Notices by Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ (arossp@mastodon.social)

On the far-right origins of the "adult human female” definition of "woman” popular among gender-critical philosophers. https://contingentmagazine.org/2019/10/01/transphobia-philosophy/

This, from @jbouie, is exactly right. And what makes it worse is that the cultural values so many of these parents want to force upon schools are in fact bad and immoral and, to the extent they become more widely represented in our society, the lower and more vicious our society becomes. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/28/opinion/parents-rights-republicans-florida.html?unlocked_article_code=bJ_49bcVvUI_58WtG9TLPyBVR-D4ssqQ9bXTyhHytAtFaYiaj2hATf0GVVZZuhKqZ5P5d6POzOiAhigTPVibOgjMwnW2G4-loBvQh8J7lL8DMd12sDmHNGaAA7l6h7lsH9o-1Dq1xTwHOLyttVEblZAKlhS6AS5er2cBUk5zoZJfRg8KzyrwQiUFK8mmZ-WWdD5eXONkTnPOWn6_km8e0rP8ZF11W4kG7JMAQb1VZgXMrRoI3Jg0IpYbcsZtweZ9GgslP4BD8Ma6eN5xE5cr0JRfEiUXd5zPjh6DCiK80B5MmqPHWwKTicXtszXknKSnIOnYBZ1U8QcdRpOrDDJdIXMqz3D02aHbeV6QGQ&smid=url-share

At the thrift store I found "Sherlock: An Autobiography," and it is the self-published musings of a guy who was in the Navy, worked for the phone company, and then retired with a lot of thoughts, and it is crazy and my new favorite thing. He doesn't care for rock and roll, thinks insurance and interest are scams, is mad about soybean oil, and has pages on thermodynamics. He ends with his favorite sayings, including "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush" and "Mind your own business."

After over a decade on Twitter, I find it almost unsettling how nice people are in their disagreement with me on Mastodon. I mean, keep it up, 'cause it's way more healthy, and quite pleasant and fruitful, but it's going to take me a bit to get used to the paucity of vitriol.

The anti-trans crusade on the right is evil, and centrists who give it oxygen by "just asking questions" or hand-wringing about (discredited) worries of social contagion etc. are useful idiots for evil.

There's always a tweet.

Protocols, not platforms. That we let ourselves get suckered into platforms over protocols is one of the biggest unforced errors in the history of the net, and if Musk makes that widely obvious, it will be a significant silver lining in his sophomoric conflagration.