Secession Is Here: States, Cities and the Wealthy Are Already Withdrawing from America
Alienation and separatism can go a long long way before getting to outright secession, and they still have real consequences.
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California’s Covid Misinformation Law Is Entangled in Lawsuits, Conflicting Rulings
California’s Covid censorship law has not yet been killed by the judiciary, sadly.
Read more...Ayn Rand vs. Elinor Ostrom: The Fight for the Future of Social Media
Contrasting ideologies at play about the structure and role of social media mirror the conflicting ideologies in economics.
Read more...“How Stupid Do They Think We Are?” Nord Stream Pipelines Bombing Edition
Shameless Nord Stream spin.
Read more...Secret Power and the Persecution of Julian Assange
Stefania Maurizi’s “Secret Power: Wikileaks and its Enemies” chronicles Wikileaks’ publications and the dehumanization of Julian Assange.
Read more...Ukraine, Russia, China, and Dealing With Crazy People
What passes for leadership in the West is becoming more agitated, particulalry over Ukraine.
Read more...The Crisis in Scientific Publication: Peer Review, Authorship, Responsibility, and the Future of Science
Science is rotting thanks to bad metrics and bad publisher incentives.
Read more...All Presidents Avoid Reporters, but Biden May Achieve a Record in His Press Avoidance
An effort to rationalize Presidential and by extension other politicians’ minimizing interaction with the press.
Read more...New, Buzzy Cochrane Study Sets the “Fools Gold” Standard for Anti-Maskers
Putting on my yellow waders for the Cochrane study,
Read more...Lever News Silences Workers’ Voices and Gets the Story Wrong in East Palestine Derailment Coverage
A close reading and media critique of Lever News’ East Palestine coverage.
Read more...The Presentation of Video Evidence in Court Can Hold Sway in Cases Like the Beating Death of Tyre Nichols
Video is tricky, even when the user isn’t trying to spin its audience.
Read more...Rose Marie Counts Wins “Classification Struggle” over Smile, Dental Work with HR Department of Pennsylvania Convenience Store Sheetz
Celebrating a victory for workers everywhere (and especially non-smilers).
Read more...Is Civilization at Stake in Ukraine?
An effort to deflate the hype over the probable loss of the war by Ukraine does not go far enough.
Read more...Seymour Hersh: Navy Divers + Spooks + Norway Took Out Nord Stream 2 on Biden’s Orders, Using Timer
Colonel Mustard in the Library with the Candlestick Spooks and divers in the Baltic with the C4.
Why, Despite RAND’s Recommendation, the Ukraine War Is Unlikely to End in a Negotiated Settlement
The timing of a Blinken interview and a RAND paper release points to elite splits over Ukraine. Sadly the warmongers are still in charge.
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