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The Many Flavors of Wokeness
The Many Flavors of Wokeness
Analyzing what it means to be woke, alt-woke, and meta-woke in the modern social media superorganism.
The Human Tool
The Human Tool
Ants, Monkeys, Social Constructionism, Political Tribalism, Guns, Syria, and Cultural Postmodernist Frankfurt School Bullshit. 2019 is lit.
Things Jordan Peterson’s Rehab Taught Me
Things Jordan Peterson’s Rehab Taught Me
On rehab and the efficacy of authority bias.
Not Your Imagination — Society Is in Fact Going Insane, and I Can Prove It
Not Your Imagination — Society Is in Fact Going Insane, and I Can Prove It
All I need is some Aztecs and a Time Machine.
I Just made $100 off Some Dead Kids, and That’s the Problem
I Just made $100 off Some Dead Kids, and That’s the Problem
Examining the Media / Mass Shooter Symbiosis
The Curious Rationalist Magic of Essential Oils
The Curious Rationalist Magic of Essential Oils
My wife Buffy loved essential oils. They were a big part of her life before she passed on, and I never really understood how big until she…
Sam Tripoli Podcast
Sam Tripoli Podcast
I was a bit apprehensive about this podcast, because Sam is pretty out there, but I think it turned out fabulous.
Newsweek‘s Bogus Gun Rhetoric Misses an Amazing Find
Newsweek‘s Bogus Gun Rhetoric Misses an Amazing Find
Newsweek dropped a really ripe one today, full of misleading statistics and bogus rhetoric. Let’s go through some screenshots, to make…
Ghosts of the Dead
Ghosts of the Dead
Buffy believed in ghosts. Our children do as well, and I think I might. She told some of her friends, in her final weeks before she passed…
Doctors are Wrong about Firearm Effectiveness in Mass Shootings
Doctors are Wrong about Firearm Effectiveness in Mass Shootings
I’ve struggled with whether to write this piece for a very long time, over a year in fact. I held back for reasons which will become…
April HWFO Housekeeping, and Remembering Buffy
April HWFO Housekeeping, and Remembering Buffy
I’ve mentioned before that my wife was battling early onset colon cancer. She passed away on April 4th. I haven’t had much time to write…
Can Fortnite Rescue Humanity from the Attention Economy War?
Can Fortnite Rescue Humanity from the Attention Economy War?
…by winning it?
Visualizing the Costs of Government in “Border Walls”
Visualizing the Costs of Government in “Border Walls”
We need a new unit.
The Great M. Zuckerberg Privacy Con
The Great M. Zuckerberg Privacy Con
Encryption is Mark Zuckerberg’s real promise for fake privacy. The terms of the deal M. Zuckerberg informs the tech public they will be…
Gun Laws Have Basically No Impact on Mass Shooter Rate
Gun Laws Have Basically No Impact on Mass Shooter Rate
And the mass shooter rate is fabulously low to begin with.
Explaining the Medium Partner Program
Explaining the Medium Partner Program
Call this a one-year performance review, if you like.
r/idw Podcast Transcript Excerpts (#1)
r/idw Podcast Transcript Excerpts (#1)
bits and pieces transcribed
Explaining the Social Justice “Woke Anti-Semitism” Paradox
Explaining the Social Justice “Woke Anti-Semitism” Paradox
And, perhaps, fixing it.
Facebook Sold $301.48 of Access to Your Data since 2015, Will Sell 3X that in Next 4 Years
Facebook Sold $301.48 of Access to Your Data since 2015, Will Sell 3X that in Next 4 Years
Yesterday’s Q4 2018 earnings report shows Facebook has raked in an average of over $300 per US/Canada user selling access to your data and…
AI Article Title Generator
AI Article Title Generator
Why has nobody coded up an AI “article title generator” yet?
The (Missing) Link Between Gun Control Laws and Gun Deaths
The (Missing) Link Between Gun Control Laws and Gun Deaths
Pro tip: it isn’t there.
Facebook Rents You out like a Hotel Room
Facebook Rents You out like a Hotel Room
Mark Zuckerberg wants to clear something up: Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t “sell” your personal data. I want to clear something up: Mark…