William M. Briggs

Yuval Noah Harari’s Bad Argument About AI Ruling The World

Here, in his own words, is the argument Yuval Noah Harari uses to justify his transhumanism. 1. Organisms are algorithms. Every animal — including Homo sapiens — is an assemblage…

Book review

The Tale of Chief Harry Kidder: The US Navy’s On-The-Roof Gang by Matt Zullo Reviewed

The tale of Harry Kidder is a good but sad one. His story, and the stories of other radiomen before and during the Pacific War, are told in Matt Zulo's…

SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: Correcting Errors About Baptism & The Eucharist

Previous post. The first set of errors about the Eucharist are fixed up this week. SOLUTION OF THE DIFFICULTIES SET DOWN: FIRST, ABOUT THE CONVERSION OF THE BREAD HIM THE…

Culture

Please Don’t Go To College — American Greatness

In the year of our Common Era 1625, Cardinal Richelieu made this prediction: "If learning were profaned by being made available to all and sundry, it would be found that…

Book review Culture

I May Have Been Asleep At The Start Of The Transexual Debacle — Guest Post by Robert Yoho

Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters (2021) by Abigail Shrier has over 6,000 Amazon reviews averaging 4.5 stars. It describes some of the events I missed over the last…

Statistics

Lancet Says 1 in 6 Worldwide Deaths by Pollution: 67% More Than Coronadoom

You've seen the headline, "World Ends: Favored Victims Hardest Hit," and you've laughed. The Noble Victims differ, slightly, by country. There is no class of being nobler or respected or…

Culture

Twitter Likes & Impact Factors Are Equivalent

This is one of my favorite tweets (regular readers have seen it before; it's screenshotted because all my tweets die tragically of coronadoom---it used to be cancer---after 7 days): Here…

Culture

The WHO and The Loss Of Sovereignty: How It Happens, How It’s Not Unusual

According to International Law---hold up. International Law? If there is such a thing as International Law, there is no such thing as national sovereignty; or, at least, not completely. For…

Cary Cotterman on We Passed Peak “Climate Change” (um) ResearchAugust 17, 2026
I'm not worried about "climate change" or "covid". I'm worried about what BS the money-hungry and power-hungry, and the useful…
Tars Tarkas on We Passed Peak “Climate Change” (um) ResearchAugust 17, 2026
"The graph is not normalized by number of scientists. In 1960, there were far fewer scientists than there are now.…
Brian (bulaoren) on We Passed Peak “Climate Change” (um) ResearchAugust 17, 2026
This is probably wishful thinking but...might it be the academic climate that has changed?.....nah
_Jim on You Can’t Con An Honest Man & The Case of Jason ArdayAugust 14, 2026
And, just like that, he (apparently) self-exterminates. Found unresponsive and declared deceased where they found him today, Friday the 14th…
patrivk healy on Ugly Women Rulers Condemn LookismAugust 14, 2026
C-Marie. Look around you. Virtually all the ugly woman who have corrupted the western world in the last 50 years…

William M. Briggs

We Passed Peak “Climate Change” (um) Research

Sweet Wee Ps Say Sugar Makes You Lose Your Mind

AI Is Neither Artificial Nor Intelligent

You Can’t Con An Honest Man & The Case of Jason Arday

Academics: Achieve Sustainability by Easing Population to 4 Billion by 2200

The Impossibility of Proposition Nations

Ugly Women Rulers Condemn Lookism

The Wee P Boogie: The Song That’s Sweeping the Nation!

Wolfgang Smith For Everyone

Death By Organ Donation

$7.11 at 7:11 PM on 7/11 at 7/11: What Are The Chances?

Caution Against The Precautionary Principle: Interview with Jaap Hanekamp

Believing In God Makes You Crave Potato Chips, Say Academics

Hume’s Guillotine, Euclid’s Catapult: Induction, Axioms, and Objective Ethics

University of California Prof Tries To Save System From DIEing

The Equality Paradox

My Horrible Interaction With AI

SOON

The Court’s Slow Theft Of The Constitution — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

Happy Birthday to US

Never Use Or Trust P-values (Pagan-Values)

We Passed Peak “Climate Change” (um) Research

Sweet Wee Ps Say Sugar Makes You Lose Your Mind

Yuval Noah Harari’s Bad Argument About AI Ruling The World

The Tale of Chief Harry Kidder: The US Navy’s On-The-Roof Gang by Matt Zullo Reviewed

Summary Against Modern Thought: Correcting Errors About Baptism & The Eucharist

Please Don’t Go To College — American Greatness

I May Have Been Asleep At The Start Of The Transexual Debacle — Guest Post by Robert Yoho

Lancet Says 1 in 6 Worldwide Deaths by Pollution: 67% More Than Coronadoom

Twitter Likes & Impact Factors Are Equivalent

The WHO and The Loss Of Sovereignty: How It Happens, How It’s Not Unusual

There Is No Culture Without Inequality: Stove 1

Impose Your Beliefs Before They Impose Theirs

Telekinesis: Ideas In Our Reenchantment & Rectification

The Physics Of Blessings: Ideas In Our Reenchantment & Rectification