Alex
a league of their own
the sams
ada & zangemann
November 2023 in review / Récap de novembre 2023
Yes, men are losing rights in the age of feminism
That’s the pesky asterisk in “men are losing rights*”. And it’s a different argument than “ha ha ha LOL shut up you haven’t lost any rights.” Men have lost rights. Unpacking why, and whether we shoud’ve ever had them to begin with, is a different conversation, and one I think we need to be willing to have if we are to deconstruct the weird entitlement of the manosphere.
My default apps in 2023
Taking opportunities to connect
LLMs also, through their very design, conflate frequency with quality. It will drive you to the same books everyone else reads. The bestseller list is already self-reinforcing, and algorithms double down.
This example was pretty specifically about book recommendations, but I fully agree with it.
a slice of the early trans internet has been retrieved
1000 articles Wikipédia plus tard
Cette semaine, j’ai publié mon millième article sur Wikipédia en français. (C’était en fait probablement plutôt mon 1002 ou 1003e article : je n’ai pas compté les quelques pages supprimées entre-temps par débat d’admissibilité.) Avec 6 ans et demi de Wikipédia dans les pattes, un rôle d’admin depuis un peu plus d’un an, et d’autres…