This article is going viral on UNZ Why Harvard Is Right to Discriminate Against Asians. This article is pretty bad and makes major unsubstantiated claims. I am surprised Ron Unz would even publish it. Insulting his readers’ intelligence for a few thousand clicks seems like…
Every few months or so, publications such as Wired remind us about the plight of Reddit moderators, who are on the front lines of fighting spam and trolls, all for no pay. Should we feel grateful or sorry for them. I don’t. If being a…
I keep being right over and over again. Back in March 2019, I wrote that the first term of the Trump presidency was effectively over and that there would be no legislation ,or much of any progress on anything. So far, it looks like i…
In part one I discuss the emergence of an online subculture, so-called intellectual-web. In part two, I will describe additional characteristics of this nascent ‘movement’ or identity. It’s not unified by a set of goals or objectives in the way a political movement is, but…
Over the past few years or so, there has been a ton of interest in persuasion and negotiation techniques. A Google search reveals dozens of articles about so-called “FBI negotiation tactics” and guides and how-to lists on how to be more persuasive. People have published…
I’m sure everyone is familiar with the IDW, but I think there is a related intellectual movement, the intellect-o-web–that Unlike the IDW–which describes a closely-linked network of experts, pundits, and academics, who have large platforms and occasionally espouse controversial and politically incorrect ideas–describes a shared…
There is blogger and podcaster whose identity I will not disclose, but given all of the clues supplied in this article it should not be that hard to figure out, who is tangentially related to the alt-right but in recent years has disavowed the movement….
An argument I commonly hear online by Vox Day and others, is something along the lines of: “Trump is better than the alternative” “…at least he’s not Hillary…” “Hillary would have been worse…” “Hillary is even more pro-Israel than Trump…” “Hillary would have caused X,Y,…
The news cycle is pretty moribund as of late. Things are gonna remain slow probably until the next round of 2020 election. Although this blog does a lot of predicting, I have no idea who out of the five or so major candidates will be…
Over the past few weeks I have been paying much closer attention to Trump on Twitter in order to try to understand why he is so popular there, about his personality, and the community detractors and fans who follow him. 1. Trump’s Twitter account is…