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The Weekly Sift
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The Weekly Sift is a personal blog at weeklysift.com about politics and philosophy. Since 2012, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “The Distress of The Privileged”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link The Weekly Sift for essays on privilege, sexism and social issues, especially "The Distress of the Privileged", which commenters cite and recommend as a read.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
making sense of the news one week at a time
Most-linked posts?
- The Distress of The Privileged6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2012-09-21
What Hacker News says?
And how many speakers have porn created of them distributed during conferences? And when that happened would you expect at least a small percentage to secretly have a little laugh at it? There was another post on the front-page just minutes ago called The Distress of the Privileged [1] and it makes the very good point that these things are about a difference of scale . On the one hand we have one of the most high-pr…
Comment linking /2012/09/10/the-distress-of-the-privileged/
on “Speaking up”Submitted Slavery Lasted Until Pearl Harbor as a story · 20 points
HN discussion> Good chance that this long-winded response will end up being lost in a stale thread The same is true of my post, I'm glad you responded :) And yes, doubtless we agree on a lot more than we disagree on, which I try to keep in mind even when I'm tempted to get heated in an Internet argument. But even so I'm gonna skip over most of the first half of your essay since you indeed appear to be saying things I agree with…
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on “How bad are things?”Submitted The Distress of The Privileged as a story · 17 points
HN discussionFirst of all, obviously no one in this thread wants to discredit real people's real struggles. "I have just gotten home from treating a member of Group X who attempted suicide"---these are problems that deserve addressing, and I'm glad that the clearly very capable Scott is working hard on them. > His counterpoint to you, which I would say has some traction, would likely be that those thinkpiece writers are deployin…
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on “How bad are things?”Submitted Visions of a Future Gift Economy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIndeed - the left needs a unifying story. Right now we've mainly just got positive solutions for isolated demographics. http://weeklysift.com/2014/12/08/can-we-share-the-world/
Comment linking /2014/12/08/can-we-share-the-world/
on “Self-Driving Trucks Are Going to Hit Us Like a Human-Driven Truck”Submitted Instead of Dumbing Down as a story · 2 points
HN discussionOther than memeorandum (techmeme mentioned several times but not memeorandum??), there's The Weekly Sift ( https://weeklysift.com/ )
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on “Ask HN: What are your news sources other than HN?”I recently learned that slavery was abolished in response to pearl harbour[0], which isn't quite a century away. The vestiges of the later slavery are still around too, well, I guess the slavery is too, but now you have to buy their labour from the government, and the government keeps ownership of the slave. Actually, I don't know how that goes for private prisons? But pressuring people to plea guilty to crime, perc…
Comment linking /2014/03/31/slavery-lasted-until-pearl-harbor/
on “The chaotic collapse of CNN+”No, it can't be easily applied to men. Where it falls apart is the "imagine hearing sexist jokes since you were a kid" part. Our society is not equally sexist to men and women. Not even close. I recommend reading "The Distress of the Privileged": http://weeklysift.com/2012/09/10/the-distress-of-the-privile... I've seen your other comments and I think you're consistently overreacting. Scalzi's essay is there to simpl…
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on “Sexism is not funny, let's stop laughing”here's an essay that will hopefully make you think about it in another light http://weeklysift.com/2012/09/10/the-distress-of-the-privile...
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on “Being a female software engineer”Do not assume your cultural norms are everyone's cultural norms. That this guy was spoiling your (and likely other folks') moment is unfortunate. However, this is not screwing up an iPhone launch, this is spoiling your experience. Your experience is not the iPhone 5 launch. I am sympathetic that this engagement didn't go the way you wanted it to. Complaining on the internet is not the way to address this issue, and…
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on “AT&T Screwed Up the iPhone 5 Launch for me”
