Unhinged 2022 article describes the cruel, nasty postwar phenomenon of ‘de-statting’, where elderly white London tenants were intimidated and abused into moving out of rent-controlled properties by recent immigrant landlords, as “using white tenants’ prejudices against them”.

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The US censorship model, behind-the-scenes algorithmic suppression and account deletions rather than public/formal censorship or prison, is more effective than primitive police states like China or the UK, in part because it's difficult to describe and so oppose.

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In my space game Hyperspeed (1991) I had a race of cute puppy aliens. Their starships were shaped like little butterflies. They were super-friendly and nice to you. They had the secret Philanthropy circuit that you could install in a robot brain to turn the robots good. I must

You buy a $2 lottery ticket that wins $1m the next day. A man confiscates the ticket for $10 and calls it "justice" because, if he had asked you yesterday, you would have "hypothetically consented," which applied to this unrelated actual situation This is your brain on Rawlslop

This article underscores a common issue whereby researchers readily acknowledge in an academic journal that causality can’t be inferred—But then when they speak about the findings to friendly journalists, they assert causality. Compare: the journal vs Guardian coverage

the entire purpose of bars is basically loud music to deter autists. normies have some sort of secret code to hear/understand each other through dangerous noise levels

Personally I think people are completely misreading Jackson. She's not dumb; she's uninterested in following legal principles she doesn't agree with. She's not unlike Scalia in the early days, and I think the future of liberal jurisprudence is much more likely to look like her

The Walrus Indians need to do land acknowledgements every time they look at the moon since it’s our flag up there

One of my favorite things about media coverage on Antifa is the blanket adoption of the refrain "It's not even an organization" --in accordance with the instructions issued in the 2017 "Forming an Antifa Group" Manual, published by It's Going Down.

Just got verification from YouTube that showing people how to bypass age verification will result in a strike. Since Microsoft is likely tying this into their Microsoft account requirements, it means the days of showing people how to bypass it are over. Big tech wants your

I once used Nair to remove my chest hair. During the process I generously slathered the substance on my nipples. The why of this nipple slathering is not important gentlemen and ladies. But the result should be a warning to all. My nipples burned like they were being finely

There’s a Borges short story that’s basically about this

when u read that helen dewitt ended up passing on a $175,000 literary prize because she couldn't figure out how to find a starbucks for wifi and felt completely overwhelmed by the prospect of figuring out how to do one interview and scheduling one festival appearance, u might be

"stochastic terrorism" is, quite frankly, complete fucking bullshit. it's a unfalsifiable term used to try to tie your political opponents speech to actions that have fucking nothing to do with them, attempting to weaponize tragedy and mental illness for debate points. it was

To have entertaining stories, you have to have CONFLICT, that's the central idea. No conflict = boring. And that's exactly what happens with this kind of shit, a character Comes Out As (whatever) and the show grinds to a halt, all the conflict stops, no characters are allowed to

Just so we are clear, characters expressing the views they would realistically hold for the purposes of exposition is just like, normal storytelling.

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