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<h3>Announcement Box</h3>
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<li><b>2025-10-01</b>: <a href="https://ko-fi.com/s/648137aa42"><i>VALERIE</i> Issue 5</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20251001151532/https://static1.squarespace.com/static/689af5c23b6c22648def13a7/t/68dd25488d7df01c9a548a48/1759323464380/TWV+Vol+1+Issue+4+In+Lieu+of+Flowers.pdf"><i>Total Woman Victory</i> Issue 4</a> are out now! <i>VALERIE</i> covers struggles between mothers and daughters, and <i>Total Woman Victory</i> honors our feminist foremothers, with a special focus on submissions by women in the Global South. Both, of course, are free to download and read.</li>
<li><b>2025-10-01</b>: <a href="https://ko-fi.com/s/648137aa42"><i>VALERIE</i> Issue 5</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20251001151532/https://static1.squarespace.com/static/689af5c23b6c22648def13a7/t/68dd25488d7df01c9a548a48/1759323464380/TWV+Vol+1+Issue+4+In+Lieu+of+Flowers.pdf"><i>Total Woman Victory</i> Volume 1 Issue 4</a> are out now! <i>VALERIE</i> covers struggles between mothers and daughters, and <i>Total Woman Victory</i> honors our feminist foremothers, with a special focus on submissions by women in the Global South. Both, of course, are free to download and read.</li>
<li><b>2025-08-13</b>: Friendly reminder that I have never paywalled ANY of my books and NEVER WILL. Anyone trying to sell you a copy of a book I have written is trying to scam you.</li>
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<td class="snippet">We can summarize these positions about AI and people as follows. <i>Kurzweilians</i> (mythologists about AI, full-stop) wax mystical about machines after the Singularity having consciousness, emotions, motives, and vast intelligence... <i>Russellians</i> want to keep <i>Ex Machina</i> in movies, downsizing talk about superintelligence to more mathematically respectable ideas about general computation achieving "objectives." Unfortunately, Russellians tend to lump human beings into restricted definitions of intelligence, too. This reduces the perceived gap between human and machine, but only by reducing human possibility along with it.</td>
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<td>The Singularity Is Nearer</td>
<td>Ray Kurzweil</td>
<td>Casual</td>
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<td class="snippet">This still assumes that every neuron is necessary for working human cognition, which we know isn't true. There is a large (but still poorly understood) degree of parallelism in the brain, with individual neurons or cortical modules doing redundant work (or work that at least could be duplicated elsewhere). This is evidenced by people's ability to make a full functional recovery after a stroke or brain injury destroys part of their brain. Thus, the computational demands of simulating the <em>cognitively relevant</em> neural structures in our brains are probably even lower than the preceding estimates. And so 10<sup>14</sup> looks conservative as a most likely range. If brain simulation requires computational power in that range, as of 2023, about $1,000 worth of hardware can already achieve this.</td>
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<td>Eric Topol</td>
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<td class="snippet">All that data has to be constantly assembled and analyzed, seamlessly, without being obtrusive to the individual. That means there should not be any manual logging on and off or active effort required. That's not so easy: for example, as I experienced firsthand, there's no method for capturing what food we ingest without manual entry via an app or website. When I did that for two weeks along with exercise and sleep (detailed in Chapter 11), my only solace was that it would only last for two weeks. Any AI coach that would be learning over a period much longer than days could not be predicated on users having to work to input their data.</td>
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<title>At least ten books by women about feminism and violent misogyny</title>
<title>At least ten books by women about feminism and the violent misogyny of men</title>
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<h1>At least ten books by women about feminism and violent misogyny</h1>
<h1>At least ten books by women about feminism and the violent misogyny of men</h1>
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<td class="snippet">The messages that porn disseminates about women can be boiled down to a few essential characteristics: they are always ready for sex and are enthusiastic to do whatever men want, irrespective of how painful, humiliating, or harmful the act is. The word "no" is glaringly absent from porn women's vocabulary. These women seem eager to have their orifices stretched to full capacity and sometimes beyond, and indeed, the more bizarre and degrading the act, the greater the supposed sexual arousal for her. The women who wander through this world are, whether they know it or not, all whores by nature, as they all have a price, often as low as a few bucks (as in "Every bitch will suck cock for a few dollars" or "This slut will do anything for rent money"). Even though these women love to be fucked, they seem to have no sexual imagination of their own: what they want always mirrors what the man wants. This may explain why women in porn spend enormous amounts of time giving men oral sex, yet they rarely expect or demand reciprocity. Actually, the only demands they seem to make involve asking the man to thrust harder and harder.</td>
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<td class="snippet">A similar picture emerged via time-use diary statistics collected by Pew Research and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. In 2000, they found that working women took on around two-thirds of at-home child-care responsibilities, while their male partners did the remaining one-third. Again, women did double the work. And disturbingly, over the past two decades, these figures have held steady.</td>
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<td>Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions</td>
<td>Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie</td>
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<td class="snippet">Many girls remain silent when abused because they want to be nice. Many girls spend too much time trying to be "nice" to people who do them harm. Many girls think of the "feelings" of those who are hurting them. This is the catastrophic consequence of likeability. We have a world full of women who are unable to exhale fully because they have for so long been conditioned to fold themselves into shapes to make themselves likeable.</td>
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<td class="snippet">A canvas a chimpanzee has thrown paint at can sell for thousands. I'm still waiting for one to spell 'eek!'</td>
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<td>Matthew Zapruder</td>
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<td class="snippet">Poets are alchemists of nothingness. They aspire to turn silence, nothingness, absence, into something palpable. To do so, they must first engage in some ritual of refusal. Only through some turning away, be it extreme or small and temporary (closing the door, shutting off the phone and Internet, refusing to respond to e-mails or to do anything usually considered productive at all), does the poet prepare.</td>
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