IQ, SJW's, Racism, and Another Rage Mob

IQ, SJW's, Racism, and Another Rage Mob

Looks like the APA is going to be my favorite whipping-boy for a bit. I was bored the other day on social media... yes, a lot of stupidity starts that way but not the kind of epic stories that start with "There I was , no shit" or "I was drunk when...", and some SJW type started trying to round up people to tar and smear Excalibre games. Here is the Excalibre Games' statement he was referring to: And here was what he was writing about it: If it were just some rando drive by and…

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A Poisoned Cider House

A Poisoned Cider House

In a recent discussion of modern media I noted that while there was a fair bit of anime that I did like, I had gotten a lot pickier about what was actually worthwhile and what was just trash. In and of itself, so what. I followed that up though by noting that while there was a degree to which some old movies fell to childhood nostalgia disorder - they were fonder in my memory than the actual quality deserved - and others were better movies than I recalled, the number that were just outright ugl…

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Superversive Plays Bingo

Superversive Plays Bingo

Superversive plays virtue-signalling Oscar bingo [http://www.superversivesf.com/2019/01/22/why-no-one-cares-about-the-oscars-2019/] so that I don't have to: > I don’t think anyone cares about documentaries … (RGB? Zion? I can’t even find an IMDB page on some of these). Foreign language films … Poland did something about the Cold War, which probably slipped in because no one in Hollywood was looking. For the log of God Almighty — FIFTEEN musical score nominations? Fifteen… talk about overkill.…

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How Deep The Rabbit Hole Goes

How Deep The Rabbit Hole Goes

Several recent posts deal with the effort to tear down the family, the borders between adults and children (part of a hatred of boundaries [https://thelastredoubt.com/no-boundaries/] I'd already noted..), and the story of Moira Greyland. First - I came across from this piece by Paul Lucas, “Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be the Whole of the Law” [https://paullucaswriter.wordpress.com/2018/12/19/do-what-thou-wilt-shall-be-the-whole-of-the-law/] . It's actually the second part of a series. It opens with…

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"Garbage In" - or - Racist and Sexist AI

"Garbage In" - or - Racist and Sexist AI

Much to the amusment of the wrongthink part of the internet, Amazon decided that automating it's HR functions still needed a little bit of work [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-jobs-automation-insight/amazon-scraps-secret-ai-recruiting-tool-that-showed-bias-against-women-idUSKCN1MK08G] . > The team had been building computer programs since 2014 to review job applicants’ resumes with the aim of mechanizing the search for top talent, five people familiar with the effort told Reuters…

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