by Carl Howard | Dec 1, 2015 | Ethics
Years ago the place I worked would send out EDMs for Father’s/Mother’s Day to a database had around 40,000 users, who would get a message like “treat your father to XYZ this Father’s Day”. What do you think happened? We’d always get a few replies like “my father just...
by Carl Howard | Nov 16, 2015 | Ethics, History, Race
Instead of a direct answer, a parable. Conversation the first: Alice: Australia has a gender wage gap of 17.9%. This is caused by sexism! Bob: [Pats Alice on head] Au contraire my naive friend! Actually, there are some excellent reasons for the wage gap that are the...
by Carl Howard | Nov 3, 2015 | Atrocities and Oppression, Ethics, Feminism and LGBT, History, Resources, Food and Environment
In a village north of the Longgang Zhen (the town) in Yangxin county. The hand-painted white text on the wall (below the pig-breeder’s ad) apparently threatens village women who’ve exceeded the two-child limit with tubal ligation. [CN: Reproductive coercion, crimes...
by Carl Howard | Oct 13, 2015 | Biases and Fallacies, Charity and Philanthropy, Resources, Food and Environment, Society
The Abbott government introduced a new page in Australian tax assessments that provides a breakdown of where your taxes go. I’m not sure whose idea it was but I really like the concept. It might be one of the only positive achievements of Abbott’s 726 days in office....
by Carl Howard | Sep 29, 2015 | Atrocities and Oppression, Ethics, Race, Science and Skepticism
[CN: Racism and racist violence (esp. in the video)] Itamar Rose is an Israeli who makes satirical social experiment films on issues considered taboo and contentious [largely to an Israeli audience]. Some examples of videos he was involved in: Seeing how many...
by Carl Howard | Sep 22, 2015 | Feminism and LGBT, Science and Skepticism
The last 12 months have seen a lot of media coverage of women’s representation in gaming, coding and the tech industry. Most of the steps so far have been cultural (eg. responses to Gamergate) but there has been some direct action. The loudest being Intel pledging...
