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The Finanacial Times enlists the help of a 'fembot' to warn them if they quote too many men


RT
Thu, 15 Nov 2018 20:17 UTC
woman reading paper
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The Financial Times has a woman problem, or so it thinks. In the push for gender equality, and to reach out to female readers, boffins at the paper have developed a bot that warns journalists when they're quoting too many men.

The paper, which mostly covers the stuffy, male-dominated worlds of finance and industry, found that only 21 percent of the sources quoted in its articles were women. To combat this, the FT team then developed a bot that trawls articles, scanning pronouns and first names to warn section editors if they aren't including enough women in their stories, according to a report in the Guardian.

Staff at the paper have been warned that in the future, textual analysis will be used to scan their articles as they type, on the lookout for over-representation of male voices. Presumably, a stern-voiced AI will wag a virtual finger at them if they neglect to include women.

Journalists greeted the woke, feminist robot with glee.
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Attention

Sweden's own Jordan B. Peterson: Professor refuses to comply with medical school demanding 'correct' gender terminology


Academic Rights Watch
Tue, 13 Nov 2018 00:00 UTC
Germund Hesslow
Germund Hesslow, is a professor in the Department of Experimental Medical Science
Neuroscience Section, at Lund University

In order to prevent students from feeling discriminated the Faculty of Medicine at Lund University has decided to introduce a long list of gender controls in its education programme for the medical profession. One requirement states that teachers must use the "correct" gender terminology. These actions follow a student criticizing renowned professor Germund Hesslow's course on biological sex differences for conflicting with the university's discrimination and equal treatment policies. Hesslow has refused to comply with the new speech regulations, making his case parallel to the conflict between Jordan B. Peterson and Canada.

In September this year Academic Rights Watch reported on the case of Germund Hesslow (Professor of Neurophysiology and Associate Professor of Philosophy), whose lectures on "Heritage and Environment" was criticized by a student for being in possible violation of the university's discrimination and equal treatment policies. Following the criticism, Christer Larsson, the Chairman of the medical programme, urged Hesslow to apologise for certain formulations regarding homosexual and transsexuals, something that Hesslow refused to do.

Following the accusations, the leadership decided to open an internal investigation into charges of discrimination and harassment, the result of which was announced last week. While the investigation "acquits" Hesslow from any wrongdoing, it also states that there is nevertheless "risk for discrimination". Its recommendation is that the Faculty should take the actions it deems necessary to reduce this risk.

In a commentary, Professor Hesslow denounced the decision to open a formal investigation in the first place. He wrote: "Each one who in the future considers lecturing about subjects that can cause strong emotions or saying things that some students wouldn't wish to hear now has to consider the possibility of being subjected to considerable discomfort and public investigation using completely different standards than those usually applied when evaluating lectures" (our translation).

Comment: Professor Hesslow is a political scapegoat in the transgender ideology war simply for choosing to adhere to scientific evidence regarding biological sex differences:

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Attention

Professor sues over rebuke and threatened dismissal for calling female transgender student 'sir'

Brooke Sopelsa
NBC News
Mon, 12 Nov 2018 19:06 UTC
Nicholas Meriwether
Nicholas Meriwether is a professor at Shawnee State University
He contends the university violated his constitutional rights by compelling him to speak in a way that contradicts his religious beliefs.

A professor is suing officials at his small public university in Ohio after receiving a written warning for violating its nondiscrimination policy by not addressing a transgender student using the gender terms preferred by the student.

Nicholas Meriwether, a philosophy professor and evangelical Christian, filed a federal lawsuit this month against officials at Shawnee State University in Portsmouth, roughly 85 miles south of Columbus. He contends that officials violated his constitutional rights by, among other things, compelling him to speak in a way that contradicts his religious beliefs.

Comment: Jordan Peterson warned over two years ago that matters would come to this.

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Star of David

Mainstream media on Gaza: Israelis get killed, but Palestinians merely 'die'

Darius Shahtahmasebi
RT
Thu, 15 Nov 2018 17:40 UTC
Relatives of Palestinian Mohammed Abbas
© Reuters / Suhaib SalemRelatives of Palestinian Mohammed Abbas, who was killed at the Israel-Gaza border fence
After a Twitter backlash, the Guardian was forced to amend a brazenly propagandized headline which sought to undermine the basic rights of Palestinians and elevate Israeli soldiers to levels previously thought unimaginable.

"We remain editorially independent, our journalism free from commercial bias and our reporting open and accessible to all," reads an advertisement on the Guardian UK's online newspaper when you click on a recent story.

"Imagine what we could continue to achieve with the support of many more of you. Together we can be a force for change."

The article in question that I clicked on is a recent story entitled "Eight dead in undercover Israeli operation in Gaza." According to the opening paragraph of the report, Israeli forces killed seven Palestinians in the Gaza Strip in an "apparently botched undercover raid and ensuring firefight."
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Bullseye

Tucker Carlson: CNN defends free speech, only when it's their speech


RT
Thu, 15 Nov 2018 17:35 UTC
tucker carlson
© (L) Reuters / Chris Aluka Berry; (R) AFP/ Phillip Faraone / Getty Images North America
Fox News host Tucker Carlson blasted CNN, saying that while it is suing the White House over free speech, it doesn't have any problem silencing voices it doesn't like and even threatening its critics.

