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Kavanaugh, His Wife, and His Accuser Receive Death Threats
Brett Kavanaugh, wife and Christine Blasey Ford all receiving death threats: GRAPHIC LANGUAGE
It's 2018. Why is a public figure receiving death threats "news"? There must be individuals out there making death threats to several people every day (hundreds per year), and the chance of them getting caught and brought to trial is minimal.
Pointing out that you receive death threats or mere angry emails does not mean you should get any sympathy. It was news a decade or two ago, but no longer. The Internet is a whirlwind of hate, and as long as (relative) anonymity exists, it will stay that way. And that anonymity is more valuable than the chance to get rid of (a % of) routine death threats.
I have no son
Kavanaugh's #MeToo Moment: Approved by Jesus?
Potential Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh is having his Anita Hill moment. The White House expects that Christine Blasey Ford will testify in some capacity at Kavanaugh's confirmation hearing. White House counselor Kellyanne Conway says "This woman should not be insulted, and she should not be ignored."
Obviously, Kavanaugh could still make it onto the Supreme Court. But perhaps the President will have to look to the bench instead. How about Amy Coney Barrett? She's a woman, and the dogma lives loudly in her.
Remember, for every member of the Administration you defeat, there is an evangelical waiting in the wings. ✞👼
Trump picked the wrong judge (July 9)
The long silences of Christine Blasey Ford and Dianne Feinstein
AMD 64-Core Epyc to More Than Double Performance?
If the "leak" is true, then it looks like AMD will double cores on the "7nm" node as well as increase IPC compared to "14nm" and "12nm". Leading to a more-than-double performance increase in some cases. Assuming your OS, software, or benchmark can use all 64 cores/128 threads.
That also means that the consumer desktop Ryzen chips could be boosted to a maximum of 16 cores, from 8. Which makes sense given that Threadripper 2 was raised from 16 to 32 max cores, probably to make room for the new Ryzens.
16 cores at $500? $350? Could happen.
Aung San Suu Kyi Defends Jailing of Reuters Journalists
Myanmar's Suu Kyi: Rohingya Situation 'Could Have Been Handled Better'
Under international pressure over alleged genocide by Myanmar's army, the Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi acknowledged Thursday that her country's treatment of its Rohingya Muslims "could have been handled better."
Speaking at a World Economic Forum meeting in Vietnam, Suu Kyi also struck a defiant tone when a moderator asked her about two Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar. She said their case "had nothing to do with freedom of expression at all."
It was a rare defense from Myanmar's soft-spoken leader, now 73, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. She spent nearly 15 years under house arrest at the hands of a repressive military junta, during which time she became one of the world's most famous political prisoners.
However, her reticence on both the fate of the Rohingya and the jailed journalists has been condemned by human rights groups and one-time admirers worldwide.
Nobel Peace Prize is done for tbh.
See also: Aung San Suu Kyi defends jailing of journalists in Myanmar: 'They have every right to appeal'
Previously: Evidence Of Rohingya Mass Graves Uncovered In Myanmar
Reuters reporter says Myanmar police planted 'secret' papers
World reacts to sentencing of Reuters journalists in Myanmar
Apple Uses Women and People of Color as Props in Adverts
Apple is happy to use women and people of color as art, not authority
"Apple's boardrooms look nothing like its advertisements."
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David Blumberg: Not Your Typical Silicon Valley VC
- The venture capitalist David Blumberg is a white man in Silicon Valley, and still he says he's a minority.
- In addition to being a supporter of President Donald Trump, the investor is gay — he has two children with his partner — and has a strong faith in God.
- Blumberg said that after coming out as a Republican more than a decade ago, he "got dropped from a lot of cocktail-party lists."
- But being an outsider has its advantages, he says.
Geoffrey Owens and Job Shaming
Actors and fans defend 'Cosby Show' actor after articles job-shame him for working at Trader Joe's
An honest man doing an honest day's work used to be something to be celebrated in America. But it didn't seem like it -- over the Labor Day weekend, of all times -- after actor Geoffrey Owens was spotted at a Trader Joe's in New Jersey, bagging groceries.
It all started with an article in the Daily Mail late last week. A customer at the store in Clifton, New Jersey, spotted Owens -- best known for his role as son-in-law Elvin Tibideaux on "The Cosby Show" -- working as a cashier and snapped a picture.
The image became the basis for the Daily Mail's story under the job-shaming headline, "From learning lines to serving the long line!" The details in the story were just as insulting: "Wearing an ID badge bearing his name, the former star wore a Trader Joe's T-shirt with stain marks on the front as he weighed a bag of potatoes."
The story exploded on social media over the holiday weekend after Fox News picked it up and tweeted out its own version. But the articles seemed to produce a flood of support for Owens, as well as a conversation about job-shaming and classism. Other actors, as well as fans, defended him.
Geoffrey Owens' message to job-shamers: Honor the 'dignity of work'
Leave him alone, he's not a rapist.
It's OK to job shame anyone working at the Daily Mail.
Statistics and gender
Or, perhaps a bit more precisely, I would say that almost everyone misunderstands common statistics - but not in the same ways!
So we'll pull in sex for an example. There's a school of thought that says that there's virtually no difference between men and women, statistically, on anything important. There's another school of thought that says they're so incredibly different, statistically, on virtually everything important, they almost don't look like the same species! And to make this even funnier, these two schools of thought can often point to the SAME data to support their diametrically opposed conclusions!
Ok, so let me break this down for you with just a little more detail. Let's pick an attribute we test for, aggressiveness is a good one here, because the statistical differences between the sexes are about as dramatic on this measure as you'll find anywhere.
So, if I pick out two individuals randomly, and I tell you nothing other than their sex - one is male, the other is female - and ask you to guess which one is more aggressive, what's your guess?
If you guessed the male, of course that was the better guess statistically. But your edge isn't very big, you're only 60% likely to be right. If I answered female I still have a 40% chance to get the question right - you've only got a little edge, not a solid distinction of kind.
In fact, if you go select a group of women who are just a little more aggressive than average, and set them up against a group of males who are just a little less aggressive than average the women are absolutely going to use the guys as footstools and doormats.
This is the no significant differences argument simplified a bit for easy digestion. And it's valid. It's true. On average, women are only a little bit less aggressive than men, and many women are more aggressive than many men. So it's ignorant prejudice to say that men are the aggressive ones and women are not aggressive. It's radically contrary to the facts! And if that's true in terms of aggressiveness it's much more true on most other metrics.
BUT, there are more facts than have been mentioned. What if we look beyond the average, at the distribution?
What if, instead of randomly selecting a male and a female from the general population, we FIRST randomly select 100 individuals, 50 males 50 females, THEN select the most aggressive individual of the bunch. This time, we guess which sex that individual is. Again, you say male, leaving me with the contrary position.
This time the odds are entirely different. There's virtually no chance I'll win.
The average woman is only slightly less aggressive than the average male, and more aggressive than many. Many women are more aggressive than the average male. But the most aggressive man on the planet will be a male. In fact, if we could rank every individual on earth, something like the top 5-6 million people would be males. Only after that would you start seeing females.
A really neat thing is this actually works almost as well in the opposite direction as well. Lots of women are fairly low on the aggression scale but if you want to find someone that is really freakishly low on it, yeah, that's probably going to be a male. Imagine that!
The middles of the distributions aren't far off. But the shape is different, and there are a lot more males waaaaay out on the limbs. On lots of different metrics, not just aggression.
