Clarissa's Blog
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An academic's opinions on feminism, politics, literature, philosophy, teaching, academia, and a lot more.
Clarissa's Blog
1d ago
Get married. Seriously, do. Let me explain. Why do women not have a fulfilling sex life? Because they try to get something in exchange for sex. This is fulfilling for a very small number of women with a very specific disorder. The rest don’t have the capacity physically to enjoy transactional sex. Unlike men, they ..read more
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1d ago
There’s a debate raging on X regarding economic opportunities. One side argues that they are fantastic while the other isn’t feeling upbeat about the economic prospects of the younger generations. I’m observing the debate with sadness because we keep reinventing the wheel instead of using the existing knowledge to move ahead. The erosion of the ..read more
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1d ago
The only voice notes I listen to are work-related because I have no choice. Otherwise, they are rude and inconvenient. I have to be in a place where I can turn on sound which is almost never. They aren’t searchable, so I have to either annotate or re-listen. In a communication between boss and a ..read more
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2d ago
North Korean soldiers are proving to be extremely effective. They are even effective against FPV drones. North Koreans come out against the drones in groups of 3, where one of the soldiers acts as bait to let the other two destroy the drone. They are stoic and indifferent to losses. Once wounded, they blow themselves ..read more
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2d ago
This is a description of the Diamond Jubilee of 1897 from WB Maxwell’s Victorian novel Vivien ..read more
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2d ago
Another round of #MeTootery was unleashed on the unsuspecting public regarding a writer called Neil Gaiman. The writer who is being #MeTooted sounds like a right bastard. The women accusing him go straight from “It was consensual (and wonderful)!” (a direct quote) to “It was rape!” All of the ingredients of the story are as ..read more
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3d ago
As more AI-written texts flood the public space, people will feel an increasingly strong need to be certain that the texts they spend their time reading are written by actual humans. They will withhold trust and interest unless they are completely certain that they are reading human texts. What people will look for is what ..read more
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3d ago
Almost everything I saw on the woke left that I hated — the lemming-like groupthink, the embrace and promotion of weird conspiracies, the endless waxing and waning and birthing and rebirthing of moral panics, the refusal to leave the warm embrace of the echo chamber, the collective and ramshackle rationalizations, the cognitive rigidity, the refusal ..read more
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3d ago
When I saw the image, I thought it was St Louis. It’s always that empty. Hasn’t started booming yet because there’s nobody to boom. It’s just kind of dead. NYC honking was iconic and a measure of how full of life the city was. Also, I’ve got to say, $9 a day is not painful ..read more
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3d ago
Not to be a purist, but isn’t “front hole” supposed to refer to the… well, something more front-positioned than the cervix? I’m just worried these doctors will start looking for distanced cervixes at a great distance from where they tend to be located ..read more