tripu @tripu@social.cleverlibre.org

#Tradition and the #LindyEffect are descriptive, not prescriptive, observations.

Things stick around for lots of reasons, good and bad — including, but not limited to: coercion, fear, inertia, ossification, taboo, chance, network effects, market failures, sunk costs…

Lots of wrong ideas, unhealthy habits and abhorrent behaviours are “old”.

Old ≠ good.

(#NaturalisticFallacy, you're next)

#SusanaEstrada en #ElMundo de hoy

#feminism #feminismo 🇪🇸 #Spain #España

An informal take on #morality in a single sentence by #MichaelShermer:

> _“Try to expand the moral sphere and to push the arc of the moral universe just a bit further toward truth, justice, and freedom for more sentient beings in more places more of the time.”_

https://michaelshermer.substack.com/p/ten-commandments-for-our-time

#ethics #philosophy

Last day of (this major period of) #holidays for me and I wrap up this week of keeping the #kids alive and entertained with a little #train #trip to #Madrid

95-octane #petrol at 1.77 €/ℓ now

#car #EV

Reading about _really_ intelligent people like #JohnConway makes one feel minuscule.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/john-conway-solved-mathematical-problems-with-his-bare-hands-20200420/

I'm so old I get lost in #Twitch and #Discord

Absent-mindedly sketching in my head the architecture of a possible pet project of mine and realising that the most complex stuff and half of all the effort would have go to #date and #time arithmetic 😒

> _“If you cannot weigh up a complex question of history and ethics at Oxford University, where should it be done? At a lesser university? On Twitter? Not at all?”_

https://freebeacon.com/culture/the-upsides-of-empire/

Contra #MorganHousel on how to read:

https://blog.tripu.info/how-to-read/

#books #literature #TheGreatestBooks

> _“#Men suffer 91.4% of fatal injuries on the job, versus 8.6% for women. The most dangerous occupation in the United States is logging, where the fatal injury rate is 82.2 per 100,000 workers and where 96% of the people in the occupation are male. Underground mining […] is the 8th most dangerous, with 26.7 deaths per 100,000 workers and with 99% of the workers being male. Should we get more #women in those occupations to close that fatality #GenderGap?”_

https://www.econlib.org/gender-pay-gap-at-the-white-house/

What I'm good at at 43:

* Opening jars for my family
* Trapping wasps for my family
* Spotting spelling mistakes and grammatical errors

https://blog.tripu.info/books-and-bad-feminism

#books #literature #feminism #GammaBias