First you stop teaching science in schools. Then you trumpet personhood and call women who get abortions murderers. Then you criminalize miscarriage. Then you have assholes who know nothing about how reproduction actually works declare themselves in charge of both regulating it and explaining it to the idiot…

Okay. Let's get real.

She's flown under the radar for a long time; I only knew about her because I went to this futurist conference about a year ago. I think she's just now making a more concerted effort to get publicity for the transhumanist (the term for all her futuristic ideas about the Singularity etc) stuff, so you'll maybe be seeing…

Also I am working my way through the article and this is what Bina48 looks like:

While her views on transhumanism are absolutely fascinating, I think I'd rather just have my head stuck in a jar and get fed twice a day than just have some robot clone pretend to be me. Get on it, science!

After reading this yesterday, I couldn't escape the feeling of how weird it was that I had never heard of her before. Maybe I just don't pay enough attention to tech CEOs (very possible) but she's so fascinating and successful, it's amazing to me that she's not more of a mainstream name. Truly phenomenal person.

Crush level: Knope.

Someone's going to do it...

LOL at "my exquisite cheekbones."

I'm getting so tired of the "Real men do X" thing. "Real men" hit women. "Real men" rape women. "Real men" make excuses for other real men hitting and raping women. "Real men" also (and overwhelmingly) don't hit women, don't rape women, and condemn men who do. They're all "real men." That is the damn problem. I don't…

What a shallow, cynical, and opportunistic thing to do.

Nonie is obviously just a trophy wife. Hope Viv got a pre-nup!

True love is real and this is the most beautiful thing in the world! These ladies have been together since they were 18- and 19-year-old lesbians in the Midwest in the '40s! Can you even imagine how cool they would be to hang out with? I would be starstruck if I ever met them.

Do you think it will last?

72-year relationship??? WOW.

Hmmm. I'm going to have to say maybe? Education is a factor. Like the places that are most accepting of gay lifestyles and such always contain more people that went to college.

Or they could just skin a bunch of starving orphans and make an ugly-ass bag out of that instead.

I hope that means we never have to see her father again. CREEP.

Their scarves, jewelry and other items can be very pretty, I'll agree with that.

Which makes it more awful/decadent - the blood diamonds or the animal skin?