"CNN is claiming to defend free speech, only when it is their speech," the host of Tucker Carlson Tonight said on Wednesday night, commenting on the recent lawsuit filed by the network to challenge the ban of its chief correspondent, Jim Acosta, from accessing the White House.

Acosta is known for highly-publicized altercations with President Donald Trump and his press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, during various media events. Last week, the White House officially revoked his press pass, following an argument the journalist had with Trump during his first post-midterm press conference. Sanders also accused Acosta of "placing his hands" on a White House intern who tried to take away his microphone.

CNN responded by filing a lawsuit, claiming a violation of freedom of speech. And naming Trump and several of his staffers as defendants. A number of other news outlets, including the rival Fox News channel, supported the lawsuit.
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Brick Wall

'Breakaway group' of several hundred caravan migrants arrives at US border

Travis Fedschun
Fox News
Wed, 14 Nov 2018 16:08 UTC
migrant caravan
© Associated Press/Marco UgarteA Catholic nun gives travel advice to Central American migrants riding in the bed of a semi-trailer, as they move toward the U.S. border.
The vanguard of the huge Central American migrant caravan pushing its way to the border arrived in Tijuana on Wednesday -- at least a week ahead of schedule -- as troops continue to mass on the U.S. side of the border amid President Trump's vow to repel the group.

A "breakway group" of several hundred migrants from the main caravan has already arrived at the border city of Tijuana, aided in part by buses, officials from the Department of Homeland Security told Fox News.

"As we have said repeatedly, being a member of a caravan doesn't give you any special rights to enter the country," DHS spokeswoman Katie Waldman told Fox News.
"If they arrive at a Port of Entry, they will have to wait in line in keeping with the lawful processes at our ports of entry. If they attempt to enter illegally, they will have violated U.S. criminal law and in accordance with the President's proclamation and the Interim Final Rule they would be ineligible for asylum."

Comment:

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NPC

'Forget real estate. You can't afford it anyway': Monopoly brilliantly trolls millennials in new game, triggering outrage


RT
Thu, 15 Nov 2018 17:03 UTC
monopoly
© REUTERS/Thomas White/Illustration
Millennials, generation snowflake, or the 'no house, no money, just avocado' young people who brought you hipsters, are now being derided by toy giant Hasbro with its new edition of every capitalist's favorite board game Monopoly.

Hasbro took the potentially risky tongue-in-cheek cheap shot at the 22-35-year-old demographic via a medium that most of them would probably only enjoy ironically over an overpriced craft beer at their local dive bar.

Rich Uncle Pennybags (the Monopoly man, to the uninitiated) appears wearing earphones, sunglasses and proudly showing off his participation medal, hammering almost every clichéd trope imaginable in one obnoxious caricature.

In Monopoly for Millennials, instead of money (don't be silly), players collect 'experience points' in a parody of the modern workplace that might hit just a little too close to home for recent graduates.
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Bad Guys

Creepy porn lawyer Michael Avenatti arrested on domestic violence charges


RT
Thu, 15 Nov 2018 16:48 UTC
avenatti
© Reuters / Andrew Cullen
Controversial attorney Michael Avenatti, who represented adult film actress Stormy Daniels and claimed Justice Brett Kavanaugh was a gang rapist, was arrested on allegations of felony domestic violence in Los Angeles.

Avenatti was arrested at an apartment complex in Century City, celebrity gossip outlet TMZ reported on Wednesday afternoon, citing unnamed law enforcement sources. A woman filed a police report saying that Avenatti hit her, and TMZ's sources described her face as "swollen and bruised" with "red marks" on both cheeks.

"A report for domestic violence was taken yesterday and an individual has been arrested for that report today and he is in the process of being booked," a Los Angeles Police Department spokesperson told The Hill. Multiple other news outlets have confirmed that Avenatti was the one arrested.

While other outlets offered little in the way of details, TMZ reported that the alleged domestic violence incident happened on Tuesday, when Avenatti kicked the woman out of the apartment. Police showed up at her request on Wednesday, when she came to retrieve her possessions.
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Family

New study makes it official: Women find men with beards more attractive

Jessica Brown
Indy 100
Sun, 11 Nov 2018 16:32 UTC
beard
It's officially time to stop mocking the hipsters populating East London - men with beards are more attractive than those without.

That's according to a study in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology, which asked 8,500 women to rate men with and without beards for their boyfriend potential.

The men were photographed clean-shaven, five days after shaving, 10 days after shaving, and then four weeks after shaving. The results were astonishing: every single woman preferred their men with facial hair.
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No Entry

South Korea bans smoking within 10 meters of daycare centers, kindergartens

Choi Ji-won
The Korea Herald
Wed, 14 Nov 2018 12:07 UTC
Smoking ban in S. Korea
© YonHap
Smoking will be banned within 10 meters of child care facilities starting from the end of December.

The Ministry of Health and Welfare said Wednesday that the latest amendment to the National Health Promotion Act banning smoking within 10 meters of kindergartens and day care centers will go into effect Dec. 31.

The act aims to protect children from secondhand smoke, the ministry said.

Cities and districts are required to place signs notifying the public of the smoking ban, and those caught violating the ban will be slapped with a fine of 100,000 won ($88).
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