I happened to catch this yesterday on YouTube, and was fascinated and repulsed by the odious Bankman-Fried and his apologists who reek of equal measures of mendacity and fake sanctity. It struck me, not for the first time, that this … Continue reading →
I mentioned this in a comment the other day, but I think it bears repeating. For students of the 60s and early 70s, radical leftism was a stance of defiance rather than compliance with much of what they were being … Continue reading →
You may have noticed that so far I’ve ignored the Trump/Kanye/Fuentes/Yiannopoulos dinner story. My gut feeling was that it was probably designed to dupe Trump and set him up for the attacks that followed. Should he have seen through it … Continue reading →
..counts the ways in which the Biden administration has been intent on destroying the US.
Continue reading →The battle in Maricopa County at this point is mostly among Republicans. It’s a familiar one that’s been waged for as long as I can remember noticing anything about politics on the right, although the terms to refer to each … Continue reading →
The CDC is commemorating the 50th anniversary of the end of the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study. I’m going to assume that a lot of misleading stuff will be written about that study, so I’m linking to a post I wrote … Continue reading →
I have written at some length before on the government’s war on farmers in the Netherlands, so I refer you to this series of previous posts of mine: this and this, as well as this related post on efforts in … Continue reading →
Apple had a role in the recent demonstrations in China: AirDrop, the file-sharing feature on iPhones and other Apple devices, has helped protestors in many authoritarian countries evade censorship. That’s because AirDrop relies on direct connections between phones, forming a … Continue reading →
There’s an awful lot being said about the Chinese protests, but I’m going to boil it down to this interview with a Chinese dissident artist. I’m pretty much in agreement with him, from what I see – except I’m inclined … Continue reading →