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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️@ashleylynch.bsky.social · 2d ago

Suddenly all those "people unsure if Mamdani should attend 9/11 ceremony" articles comes into focus. It's a blatant racist attack to distract from the fact that they knowingly covered up health hazards because money wasn't flowing.

AFP News Agency@en.afp.com · 2d ago

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced the release of tens of thousands of documents showing the city did not disclose all it knew about air toxicity after the 9/11 attacks u.afp.com/Sj5u

ashley fairbanks@ziibiing.com · 21h ago

i feel like we just need to admit to a lot of young people that our systems completely failed them. we let digital tools in the classroom and social media algorithms use them like lab rats and now half of them cannot have a basic, polite human interaction.

Paul Byrne@theplanetaryguy.com · 2d ago

Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).

A crescent Moon seen during the day, arcing from upper left to lower right of the frame. At lower centre is the full disk of Jupiter; the small dots to its upper left and lower right and Io and Ganymede, respectively.
Sam@samd.bsky.social · yesterday

one thing I will add here is that I am relatively agnostic on the actual tactics needed to beat the far right, because they change across different national and temporal contexts in Hungary, the center-right beat the far right. in Canada, it was the center. in Spain, it was the left

Sam@samd.bsky.social · 2d ago

liberal democracies really need to unite in defense of liberal democracy to counter the global fascist movement that has emerged and is funded by tech billionaires

ー ozmanthus@ozmanthus.art · 2d ago

when we can move past using fatness as shorthand for being evil, or greedy, or perverted, or disgusting, or everything wrong in the world, or a joke, we will achieve world peace but this will never happen

⌞adler.🫀@claymorewielding.bsky.social · 2d ago

[ tw: antiblackness + racism ] additional reminder that the co-creator of the mbti test (isabel briggs-myers) was not only eugenicistic and had no formal sociopsychological training, but was also profoundly antiblack and racist. so consider not using mbti for personality tests 👍

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PunchElf ((comms open))@punchelf.bsky.social · 2d ago

I see a WoLQOTD going around about MBTI types so this is as good a time as any to remind people that MBTI was developed by fake-scientist eugenicists and has zero basis in actual psychological research

Sena Bryer@senabryer.com · yesterday

A regular reminder though that Nintendo is one of the most anti-union companies in all of gaming. They have only ever paid a union contract for their VAs on one game in all of their history (Kid Icarus: Uprising). If you really support voice actors, show it.

The Onion@theonion.com · 2d ago

“Humanity has never faced a more deadly carrier of disease and bacteria than children, and their total removal is a massive medical breakthrough and a milestone in the management of illness in this country,” — Jane Christiansen, CDC spokesperson

CDC Successfully Eradicates Children

ATLANTA—Hailing its success as a major victory for the public health and safety of all Americans, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Monday that it had successfully eradicated ch...

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DAVE 🔥@shadowbingers.bsky.social · 2d ago

people have already elaborated on the very explicit antiblackness / eugenics the MBTI takes root in the qrp’s, but here’s a segment that elaborates a bit on why it has zero basis in psychological research + why its actually Complete Horseshit at gauging personality.

One particular measure of personality types deserves consideration here, if for no other reason than because it is so popular. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is given to millions of people every year in workplaces, schools, counseling centers, and management workshops. And not for free. The MBTI is a big business, with certified trainers and a network of marketers selling it as an ideal guide for career guidance and self-development. It's very possible you have already encountered it yourself. In case you haven't, here is what it is like. The MBTI presents 166 items that force the test taker to make choices such as, "Which word in each pair appeals to you more? (a) Sociable (b) Detached." The test is intended to measure which of two opposing tendencies, in four pairs, better characterize you. The four pairs are Extroversion" (E) vs. Introversion (I), Sensing (S) vs. Intuition (N), Thinking (T) vs. Feeling (F), and Judgment (I vs. Perception (P). The final result places you into one of 16 possible personality types, so you might be described as an ESTJ or and ISTJ or some other combination. The test's popularity stems, in part, from the seemingly rich and intriguing descriptions that it offers. An EST], for example, is described as someone who reacts to the world rather than what is in her head, focuses on what can be seen rather than on her intuitions, is rational rather than emotional, and makes decisions by thinking and feeling, rather than by sensing and intuiting. The fact that many of the items on the MBTI are vague and difficult to answer seems to give the impression that it offers especially deep insight. Another reason for the test's popularity is probably that there are no bad scores, something that the tests authors have been quite explicit about. Each type is a "different gift" so nobody is ever unhappy with their test results. That's wonderful, I suppose, but it does not make the MBTI very useful for selection or predicting life outcomes.The MBTI has been criticized on other grounds as well (for a summary see Pittinger, 1993). Perhaps the most obvious problem is the same one that was described a few paragraphs ago and illustrated in Figure 6.7. The scores on the various scales of the MBTI are distributed normally, not bimodally, which means that two people both classified as E could be more different from each other than Two people who are classified as E and I. A second problem is that although MBTI types are described as fundamental aspects of personality, the measurement is not reliable, in the sense described in Chapter 2. Specifically, it you were to be categorized as one type today, and you take the test again in five weeks, there is about a 50% chance you will be categorized as a different type, especially it you are in a different mood (Howes & Carskadon, 1979). Finally, the whole theory of using types for occupational guidance assumes that different MBTI types follow, persist in, or succeed in different lines of work. Yet there is no evidence this is so (Pittinger, 1993). For example, the ESTJ type is sometimes described as well suited for the teaching profession, but about 12 percent of the population are EST's, and so are about 12 percent of all teachers! So perhaps the MBTI should carry a label, "for entertainment purposes only." Because, indeed, many people seem to find learning their MBTI types to be enjoyable. Then again, many people enjoy reading their horoscopes too.
PunchElf ((comms open))@punchelf.bsky.social · 2d ago

I see a WoLQOTD going around about MBTI types so this is as good a time as any to remind people that MBTI was developed by fake-scientist eugenicists and has zero basis in actual psychological research

sylvie ʚ♡ɞ@luvcore.bsky.social · 2d ago

when you bake chocolate chip cookies and you pull them out of the oven and the edges are golden brown but the rest of the cookie is still pale brown and they're very soft and you think "i should cook these for another couple of minutes" DO NOT DO IT. THAT IS THE DEVIL SPEAKING. TAKE THEM OUT NOW.