"According to a major new American Enterprise Institute survey, 46 percent of White Gen Z women are liberal, compared to only 28 percent of White Gen Z men, more of whom (36 percent) now identify as conservative. Norms around sexuality and gender are diverging, too. Whereas 61 percent of Gen Z women see themselves as feminist, only 43 percent of Gen Z men do."
by the Editorial Board, Washington Post (2023)
https://archive.is/2023.11.25-013313/https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/11/22/marriage-polarization-dating-trump/#selection-743.71-747.299
Via @isotopp

My hot take is that perhaps finally sexual selection kicks in and puts some pressure on the white male brain…

There was a similar discussion a while back when it turned out the there are a lot of fascist white men in Eastern Germany and a lot of women just moved to Western Germany.

Now, cause and effect and all that, of course. There are feedback loops, I'm sure. Be a fascist man and therefore have a higher chance of being lonely which makes them maybe a little more fascist, and on it goes. Sadly, compared to political changes, selection is pretty slow. After all, we've had this discussion in 2007.

"Eastern Germany is facing a demographic crisis as huge numbers of women abandon the former communist region leaving behind an underclass of poorly educated, jobless and disillusioned men."
by Kate Connolly, The Guardian (2007)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/jun/01/germany.kateconnolly

And things got worse.

"But frankly, for the more vulnerable among us without German citizenship or even a secure residency status, this nightmare may have already begun."
by Fatma Aydemir, The Guardian (2023)
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/07/far-right-germany-afd-minorities

The app is called “Chess NO ADS” and I like it. Their privacy policy is also great:

“For this reason, as a company, we do not want to have anything to do with the business of collecting and selling personal data.
With this in mind, our privacy policy is extremely simple: this app collects absolutely NO personal information.”

https://www.chesstiger.com/iphone/About_privacy_en.html

Do you have a favourite Chess app for iOS? I fear my dad wants me to do chess riddles and I’m just not good at it.

« As the planet warms, new authoritarian movements in the West are embracing a toxic combination of climate denial, racism and misogyny. Rather than consider these resentments separately, this article interrogates their relationship through the concept of petro-masculinity, which appreciates the historic role of fossil fuel systems in buttressing white patriarchal rule. Petro-masculinity is helpful to understanding how the anxieties aroused by the Anthropocene can augment desires for authoritarianism. The concept of petro-masculinity suggests that fossil fuels mean more than profit; fossil fuels also contribute to making identities, which poses risks for post-carbon energy politics. Moreover, through a psycho-political reading of authoritarianism, I show how fossil fuel use can function as a violent compensatory practice in reaction to gender and climate trouble. »
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0305829818775817
by Cara New Daggett
https://www.caranewdaggett.com/

I'm surprised to find how useful this is for a quick local backup of your working directory.

#!/usr/bin/bash
d=$(basename $(pwd))
t=$(date --iso-8601)
echo Creating a snapshot of $d in ../$d-$t
rsync --link-dest "../$d" --archive . "../$d-$t/"

if you're in directory bla/foo and run it, you'll get a sibling directory bla/foo-2023-11-20 with links pointing to the originals in bla/foo while you don't edit them. Doesn't take a lot of space, gives you the peace of mind you need before running that global search-and-replace operation on all your files.

The feeling when you got to a website and see a "linkdump" sidebar and can't stop yourself from skimming over it and then you end up reading a long post by the Kiwi Hellenist on the Iliad.
"If you take a class on the Iliad, one of the first things covered is to avoid that kind of puerility. They’re all awful people — in all senses of the word. Homeric heroes aren’t people who are good, they’re people who have an extraordinary impact on those around them. They’re larger than life. They’re powerful enough that they don’t need to care what you think of them."
https://kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2023/10/hector.html
Whenever I hear somebody loving the Iliad I always wonder. Which part did they like? The spears going through the eye sockets and into the brains and other disturbing details? The looting of fallen opponents? The pervasive theme of slavery underneath it all? The over the top emotions and human folly? When I read it, I was mostly entranced by the fact that such old texts exist, and by the idle wondering about the reasons people would keep copying that text through the centuries. Something about the elements of human nature that remain with us today, unrecognized. How easy would it be for us all to revert, I wonder – and not in a good way.
(Brought to you by @brennen's linkdump on https://p1k3.com/)