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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • Our brains are masterful at categorizing information and externalizing information for efficiency (i.e. wow your car smells like my babysitter’s car from when I was 4—that’s weird, she drove us to the beach and we rode in rowboats in the pond and fed ducks that day).

    If you want actual scientific discourse on this, I implore you to look into social psychology, which presents this in a brilliant little pipeline.

    Stereotypes emerge from a “kernel of truth”—which may be false, socially constructed, or only true in a narrow context. When generalized, they become prejudice (pre-judging), which leads to discrimination. When embedded in systems, this discrimination reinforces racism, sexism, and other structural inequalities.

    Thanks for coming to my ted talk.


    Importantly, this is not just a U.S. issue—it’s a human issue. Our brains naturally categorize to conserve cognitive resources, making this tendency easy to exploit without proper education. And it is exploited—everywhere. From the gendered pricing of products like women’s razors to the way news stories frame subjects based on race or class, these biases shape perception and reinforce systemic inequalities across societies.





  • If you’ll be running Linux and trying to use steam to run games, at all, avoid the 14th gen is.

    If not, the 14th gen i9 is your bet.

    Something with Proton, the layer that makes steam work with Linux, has been causing tons of people a lot of grief myself included. Any games that rely heavily on vulkan shaders will cause my whole system to crash under heavy load. It’s a known thing and Intel still seems clueless as to what to do to resolve it, afaik.










  • Syllogism.

    A categorical syllogism consists of three parts:

    Major Premise

    Minor premise

    Conclusion/Consequent

    Each part is a categorical proposition, and each categorical proposition contains two categorical terms.[13] In Aristotle, each of the premises is in the form “All S are P,” “Some S are P”, “No S are P” or “Some S are not P”, where “S” is the subject-term and “P” is the predicate-term:

    “All S are P,” and “No S are P” are termed universal propositions;

    “Some S are P” and “Some S are not P” are termed particular propositions.

    More modern logicians allow some variation. Each of the premises has one term in common with the conclusion: in a major premise, this is the major term (i.e., the predicate of the conclusion); in a minor premise, this is the minor term (i.e., the subject of the conclusion). For example:

    Major premise: All humans are mortal.

    Minor premise: All Greeks are humans.

    Conclusion/Consequent: All Greeks are mortal.

    Each of the three distinct terms represents a category. From the example above, humans, mortal, and Greeks: mortal is the major term, and Greeks the minor term. The premises also have one term in common with each other, which is known as the middle term; in this example, humans. Both of the premises are universal, as is the conclusion.

    Major premise: All mortals die.

    Minor premise: All men are mortals.

    Conclusion/Consequent: All men die.

    Here, the major term is die, the minor term is men, and the middle term is mortals. Again, both premises are universal, hence so is the conclusion.