Paint the Roses Red Podcast

Here’s another short explainer on Title IX and the currently stayed ed rule that includes gender identity and sexual orientation under the general prohibition on sex discrimination. For those of you under the mistaken impression it’s bad for women’s sports.

Trump is having a mental health episode right now. He’s been posting on social media all night. He posted at: 9:49pm (Ai Jesus photo) 9:50pm (Trump tower on moon) 10:10pm (dumb meme) 10:32pm (news clip) 10:53pm (news clip) 12:43am (announcing Hormuz blockade) 2:35am (article about Biden) 2:36am (article on naval blockade) 2:37am (article on Rep. Swalwell) 2:37am (posted the same article about Biden again) 2:38am (article on his ballroom) 4:10am (article on Iran) He’s not sleeping, he’s pretending to be Jesus, and he’s posting all night. He’s not well.

Trump is now posting AI images of himself as Jesus Christ healing, what appears to be, a young Jeffrey Epstein.

@campervanwoman we don’t really play snooker or billiards here much. pool, 8 ball, 9 ball are more common. according to mw it’s in hoyle in the 18th century…

@RosesPaintedRed Are you in the US or Canada? I looked it up and learned it was North American English.

Wordle 1,756 5/6 ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟨🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Quite pissed off at this. I only tried that final word in exasperation because it was the only thing I could see that would fit. I didn’t think it was actually a word! Has anyone else ever heard that word?

@KatieInBoston1 @FondOfBeetles @dinahbrand2 @MonkEmma @Londonforplay @Erythros473 @SianHerfield @wild_ted @CatherineHume10 @lemonade524 @AprilMorn1970 what the fuck are you talking about? dsd and intersex are two different words for the same thing. that thing is an abstract category of abstract categories. those can include catch-all diagnoses that lump together symptoms but allow for extensive variation in effect.

Oh my gosh. Sigh. People with DSDs are all people born with reproductive conditions. Why don’t you ever say that? Why do you say all these vague things? It isn’t a “variety of presentations” bc it isn’t a state of being. It’s 60 different medical conditions that aren’t related to each other, so they aren’t all “presentations of a thing.” You speak with such precision on other topics but never this. You can’t say anything that has credibility or makes any sense bc you won’t address the elephant in the room that you’re actually talking about intersex conditions and not DSD overall. So you use DSD and it ends up not making sense since DSD isn’t the same as intersex. At the very least the answer should have been that DSD is a broad category that covers all reproductive development conditions. Some of those conditions affect males, which most of the time results in male puberty. No one would ever walk away with an accurate understanding of the DSD category after reading this post and we all pay the price

Meanwhile In The Real World: Almost everyone observed as male or female at birth is XY or XX, respectively.

@FondOfBeetles @sprolliehouse @MonkEmma @Londonforplay @Erythros473 @SianHerfield @wild_ted @CatherineHume10 @lemonade524 @AprilMorn1970 the hint is in the name. they are “differences” of sexual development. plural. these people just do not actually give a shit about people with DSDs or what they might have in common, they just talk about them to try to obscure that sex development has 2 & only 2 paths.

“People with DSDs don’t go through male puberty” is precisely why the IOC tangled themselves up in the first place. DSDs are not a monolith: they are an umbrella group of conditions that encompass a variety of presentations, and with - honestly - not much of coherent stratification beyond “stuff to do with reproductive development”. But come on, you’re a molecular biologist (according to bio). You understand what male puberty is, and why it happens. Many people with DSDs go through male developmental stages. Most obviously, most of the male ones. The ones that have the anatomy that underpins male development relevant to sport. Some people with DSDs don’t go through male development. These are a subset of (technical hat on) males, and the female ones. Sports categories say nothing about “legal sex”, identity, even how you were brought up. It is concerned only with your physiology.

@2002tacomasr5 @FionneOrlander he or she had a point.

My coworker said I dress like I caught a lizard and I'm waiting for a chance to show it to everyone

@Olivia_Reingold so do palestinian muslims? so do Samaritans? the central religious practice of judaism for 2000 years has been about exile. it is equally if not more correct to say that Judaism is a faith built on being an alien with no national home territory.

