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They're all beautiful -- a few even usable, I'd guess!

I'm not as fascinated by ideas of innate intelligence as a lot of techie people seem to be. I also hold values of equality and human dignity somewhat more strongly than the "fairness" invoked by e.g. opponents of affirmative action--so even if a lot of the "general intelligence is meaningful, measurable, and genetically determined" stuff were to be shown true, it wouldn't change my political commitments.

So even though it wouldn't really matter, I recalled hearing that the science in this book was sketchy somehow, and that was about it.

Hoo boy.

This video patiently explains:

• just how much begging the question hides within both the concepts and the modes of analysis invoked by the authors
• the intellectual dishonesty evident in the misrepresentation of cited studies
• heritability doesn't mean what the authors have come to say it means, nor what you probably think it means
• the connections between Nazi-era eugenics and the research the authors cite being not (just) a matter of shared ideology, but actual follow-the-money material support from their institutions

Overall, I would highly recommend checking it out, because the influence of this work and its weird little online devotees has been such that even if you know you are 100% opposed to its political conclusions, you may have unknowingly absorbed some of its false premises.

Meeting people where they are with technology is so important, and I love that this lets the grandchildren message from their phones as is presumably convenient for them.

Local news is less stressful because I feel proportionally less impotent to react to it. I recommend making this swap. I also like that they don't save the miscellaneous news till the end of the podcast, so if for whatever reason the daily topic isn't working for me, I already caught the headline round-up.

Well, that's one way of addressing a housing shortage.

I mean, that's one way of handling a housing shortage, I guess?

I go back and forth on this kind of thing.

On the one hand, if you're ever using non-whole-wheat flour, you're totally already bought into the idea of processing your flour for a specific result. Breeding more or less protein into wheat--sure! Go for it!

On the other hand, I don't like using ingredients when I don't understand how they're made, and a lot of the time when ingredients only have to tell me they're "modified" it skeeves me out that I can't verify exactly how.

What do you think?

That's what basic professionalism and competence looks like — a frankly kind of boring dude who works well with others, listens to experts, and doesn't view absolutely everything on Earth through the lens of "how can I make this about me?"

I'm a little cautious cheering too loudly for Inslee, because I remember all too well similar comparison pieces being written about Cuomo and Trump.

Still, nice to hear professionalism and competence getting their due.

For all that states are supposed to be laboratories of democracy, I sometimes think the rest of the country doesn't like hearing results from out West. When California does something they can always dismiss it as sui generis--but Washington and Oregon are normal-sized states with a lot of problems the rest of the country shares, and there are a lot of local success stories that could be replicated elsewhere. Maybe COVID's a start--it's at least easier to argue that every state could be a Washington than that every state could be a Vietnam.

I immediately went to their Patreon to back despite having very little interest in creating this kind of content myself. If anyone knows of a resource to keep abreast of new things people are making with it, I'm all ears!

via nathalie lawhead's talk on web art which perfectly sums up why we should find stuff like this exciting

The tricky thing is that far more people have outdated browsers that don't support all the cool HTML/CSS stuff I want to do (and that the author also does a lot of).... but even so, I check up on how my site looks on Lynx every now and again.

Not a fan of this!

Not even a little bit at all!

I am decently positioned to oppose such things.

Where are the conversations happening? To whom do I write? Whom must I call?

This is really cool and I wish more tech education could be so carefully targeted for social good. Is it weird to think that advanced Excel skills would be similarly useful deployed in such a way? Harder to make available to businesses, though.

Is the kind of PoS software I see everywhere on iPads extensible in ways that could be made useful to its users?