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a few days ago the NYT published an op-ed by David Reich about race and genetics, and now: https://twitter.com/Anthrofuentes/status/978769607770148864 intellectual diversity, indeed aware of dog has issued a correction as of 02:00 on Mar 28, 2018 |
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aware of dog posted:a few days ago the NYT published an op-ed by David Reich about race and genetics, and now: Sorry, a guy named David Reich is writing about race and genetics? That's a little too on the nose even for you, NYT
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Mar 28, 2018 02:15
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David Reich the Third
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Mar 28, 2018 02:17
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not ny times, but race science related! sam harris published a spiritual sequel to his chomsky email exchange wherein he comes off like an absolte poo poo head and manages to let ezra klein of all people get the better of him lmao https://twitter.com/samharrisorg/status/978766308643778560 warning: reading this may give you brain worm larvae
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Mar 28, 2018 02:24
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aware of dog posted:a few days ago the NYT published an op-ed by David Reich about race and genetics, and now: My boss sent that article to us (he is a geneticist) and the article is actually generally correct and I agree with its point about it being counterproductive to deny the fact that genetic differences between human populations do exist, since that's just a thing that is kind of obviously true. The only significant thing I disagreed with was the idea/implication that there's any real significance to stuff like that gene predicting years in education (we're basically incapable of proving any causal relationships when it comes to behavioral traits like that which likely have countless genetic and environmental factors contributing to them, and I think most people will misinterpret "predicts" as "causes"). But the greater point about human populations that can be grouped together genetically existing and having actual differences that might have some tiny impact on certain complex traits is still valid, though I would make sure to heavily emphasize the relative insignificance of these differences and the fact that they're irrelevant when discussing individuals. Generally speaking, there are a lot of non-scientists who just blindly assert things about this topic, and I think that's risky because, as the article says, it lets racists call them out as ignorant and dominate the discussion with their own flawed conclusions.
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Mar 28, 2018 03:01
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Nebakenezzer posted:Sorry, a guy named David Reich is writing about race and genetics? Ein David, ein Reich, ein Times.
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Mar 28, 2018 03:13
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Ytlaya posted:My boss sent that article to us (he is a geneticist) and the article is actually generally correct and I agree with its point about it being counterproductive to deny the fact that genetic differences between human populations do exist, since that's just a thing that is kind of obviously true. The only significant thing I disagreed with was the idea/implication that there's any real significance to stuff like that gene predicting years in education (we're basically incapable of proving any causal relationships when it comes to behavioral traits like that which likely have countless genetic and environmental factors contributing to them, and I think most people will misinterpret "predicts" as "causes"). But the greater point about human populations that can be grouped together genetically existing and having actual differences that might have some tiny impact on certain complex traits is still valid, though I would make sure to heavily emphasize the relative insignificance of these differences and the fact that they're irrelevant when discussing individuals. I think the main complaint is not anything regarding genetics, but that "human population" is conflated with "race." I don't think there's any serious scientist that would deny there's differences between subgroups of human beings, but whether or not those align with our concept of race is a different matter aware of dog has issued a correction as of 04:08 on Mar 28, 2018 |
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Mar 28, 2018 04:00
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I love how these disingenuous, racist pieces of poo poo keep insisting that they are the brave ones for pushing a variation of something that has been the dominant ideology for 600 years. Charles Murray has an academic production that wouldn't get tenure at any 2nd rate university, and yet he gets paid 30-40k a pop per speech at all the most prestigious universities. If he wrote with the same "sophistication" about any non-racist topic he'd never get the light of day. And the evidence is that there are several experts that have thoroughly debunked Murray, but none of them get 1/1000 the attention.
