It's not. You don't have to evaluate their political opinion to evaluate the quality of the hairstyles. You can just look at their work. Whether the hairdresser is on the left or right, he/she can't and won't force a hairstyle on you which you don't want.

> As for the car mechanic example, I wouldn't be black and have my car "repaired" by a racist who would overcharge me out of spite and could sabotage my brake lines.

This is ridiculous. You could equally have chosen an example of you as an old white man, with a woke car mechanic who overcharges you and sabotages your brake lines out of spite. But you didn't. Because that would be just as absurd. But you only see your political enemy, right-wing people, as evil, not left-wing people, your political allies. That this is extreme political bias I need not point out.

I don't think that's true. It doesn't make any sense. Leftists would obviously be perfectly okay with collaborating with other leftists on whatever.

The point was that people on both the left and right should be okay with collaborating with people of the opposite end of the political spectrum when it comes to apolitical projects.

Imagine you were only allowed (or willing) to contribute to the Linux kernel if your personal unrelated political views align with those of Linus Torvalds. That would obviously be crazy.

> Look, "separating the art from the artist" is all very well, but we can't do that without acknowledging the political views of the artist(s)

Absolutely we can! We don't go around referencing the political opinions of our car mechanic or hair dresser, because these don't matter for the quality of their jobs. Exactly the same holds for game designers who make unpolitical games.

Of course we can! If some far-left activist makes a puzzle game without activism in it, we should do the same and judge the game on its own terms, without need for political discussion or publisher statements.

> It's also a game that incorporates work from a wide variety of other creators, several of whom made well-publicised statements that they would not have agreed to be a part of this had Blow's current political views been common knowledge at the time.

This is like the collaborators of our hypothetical far-left puzzle creator disavowing him for being woke. That's obviously just as bad. If the work (the game in this case) has no political content, the political convictions of the collaborators don't matter.

(For both parties it is legitimate to throw political punches in other contexts, like on social media.)

For example, if you want to show a red surface, you have to make the green and blue subpixels black, resulting in an overall dark red. This problem does not exist for colored paper, monochromatic E Ink screens. Nor does is exist for active LCD or OLED screens, which also use subpixel color mixing, but do not have to rely on ambient light.

The electrophoresis-based screens from E Ink actually support more than two colors (e.g. black/white/red or black/white/yellow for signage) without using subpixels, but that's not enough to create thousands of colors for arbitrary content.

I think electrophoretic e-paper screens are just not suited for subpixel-free colors, but other promising e-paper screen technologies have been abandoned a while ago.

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https://kirwinhampshire.substack.com/p/the-dark-night-of-mat...

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