“We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error undetected will flourish and subvert.” –J. Robert Oppenheimer ***************** WARNING: NO UNIDENTIFIED AI BULLSHIT IS TO BE POSTED ON THIS SITE UNDER PENALTY OF MODERATION OR SITE BAN
It was Wheatie's wonderful musical selection, early this morning on the daily open thread, that - as they say - HIT ME HARD, BRO!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8T6UYZxNUQ Here it is - a beautiful musical selection for Christmas.... https://youtu.be/SQadcm_dwEM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQadcm_dwEM My immediate thought upon seeing this beautiful video and hearing the young boys with their sweet voices was … Continue reading Remoralization
No, not THAT Weinstein - THIS ONE. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/08/opinion/intellectual-dark-web.html Or THIS ONE. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hx7iBP5D2w Or this one. https://youtu.be/2wq9x2QcZN0 Eric Weinstein is an interesting Twitter follow. He has opinions which I would say land square in the middle of the "new skeptical intelligentsia", part of which would include the "intellectual dark web", part of which would be outside … Continue reading 2A Supporters: Are You Ready to Take the Weinstein Challenge?
A Deplorable Abroad, Wherein Keln's Meme Takes on a Profound Second Meaning I must begin by admitting - to a limited extent - where I was during my recent absence. For a short time, I was in Paris - as in Paris, France. I was forced by circumstances to take a taxi across downtown Paris … Continue reading A Tale of Two Revolutions
On October 20th The New York Times tried to paint a happy face on the full-on attempt to take down America. We all saw the classic somber talking heads repeating their scripted "4 AM talking points" about how honorable people are doing noble and heroic things to save us from ... Donald J. Trump -- … Continue reading The Empire Strikes Back
What is [CROWDSTRIKE]-gate? Let's begin with the 11 Q Posts with references to CROWDSTRIKE found at Qmap.pub. 1. 436 Scheme Behind Fake Russian Dossier Q!UW.yye1fxo22 Dec 2017 - 2:37:09 PM ONE OF TWENTY TWO: [DNC BREACH / DOSSIER] [DNC] [SR]> [WL]> HUSSEIN> DNI DIR> CLOWN DIR> CLAS: 1-12> GOOG> CROWDSTRIKE> DNC> (SR 187)(MS13 (2) 187)> DWS_DIR> F-I/D-J … Continue reading What is [CROWDSTRIKE]-gate?
OK. Confession time. I'm not just a classic liberal - I'm a PALEOLIBERAL. Which in these incipient socialist times means that I now resemble a "classic conservative". Yeah, it's complicated. But the bottom line, is that I want America to be conservative enough that it's MORALLY SAFE to be a wee bit liberal again, championing … Continue reading Confessions of a Retrosexual Backtivist