kottke.org/18/05/you-dont-have-a-right-to-believe-whatever-you-want-to
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This is so powerful
I love data!
Don’t complain about your taxes!
https://kottke.org/18/04/how-bill-russell-stopped-charles-barkley-from-complaining-about-taxes
As I’ve been fortunate to be reasonably successful in life, I am looking more and more for ways to give back. And not being a jerk about the most fundamental way to do that is, literally, the least anybody can do.
BS Detector, Redux
I’m sure that I posted about this before, but this is still awesome!
Even the software is racist and sexist
because facial recognition AIs have a hard time with darker complexions and female features. Article.
Super-interesting Article on “Political Correctness”
My thing about “political correctness” is that it’s not a constraint on free speech at all. It’s simply acting civilized. When somebody who is a particular thing asks you to refer to them a certain way, that’s just being civilized to accommodate them. When people say “I hate all this political correctness”, I like to replace “political correct” with “being respectful”. And then people just sound like dicks for saying “I hate all this being respectful”.