by Ty Davison | Jul 25, 2020 | News & Commentary
Even repugnant ideas—maybe especially repugnant ideas—must be able to be articulated. Emily Yoffe’s A Taxonomy of Fear: Confronted with words, ideas, or decisions they dislike, a growing number of people are asserting that they are in danger of...
by Ty Davison | Jul 9, 2020 | News & Commentary
#teamregardless Regardless Of What You Think, ‘Merriam-Webster’ Says ‘Irregardless’ Is A Word: “Irregardless is included in our dictionary because it has been in widespread and near-constant use since 1795,” the dictionary’s...
by Ty Davison | Jul 1, 2020 | News & Commentary
MIT apologizes, permanently pulls offline huge dataset that taught AI systems to use racist, misogynistic slurs: Special report MIT has taken offline its highly cited dataset that trained AI systems to potentially describe people using racist, misogynistic, and other...
by Ty Davison | Jun 27, 2020 | News & Commentary, Quotes
Howl by Allen Ginsberg: I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the...
by Ty Davison | Jun 26, 2020 | News & Commentary
This will have zero impact on actual racism. Did anyone think that the term “civil war” (or “Civil War” or “Civil war,” as the article capitalizes it three different ways) carries anti-Black sentiment? This is the event that...
