Why are incompetent mediocrities so apparently omnipresent in your social media? Because someone is paying lots of money to astroturf them as absolutely hard as possible
BREAKING: Thinkspot - Jordan Peterson’s new social media website which bills itself as the place where “ideas live” and has a page long “Free Speech statement” and a commitment to only take down illegal speech appears to have just banned at least three users.
"Last year, three cryptocurrency enthusiasts bought a cruise ship. They named it the Satoshi, and dreamed of starting a floating libertarian utopia. It didn’t work out."
Buses in London are packed with passengers this morning, because the people being forced into work to die don't have cars. The second wave will, of course, be blamed on them.
Buses in London are packed with passengers this morning, despite the govt asking people to avoid public transport if possible when the
#coronavirus
lockdown eased.
Follow live as England gets back to work:
@nytimes
question for
@williamjbroad
and
@globaldan
- sirs, could you please detail for us the editorial process that leads to both-sidesing drinking bleach? Thank you
I want to address unfounded speculation about
@MrAndyNgo
's departure from
@Quillette
: Andy has been off work for
@Quillette
since July, after sustaining a traumatic brain injury. He is now moving onto bigger & better projects, & we wish him all the best in his future endeavours.
@Zooophagous
@mikestabile
@Mastercard
.
@Mastercard
2019 annual meeting transcript: they directly refused to censor payments to neo-Nazis and white nationalists.
Mastercard consider sex workers in 2021 more objectionable than *literal Nazis*.
Robert Webb left Strictly Come Dancing because he was afraid of being "cancelled" if he was caught on camera in the rehearsal room saying ... what in particular, Robert? What did you feel you could hardly restrain yourself from saying on a hot mic?
Instant buying (and selling, if you don’t want to hodl) of Bitcoin is now available to most Cash App customers. We support Bitcoin because we see it as a long-term path towards greater financial access for all. This is a small step.
We also made this!
it's never not amazing how "capitalist" conservatives are just utterly unable to comprehend capitalism - the idea of businesses seeking a broad mainstream audience - except as a Cultural Marxist conspiracy
so this is pretty wild. "Works in Progress" is an official magazine of payments processor
@Stripe
.
But "demographic winter" is a dog whistle for the white nationalist Great Replacement Theory.
What the hell is going on at Stripe?
The Baby Boom holds important lessons for boosting birth rates in today's demographic winter. The best way to improve fertility rates may be to make parenthood cheaper and easier through better technology, healthcare, and housing.
A warning: At the same time I am seeing a rise in anti-semitism on the right & the left I am seeing a lot more YouTube comments written by defenders of the Nazis. Communists have always had online defenders. But this Nazi apologism appears new... is anyone else seeing the same?
"woke mind virus" is a billionaire phrase meaning "gives a hoot about a single other person"
any non-billionaire using the phrase is probably not very bright
If any blithering idiot tries to tell you that sending incels to a sex worker is a good idea, shove this link down their throat so hard that they choke
A parole board sent a convicted wife-murderer to a sex worker *because* they knew he was a danger to women but wanted to make sure he got his "sexual needs" met. The guy murdered the 22-year-old sex worker.
This tweet looks like it's from an SF tech crowd NIMBY. But Tandler is an SF tech crowd literal Nazi attempting to dogwhistle - the "vigilante" hangings in SF in the early 1920s were the KKK.
archive of original:
The founder of SomethingAwful was such an asshole he got kicked off the site he founded (and it's much nicer now). He's trying to pivot to the right-wing grift circuit.
quite a lot of the twitter transphobes with GoodyXX etc names are sockpuppet accounts for middle aged men delighted to find an acceptable form of misogyny
this is why their timelines have no other topics of posting whatsoever: they're single-issue sockpuppet accounts
Biden winning means the SJWs now control all video games. AAA games will be required to become walking simulators. Breasts have been reduced by five cup sizes.
Three types of misinformation are being used against transgender people: oversimplifying scientific knowledge, fabricating and misinterpreting research, and promoting false equivalences.
let's be absolutely clear: transphobes are scientifically incompetent, and anyone claiming that biology supports a rigid gender binary is a pseudoscientist
"milk shaking rules because fascism and totalitarianism rely on the appearance of strength and its impossible to not look owned when covered in milkshake" - Mel Mudkiper
thread on the religious attack on OnlyFans, and the backlash hitting the evangelicals and Mastercard
@Mastercard
said in a 2019 earnings call that they would not block payments to neo-Nazis, btw. Just sex workers in 2021, who they apparently think are worse than literal Nazis.
I know a lot of you feel hopeless right now, but I watching this unfold, I want to contextualize a few things about the battle ahead.
#1
Exodus Cry and NCOSE are scrambling: 95% of coverage about OnlyFans supports SWers. They didn't expect this, and now want to shift blame. 1/
if you ever wondered why Jordan Peterson is so negative about law as a field of study - Canadian courts keep refusing him as an expert witness because he talks complete and transparent tosh. Hilarious and enlightening thread:
thread: famed recording engineer Steve Albini on why debating cranks is an exhausting waste of your time, and it's intended as one, using a worked example from a few decades ago
A couple decades ago there was a christian panic about something the press started calling "backmasking," an outgrowth of the similarly absurd panic about subliminal messaging and advertising, about which I could also talk about for too long but will not now.
I've recently realized that most normal people don't know about the right-wing, ultra-Christian alternative to Wikipedia.
It's called Conservapedia and it exclusively deals in the most unhinged misinformation you've ever seen:
"I think a bigger reason New Atheism fizzled out was that the atheist stereotype went from being 'intelligent asshole' in 2007 to 'fedora-wearing neckbeard' in 2014. Lots of people want to be Dr House, nobody wants to be Comic Book Guy." (PMMeYourJerkyRecipes)
"The Transsexual Empire" is one of the foundational texts of "feminist" transphobia that gave us TERFs as we know them. This thread examines its themes and the awful stew of bad ideas to be found within.
In which
@arobertwebb
and
@RealDMitchell
try to cover up Robert Webb's previous extensively documented public transphobia, and can't get away with it because NPR isn't part of the UK media
Their publicity team asked if we would consider dropping the last segment and re-recording, if Webb and Mitchell agreed. This would be against NPR’s ethics code, so we said no.
Rationalist shocked to discover that her reactionary friends are reactionaries
in Bayesian epistemology, if you're shocked by something others predicted long ago, you should update your priors
How "debate" works for UAustin faculty: say somethig stupidly wrong, and when called thoroughly on it, try to make out it's a "debate" and you're not just utterly ignorant of your claimed subject area
"All that talk about liberal “snowflakes” is projection; if you really want to see people driven wild by tiny perceived slights and insults, you’ll generally find them on the right."
Boris Johnson is to announce the return of imperial weights and measures, making it legal for market stalls, shops and supermarkets to sell their goods using only Britain’s traditional weighing system post-Brexit
trying to explain Roko's Basilisk commonly gets the reaction "no that just sounds stupid, you must be explaining it wrong" reaction, when actually it really is just stupid