Good and bad ideas are fairly equally distributed across the political spectrum.
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One of the preeminent universities in the world hired and lauded a pathologically lying mediocrity based almost entirely on his skin color and fake life history, and when he offed himself after being found out, it promised an investigation of... how he was badly treated.
Meanwhile, across the Channel, an academic who helped uncover this scandal was relieved of his duties
Unreal. Cambridge will NOT investigate Arday’s hiring, but it will investigate “whether the school offered him sufficient support amid accusations that he plagiarized portions of his doctoral thesis and embellished his personal narrative.”
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I never bothered to look up what Effective Altruism is all about. I just assumed its name conveyed the general concept, and since I didn't find the idea that there was a type of "altruism" that had declared itself to be "effective" all that interesting, I just left it alone.
As the sole proprietor of a decent-sized Twitter account I should probably be more curious about stuff that other people seem to get all riled up about — like that recent child-murdering mom trial — but increasingly I just can't bring myself to work up the interest.
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Sociopathic white leftoids lie about being marginalized People of Colors, while sociopathic white rightoids lie about heroic military service.
It's almost as if valorization of losing and victimhood is a feature of leftism, and valorization of winning and heroism of rightism.
'Palestinian Rachel Dolezal' outed as white woman of 'significant privilege and wealth' trib.al/KNScBht
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And, let's face it, Palestinians are pretty much the biggest losers out there. First, they lost territory over which they had a greater historical claim, and then they messed up at every stage of their struggle to reclaim it. Pretty much the last group of people in the world I'd want to be part of.
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And here we go again...
Exclusive: David Flippo, a Republican congressional candidate in Nevada, inflated his military record multiple times in recent years by claiming he received a Bronze Star “for valor” during his two-decade Air Force career. wapo.st/4dCvyYl
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People who know the financial markets better than I do:
Should I take the money that I now have invested in S&P index funds and put it in something safer like treasuries?
10-year treasuries are now above 5% yields, and by most metrics the stock market is currently overvalued.
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I have to wonder what the average 20 year-old who has listened their whole life to shiny plastic music made on a computer's MIDI grid thinks of this.
It's woozy, ramshackle, sprawling, shambolic. The production is wobbly and untidy. There's a scuzzy film all over the whole thing, and a dank cellar-floor funk sticking to your shoes. You kind of want to take a shower after hearing it.
In other words: It's human.
The Rolling Stones - Sway
A devastating hymn to the dark side, with Taylor at his virtuoso best. Drugs, death, depression and dead-eyed promiscuity; the prices being paid for that rock ’n’ roll life.
1971.
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If you unironically use the term "fake news" a lot, you probably believe fake news.
If you've ever unironically used the term "NPC," you probably are an NPC.
If you unironically use the term "midwit" a lot, you are almost certainly a midwit.
If you think the "IQ Bell Curve Midwit Meme" has validity, you're retarded, and if you put one in my replies, it's an instablock. (Go ahead, try it — it'll make my day.)
If you have pronouns or use the words "truth" or "patriot" in your bio, it is extremely likely that your IQ is below 100, and you've probably never had an original thought in your life.
Are those people who complain most about "fake news" the same people to digest and disseminate the most "fake news"?
Studies show that online fake news makes up a small percentage of people’s overall media diet... most people encounter very little fake news, a small minority encounters a lot, which inflates the average... those who engage with large amounts of online fake news have particular pre-existing traits such as extremist attitudes, highly conspiratorial worldviews, and intense distrust of (and often hostility towards) establishment institutions. These traits lead them to seek information that aligns with their worldviews and supports their intentions. Because their worldviews are typically wrong and their intentions are often antisocial, this means seeking out a lot of extremist, low-quality information, including fake news. Nevertheless, such content primarily 'preaches to the choir.' Given this, it is unlikely to have dramatic consequences in shaping the audience’s beliefs and behaviours, except for reinforcing pre-existing ideas."
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Are those people who complain most about "fake news" the same people to digest and disseminate the most "fake news"?
Studies show that online fake news makes up a small percentage of people’s overall media diet... most people encounter very little fake news, a small minority encounters a lot, which inflates the average... those who engage with large amounts of online fake news have particular pre-existing traits such as extremist attitudes, highly conspiratorial worldviews, and intense distrust of (and often hostility towards) establishment institutions. These traits lead them to seek information that aligns with their worldviews and supports their intentions. Because their worldviews are typically wrong and their intentions are often antisocial, this means seeking out a lot of extremist, low-quality information, including fake news. Nevertheless, such content primarily 'preaches to the choir.' Given this, it is unlikely to have dramatic consequences in shaping the audience’s beliefs and behaviours, except for reinforcing pre-existing ideas."
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Yes, your gut reaction is correct. This stat is ridiculous. Even the journal which published it later admitted as much.
Joe Rogan and Andrew Huberman look up how many Americans die from medical error each year, and the answer floors them both.
ROGAN: “Okay, so medical error is responsible for 251,000 deaths a year.”
HUBERMAN: “Whoa, that’s crazy.”
ROGAN: “Do you understand how insane that is? Imagine if that was Pop-Tarts.”
That number comes from a 2016 Johns Hopkins study published in the BMJ. It estimated medical errors kill 251,454 Americans a year, which makes them the third leading cause of death, behind only heart disease and cancer.
And it gets worse. A 2023 Johns Hopkins and Harvard study found that misdiagnosis alone kills an estimated 371,000 Americans a year and leaves another 424,000 permanently disabled.
If an airline killed that many people, nobody would ever board a plane again.
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What did USDOJ find when it investigated the UCSF med school?
Pretty much the same thing found everywhere: The school "admitted black and Hispanic applicants who academically underperformed the average rejected white and Asian student [italics mine]."
"Where MCAT score, undergraduate GPA, and socioeconomic traits were the same when compared to white applicants, UCSF Medical School was... 12.6 times more likely to admit black applicants."
Just to clarify: That's not 12.6% more likely; it's 12.6 TIMES more likely. So, it's not just plain old racism, it's racism on steroids. And it's completely normal in highly selective academic programs.
Yesterday, the Justice Department announced its finding that the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine discriminated based on race in granting and denying admission to its 2023-2025 incoming classes.
“Unfortunately, at UCSF Medical School, MCAT scores and undergraduate GPAs have taken a backseat to race,” said @AAGDhillon. “Aspiring doctors should be admitted based on their qualifications. The Supreme Court has spoken clearly — federally funded medical schools may not admit students based on misguided and illegal notions of diversity.”
Read more: justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-d…
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I don't think Trump is necessarily the worst president in the post-War period — W did more lasting damage than Trump has likely done so far, and Carter was arguably more inept — but he's without doubt the worst (and most embarrassing) person to have occupied the White House.
Trump now has the lowest net approval of any president at this point or earlier in their presidency since polling began in 1945.
It's now more than 10 points worse than both his own first term and Biden's at the same point.
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People who for good reason no longer want to live are now being provided with a compassionate alternative.
This is known as progress.
It ought to be a source of shame that the US has no comparable program.
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This isn't a "rationalist versus moralist" debate. Because, in this case, it's actually the rationalists who have the moral high ground.
I know that among my followers, MAID is reviled.
But I'm actually a supporter of it.
Having recently had a relative die horrifically, with pain that MAID could have alleviated, my support is stronger than ever.
First, just look at the reasons people do MAID:
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