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  1. Too Easy in Gender Studies on Predatory Journals Hit By "Star Wars" Sting (discovermagazine.com) · · Score: 5, Informative
    http://www.skeptic.com/reading...

    The androcentric scientific and meta-scientific evidence that the penis is the male reproductive organ is considered overwhelming and largely uncontroversial.

    That’s how we began. We used this preposterous sentence to open a “paper” consisting of 3,000 words of utter nonsense posing as academic scholarship. Then a peer-reviewed academic journal in the social sciences accepted and published it.

  2. Mod Parent Up on In America, Most Republicans Think Colleges Are Bad for the Country (chronicle.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Indeed. Maybe those with this opinion have seen the leftist nutjob ideologues taking over campuses and demanding administrative control, assaulting journalists ("I need some muscle over here"), setting fires and beating people for the crime of trying to attend a speaking event, and even trying to implement segregration, often while the faculty and administration either approve or cheer them on.

    And with the internet, the leftist media can't cover it up anymore.

  3. TPP Crashed and Burned on FSF Sees Hopeful Signs Before Sunday's 'Day Against DRM' (defectivebydesign.org) · · Score: 0

    Thanks Trump.

  4. No Bad Tactics, Only Bad Targets on CNN Warns It May Expose An Anonymous Critic If He Ever Again Publishes Bad Content (theintercept.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Remember this when an outlet claims to be anti-doxxing (or anti-harassment, or anti-racism, or anti-etc.) . . . they're full of shit unless they're against it happened to BOTH (read: all) sides.

  5. Tech Culture Does Protect Some Harassers on Investors Who Back VC Funds Are Worried About Valley Culture (axios.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is more like the baizuo want to push for cultural takeover of SV because they consider it a strategic asset.

    Yup, and they'll defend bullies to do it, as long as those bullies express the right politics. A good example happened just this weekend:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    TL;DW - A feminist panelist at a conference recognizes a critic in the audience and uses her position behind the mic to berate and insult him. The conference acknowledges this as violation of their rules, yet apologizes to her (without ever even contacting the attendee she abused) and still allows her to sit on a second panel about (no bullshit) dealing with harassment and bullying. One of her fellow panelists (IMO one of the kindest and most innocuous humans on the internet) has been anxious for months just knowing he'd be in same room with her and walks on eggshells around her, terrified of what might set her off. Sure enough, after the panel she immediately accosts him and cusses him out.

    The conference eventually releases a public statement making excuse after excuse for her behavior. That's what it means to reach Cruise/Travolta status in your cult, I suppose.

  6. It was "last year" and that's not the POTUS we'd wage a never-ending demonization campaign against.

  7. Why does TFS mention POLITICS three times without explaining (no, I'm not reading TFA)?

  8. She should've sold something more reputable, like carbon credits; then the company wouldn't even need to ship a product at all.

  9. Heart and Courage on Tim Cook Told Trump Tech Employees Are 'Nervous' About Immigration (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Cook replied that the immigration approach by the administration also "needs more heart." Cook cited the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which is under review by the Trump administration. He also said people in tech and their co-workers were nervous about their status, and added that it "would be great" if the president could "send them a signal."

    Cook really has his finger on the pulse of what workers want (lower H1B wages), just as he knows what customers want (fewer useful ports, no headphone jack, and expensive, complicated earphones). It's definitely not just what he wants or anything.

  10. Only Way to Save Face on Arctic Climate Change Study Canceled Due to Climate Change (livescience.com) · · Score: 1

    Sounds like the best spin they could come up with, lest they generate another disastrous round of headlines like these:

    https://news.slashdot.org/stor... https://news.slashdot.org/stor... https://news.slashdot.org/stor... https://news.slashdot.org/stor... https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...

  11. Content of the Article on Google Searches Show That America Is Full of Racist and Selfish People (vox.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What does your crying have to do with the content of the article? Or are we just screaming "fake news!" at the sight of anything that challenges our dissonant views?

    Since it sounds like you've read the article, maybe you could answer this question: Did they track all racism, or just the racism they disagreed with? If so, then in what regions of the country was anti-white racism concentrated (or fast-growing)?

    Far be it from me to suggest Vox (and the "researcher") are just partisan hacks who would selectively ignore (and even promote) the racism they agree with, but that info is missing from TFS (and the headline refers to "racist" people in general).

