William M. Briggs

Building the New Internet — Guest Post by Jefferson White

It is now clear that the Big Tech oligarchies have become the primary enemies of the American future. In less than two decades, the original, radically decentralized Internet has been…

Culture

Citation Deplatforming All Men Women Don’t Like

The Chronicle of Higher Education (A Cathedral&tm; publication) asks, and asks in earnest, "Academic Ethics: Should Scholars Avoid Citing the Work of Awful People?" by Brian Leiter. Across academe, many…

Philosophy SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: You Can Know Some About God

Summary Against Modern Thought: Limits Of Our Knowledge Of God Previous post. Last few weeks we learned there are limits to how well we can know God. This week we…

Culture

This Week In Doom — Deranged Psychology Edition

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUVo1h2V9rk Note the change back to the original title. And video for the reading-impaired! I'm thinking of moving Doom back to Wednesdays, and leaving Saturday's blank. Item On Woke Capital.…

Statistics

Some Curious Results In World Poverty Rates — With Update People Say They Want (But Don’t)

The tweet above is from Human Progress. Thanks to @WrathofGnon for the tip. It shows the number of people by region who live "in poverty". It is a stacked line…

Culture

The Who’s-Dumber-Than-An-Academic Contest Has No Winner Yet

Headline From CNN! Memes may contribute to teenage obesity, lawmakers told Any comment I can make to this would be superfluous and would mar the crystalline beauty of its insanity.…

Philosophy Statistics

Next Time Somebody Asks You “What’s the Probability of X” Say This — Crucial Update!

Next time somebody asks you "What's the Probability of X", where X is any proposition, say this: there is no such probability. It doesn't exist. "Briggs, what's the probability of…

Culture

Bestiality Is A Sexual Orientation

The picture is from the Wikipedia article "Legality of bestiality in the United States." I have no idea if it's perfectly accurate, but I'm guessing it's close. And so the…

C-Marie on University of California Prof Tries To Save System From DIEingJuly 13, 2026
Would subscribe to you at Substack, but their Privacy Policy allows Substack way too much information. Anyway, this way is…
Brian (bulaoren) on University of California Prof Tries To Save System From DIEingJuly 13, 2026
Back in the late '70s, one of my teeth broke. I needed a dentist pronto, and so I asked around.…
Tars Tarkas on University of California Prof Tries To Save System From DIEingJuly 13, 2026
I love how they blame "unprepared students" and the covid "remote learning" era. The students are not "unprepared" in the…
CorkyAgain on The Equality ParadoxJuly 10, 2026
Somehow I'd missed that story about Schumer's grilling gaffe. Aside from not lighting the fire or putting cheese on a…
John Pate on The Equality ParadoxJuly 9, 2026
Maybe it wasn't considered safe for Schumer to be near an open flame, having no familiarity with the ordinary tasks…

William M. Briggs

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)

Musk Doges Deaths: Researchers Say USAID Absence Kills Kills Kills!

The Intellectual Capacity Of Women by David Stove

Marbles!

Class 92: Simple Optimal Decisions: PSA & Cancer Example

Math Is Epistemic Violence, Says Lady Academic

Truly Random Numbers Found?

Class 91: Try Not To Use the ROC Curve & AUC

Climate Change Increases Risk of Even Slower World Cup Games!

The Ultimate IQ Test: Guessing the Author’s Mind and Escaping the Infinity of Answers

Reader Poll: Shorter or Longer, Frequent or Rarer Posts?

No Model Will Save Us: Pope Leo, the Miserostat, and AI’s Woke Coders

How High an IQ Must A Person Have To Be Executed?

Class 90: Simple (Optimal) Decisions

Shocking Abortion Numbers: Death Distributions Show We’re Living Longer

University of California Prof Tries To Save System From DIEing

The Equality Paradox

Building the New Internet — Guest Post by Jefferson White

Citation Deplatforming All Men Women Don’t Like

Summary Against Modern Thought: You Can Know Some About God

This Week In Doom — Deranged Psychology Edition

Some Curious Results In World Poverty Rates — With Update People Say They Want (But Don’t)

The Who’s-Dumber-Than-An-Academic Contest Has No Winner Yet

Next Time Somebody Asks You “What’s the Probability of X” Say This — Crucial Update!

Bestiality Is A Sexual Orientation

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