[of course this is not a jibe at genuine feminists, embarrassed by the label, like Based Mom, Mercedes Carrera, Ayaan Hirsi Ali et al. They know what I mean]
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May 22, 2015
The Heirarchy Of Sciences
Posted by franc under conspiracists, cults, gender feminism, identity politics, misandry, pseudo-history, stupidity, yellow journalism | Tags: amanda marcotte, Andrea Dworkin, balloons full of cottage cheese, Catharine Mackinnon, PZ Myers, Rebecca Watson, sabrina erdely, The Beached Whale, The Prune, The short fat prick |Leave a Comment
May 20, 2015
The Short Fat Prick’s Latest Comedy Routine
Posted by franc under cults, great idiots of the world, Jacobins, moral panic, new new atheism, propaganda, pseudo-skepticism, shrieking hysteria, social justive warriors, yellow journalism | Tags: baboons, freethoughtblogs, Pharyngula, PZ Myers |[5] Comments
May 5, 2015
Fixing The Internet For Social Justice Warrior Petals
Posted by franc under censorship, cults, gender feminism, identity politics, information technology, internet | Tags: echo chambers, fuck off and leave us alone, Ministry of Truth, safe spaces, thought police |Leave a Comment
Inside North Korea’s Naenara Browser
Up until a few weeks ago, the number of people outside of North Korea who gave much thought to the Internet infrastructure in that country was vanishingly small. But the speculation about the Sony hack has fixed that, and now a security researcher has taken a hard look at the national browser used in North Korea and found more than a little weirdness.
The Naenara browser is part of the Red Star operating system used in North Korea and it’s a derivative of an outdated version of Mozilla Firefox. The country is known to tightly control the communications and activities of its citizens and that extends online, as well. Robert Hansen, vice president of WhiteHat Labs at WhiteHat Security, and an accomplished security researcher, recently got a copy of Naenara and began looking at its behavior, and he immediately realized that every time the browser loads, its first move is to make a request to a non-routable IP address, http://10.76.1.11. That address is not reachable from networks outside the DPRK. (more…)
May 1, 2015
Hitch: On The Origin Of Social Justice Warriors
Posted by franc under cults, gender feminism, identity politics, liberal, moral panic, politics, shrieking hysteria, slacktivism, social justive warriors, socialism | Tags: 60s, Christopher Hitchens |[10] Comments
This is what a cunt looks like
If your daily digest of raw information consists primarily of the illiterati blog industry – because, y’know, you’re a rebel and you know everything else is a construct of Western patriarchal hegemony, weaving lies and illusions to prop up their shaky, unjust and corrupt machinery of oppression (aka the status quo) – then no doubt you will know Christopher Hitchens was an establishment loving, warmongering fascist1.
OTOH, those that can tie their own shoelaces may beg to disagree and point out that Hitchens possessed an intellect that was in a constant state of flux2 voraciously absorbing new information and updating the old on the fly and that to brand him with any fixed ideology or belief system (not to be confused with disbelief system) was quite simply not possible. And the more attentive will also point out that there was a time when Hitch was similarly painted as a card-carrying Trotskyite activist / pamphleteer / smash-the-state revolutionary.
April 15, 2015
Viewed At A Sufficient Distance, All Ideological Maniacs Look The Same
Posted by franc under censorship, cranks, cults, disinformation, gender feminism, Jacobins, new new atheism, propaganda, pseudo-history, pseudo-skepticism, yellow journalism | Tags: baboons, david irving, Deborah Lipstadt, freethoughtblogs, holocaust, neonazis, Penguin Books, PZ Myers, revisionism, Richard J. Evans, skepchick, Social Justice Warriors |Leave a Comment
“Reputable and professional historians do not suppress parts of quotations from documents that go against their own case, but take them into account and if necessary amend their own case accordingly. They do not present as genuine documents those that they know to be forged just because these forgeries happen to back up what they are saying. They do not invent ingenious but implausible and utterly unsupported reasons for distrusting genuine documents because these documents run counter their arguments; again, they amend their arguments if this is the case, or abandon them altogether. They do not consciously attribute their own conclusions to books and other sources which, in fact, on closer inspection, actually say the opposite. They do not eagerly seek out the highest possible figures in a series of statistics, independently of their reliability or otherwise, simply because they want for whatever reason to maximize the figure in question, but rather, they assess all the available figures as impartially as possible in order to arrive at a number that will withstand the critical scrutiny of others. They do not knowingly mistranslate sources in foreign languages to make them more serviceable to themselves. They do not willfully invent words, phrases, quotations, incidents, and events for which there is no historical evidence to make their arguments more plausible to their readers.
“At least, they do not do any of these things if they wish to retain any kind of reputable status as historians.” (more…)
August 28, 2014
Online Harassment: Reporting Threats Is Only Half The Job
Posted by franc under conspiracists, cults, disinformation, gender feminism, great idiots of the world, hyperreality, misandry, moral panic, propaganda, shrieking hysteria, social sites, Uncategorized, yellow journalism | Tags: anita sarkeesian, attention whores, gaming, making shit up, quinnspiracy, Rebecca Watson, skepchick |[19] Comments
Yes, if the “threats” are credible, people do go to jail
A British woman has been told to expect a jail sentence after being convicted of the misogynist trolling of a feminist campaigner, adding new fuel to the debate over freedom of speech on social networks.
In the case that prompted Twitter to introduce a ‘report abuse’ button, 23-year-old Isabella Sorley and 25-year-old John Nimmo both pleaded guilty to sending menacing messages via a public electronic communications network. Sorley, who has numerous previous convictions for being drunk and disorderly, has been told she faces jail, while Nimmo is likely to receive a non-custodial sentence.
The pair had, separately, targeted Caroline Criado-Perez, who last year successfully campaigned for novelist Jane Austen to appear on English banknotes. Sorley tweeted: “I’ve only just got out of prison and would happily do more time to see you berried!!” and ‘Rape?! I’d do a lot worse things than rape you!!” — [Forbes.com] (more…)
August 8, 2014
Self-Fulfilling Prophecies: Auto-Objectification
Posted by franc under cults, disinformation, gender feminism, great idiots of the world, hyperreality, internet, misandry, moral panic, nihilism, propaganda, social sites, stupidity | Tags: fembots, hashtag activists, I'd boink that, identity studies, Jezebel, leering, monkey-see-monkey-do, objectification, ogling, PETA, pudgy pink things, slacktivism, Tumblr, Twitter, vegans, wank fodder |[7] Comments
More useful than an entire identity studies department
The kind of activism undertaken when you “do something” about a problem by tweeting or posting links to Facebook, without any intent of ever actually doing something. Nothing more than a nonsense feelgood gesture so that one can say they “did something about” whatever trendycause they’re pretending to care about. Usually only lasts a week or two before the cause is completely forgotten (i.e. it stops being cool to forward / retweet on the subject).
EXAMPLE: “I forwarded a video about some unspeakable atrocities in a country I didn’t know existed until I watched the video. My hashtag activism is going to accomplish something!” – [UrbanDictionary]
When my partner Richard and I joined the Kings of Code Hack Battle at the Next Web Europe Conference in Amsterdam last week, we knew that we wanted to make an app that would stand in stark contrast to the infamously misogynist “Tit staring app” from TechCrunch Disrupt last year. It’s about time that we change the “dude” culture of programming into a progressive group that builds apps for social change […] (more…)