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Mar 28, 2018 04:25
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https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/978942313853603842 the WARMONGERING new york times
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Mar 28, 2018 11:46
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/978942313853603842 *Holds aluminium tube against forehead* Imminent threat to US national security
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Mar 28, 2018 13:39
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The failing Guardian https://twitter.com/libcomorg/status/978958099464753152?s=19
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Mar 28, 2018 13:46
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quote:But if the talks fail, or simply drag on, the reactor could also be part of the justification for military action — at least if the past arguments of Mr. Trump’s newly appointed national security adviser, John R. Bolton, prevail. In March 2015, just before the Iran deal was struck, Mr. Bolton argued in a New York Times op-ed that neither negotiations nor sanctions would stop Iran from bolstering its nuclear and weapons programs. He has since made similar arguments about North Korea. Look at this poo poo here. John "I still think the Iraq war was a good idea" Bolton is the lone voice warning about the need for airstrikes on North Korea, while the feckless NSC ignores the incredible danger this nation, with it's GDP equaling a whole seventieth of Apple's net worth, surely poses. But don't worry, Bolton's gonna be taking over soon and he'll whip those bastards into shape!
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Mar 28, 2018 13:53
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If anybody wants to mock Tom Friedman his latest column is entitled "how Mark Zuckerberg can save facebook...and us"
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Mar 28, 2018 17:04
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hahaha jesus
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Mar 28, 2018 17:05
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Nebakenezzer posted:If anybody wants to mock Tom Friedman his latest column is entitled "how Mark Zuckerberg can save facebook...and us" "By shuttering the company" doesn't really feel like something that could be easily stretched into a full column.
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Mar 28, 2018 17:40
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docbeard posted:"By shuttering the company" doesn't really feel like something that could be easily stretched into a full column. only someone completely unfamiliar with tom friedman's work could think he wouldn't be up to that
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Mar 28, 2018 17:50
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ross douthat has a column today titled "marco rubio must be destroyed" which manages to argue both that liberals and high school students yelling at marco rubio for being an NRA shill is making him unpopular and make some baby steps on gun control moderation and also that liberals and high school students need to be nicer to marco rubio or else he wont work with them
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Mar 28, 2018 18:55
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I think if I were a publisher, my newspaper wouldn't have an opinion section. Way back in the day, maybe you only hear opinions from random mouthy jerkoffs and the opinion page. Nowadays, everybody's got a megaphone and they're bitching nonstop. Readers don't need your opinion page, and it only serves to piss them off. Maybe just turn the whole page into letters to the editor.
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Mar 28, 2018 19:06
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PostNouveau posted:I think if I were a publisher, my newspaper wouldn't have an opinion section. ideology and outrage are the product, not the news.
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Mar 28, 2018 19:27
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https://twitter.com/deep_beige/status/978746895047774208
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Mar 28, 2018 19:48
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Mar 28, 2018 19:49
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docbeard posted:"By shuttering the company" doesn't really feel like something that could be easily stretched into a full column. You could probably stretch a description of Deus Ex's Tracer Tong ending
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Mar 28, 2018 20:12
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https://twitter.com/surfbordt/status/979066326542180353
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Mar 28, 2018 20:24
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Did everyone see Thomas L. Friedman's newest column? His descriptions of the world and understandings of recent events make me want to die! Also, baseball metaphors.  In much the same way he claimed the world was flat 15 or so years ago, Friedman tells us that the world has become fused  And the big finish  And final thoughts: Tim Freeman is a sheltered rich rear end who is playing at ideas like a child playing with his (OR HER) hands He got exposed as a dumb gently caress during the iraq war and has been payed very well over the last decade and a half to continue exposing himself as a dumbfuck bi-weekly or whatever All of you knew all of this already. Egg Moron has issued a correction as of 23:50 on Mar 28, 2018 |
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Mar 28, 2018 23:39
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suck on this
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Mar 29, 2018 00:16
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Over Easy posted:All of you knew all of this already. A good take, I like the image thing, makes it a bit easier to read Also for docbeard's benifit, oh ye of little faith, notice that the entire contents of this column is:
I've no goddamn idea how long Friedman has been writing op eds at the NYT but suffice it to say aside from the being a mouthpiece for whatever mad dog in the GOP is barking about foreign policy, he's been publishing the same column with the same content for like - 20 years?
