Jason Thibeault

Author's details

Name: Jason Thibeault
Date registered: August 27, 2011
URL: http://freethoughtblogs.com/lousycanuck/

Biography

Name's Jason Thibeault. I'm an IT guy, skeptic, feminist, gamer and atheist, and love OSS, science of all stripes (especially space-related stuff), and debating on-line and off. I enjoy a good bit of whargarbl now and again, and will occasionally even seek it out. I am also apparently responsible for the death of common sense on the internet. My bad.

Latest posts

  1. Women In Secularism 2 – How Women’s Concerns[...] liveblog #wiscfi — May 18, 2013
  2. Women In Secularism 2 – Susan Jacoby liveblog #wiscfi — May 18, 2013
  3. Women In Secularism 2 – Gender Equality in the Secular Movement liveblog #wiscfi — May 18, 2013
  4. Women In Secularism 2 – Women Leaving Religion panel liveblog #wiscfi — May 18, 2013
  5. Women In Secularism 2 – Rebecca Goldstein liveblog #wiscfi — May 17, 2013

Most commented posts

  1. CONvergence: Rebecca Watson ruins everything — 505 comments
  2. If it smells like Funk, it must be astrology — 464 comments
  3. Santorum’s wife’s abortion was different, you see. — 369 comments
  4. The campaign against Amy Davis Roth — 368 comments
  5. Mallorie Nasrallah’s misguided defense of serial harassers and misogyny in the skeptical community — 280 comments

Author's posts listings

May 13 2013

Cumberbaaaaaatch!

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Movies, Privilege

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Okay, look, there are big spoilers for some relatively new nerd media that I’ve probably already given away by the title if you’re savvy, but I’m putting below the fold anyway. And to spoil the post proper, just to be meta for meta’s own sake: I’m going to rant about what I’m spoiling.

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52 comments

May 12 2013

Trans woman refused at bridal shop in Saskatoon

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Gender, Privilege

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I’m several days behind on most of my news and blog feeds at the moment, but this post at TransGriot caught my eye. Rohit Singh, a young trans woman, was browsing wedding dresses at a bridal shop in Saskatoon for her upcoming nuptials. When she asked to try one on, she was refused, being told, …

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9 comments

May 10 2013

Mock The Movie: .COM For Murder

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Computers, Humour, Movies

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This movie was easily one of the best worst movies we’ve seen and targeted for Mock The Movie, and not just because of our tech-savvy participants. This movie took itself so seriously, and tried so hard, and yet it failed so miserably at everything it did. Every character was inept, even the supposedly hyper-adept evil …

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1 comment

May 07 2013

Geeks Without God: Crappy Religious Board Game Edition!

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Games, Geekery, Humour, Religion

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Two weekends ago, I went to OmegaCon in Siren, Wisconsin. And by “went”, I mean “was kidnapped and made to go”. There, I played some board games with a whole lot of local board game nerds who frequent the local convention nerdery circuit. Many of these games were fun. The one that Molly and Nick …

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12 comments

May 06 2013

Memo to blowjob-forcing fan: it’s a RAP concert, not a RAPE concert.

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Gender, Privilege

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Here’s another of the myriad ways that patriarchy and rape culture hurts men. I know this is going to be counterintuitive to some of you mouth-breathers, but if your first reaction to this story is “that guy has all the luck” or “but he’s a rapper who raps a lot about sex” or anything other …

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8 comments

May 05 2013

Copyright Board of Canada: “palpable error” in 15x inflated music tariffs

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Canada, Copyright

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Michael Geist covers the Copyright Board of Canada admitting to having made a “palpable error” in accidentally super-inflating music company royalties well beyond the original decisions for reproduced music in movies intended for personal use: The Canadian Association of Film Distributors and Exporters had proposed a tiered tariff approach of a maximum of 2 cents …

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1 comment

Apr 30 2013

A familiar story of pettiness and spite

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Blogosphere, Privilege

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I haven’t seen a lot of George Waye recently on the blogotubes. Once upon a time, we fought shoulder and shoulder on the topic of rape with nascent MRAs before I even knew the term. I know him to be a principled, insightful and strong person, whose blogging time is limited these days by being …

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15 comments

Apr 29 2013

“But I’m a nice guy!”

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Gender, Memes, Privilege

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Okay, if you haven’t already seen this video that’s been floating about recently, you probably should. I see this absurdism, and reductio ad absurdum of the entire Men’s Rights Movement, as a defense mechanism against the completely counter-intuitive pushback against feminism. I mean, how else do you deal with ideas that are so patently absurd …

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14 comments

Apr 27 2013

Evolving pseudo-creatures in computer simulation to run a short course

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Computers, Geekery, Science

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I love the idea of simulating evolution through computer models. The purpose of such an exercise is not so much to prove that evolution happened, or to prove that complexity can evolve from simple rulesets (though that’s certainly important), but to show that randomness and flexibility in solving tasks can create novel approaches that are …

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3 comments

Apr 27 2013

Mock the Movie: Super Mario Bros transcript

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Games, Humour, Movies

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Taking a short break from OmegaCon — a tiny gathering of nerds playing board and video games for a weekend in Wisconsin — to post this nerdy video-game-related Mock The Movie transcript. Oh, and also sleep. This movie did not hold up as well as I thought it would. Then again, I was like, what, …

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