Decoding the Gurus did an episode on this stuff. Imagine anti-vax hipsters with extreme vocal fry and self-diagnosis of autism.

Red Scare: Bohemian Hipsterism x Reactionary Tradcaths

My first response would be “that’s a rather shite superpower then, innit?”

I was thinking the same, especially if it only works on busses.

I love this podcast. One of the hosts (Michael Hobbes) used to be on “you’re wrong about” which also dispelled common myths and misinformation. They look at bad science and epistemology in airport-type books, like Malcolm Gladwell or right wing nut jobs, etc.

This makes sense to me. I went through a Jars of Clay / Switchfoot phase, but never Stryper.

I have heard a couple of really good episodes of The Dig podcast, which is a Jacobin thing. Notably “The German Question” a couple of weeks ago.

Skip to 1:03 for a second … this is the super-fast lyric portion of the video. Saying all of those syllables fast causes Mr. street-sounding rap guy to lose his accent code-switch and for that verse he sounds like a generic white guy. Pretty funny actually.

Thank you.

terrorists have and can used bio weapons to terrifying effect

Can you please tell me when and where? The Japanese subway gassing comes to mind. Anthrax envelopes in 2001. Any others since then?

r/nottheonion

Same here - basic but interesting. And hearing about the eugenics never fails to shock me, even when I already know about it.

This interview made me want to read her book.

The Unknowers: How Strategic Ignorance Rules the World by Linsey McGoey | Nov 15, 2019

im secretly NRx

Sometimes building my vocabulary here is fun. I know nothing about his company but I empathize with their PR people who no doubt comb the internet for media hits.

ChatGPT, give me a phrase for when university professors are found to have committed plagiarism in their dissertations:

*fifteen-year-stale peccadillos *

the data collection process was too time-consuming

Just to show how time-consuming this process might have been, it consisted of two people doing google searches and assigning the names them to a handful of categories.

1 - I copied the list of signatories from their website. 2 -Gina Stuessy and I searched the internet for “(name) lawsuit”, “(name) crime” and also looked at their Wikipedia page. 3 -I categorized any results into “financial”, “sexual”, and “other”, and also marked if they had spent at least one day in jail. 4 -Gina and I eventually decided that the data collection process was too time-consuming, and we stopped partway through. The final dataset includes 115 of the 232 signatories.[2][3]

I learned this in the Jack Reacher books - elbows are harder to break and have more impact.*

• I have not tried this

Jakeup @yashkaf

Oct 18, 2021

I took 15 mg Adderall for the first time in my life today and instead of lunch I finished my work and instead of dinner I played soccer for three hours and now I get why every single person on here is claiming to have ADHD this stuff is sick

Anyone remember the South Park episode with the Prius emitting clouds of Smug?

Bowling Alone stats: slightly higher scores than bowling with other people stats.

Here are my desiderata:

Here are my eyes rolling out of my skull: 𝄇⥀.⥀𝄆

Saving the world sucks unless you do it while traveling the world in luxury as an EA “charity worker” maybe.

I made it to the second sentence and had to google “hedonium,” which I figured was a portmanteau-type thing and indeed it was. In my search results for the word, I see LessWrong and Nick Bostrum at the top, so yeah.

I think the long content is a gullibility filter

Like those “one weird trick” videos that go on and on without displaying playback controls. Only the rubes get to the end.