This is being passed around like an STD: What Happens Next Will Amaze You The infamous dating site for married people Ashley Madison was hacked, revealing personal information and and easily-cracked passwords for millions of users. Some of these users are already the subject of active extortion. Australia passed an incoherent and sweeping data retention… Continue reading The Daily View: Privacy, Silicon Valley Housing, The Failure of Democracy, Gender Achievement Gap in the Sciences
Part 1. Misconceptions About the 2008 Financial Crisis
The subject of the The 2008 banks bailouts (TARP), which understandably angered both Republicans and Democrats, a pertinent case study in pragmatism, in which other otherwise inviolable free market was temporary suspended for the ‘greater good’ of the economy, but ultimately, in spite of great criticism, the bailouts proved to be a success, or at… Continue reading Part 1. Misconceptions About the 2008 Financial Crisis
The SJW Narrative Collapse
The Multicultural Narrative Is Collapsing Before Our Eyes As I predicted in 2014, there is definitely evidence of SJW narrative collapse, especially on Reddit and elsewhere, with the rise of Red Pill, Dark Enlightenment, and other anti-SJW movements and ideologies. Online, whenever a story breaks out about the public school war on boys or about… Continue reading The SJW Narrative Collapse
Purple Policies, Part 2
From Charles Murray: The Trouble With Kids Today Again, my underlying point is simple. IQ has a substantial direct correlation with measures of success in life, and it is also correlated with a variety of other characteristics that promote success—perseverance, deferred gratification, good parenting, and the aspects of personality that are variously called “emotional intelligence”… Continue reading Purple Policies, Part 2
The Appeal of Doom and Gloom
In a slow news cycle, like we’re in now, human interest stories dominate, stuff like the the clock hoax, the Budapest refugee ‘crisis’, and so on, all overblown to turn outrage and curiosity into ad dollars. That’s why the news is a waste of time…little actionable value can be gleaned from it. The same goes… Continue reading The Appeal of Doom and Gloom
The Great Debate Again: Jobs vs. Automation
Again from Aaron: The Luddite Fallacy has a long history of being a fallacy. There are new jobs replacing obsolete ones. And in other instances, automation and jobs can coexist. In the first instance, every major brand has Facebook page and these brands hire people to answer questions and delete spam from the pages –… Continue reading The Great Debate Again: Jobs vs. Automation
The Daily View: Teaching Kids to Code; Pinterest & Web 2.0; GOP Debate
From AVC: Computer Science For All Yesterday Mayor de Blasio announced Computer Science For All which is a ten year effort to train 4,775 NYC public school teachers on the fundamentals of computer science and how to teach it to their students. The goal of Computer Science For All is to have computer science teachers… Continue reading The Daily View: Teaching Kids to Code; Pinterest & Web 2.0; GOP Debate
Breaking the Tuition Feedback Loop
From Aaron Clarey: On Reddit, 4chan, the blogospehre, and on Youtube, there are three ‘great debates’ that have been raging since 2013: SJWs/Gawker vs. Redpill/PUA/MRA/Gamergate, the largest most heated of the three, is an internet version of the age-old left vs. right schism, but the battle is waged on Twitter, Tumblr, Reddit, and blogs instead… Continue reading Breaking the Tuition Feedback Loop
Neo Masculinity and Christianity, Darwinian Conservatism, Free Will, Biological Reality
An interesting post from Return of Kings: Why Christianity Is Not An Enemy Of Neomasculinity I’m not sure who ever said it was. Atheists within the neo-masculinity movement, in contrast to the smug atheists who watch Colbert and Daily Show, don’t have enmity towards Christians. They may not agree with Christianity, but this disagreement is… Continue reading Neo Masculinity and Christianity, Darwinian Conservatism, Free Will, Biological Reality
Hillary the Lesser of Two Evils
From Canto Talk: The Democrats are really socialists now That’s right. There is no real difference, and that is not a good path to national election for the Democrats. President Clinton tried to move the party to the center. He worked with the GOP to pass welfare reform and signed free trade agreements like NAFTA.… Continue reading Hillary the Lesser of Two Evils