If Mort Divine ruled the world

[Dak]

99% of anonymous Reddit confession/stories are probably fake, but there was that report of the woman that went undercover as a man and said the same general things (mostly that you get approached 100x less often as a man than as a woman).

Most likely fake, but still accurate.

 

[CiG]

99% of anonymous Reddit confession/stories are probably fake, but there was that report of the woman that went undercover as a man and said the same general things (mostly that you get approached 100x less often as a man than as a woman).

Was that the woman that joined a men's bowling club?

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Yeah I think so. The men comment to each other that "he" seemed gay but that otherwise they all got along fine. At the very end she joins some kind of woman-hating club where they light a bonfire in the boonies and whine about how much they want to kill their wives or something.

 

[Dak]

https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-census-middle-east-north-africa-race/

Struggle between a generation that saw a positive in being classified as white and the generation that sees it as a negative. Hmmm

 

[rms]

the dramatic tinges are so annoying lol

“None of these forms are allowing me to feel proud of it, because I’m just white according to them.”

"“It’s another erasure of both Middle Eastern and North African people.”

oops

"We have no way to talk about diversity or discrimination because if we’re white, we can’t be discriminated against based on race. And so we’re left in this gray area.”

 

[CiG]

Go Blizzard! [snaps fingers in solidarity]

 

[Dak]

https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/04/roger-scruton-an-apology-for-thinking/

Not for the first time I am forced to acknowledge what a mistake it is to address young leftists as though they were responsible human beings.

The indomitable Dr. Scruton.

 

[Dak]

https://www.researchgate.net/public...olutionary_context_of_personality_development

 

[CiG]

 

[Dak]

She worked with a team of 200 people and has said everyone should get equal credit but all these stupid IFLS sjws are making retarded memes.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

fwiw, while CNN and the whole #WomynInSTEM group are obviously picking favorites and inspiring millions of women to not go into science because they now officially have the icon they need, /pol/ crowds are skewing the story out of proportion themselves by using unreliable metrics like GitHub commits or sheer lines of code. Most of those 850k lines of code were apparently imported data, and neither of them invented the particular techniques used to image the blackhole (both were younger post-docs). It's Kazunori Akiyama and Michael Johnson who were the senior leaders of the imaging team, which in turn was just one team of several involved in the project.

EDIT: A new development I hadn't seen, lol (the NYT reply specifically)

 

[Dak]

tHeReS nO lIbErAl bIaS iN tHe LeGaCy mEdIa

 

[CiG]

Oh wow lmao I love the way the reporter just glosses over the "40 scientists of different gender" bit. Gold.

 

[Dak]

Fuck the "MSM" designation. It's legacy media. A dinosaur comprised of midwits and sycophants.

 

[Einherjar86]

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If we’re being fair, the CNN byline reads that she “led the creation” of the algorithm.

Also, Andrew Chael didn’t actually write 95% of the code, so that meme is also misleading.

 

[CiG]

Also, Andrew Chael didn’t actually write 95% of the code, so that meme is also misleading.

Yeah HBB already said that.

 

[rms]

sick, his git is public.

obs = simim.observe(eht, tint_sec, tadv_sec, tstart_hr, tstop_hr, bw_hz, add_th_noise=add_th_noise, ampcal=ampcal, phasecal=phasecal,
stabilize_scan_phase=stabilize_scan_phase, stabilize_scan_amp=stabilize_scan_amp, gain_offset=gain_offset,
gainp=gainp, jones=jones,inv_jones=inv_jones,dcal=dcal, frcal=frcal, dterm_offset=dterm_offset, seed=seed)

ugly ass non CS people writing code

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Fuck the "MSM" designation. It's legacy media. A dinosaur comprised of midwits and sycophants.

Twitter, Buzzfeed, and TeamYaaaas aren't really legacy media either tho, and CNN in particular is trying the hardest to stay on recent social media trends/mechanisms. Though I'm not 100% sure about exactly how this blew up; I think MIT posting a tweet yesterday morning specifically celebrating Katie Bouman was the impetus, though most news sources failed to recognize that MIT themselves didn't lead this project (though she did lead the imaging aspect of MIT's portion of the project, it seems).

 

[EternalMetal]

lol, and no credit was been given to the guy who actually led the entire project until retrospectively.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/11/science/katie-bouman-black-hole.html[/URL] ]
The project, led by Shep Doeleman, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, was the work of more than 200 researchers. About 40 of them were women, according to Harvard’s Black Hole Initiative.

Im not against the idea that "women can do great things", but the media misrepresentation is nauseating.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I was expecting that Sarah Nervosh to blow things up even more on the gender aspect but that was a fair and more thorough article tbh. It's really just a social media issue and less-reliable outlets blowing up trending Twitter shit as news.

EDIT: IT'S DR. MA'AM