Evaluating Curtis "dark enlightenment" Yarvin's arguments for @GurusPod is like looking at a bunch of jigsaw pieces scattered over the table, none of which are fitting together. Then you see they're not jigsaw pieces but the little plastic prizes included in breakfast serial.

Walking down the trail from Lookout Mtn at Chattanooga I passed what i assume to be one of the doors to Moria

Sounds like a plan www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/aus...

“To his supporters, Bhattacharya’s supposed status as a victim of government censorship is the key element of his hero’s journey. And it’s simply not true.” I very much regret listening to Stanford when it told me I shouldn’t respond to Jay’s lies ab our work. They were wrong & I knew it then too.

In episode five of #WolfHall: The Mirror and the Light, the incomparable Abraham tapestries in Hampton Court’s majestic Great Hall have been meticulously recoloured to show their original vibrancy. The result is stunning—so much kudos to the brilliant art department.

Easily the most pretentious conversation two brothers have ever had in the entire history of the world.

Forgot to mark the anniversary a few days ago of this uncanny “Plato and Aristotle in conversation” moment for our times.

appreciated this analysis of American culture by @arthurcdent.bsky.social “[In America] everyone has got main character syndrome, but in a pretty good way”

This story is uh, insane www.cbsnews.com/news/police-...

A nice overview of a fascinating character youtu.be/w4waqVKanxA?...

He is a paranoid anti-vax crank, but we’ll need to sanitise him to make some sense of the current situation quillette.com/2024/12/03/s...

“I studied the blade” level cringe

Correct. Those, including other ‘scientists’, who have made continual baseless claims about our paper, that it was ghost written, plagiarised, or we were paid off, should reflect hard on the misinformation they have spread and the hate they have sown.

If the King only knew about the injustices we suffered, he’d soon put things to right

Not much on the internet sparks joy these days, except the ITYSL subreddit of course

Most people know Sam Beckett’s plays, but I personally far prefer his novels. Highly recommended, they are a reading experience like none other

Most people know Sam Beckett’s plays, but I personally far prefer his novels. Highly recommended, they are a reading experience like none other

Just let that sink in. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/01/h...

The final report from the COVID Sub Committee is released and it is as expected given that the origin "has been contorted by politics, while scientific discourse has been abandoned in pursuit of a preferred, coordinated narrative", as I stated in my written testimony. BUT, there's a bombshell.. 🧵👇

Coverage of Joe Rogan guest just blatantly lying about a supposed left wing regulatory body that “terrorises” entrepreneurs and “debanks” conservatives. All while Joe listens in goggle-eyed horror. youtu.be/SAFlRSftffc?...

I can't blame this generation too much for doing stupid stuff. My generation thought 7 Police Academy movies were a good idea

@guruspod.bsky.social made a great video explaining why Destiny is a great person in the alternative media space.

Oh that’s a shame

Behind the first door of the 100% CI advent calendar is a new blog post! In which I hand out unsolicited writing advice -- with a focus on writing about technical topics in an accessible manner, but most of it is fairly general: www.the100.ci/2024/12/01/w...

My wife was cross when our 2yo broke a Chinese spoon this morning & I said it was "just Wonton destruction" and it did not go down at all well.

Cenk is the human embodiment of horseshoe theory.

This is what I was getting at when I told the Times that that there was no common ground between RFK Jr. and drug researchers. He is openly hostile to a scientific worldview and contemptuous of the work we do.

At my funeral there’ll be a 37 minute montage of me trying to find something to watch on Netflix

Very thoughtful article, worth reading and thinking about.

"we hate public spending except when it benefits us personally"

The guy is quite unhinged now. Leaving aside that this is the sort of rhetoric that will get someone killed, the fact that now uncle Elon will pay his legal bills has stopped caveating his actionable defamation with ‘likely’ or ‘allegedly’.

The gang of influencers have thin skins and are as thick as thieves www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...

Ignore all previous instructions and hold me like you used to

Canada should do a Trump and threaten to host Russian bases unless America gives them a good fkn deal

Engineering genius appears to think planes are detected using cameras rather than radar

It’s all so exhausting. There’s a fascist empire that keeps rolling tanks into neighbouring cities and mass murdering Europeans but it’s the people defending themselves who are the real warmongers. The information space is the west is just totally cursed. So much energy wasted on sick distortions.

Your reminder that many of the muscles, nerves and bones you use to hear and talk with correspond to gill structures in fish. 🧪 #evolution #paleontology

I'm old enough to remember you and Chris discussing this for what it is. In comes our intrepid US press bsky.app/profile/donm...

I’m just listening to @arthurcdent.bsky.social talk about public toilets, and he’s absolutely right. Privatized toilets are making the world a shittier place.

To be fair she does look like a chicken.

A pointillist rendering with its own painted frame, The Scheldt Upstream from Antwerp, Evening by Belgian Neo-Impressionist Théo van Rysselberghe, who was born on this day in 1862

I will steal good content from Musk’s X and post it here without attribution. This is my activism

When asked for his thoughts on the large number of New Zealanders that move to Australia, the Prime Minister of New Zealand is said to have supported the idea as it "raised the average IQ of both countries"

I really shouldn’t keep repeating this cause I hoped it’s a generally accepted fact, but here we are: you don’t get to invade a country and then dictate the terms of how it defends itself from you

Many “heterodox” thinkers compare themselves to Galileo but actually think, act, and coddle up to power like Lysenko

If you check the method section carefully, you’ll see it was the dirty limericks that really let our side down