“1. Gender differences in math/science ability, achievement, and performance are small or nil…
2. Gender differences in interest and enjoyment of math, coding, and highly “systemizing” activities are large. …
3. Culture and context matter, in complicated ways. Some gender differences have decreased over time as women have achieved greater equality, showing that these differences are responsive to changes in culture and environment. But the cross-national findings sometimes show “paradoxical” effects: progress toward gender equality in rights and opportunities sometimes leads to larger gender differences in some traits and career choices. Nonetheless, it seems that actions taken today by parents, teachers, politicians, and designers of tech products may increase the likelihood that girls will grow up to pursue careers in tech, and this is true whether or not biology plays a role in producing any particular population difference.” (tags: feminismgooglediversitypsychologygenderpolitics)
Dr Sadedin’s is the best rebuttal to the Google memo that I’ve seen (as the rest just call it bad without rebutting it). (tags: sciencegooglegendersexismpsychology)
2FA without the SMS/phone number backup (which can be hacked by social engineering your mobile phone network provider). (tags: emailgoogle2faauthenticationsecurity)
Alleges that neoliberalism encourages employees to see themselves as the CEO of “Me, Inc”, always looking for tasks that’ll help them get their next job. Interesting final section about the modern obsession with “passion”. (tags: capitalismbusinessworkeconomicscareer)
A service where you can check the clear text (if you trust the site owner) or hash of passwords to see whether they’ve leaked in any of the site hacks over the years. (tags: securitypasswordsapi)
What are the differences between cranks on both sides? Conservative ones are generally stupid, liberal ones are clever rationalisers. (tags: politicscranksconservativeliberal)