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Mar 29, 2018 00:30
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Over Easy posted:Did everyone see Thomas L. Friedman's newest column? His descriptions of the world and understandings of recent events make me want to die! Also, baseball metaphors. This defies parody
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Mar 29, 2018 00:38
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Nebakenezzer posted:A good take, I like the image thing, makes it a bit easier to read yes his books are also the exact same thing
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Mar 29, 2018 00:54
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lmao i read it and what the gently caress purpose does the inning metaphor even serve??? it explains nothing
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Mar 29, 2018 00:56
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As I saw the robot car slam into the woman at 80 mph, killing her instantly, I could only look at her mangled corpse and say: "And welcome to the Jam."
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Mar 29, 2018 01:06
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I like how he conflates the communist threat to "liberty" as the world itself. Like it would be a world-ending experience to, instead of being forced to live in a lovely apartment with little prospects for the future - you're forced to live in a lovely apartment, and also it's illegal to post antisemitic memes on the internet.
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Mar 29, 2018 01:15
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:I like how he conflates the communist threat to "liberty" as the world itself. Like it would be a world-ending experience to, instead of being forced to live in a lovely apartment with little prospects for the future - you're forced to live in a lovely apartment, and also it's illegal to post antisemitic memes on the internet.
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Shear Modulus posted:yes I'll never know what the gently caress my professor was thinking when she assigned The World is Flat to us for our junior year "International Economics" course in college. This was at NYU Stern too, so it wasn't like some random college business program. Friedman's stuff just comes off as so obviously stupid that it's hard to comprehend how an educated adult with a PhD who literally studies economics could read that book and think "mm yes, very insightful, I should assign this to my students."
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Mar 29, 2018 05:03
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lol at thinking any business school has academic merit
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Mar 29, 2018 05:17
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Ytlaya posted:I'll never know what the gently caress my professor was thinking when she assigned The World is Flat to us for our junior year "International Economics" course in college. This was at NYU Stern too, so it wasn't like some random college business program. Friedman's stuff just comes off as so obviously stupid that it's hard to comprehend how an educated adult with a PhD who literally studies economics could read that book and think "mm yes, very insightful, I should assign this to my students." friedman has made an extremely lucrative career of writing "gee globalization sure is changing everything and reaches everywhere" over and over again while studiously refusing to do any analysis which makes it the perfect cirriculum for business people to make them aware that the modern neoliberal world is hosed up and unintuitive and not designed for human livability but also to train them not to think about why it is that way
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Mar 29, 2018 05:36
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GalacticAcid posted:David Reich the Third
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Mar 29, 2018 05:48
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https://twitter.com/mattdpearce/status/979088208825741313?s=19
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Mar 29, 2018 07:38
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Their job is to see how few people they can employ and still technically gull others to create news-flavored text, and they are clearly good at it. The system works!
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Mar 29, 2018 07:44
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the metaphor would have been so much better and actually made some kind of sense as him communicating there had been some sort of paradigm shift with some kind of reversal if he said now it was the bottom of the inning and suddenly we were playing defense. or something. what are the other seven innings going to be? did the other team, who i guess is technical failures, score a lot on us and now we have to get in more runs? is humanity exactly 1/9 of the way through technological development? thats one of the worst friedman metaphors in quite a while
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Ytlaya posted:I'll never know what the gently caress my professor was thinking when she assigned The World is Flat to us for our junior year "International Economics" course in college. This was at NYU Stern too, so it wasn't like some random college business program. Friedman's stuff just comes off as so obviously stupid that it's hard to comprehend how an educated adult with a PhD who literally studies economics could read that book and think "mm yes, very insightful, I should assign this to my students." richard wolff who studied economics at stanford and yale and got his phd at yale in economics basically says this a lot whenever he talks about the current academic field https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/episode-186-executive-producer-feat-richard-wolff-21818
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