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by lusen 10y ago
For anyone wondering why "girls" is a loaded term, think about how it used to be ok in the US for white people to call adult black men "boy". Would you call your coworker or boss "boy"? No, it would feel terri
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by lusen 10y ago
I imagine a lot of technical people are or could be into zines: they mix DIY and maker zeal with principles of distributed information sharing. They're the OG artisanal local blogs ;-p You can make little zine booklets -- which I find
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by lusen 10y ago
Hi author. Small nit: consider changing your title to "their" time rather than "he" since you talk about " a technical co-founder". There's no need to use gendered language in the general case, and gender
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by lusen 10y ago
The important thing is to be awareness of this disparity. It's often set up as a false dichotomy: you either have to feel guilty, or you have to ignore and forget poverty and privilege. It's ok to observe differences and then keep
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by lusen 10y ago
This is an area where I see the free market causing great harm. How can a population contend with greedy, money-rich corporations who wage huge psychological and legal campaigns? It's very one-sided. In the US, science and the people&#
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by lusen 10y ago
how much of a problem are false accusations compared to not reporting sexual harassment or rape? this is a really interesting point worth investigating. i don't have research on hand to link to (though it's fresh on my mind from r
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by lusen 10y ago
> "well, she wore a sexy dress and followed him up to his room so maybe his claims that it was consensual are true." how is that reasonable? maybe we should ask what she claims and what he wore. but wait, what clothing indi
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by lusen 10y ago
indeed. victims of rape and sexual harassment are often blamed for the aggressors behavior, as if clothing or inebriation or past interactions makes such violations ok. look at what the police asked the victim in the recent stanford rape ca
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by lusen 10y ago
our cultural environment gives us a bias toward downplaying the problem of rape and sexual harassment. i've found this thought experiment helpful in exploring bias: rape is torture. for some it is worse than murder. sexual harassment i
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by lusen 10y ago
I'm disappointed though not surprised by comments suggesting that Amazon only pay attention to their bottom line. Why shouldn't they do more for racial inequality? That's just as meaningful as $$. Powerful corporations are
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by lusen 11y ago
agreed. super fun! here's what I came up: http://sampulator.com/lusenrc/saturday-night http://sampulator.com/lusenrc/saturday-night-2 (turn the metronome off by clicking on the two circles on