Gabrielle Beck
LightNews LightNews
banner
becgabri.com
Gabrielle Beck
@becgabri.com
150 followers 160 following 24 posts
Cryptographer. Postdoc at the LIRMM. (she/her)
Posts Replies Media Videos
becgabri.com
For example, I don't think something like this would be accepted without peer review unless all other kinds of scientific articles are as well
I have a scientific paper studying the impact of science and technology in society. Can I submit this to arXiv without peer review? Yes, arXiv has always released these types of scientific papers, for example in cs.CY or physics.soc-ph. These are scientific research papers and are not subject to this moderation practice change.
November 3, 2025 at 5:40 PM
becgabri.com
The great hatreds that suffuse history, pushing it forward to inevitable and repeated horror, are all first passions, not ideas It is not rational to hate homosexuals… but passions are distinguished by their illogic: one can describe them and find an interior logic in them up to a point - then there is a sensational leap into hate, dazzling, crazed, obsessional. Homophobia, like anti-Semitism, is not an idea; it is a passion. For women, hatred of homosexuals - despised because they are associated with women - is more than self-defeating; it is almost breathtakingly suicidal, encouraging as it does the continuing hatred of anything or anyone associated with women. The problem, simply stated, is that one must believe in the existence of the person in order to recognize the authenticity of her suffering. Neither men nor women believe in the existence of women as significant beings. It is impossible to remember as real the suffering of someone who by definition has no legitimate claim to dignity or freedom, someone who is in fact viewed as some thing, an object or an absence. And if a woman multiplied by billions, does not believe in her own discrete existence and therefore cannot credit the authenticity of her own suffering, she is erased, canceled out, and the meaning of her life, whatever it is, whatever it might have been, is lost. This loss cannot be calculated or comprehended. It is vast and awful, and nothing will ever make up for it. Forcing women to bear unwanted babies is crucial to the social program of women who have been forced to bear unwanted babies and who cannot bear the grief and bitterness of such recognition. Girls are taught to be passive in relation to facts. Girls are not seen as the potential originators of ideas or the potential searchers into the human condition. An intelligent girl is supposed to use that intelligence to find a smarter husband. Women are consistently and systematically denied the respect creative intelligence requires to be sustained: painfully denied it, cruelly denied it, sadistically denied it. Women are not supposed to have creative intelligence, but when they do they are supposed to renounce it.
February 24, 2025 at 10:57 PM