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Building the New Internet — Guest Post by Jefferson White
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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…
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Citation Deplatforming All Men Women Don’t Like
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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…
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Summary Against Modern Thought: You Can Know Some About God
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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…
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This Week In Doom — Deranged Psychology Edition
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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.…
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Some Curious Results In World Poverty Rates — With Update People Say They Want (But Don’t)
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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…
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The Who’s-Dumber-Than-An-Academic Contest Has No Winner Yet
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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.…
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Next Time Somebody Asks You “What’s the Probability of X” Say This — Crucial Update!
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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…
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Bestiality Is A Sexual Orientation
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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…
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    ...and I saw 5 or 25 in the figure. The division answer never occurred to me. Got all the rest…

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    If someone asks a question that is conditional on some evidence or rule that they conveniently (or purposely) leave out,…

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    The answer for the pictured question is obviously '1', as the slot already has a '1' in it, which has…

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    Mark, That's exactly it.

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    Wittgenstein gave some examples like this in his Remarks on the Foundation of Mathematics, a book I had no business…

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