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  1. Comment on Altavista: The Rise & Fall of the Biggest Pre-Google Search Engine in ~tech

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    Odd, it's loading just fine for me. Here's an alternative link: https://outline.com/YTuju9

    Odd, it's loading just fine for me. Here's an alternative link:
    https://outline.com/YTuju9

    1 vote

  2. Comment on Reddit rules and the banning of certain anime communities in ~anime

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    The anime industry is one where a female can shine brightly as an artist and acknowledged equally. Consider that Comic Market, the biggest comic convention event on the planet, was initially ran...

    The anime industry is one where a female can shine brightly as an artist and acknowledged equally. Consider that Comic Market, the biggest comic convention event on the planet, was initially ran and supported by group of women such as the Year 24 Group (a circle of female shojo manga authors). Even today there is no shortage of female-pandering content in Comiket, I guarantee you.

    Have you ever heard of Naoko Yamada? The director of various influential and phenomenally-regarded anime productions such as K-ON!, Tamako Love Story and Koe no Katachi? Or the studio she works in, Kyoto Animation, which is widely considered to be an animation powerhouse in the industry, and has more female staff than male?

    Hell, there are prominent female figures that shaped the industry as we know it today such as Rumiko Takanashi and the women who basically made up CLAMP. Cardcaptor Sakura, Code Geass, Urusei Yatsura, Inuyasha, do those titles ring a bell?

    5 votes

  3. Comment on Altavista: The Rise & Fall of the Biggest Pre-Google Search Engine in ~tech

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    An interesting read about Altavista, which many of you would probably be familiar with if you're on the net around fifteen years ago. It was the biggest search engine before Google showed up and...

    An interesting read about Altavista, which many of you would probably be familiar with if you're on the net around fifteen years ago. It was the biggest search engine before Google showed up and bulldozed the market. The article talks about its history and how it came to affect the development of internet websites.

    3 votes

  5. Comment on Reddit rules and the banning of certain anime communities in ~anime

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    You are conflating one issue with another, issues with sexual assault and sexism is not a direct coorelation with the problem of 'sexualizing minors'. If anything the anime industry in Japan is...

    You are conflating one issue with another, issues with sexual assault and sexism is not a direct coorelation with the problem of 'sexualizing minors'. If anything the anime industry in Japan is one of the few where sexism has been largely eliminated.

    3 votes

  6. Comment on The fatal ensnaring of Dan DePew in ~humanities.history

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    A fascinating, long-form article about Dan DePew. He was a homosexual who, for all intents and purposes, was radicalized by the state, and then entrapped, to fuel paranoia and prejudice against...

    A fascinating, long-form article about Dan DePew. He was a homosexual who, for all intents and purposes, was radicalized by the state, and then entrapped, to fuel paranoia and prejudice against the minority of that time.

    He ended up serving 29 years for a crime he was led to thought up but did not commit.

    A choice quote:

    It might be said that entrapment cases are a Rorschach test of a society’s obsessions and fears at any given time. Who and what are we most afraid of? How can we lock them up for life and convince ourselves they deserve it?

    At Ray Brook, the prison where I met DePew, the average sentence was twelve years, meaning that DePew watched men who’d committed actual murder, rape, and child molestation getting released sooner than himself, who’d, at most, drunkenly fantasized in the wrong hotel room.

    4 votes