You know there was a time in 2003'ish when it was so hard to find anyone writing anything useful about Lisp, and so sometimes I'd read things Paul Graham would write with interest

Christine Lemmer-Webber

But this article, The Origins of Wokeness, is so *incredibly bad* it hurts my brain to read it https://paulgraham.com/woke.html

Christine Lemmer-Webber

> Was it sexist to propose that Darwin's greater male variability hypothesis might explain some variation in human performance? Sexist enough to get Larry Summers pushed out as president of Harvard, apparently.

oh my god

> And yet it does seem plausible that greater male variability explains some of the variation in human performance. So which should prevail, comfort or truth?

what the fuck

Asta [AMP]

@[email protected] you know what, I'm gonna be nice to myself and not read this, I think.

Christine Lemmer-Webber

Oh cool he's saying "the Bud Light brand might have been permanently damaged" for, wait what was it... having an advertisement with a trans woman

Jason Lefkowitz

@cwebber Graham is such an archetypal tech figure, in that he has interesting-slash-useful opinions on a small range of narrowly technical topics, and the further he ranges out from inside that charmed circle the more depressingly ignorant he is revealed to be. But he's been crowned a Philosopher, so he can't help himself from leaving the circle. The demands of his social role carry him ruthlessly to the rocks

Stefano Zacchiroli

@cwebber do you need help to stop reading that (also incredible long) piece? should we send someone? *g* *hugs* (I, for one thing, thank you for saving me from reading it…)

Christine Lemmer-Webber

@zacchiro I didn't even manage to read all of it

I just scrolled and read a few paragraphs and skipped more and read a few paragraphs and skipped more and everything I read was completely rancid