich.
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Jenifer Towner
Jenifer Towner@TownerJM·
I wrote this in 1983 after I separated from my husband. Mistaken Identity She earns half the money; comes home, and then Hears "What's for dinner?" yet again The evening comes, it's bathe the children Toys away. The story's his fun The weekend comes and he works out: reads a book, lolls about The club for her? It's laundry first. Shopping, cleaning, sate his thirst Years pass. Resentment builds, She grows bolder. Turns a cold shoulder. (It continues...let me know if you want to read it)
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Matt Taibbi
Matt Taibbi@mtaibbi·
Question for women: what do you hate most about men, and what's the worst example of typically male behavior you can remember? Non-criminal division. Asking unironically.
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