In Snowcrash (the Stephenson novel, right?), it was a flotilla of the poor.

This current travesty sounds more like a Ballard novel.  Sadly, it didn’t end like one. 

Yeah, medicine should never care what you identify as, just what your body actually is. I mean, sure, socially the docs and nurses ought to address you as whatever you ask them to, but it’s medically important that you also tell them what you actually are.

This is absolutely idiotic. It does not matter that it can’t determine if someones gender is male or female. It matters that the technology exists in general. Its scary tech and needs to be watched in kind with regards to how it is used. It is not labeling “a non-binary” person (something that does not exist) and…

Sigh, super unpopular facts incoming, please hear me out.

I’m a medical student who just passed forensic medicine. My good friend works in the field of archaeological forensics. Her team is specialized in identifying the remains on archaeological sites, but also in mass graves from the recent war in my country.

Most…

From a technical point of view, in this case the machine learning is mostly likely using a neural net to do these classifications and neural nets only give categorizations, they don’t give probabilities. In fact you can’t even really tell what variables are influencing the prediction or by how much, it really is a…

Vampire Weekend’s discography is the official soundtrack of gentrification  

The golden ring of hell.

“testosterone can confer a slight edge to women athletes”

Melt Man! With the power to... melt.

I’m so sorry that happened to your mom and aunt. It’s not her fault- as I’m sure she logically knows. 

Me too.  My mom brought home measles from school when she was 8.  Three days later her 2 year old sister was dead from measles based encephalitis.   My mom was there after raised as an only child,  who held her breath all night to see what it felt like to die.   The guilt lives on with her 62 years later. 

There is no part of Jewish law that says you shouldn’t vaccinate. In fact I’d go as far as saying it’s a general commandment to stay healthy and furthermore you can break any Jewish law if it is to save a life.

Of course, they never, ever talk with any actual autistic people. To them, if we don’t come out normal and perfect, we are ruined.

“Oooooh so you’re a Jersey Girl?!” Translation: I still don’t know what this means because no one ever has a real answer when I ask.

Name-puns are the lowest form of humor, but...

My god, this is something I never knew I wanted, but also don’t know if I should be trusted to have. I’m buying the lip palette at the least, to hell with it!

I’m sorry, what? What? Makeup... crayons...?

Feinstein isn’t a Boomer. She was born in 1933. Her daughter is a Boomer.

I doubt I’ll ever get out of the grays but I should have been aborted. My mother made the choice to get pregnant and, when he found out, my dad pleaded with her to terminate. He knew she could not mentally withstand the pregnancy. Sure enough, her pregnancy triggered some PTSD from the Vietnam War that resulted in her…

Thank you for sharing this. It’s not often that stories can fundamentally change the way I feel about a subject, but this one did. I am so grateful my wife and I did not have to go through such an experience, and am truly sorry that you had to.