Tbh Eric Weinstein's Edge.org essay on the relevance of Kayfabe to 21st Century politics / culture was one of the deepest cultural insights of the past 20 years.

The more I see of our era, the more I appreciate this take:
edge.org/response-detai…

Regarding 'Kona Blue'. I have been away from normal connectivity so I have been slow to digest this. Here is what I have.

My position on UFO/UAP has been solidly consistent for the last several years:

A) I was previously simply wrong that there was nothing to this story. I have…

“You may have heard there’s a crisis in physics!! No there’s not.” -Sean Carroll (Mindscape 263 intro)

This has gotten beyond ridiculous. Read this quoted tweet. WTF? What next?

“String theory is Planck scale physics that just happened to fall into the ElectroWeak regime.”…

In the passing of Peter Higgs, we lost one of our last living connections to the Lagrangian of the Standard Model.

Peter Higgs was involved with both lines 3 & 4 of this “Recipe for the Universe.”

The level of the Higgs field φ becomes the as-if mass for the matter ψ in the…

It turns out it is pretty hard to describe the experience of a total eclipse of the sun. I just don’t have good words for it.

I would simply recommend going when and if you can.

FINAL RESULTS: the incredibly loud, scary & aggressive group, harassing, threatening & disparaging anyone who dares question their simplistic version of events in Gaza is not having nearly as big of an impact as they desperately want you to imagine.

You can run this poll…

Sabine & I have our differences.

But what she discusses here is totally well known within academe, and is in no way peculiar to her.

While Sabine Hossenfelder was failing, Claudine Gay, String Theory, and her detractors were “succeeding.”

You might consider that when you next hear epithets.

Curious to see what beliefs people are operating under that differ from my own.

Q: In whose interest is it to MAXIMIZE civilian casualties and Collateral Damage in Gaza:

Check this poll.

If you haven’t updated, the epithet “Conspiracy Theorist” may now not be packing the same punch as it once did.

Mysteriously, the slur seems to have originated around 1963, and then picked up power as a smear in the following years.

Odd that…