Item Tyranny Today in BC Supreme Court I heard one of the scariest things ever: a judge ordering a father to not call his female child his daughter. The judge has compelled […]
The Week In Doom — No True Scandinavian Edition
How Did We Do On Our 2021 Predictions?
How’d we do? Put it this way: none of us would have won any awards. Here is the list so you can follow along (perhaps open in a new window). As in […]
The MIT Dahn Yoga Brain Respiration Experiment: How Belief In Failed Theories Persists
This article began as a series beginning 3 January 2009. I thought it well to revisit it as an example of how to investigate controversial Science. Clever readers will notice I designed […]
Identity Politics & Transhumanism
Joshua Mitchell has figured it out—mostly. Here is the main thesis of his essay “Dead Conservative Memes Can’t Defeat the Identity Politics Clerisy“: Neither liberals nor conservatives understand the weapon of identity […]
Ghost In The AI
There’s a terrific book, well worth scoring a copy, by M. Lamar Keene called The Psychic Mafia. Keene tells the tale of Camp Chesterfield, a sort of outlet shopping mall of psychics, […]
Special Midweek Doom — AI Won’t Save The Right Edition
The Doom is piling up faster than I can shovel it out. Item Amazon’s Facial Recognition Software Found To Be Racist, Sexist …one thing I didn’t see coming was allegations that the […]
Insanity & Doom Update XLIII
Item Scoring 30% on a test is enough to graduate high school in NYC The bar keeps dropping on state math exams — and critics are saying it’s because officials are desperate […]
Your Most Important Choice: Part II — Guest Post by Ianto Watt
Read Part I. As we consider Team 2 (Christianity) in light of the five points of interest to me, it bears noting that Christianity has a built-in advantage over Team 1. Wherever […]
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