A good start is the accompanying wiki.

“AI gives wealth access to skill while denying skill access to wealth.”

Dictionaries are - by definition - descriptive. It is not their duty to judge what goes into them. They merely collected terms used by people and explain what they mean.

Demanding to remove information from a dictionary, because you do not like what it expresses or the people who use those terms, is the very definition of censorship.

It all makes sense if you assume that everything Musk does is intended to impress a 4chan nazi circa 2012.

Art is by Skaroy

The problem is that it's not a question of intelligence.

Trumpists and their ilk are living in echo chambers of "alternative facts", perpetuated by Fox News, Murdoch newspapers and an nearly endless amount of rightwing influencers (starting with Rogan at the top). They are not looking at what's happening, because they are surrounded in a very comforting bubble of disinfo and propaganda that confirms everything they wanted to hear: The illegals get deported, the queers get finally put in their place, the liberals are frothing with anger, finally men are back in charge who tell women where they belong and America is going to be "great" again any moment now.

It's fascism and fascism has always been a "cult": The early pioneers of fascism (particularly D'Annunzio and later Mussolini) explicitly said their aim was to create a "secular religion" around the nation, the people and the leader. And you can only be a member of that religion if you accept its "truth" and reject everything that contradicts it.

Very smart people can adhere to a religion for a variety of reasons and the most obvious one is (and always has been) because it promises them power over others.

The response from the KDE's social media team to Gerard:

Please note that a random talk in Akademy does not in any way mean an endorsement from the community. Neither speaker have contributed to the project in many, many years, and it is ridiculous and even deceitful to imply that this is in any way an official strategy that KDE is going to pursue.

This is a prime example of why patriarchy is hurting men too, because what this guy is saying boils down to:

• We can make them work at any hour of the day because who cares if these guys have any life outside work?
• We don't have to do any work management, we just call those guys
• We can send them wherever, whenever
• We can create a toxic work environment and it's okay to treat guys like shit
• And those guys don't even complain because they need this job so bad
  Isn't it great?

The statement about "workplace laws" is so telling: Yeah, who cares about treating men with respect and dignity!?
It's not just about discriminating against women, it's also about mistreating men. That's what patriarchy is at its core: Pit men and women against each other and then reap the benefits. It's a "divide and conquer strategy".

Consider this headline from Bloomberg in this context:

About 90% of Migrants Deported to El Salvador Had No US Criminal Record

I remember when Microsoft first attempted to prevent the standardisation of Open Document Format (used by LibreOffice and others) and then bullied its way into getting approval for own OOXML standard. Already back then, supporters of FOSS warned that Microsoft would use the overly complicated OOXML to maintain its stranglehold on users of Office-like software.:

Whenever applicable and possible, standards should build upon previous standardisation efforts and not depend on proprietary, vendor-specific technologies. Albeit, MS-OOXML neglects various standards and uses its own vendor-specific formats instead. This puts a substantial burden on all vendors to fully implement MS-OOXML. It seems questionable how any third party could ever implement them equally well, especially when a standard comes with 6000 pages of specifications without serving its minimalistic purpose.

Because there are lots of people in this thread who paint whales as "rich schmucks" who can afford to spend $48k without thinking twic. This is a myth that lots of the gaming industry itself loves to perpetuate, because it absolves them of taking responsibility for ruining lives.

Research has shown repeatedly that whales are much more likely to be people with mental health problems and/or gambling addicts. That Star Citizen isn't a freemium game with loot boxes makes it marginally better than - let's say - Genshin Impact, but offers like the bundle in the article is still predatory.

After years of giving a platform to climate change denialism, transphobic fearmongering, pearl clutching over too much woke at liberal colleges, both-sideing the efficacy of vaccines and indulging in Covid conspiracy nonsense, the NYT has finally achieved its goal.

It is. Jews had their drivers' licences revoked and lost property rights to their cars on Dec 31th 1938.

Chanel No.5 suffers from the problem that it was originally made over 100 years ago. While the scent of No.5 did not change much, lots and lots and lots of products that came later imitated the scent of the (at the time) prestigious No.5. So it's not necessarily a case of "No.5 smells like soap", rather than "soaps smell like No.5". And No.5 can't escape the position it founds itself in without becoming something else entirely.

A little long maybe, I assume it won't be long until it's just "likensub".

I don't want to diminish Daphne Caruana Galizia's legacy, but she did not break the story of the Panama papers. While Galizia played an important role in uncovering the corruption of politicians from her home country, Malta; the story of the Panama Papers broke after an anonymous whistleblower leaked the files to a German journalist who then got the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists involved who broke the story collectively. Galizia's previous independent investigations were confirmed by the Panama Papers.

Let me be clear: Galizia was an extremely courageous journalist who paid with her life for the investigations she did and deserves to be remembered as such. She did not break the story of the Panama Papers though.

This hits me particularly hard, so here is a personal story of mine...
Light CW for medical malpractice.

When I started HRT, I saw a doctor in a clinic that was supposedly "good" with trans health care and generally was known to treat a lot of trans people where I live. The doctor I was assigned to was an old white guy (yes, it mattered). He did prescribe me HRT as I wanted, but refused to adjust the dosage beyond anything that he usually prescribed. He prescribed me what he prescribed for everybody else for many years. Which may have been fine for lots of people, but it was a disaster for me.

Due to a particular metabolic quirk I seem to possess, my body can't absorb hormones as well as others. Routine blood tests showed that my hormone levels were critically low with the dosage the doctor prescribed me. Neither the test results, nor my own pleading did anything to change his mind. He always dismissed it as "trans people always want more" and refused to adjust the dosage. Meanwhile the side effects were so severe that other health care professionals were worried for my well-being. [If you want to know what happened to me, look up what having a combination of critically low levels or testosterone and estrogen do. I was a text book example of most of those symptoms.]

I probably don't need it to say it around here, but nonetheless: Telling a trans person that they only want a higher dosage because "trans people always want more" is transphobic prejudice, particularly when somebody refuses to acknowledge the individual's problems and even the facts on hand, such as blood tests that done by his own clinic.

It took me 1,5 years before I finally found another doctor who was willing to actually deal with my case.

So, no. A transphobic doctor will not give good care to a trans patient, not even if they are have a reputation for treating trans people and are providing trans specific health care, like HRT.

I know that it's mostly a joke, yet it is worth mentioning that those valuable spices were exclusively used by the rich and wealthy. Ordinary people and their food did not benefit from the spice trade at all. If you delve a little bit into culinary history and find out what the aristocrats did with (for example) extremely rare and precious nutmeg the British Empire fought wars over, you want to dig up their bones, revive them, just so that you can kill them again.

George Lucas introduced evil guys wearing SS uniforms who conduct genocide before the viewers' eyes and somehow people still pretend that Star Wars is apolitical.

Telling people in danger that their attempts to save themselves are contemptible is nothing but cynical callousness.