Interesting Links for 05-02-2021

[andrewducker]

The "Brain in a jar" approach to transgender theory

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1357147969049423872.html
(tags:lgbt transgender gender psychology )

Ministers refusing to open talks to solve Brexit exports crisis to make EU feel 'pain', industry leader says

(tags:UK Europe trade OhForFucksSake )

The neo-Troubles and media manipulation (what's going on with Northern Ireland right now)

(tags:UK Europe trade NorthernIreland Ireland borders )

Joanna Cherry and other Alex Salmond supporters are waging civil war within SNP at precisely the wrong time

(tags:snp bigotry LGBT politics Scotland )

Why the UK is still arguing about Brexit, and is likely to continue doing so indefinitely

(tags:UK Europe NorthernIreland borders trade video )

Google doesn't want to tell Apple users how it's violating their privacy

(tags:Apple Google privacy )

Egg consumption lowers risk of coronary artery disease.

(tags:eggs heart health )

Things British people do that baffle people

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1357329669981413376.html
(tags:UK weird )

Animation shows week in life of blue whale as it tries to avoid fishing ship congestion

(tags:wales ocean visualisation video ship )

How will the global computer chip shortage affect you?

(tags:cpu manufacturing fail )

Brian Bolland on Alan Moore and the Killing Joke

(tags:art comics alanmoore history batman )

Oumuamua: Avi Loeb says it's aliens. Every other astronomer disagrees. Here's why.

(tags:space astronomy aliens )

Who fancies some Victorian superhero women (a trailer for "The Nevers")

(tags:tv women trailer superheroes victorian )

Nevada bill would allow tech companies to create governments

(tags:USA business government )

"Not enough dead people" say Conservatives

(tags:UK pandemic conservatives OhForFucksSake )

There's been an alarming number of infections among care home residents who have received only one dose of the Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine.

(tags:vaccination UK Doom pandemic )

Comments

[heron61]

"The "Brain in a jar" approach to transgender theory" It's all good until it hit the bit about gender being intrinsic rather than learned. While that's possible, the example of boys with botched circumcisions proves absolutely nothing about gender being innate - we know for a fact that children start absorbing cultural gender info as soon as they are born, between the fact that the parents all knew that the child they were raising has previously been assigned male, the fact that the child had been treated as male from birth until circumcision, and the child knowing something drastic had happened to their body, all this proves is that reassigning a child's gender in this fashion fails badly, it doesn't tell you why.

[cmcmck]

While you are right about cultural gender, I hated that learning process because I knew that it was wrong and transitioned at fifteen (now sixtysomething).

It's amazing how that stuff can be unlearned and a new set of acculturation learned, but I suspect that I didn't really have all that much to learn (I was born with the condition PAIS which wasn't picked up on until very much later).

The guy in that original, deeply flawed John Money research, David Reimer, was a very sad case. A delightful man who couldn't cope with any of it afterwards (he untransitioned and tried to re-adapt) and eventually committed suicide.

[momentsmusicaux]

And there's also that brains aren't intrinsically gendered: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00677-x

[andrewducker]

That book is heavily disagreed with. And heavily agreed with.

Have a professor of neuroscience disagreeing with it for instance.

There's certainly no general agreement amongst neuroscientists as far as I understand it.

[momentsmusicaux]

Well one article is published by Nature, and the other by a site that was started by a graduate drop-out, whose About page sounds a bit laboured to me.

[andrewducker]

That's one written by a "professor in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior" Vs one written by a "professor emeritus of cognitive neuroimaging".

[cmcmck]

Although I bet there isn't one written by anyone who lives inside a trans body! :o)

[andrewducker]

I suspect not!

Which is a shame, as I'd love their perspective.

[heron61]

Nevada bill would allow tech companies to create governments Nothing says cyberpunk dystopia quite like corporations forming goverments - ugh.

[agoodwinsmith]

This. Remember company towns? Wait 'til you've got company counties. "I owe my soul to the company store." Nononono.

[rhythmaning]

'"Not enough dead people" say Conservatives'...

You'd have thought the third time around they might have reflected how coming out of lockdowns #1 and #2 went and maybe considered doing something a bit more measured...

Do they really have such short memories? Or is it just they themselves are likely to be safe and the rest of us don't count?

Jeez.

[andrewducker]

There appear to be a group of them who don't really believe it's all that bad, and that things would be fine if we just bulldozed through it.

[agoodwinsmith]

Yep. We're not even worth defrauding.

[calimac]

I clicked on "Alan Moore and the Killing Joke" hoping that it would explain what Alan Moore, whom I know only from Watchmen and V for Vendetta, had to do with a certain famous Monty Python sketch. No such luck.

[andrewducker]

Alas not.