  12. Can't Spin This to Redeem the Left on Wisconsin Speech Bill Might Allow Students To Challenge Science Professors (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    I'm sick of these lefties fresh mouths.

    Dunno what you're talking about, Anonymous Strawman. Nothing in this bill would prevent left-wingers from holding a corresponding, competing speech in response to a right-wing speaking event they don't like.

    But you and I (and BeauHD) all know that we're really talking about the leftists' "fresh" fists, flagpoles, credit-card knives and bike locks. From TFS:

    There have been some well-publicized incidents in which student groups or other protesters have interfered with scheduled appearances by right-wing speakers at U.S. universities.

    That's a hell of a way to sugarcoat left-wing hooded mobs setting fires on campus and beating the attendees. Sam Harris did a decent job summarizing the horror of Social Justice run amok:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  13. Overrun on ESR Shares A Forgotten 'Roots Of Open Source' Moment From 1984 (ibiblio.org) · · Score: 3, Funny
    .

    Unfortunately the decision to no longer be open was also the decision that caused Unix to be overrun by systemd.

    ftfy

  14. When Audi made a cringy, virtue-signaling Super Bowl ad and got called out over it, they ended up debunking the wage gap in a single tweet:
    https://twitter.com/audi/statu...

  15. Didn't Like Eich on Former Mozilla CTO: 'Chrome Won' (andreasgal.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Mozilla didn't help themselves by firing their employees for not being PC enough.

    Maybe it's just me, but every time I see the current Mozilla make a decision, I'm so grateful they immediately ousted Brendan Eich (with his "proven technical and leadership background" bullshit) and appointed the former head of marketing as CEO instead.

  16. Viable Opposition on UK Conservatives Pledge To Create Government-Controlled Internet (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is why we need viable leftist opposition parties that actually care about things like free speech, labor rights, and illegal immigration. If you spit in the voting public's face long enough, they will flock to the lesser evil that doesn't completely disregard their interests.

  17. The company is Siege Technologies, a cyber-security company

    I think they've forfeited that title.

  18. TV Buzzwords to Avoid on Amazon Targets Cord Cutters With First-Ever Integrated Fire TV Sets (variety.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Curved, 3D, and Smart

    Fortunately the the first two (which were only to justify keeping prices high) are already doomed on their own merits.

    "Smart" though, is a cancer that's harder to get rid of, because manufacturers will even lower prices to sneak in the trojan horse that promises to track and force feed ads on you.

  19. That fact should be edited into the summary.

  20. Here's a video of the drop tests:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    It has a high dislike ratio and comments are disabled, which are often major red flags. Anyone know why?

  21. Thx, I found it about two minutes after I posted.

  22. How to Opt Out? on YouTube Finally Embraces Google's Material Design, Puts Focus On Content (googleblog.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Google's Material Design specs are finally coming to the YouTube desktop site, the company said on Tuesday. The feature isn't rolling out to all just yet, but you can test drive it here.

    "Test drive" implies it's temporary. How do I get decent Youtube back? The "test drive" link is http://youtube.com/new?optin=t... but https://www.youtube.com/new?op... doesn't reverse it.

  23. Green Policies on Apple Forces Recyclers To Shred All iPhones and MacBooks (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Green policies are for PR, not for everyday use.

  24. More Propagandists Claiming to Be Non-Partisan on TED Wants To Remind Us That Ideas -- Not Politicians -- Shape the Future (qz.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Those links expose TED as censor-happy authoritarians, who (despite their "Ideas Worth Spreading" slogan) abuse the DMCA to prevent fair use of their content for criticism. The claims in the summary of TED being a "non-partisan organization" and wanting to "steer the conversation away from government and politics" are laughable, given TED's repeated attempts to suppress dissent.

    They do not want to start a "civil" conversation or "reasoned discourse" or a "bridge between opposing views" or any of the sounds-good buzzword BS rattled off in the summary; they want start a monologue of approved ideas while everyone else (especially wrongthinkers) has to shut up and unquestionably accept what they're hearing.

  25. Ideas Worth Censoring on TED Wants To Remind Us That Ideas -- Not Politicians -- Shape the Future (qz.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    TED's been posting some hopelessly feminist content lately, and they know it, too, because they've disabled ratings and comments on those vids. They're also abusing the DMCA to shut down criticism:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    The DMCA-censored vid:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    And an update:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...