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You may enjoy Strange Loop: http://www.thestrangeloop.com/ http://www.thestrangeloop.com/ Videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_QIfHvN9auy2CoOdSfMWDw http

You may enjoy Strange Loop: http://www.thestrangeloop.com/ http://www.thestrangeloop.com/ Videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_QIfHvN9auy2CoOdSfMWDw https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_QIfHvN9auy2CoOdSfMWDw

jghn 11y ago
I really enjoyed strange loop this year
krat0sprakhar 11y ago
Why has this been downvoted? I've heard great things about Strange Loop.
- psycr 11y ago
  Because they discriminate based on political beliefs completely unrelated to the conference. For shame.
- forgottenpass 11y ago
  Why has this been downvoted? I've heard great things about Strange Loop. Christmas dinner at the Programmer family's house has been tough this year. Logan was able to make the trip back home from San Fransisco, but is insistent on picking political fights with Grandpa. Mom and Dad keep asking everyone not to focus on politics for the day but Logan yells and calls them just as bad for trying to creating an environment where people with options Logan doesn't like can just sit there and eat ham. Jake and I started day drinking before presents and are itching to slip away. Wanna go sledding down behind The Academy?
lhnz 11y ago
This is a great conference if you are okay with their insistence on no-platforming wrongthinkers. Hopefully somebody will one day spin off a new weird/academic conference for those that can't stand to be in the same room as no-platformers.
- djKianoosh 11y ago
  what does "no-platforming wrongthinkers" mean?
  - lhnz 11y ago
    It means that a software engineer with odious politics was not allowed to speak about a completely separate domain [0]. Presumably because of the worry that he might give a rousing speech. [0] http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2015/06/curtis_yarvin_booted_from_strange_loop_it_s_a_big_big_problem.html http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2015/06/cur...
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    - calibraxis 11y ago
      Technology is obviously political. Anyone trying to ignore that has an agenda to maintain the status quo. There is no sense in pretending we're solving mindless puzzles in a vaccuum; we're out to "disrupt" the world. I didn't consider it when I posted the link, but Strange Loop provides an unusual platform for technologists who actually do "think different". Many use their tech platform to reinforce racism in notoriously racist tech spaces. But some take scifi seriously and try to improve the world. That matters. Here's the tech good ol' boy world, where you're supposed to passively accept casual racism in ranch houses: "It was really quite lovely. Later that day, in the jeep to the ranch house where everyone was staying, he started up with the casual racism, and everyone ignored him." (https://twitter.com/maradydd/status/606799534983770112 https://twitter.com/maradydd/status/606799534983770112)
      - lhnz 11y ago
        I didn't say tech couldn't relate to politics, nor do I wish to hang out with racists. I implied that not all people would care to waste their time in the company of no-platformers. Disinterest is a perfectly reasonable position to take when faced with the proposition of hanging out with people with wildly different political beliefs than yourself. The idea that some people might dislike no platforming almost as much as they dislike racism shouldn't surprise you. It's not safe to support organisations that choose whether to platform based on the whims of a mob or their leaders.

jghn 11y ago

I really enjoyed strange loop this year

krat0sprakhar 11y ago

Why has this been downvoted? I've heard great things about Strange Loop.

psycr 11y ago
Because they discriminate based on political beliefs completely unrelated to the conference. For shame.
forgottenpass 11y ago
Why has this been downvoted? I've heard great things about Strange Loop. Christmas dinner at the Programmer family's house has been tough this year. Logan was able to make the trip back home from San Fransisco, but is insistent on picking political fights with Grandpa. Mom and Dad keep asking everyone not to focus on politics for the day but Logan yells and calls them just as bad for trying to creating an environment where people with options Logan doesn't like can just sit there and eat ham. Jake and I started day drinking before presents and are itching to slip away. Wanna go sledding down behind The Academy?

lhnz 11y ago

This is a great conference if you are okay with their insistence on no-platforming wrongthinkers. Hopefully somebody will one day spin off a new weird/academic conference for those that can't stand to be in the same room as no-platformers.

djKianoosh 11y ago
what does "no-platforming wrongthinkers" mean?
- lhnz 11y ago
  It means that a software engineer with odious politics was not allowed to speak about a completely separate domain [0]. Presumably because of the worry that he might give a rousing speech. [0] http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2015/06/curtis_yarvin_booted_from_strange_loop_it_s_a_big_big_problem.html http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2015/06/cur...
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  - calibraxis 11y ago
    Technology is obviously political. Anyone trying to ignore that has an agenda to maintain the status quo. There is no sense in pretending we're solving mindless puzzles in a vaccuum; we're out to "disrupt" the world. I didn't consider it when I posted the link, but Strange Loop provides an unusual platform for technologists who actually do "think different". Many use their tech platform to reinforce racism in notoriously racist tech spaces. But some take scifi seriously and try to improve the world. That matters. Here's the tech good ol' boy world, where you're supposed to passively accept casual racism in ranch houses: "It was really quite lovely. Later that day, in the jeep to the ranch house where everyone was staying, he started up with the casual racism, and everyone ignored him." (https://twitter.com/maradydd/status/606799534983770112 https://twitter.com/maradydd/status/606799534983770112)
    - lhnz 11y ago
      I didn't say tech couldn't relate to politics, nor do I wish to hang out with racists. I implied that not all people would care to waste their time in the company of no-platformers. Disinterest is a perfectly reasonable position to take when faced with the proposition of hanging out with people with wildly different political beliefs than yourself. The idea that some people might dislike no platforming almost as much as they dislike racism shouldn't surprise you. It's not safe to support organisations that choose whether to platform based on the whims of a mob or their leaders.