It's been quite a while.
I don't think I put anything here after G+ closed and I moved to Twitter. Twitter began a lot like G+ but as more people came on conversations reverted to what we think of today as the mean of social media. Shit.
Talking about shit, Rush Limbaugh was ranting about feminazis 25 years prior when he noticed women claim they should have the right to be treated the same as men and to be paid the same for the same work.
Rush is who I think of when I hear even moderate Republicans talking about turning the clock back to the 1950s. The words we hear spoken are the same ones spoken by the John Birch Society and people who felt the need to put their god "back into American life." As if Christianity were under attack.
This week, Donald Trump issued an Executive Order that "Establishes Religious Liberty Commission with the stated intent of protecting the free exercise of religion." In doing so, he granted the wishes of a group of Christian Nationalists who feel . . . Christianity is under attack. (1950s)
On a side note, at the same time, he issued an order. that requires public schools to train students to use artificial intelligence (AI). Make no mistake, we have no idea how useful AI will be when these kids join the workforce.
A young man who hasn't graduated from college working for Elon Musk is using AI to rewrite the rules and regulations of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The same day we heard about it, a man that uses AI daily posted that the Chinese translation his AI did today bore no resemblance to what he supposed he had given it. Apparently the AI couldn't find any Chinese text, so it made up something to satisfy the requirement that it do translation.
Good use cases for AI exist. But they are very specific and not anywhere nearly universal. Reading x-rays and scans or shooting anything that moves around a defense perimeter and not shooting wildlife.
Unfortunately many of these efforts are being led by men like Elon Musk and Donald Trump who have decided there have been unfair demands made on them to give women and minorities the same opportunities they had. They are under the delusion that they are "Alpha Males" who have authority awarded them by Natural Law.
They have the feeling they are under attack and need to assert their Natural Rights as Alpha Males who lead society. If you go down the rabbit hole of Alpha Male, you'll find the original researcher trying to explain it is not natural and is only found among humans in prison yards.
Following them is a large group of young men and some older men who idolize radical right philosophy because they admire the physical appearance adopted by figures like Andrew Tate and Elon Musk. Tate’s messaging is pitched to young men and is a message of aspirational healthy and fit masculinity. He feels they have been emasculated by liberal governments and empowered women.
It's variously described as the man-o-sphere or hypermasculine behavior.
The ‘alpha male’ concept aims to normalise harmful gender stereotypes and has a large social media presence, in which the younger generations on the internet have decided that their other influencers are the likes of Andrew’s brother Tristan, Tommy Robinson and Elon Musk.
