Interesting Links for 01-12-2022

[andrewducker]

1. 1 in 4 US hiring managers say they are less likely to move forward with Jewish applicants

(tags:usa Jews bigotry jobs OhForFucksSake )

2. A list of practical feminist behaviours for men

(tags:men feminism advice )

3. Copyright, cost, and ageing code: why some games disappear from Steam

(tags:games history copyright )

4. Ofgem reveals plan for cheaper, cleaner electricity supplies

(tags:electricity renewables UK thefuture )

5. Twitter Thrills Far-Right Trolls by Silencing Left-Wing Voices

(tags:Twitter censorship ElonMusk )

6. Disney's new neural network can change an actor's age with ease

(tags:age cgi ai Disney )

Comments

[dewline]

1. And still the cruelty + stupidity...

2. Thanks. Been doing the work imperfectly, I suspect. The reminders of what's good practice do matter.

3. Some tragedy, some cruelty, some...not sure what to make of it.

5. Yep. Been seeing the consequences of some of that toxic behaviour. ("Shitty" doesn't go far enough in naming the evils going on here.)

[bens_dad]

6. Faces re-aged well, but they appear not to have attempted to re-age the hair. I noticed one of the alternative ageing methods *did* age the hair and that seemed much more convincing to me.

[ My PhD was in this area; interesting to see what is being done now. ]

[calimac]

2) This is a good list, though I am a bit uncomfortable with #35, "Self-identify as a feminist." I don't think it's up to men to decide whether they qualify as feminists, owing in part to too many self-identified feminist men who turned out to be nothing of the kind (cf Joss Whedon). They've kind of spoiled the self-puffery inherent in such self-identification. The most I say is that I do my best to support feminist causes, and I don't think it's an evasive dismissal of the word I actually used to put it that way.