A Door on Other Time

Title is from Tolkien's "On Fairy Stories". Handle means "storyteller" in Nahuatl. This'll mostly be about pop culture, linguistics, philosophy, history, and other things that interest me, but also about writing.

[tlaquetzqui]

[binturong-of-the-day]

The binturong of saudade

[mister-merica]

[1americanconservative]

[tlaquetzqui]

Bad neighbors make good fences.

[redwhtnblue2020]

[tlaquetzqui]

All they have to do is get rid of the AI part. They’re in public so privacy isn’t a factor, but currently the AI hallucinates reasons to hold people suspect. Get rid of that and it just becomes an adjunct to cops following the normal rules—if you have a reason to stop someone, you have a reason to check the video of them. No psychotic chatbot imagining you have a reason, though.

[basedererer]

[traveler733]

The Diversity Blindspot

The Arday illusion: academia’s shameful infatuation with the diversity poster boy.

[retired-extremely-dangerous]

[diversityland]

"White" male Kaleb Turkustani (Saudi Arabian) was charged with killing Louijice Camille, a 17 year old black male, during a sweet 16 birthday party in Boynton Beach, Florida. This will appear in future state and federal crime statistic polling as a white on black murder.

[tlaquetzqui]

Government definition of “white” explicitly includes Middle Eastern (as it should), so this one isn’t an example of misclassifying nonwhite criminals.

[diversityland]

"Results from the study suggest whites are disproportionately portrayed as criminals five to eight times more often on police dramas compared to actual crime statistics for the city of New York, and exposure to police dramas leads to elevated perceptions of white criminality among non-whites.”

[diversityland]

Rep. Emily Randall (D-WA): “White men are committing disproportionate rates of violence in this country.”

[tlaquetzqui]

…Disproportionately low?

[diversityland]

"56-year-old husband and father Fredrick Lytton was working alongside 23-year-old Devin Rice at a U-Haul facility in West Nashville.

The two men were reportedly arguing about a soda when Fredrick Lytton walked away from the verbal dispute, returning to his work station. Moments later, Devin Rice walked up behind Lytton, pulled out a handgun, and emptied it into Lytton's back, killing him. Point blank murder, on the job, in broad daylight, over an argument about a soda that Lytton had already walked away from.

It's been a week since the murder and, as usual with white victims, there has been zero national coverage. Numerous local media have covered the story. Zero have published the victim's photograph."

[diversityland]

[yourtoradorasextendedwarranty]

"Trust the Experts" This 2020 headline is from a "Science" section of a New Media outlet. I see no science here.

This is what a fucking cult looks like.

[diversityland]

[xredthedeadx]

Feminism has to become way more violent if we want to see the parriarchy end. We will no longer debate it, if your movement doesn't include intersectional and anticapitalist feminism, we will tear it apart.

[tlaquetzqui]

You don’t debate now, you just make pronouncements and expect everyone to fall in line.

[faggotfungus]