twisting in the wind

[piranha]

much prettier than when purported neuroscientists who used to work for homeland security in anti-terrorism try to make money off fanficcers by "researching" their kinks.

you should have stuck with game shows, "dr" ogas.

if anyone doesn't know yet what this is about, linkspam as usual is the place to go.

is 2009 just a spectacularly faily year when it comes to sexism or racism, or are we all just getting fed up enough to climb the barricades?

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[matthewdaly]

is 2009 just a spectacularly faily year when it comes to sexism or racism, or are we all just getting fed up enough to climb the barricades?

I doubt that there are more wrong people on the internet than there were two years ago. I mean, broadcasting flawed surveys was probably one of the earliest applications for the net. What seems to be new is decentralizing the message across two hundred blogs (and who knows how many Twitter feeds) instead of staying inside a single zombie thread crossposted to a few Usenet groups, plus the added charge that it actually seems to create positive social change in advanced cases. I also cynically suspect that -Fail is this season's -gate and everyone wants to create one. I can't decide if linkspam is a neat way to give entry points or evidence that the information is so inefficiently dispersed that someone needs to expend the effort to set up signposts.

That is a stunning picture. I'm mesmerized by how pretty your backdrop is.

[ceri]

I was going to say something similar. It's living in history: we've all been handed a lot of extra crap in recent years and things that would have been sloughed off taken on added significance because of the context. Which is to say, if Bush and Cheney hadn't been such monsters, these guys might well have gotten more of a pass. That's the over-simplified version, but (IMHO) basically true. And yeah, we've collectively learned a lot about using the info sharing tools available to us, and about making new ones and modifying existing ones.

[sara]

*snerk* Have I introduced you to my very, very scientific theory that when sunspot activity is down, the sun instead emits failions? They have no relationship whatsoever to global warming, but they do cause people to say extremely stupid things on the internets and in various media outlets.

[crantz]

2008 wasn't much better.