tripu @tripu@social.cleverlibre.org
Technologist, Spaniard, male, 42
Joined May 2020
> _“What I look for in a #book is a voice that sounds fresh, a relationship with language that feels exciting, and a vision of the world that enlightens or challenges me, or, just occasionally, changes the way I see the world in some degree. When I find at least one of those things, then that’s what I’d probably call a good book. When I find all of them, then the adjective “great” may come to mind. But it’s an adjective I use sparingly. Tolstoy is great, and Shakespeare, and García Márquez, and Kafka, and Woolf, and Morrison, and Proust, and Joyce, and very few others. Good books are enough for most of us most of the time.”_
— [Salman Rushdie](https://salmanrushdie.substack.com/p/an-occasional-series-ask-me-almost)
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#Sciences (or so) that purport to study, or that are supposed to revolve around, _one_ #idea:
* Physics → energy
* Chemistry → matter
* Economics → scarcity
* Finance → value
More? (Not counting narrow ones, eg “entomology → insects”.)
I discarded: philosophy (it's bigger than knowledge); computing science (bigger than information).
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80% of victims of the ✝️ #CatholicChurch in 🇫🇷 #France since the 1950s are #boys (mostly #men by now).
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News article:
* Headline: “girls”, not “boys”.
* Focus and first sentences are on female victims.
A sign of hope, though:
> _“Female #pedophilia exists and unfortunately the media never talk about it.”_
https://news.yahoo.com/nuns-raped-girls-crucifixes-female-110940545.html
Halfway through this #podcast #episode, and #BariWeiss has shared already so much wisdom:
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> _«Ser director te da un #poder enorme, no fáctico de que la gente te traiga los cafés, sino de imponer tu propia visión del mundo. Por eso, con tanto poder el riesgo está en el abuso de poder. Porque es una profesión que se presta a que si tú tienes un espíritu autoritario, ese #autoritarismo se te escapa por algún lado.»_
Ups.
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> _«Cuando pienso en los años 80, el modo en que vivíamos y las luchas de las que veníamos, ni en mi peor pesadilla hubiera pensado que en 2021 íbamos a estar socialmente como estamos ahora. […] No sé si es que antes no se hablaba de ellos y ahora sí, pero yo veo más ataques homófobos en la calle que nunca.»_
Hay que ser muy enemigo de la estadística, la Historia, la sociología y la psicología para pensar que hace ~40 años un homosexual que no se ocultase iba más seguro por las calles de #España que ahora…
> _«'Puto maricón', es algo que corresponde a otros períodos de nuestra #historia.»_
¡Efectivamente, #Almodóvar!
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> _«Para enterarme de la #historia de un país, me baso más en las novelas y en las películas que veo, que en los #libros de historia. El mejor modo, no sé si de entender, pero desde luego de enterarse de cuál ha sido la historia de un lugar es a través de la ficción. […] La derecha trata de reescribir nuestra historia. Y contra eso aconsejo a la gente que se la lea: que lea libros de historia sobre la #GuerraCivil.»_
¿En qué quedamos, #Almodóvar?
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Two kinds of #authority, only one of which is the source of authority #bias:
1️⃣ **Social authority** earned because of a title or position of power or influence: a mayor, a policeman, a priest, a CEO, a rock star. They are, in principle, as fallible as anyone else.
2️⃣ **Intellectual authority** earned for having been right often in the past and for being specially good at reasoning, as evidenced by a concrete track record of useful interpretations and accurate predictions: #SamHarris, #StevenPinker, #BalajiSrinivasan, your chemistry teacher in high school, that journalist you follow, your friend's grandmother. All things being equal, it is totally rational to assign more weight to those people's opinions and advice than to any of the above's. No bias here.
Technologist, Spaniard, male, 42
Joined May 2020
