Shanley Kane versus Geekli.st
A protracted Twitter argument about an embarrassingly sexist video that also serves as a convenient tour of some of the most common entitled-male-douchebag arguments you’ll find in tech (paraphrased):
- Why the aggressive tone?
- The women involved were consenting!
- Geek women love us!
…as well as some more exotic and bizarre ones:
- I bought you a drink once! (what?)
- I have a family! (what?)
…plus this titanic dick move:
- I wonder what your employer would think of this. [CCs her employer’s Twitter account]
Update: Coda Hale is the hero of the fucking hour… whoops, they’ve taken it down.
Update the 2nd: Here’s a snapshot we pulled from Google’s cache!
Update the 3rd: And here’s a bullshit non-apology.
Black Iris III, 1926 (reblog)
Georgia O’Keeffe
Esta pintura la vi en el MoMA, me gustó la obra de Georgia O’Keeffe
Nobuyoshi Araki, Flower, 2007
The Red Room, Henri Matisse, 1908
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Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor op. 23 - 1. Allegro non troppo e molto maestoso - Allegro con spirito (22:08)
Probably my favorite concerto ever
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Sibelius - Violin Concerto - II. Adagio
David Oistrakh, violin
Philadelphia Orchestra and conductor Eugene Ormandy
One of my favorite concerti ever
Salvador Dalí - Galatea Of The Spheres, 1952. Oil on canvas
One of my favorite Dalis
Salman Rushdie: Christopher Hitchens (Vanity Fair, Feb 2012)
On June 8th, 2010, I was “in conversation” with Christopher Hitchens at the 92nd Street Y in New York in front of his customary sellout audience, to launch his memoir, Hitch-22. Christopher turned in a bravura performance that night, never sharper, never funnier, and afterwards at a small,…