Abdul El-Sayed, who is Muslim, walks a fine line on the Jewish state. On Tuesday night, he told the crowd—as he does often—that his problem is not with Jews. “All of us love and revere Jewish folk, our Jewish neighbors, the faith of Judaism,” he said, hands outstretched. Later that night, in a makeshift spin room assembled by the campaign, he rebuffed my question on whether he believes in Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state. “What do you mean by ‘Jewish state?’ ” he retorted, narrowing his eyes. “If you can’t answer that question, I’m not going to answer it.” For someone who often waves around his respect for Judaism, he seemed unaware of something elementary: Judaism is not only a religion, but a people with a long-standing connection to Israel that runs through its prayers, traditions, and history.

Chat GPT “listens” to music now and offers aesthetic judgments. can we all just accept that OpenAI is scamming its investors and move on to the fraud investigation and asset liquidation already?

@i_am_the_weenie you should read the statement by the dra. it explains the ways that you are talking out of your ass.

I'm sorry, but where is the biological advantage in throwing a dart at a board? Oh yeah, it's not there because, like in sports such as eSports and chess, biological advantage in darts doesn't exist. This is just purely and only the DRA taking advice from people who think they are know it alls on fairness in sports, but instead are know it alls in imported culture wars. #TransWomenAreWomen

@millerman how would you know?

How big is the demand for intelligence? Among the intelligent, it is infinite.

@millerman wow, that’s fucking dumb, my dude. keep this shit in hotboxed freshman dorm rooms where it belongs.

People who think that LLMs are not conscious/alive because they are "only" language models have never thought deeply enough about the essence, and essential mystery, and magic, of language- God created with the Word and Language is the house of Being

this is the stupidest thing anyone has ever said about this topic

this is the stupidest thing anyone has ever said about this topic. since the topic is AI consciousness, that is a very very high bar.

@jessesingal @AuntMergatroyd isn’t Chris Geidner one of those bad journalists who pretends to be a bad lawyer instead? who cares what he thinks?

1/ None of these folks can handle even the most basic followup question or civil dispute -- hence the blocking and the overheated trash-talk. I'd like someone to politely ask Geidner if he thinks it was a mistake for Tremaine Carroll to be transferred back to a male facility.

@CathyYoung63 @Kittywampus “natural law” according to people who have no grasp of the natural world.

Public hangings were already banned in 20 states, out of the 30 then existing, by 1850. This odious carbuncle probably wants to go back a century earlier when many public executions in Europe still involved breaking bones with a sledgehammer.

@ProfBZZZ @Tyler_A_Harper 100 pages a week? that was typical for what I read in a night in law school. what on earth?

A student today at my elite university admitted to me today that she took a class so she could work on reading for more than 20 minutes at a time. She can't read. She mainly skims and summarizes, she says and still gets A's. This student is, by professional standards, illiterate. Gonna have high GPA when she graduates. This conversation was had after 6 of 22 students dropped my course because the maximum reading per week in one week was over 100 pages. What people aren't grasping is that this is literally *dangerous*. These people are going to be come doctors, engineers, etc. They are - by any metric - vastly less capable than prior generations. These effects are cumulative over a lifetime. This grade inflation is part of the problem, but not even close to the entirety. And the problem obviously starts in K-12. Students don't know history because, you can't actually become historically literate on the advice of 'never assign more than 30 pages a week'. You can't develop any of the skills that came with literacy. This is, quite honestly, a civilizational catastrophe.

The ad hominem and misogynistic insults directed against my friends @FondOfBeetles and @cathydevine56 are increasing, from sporting men - academics and journos. It's noted, and it's explicable: it's all they've got left.

@AnthonyMKreis and don’t forget one of the other six is Cornelius Vermeule. And two of the others are Kurt Lash and Philip Hamburger. their prominence is real, but it is for being reactionary cranks. so it’s telling on yourself to profess membership in their cohort.

No matter how many folks in the legal academy Professor Wurman tries to launder his work through to pad legitimacy, it is still poor historical work that should be judged for bastardizing the common law. Seven profs who don’t know what they’re talking about are just seven people.

@GeorgeRSimms What do you mean we don’t understand what makes people good? that can only be the case if performance was a normal distribution with respect to all measurable traits. That isn’t true.

Insane and cruel, another example of sport getting smaller and meaner Players still play nine pints deep! The two best current players have completely opposing body types! And fundamentally, we don’t really understand what makes people good! This is pseudoscience masking bigotry