2021-05-03
Cool
Worthy
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Why Power Is Getting Woke - INQUIRE
It’s extremely common to find critics of “wokeness” and critical race theory decrying it as a radical activist- and academic-driven plot to upend the basic foundations of American society. And while it certainly does like to present itself that way, and is even believed to be exactly that by its most true believers, it’s an analysis that fails to explain why every Fortune 500 company, establishment politician, media executive, and entertainer has become an evangelist for these ideas. After all, radicalism is about threatening and upending existing power structures. What we’re seeing now is quite the opposite. Far from seeing these ideas as a threat, the existing power structure is enthusiastically adopting them as something of a ruling class ideology. So unless you think all of these people are critical theory sleeper cells who are just now being awakened to carry out a plot decades in the making, the more likely explanation is that not only are these ideas compatible with power, but something about them must actually lend themselves to protecting and even enhancing that power. In other words, it’s an ideology that seems much more suited not to radicalism, but to the opposite: repression.
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Why politically guided science is bad - Noahpinion
Some people frame the question of politically guided science as a conflict between science and ideology. But in fact, that’s not really what it is, because the idea that science should be devoted to finding the fact is itself an ideology. It’s an ideological belief that humanity is better off knowing the facts than not knowing them.
Horseshit
Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination
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Another phenomenon that accelerated in the early 1970s is the bifurcation of the American public into a cognitive elite and cognitive normal. Colleges became exceedingly efficient at filtering entrants by IQ, with the typical college student 1 standard deviation above the mean IQ, and with some prestigious colleges like Harvard having an average student multiple SDs above the mean. Simultaneously business administration became the purview of the same cognitive elite.
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The popularity of all of the "Jane Goodall studying the gorillas" redneck porn on Discovery and National Geographic and History Channel, along with more prestigious dramas like Yellowstone or Justified or Longmire would indicate to me that this is still a very profitable demographic to target, albeit distasteful to the major television executives.
Jane Goodall is "redneck porn"?
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A new generation of Black male teachers starts its journey in partnership with Apple - Apple
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Trolls can be hunted down, rooted out. Why aren’t social media giants doing it?
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Biden team may partner with private firms to surveil Americans online
Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship
TechSuck
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Verizon sells Yahoo and AOL businesses to Apollo for $5B
+ [Verizon Sells Yahoo and AOL](https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/3/22416854/aol-yahoo-sale-apollo-venetian-hotel-verizon) -
President of Elon Musk’s Neuralink venture tweets that he’s left the company
Economicon
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Warren Buffett seeing 'substantial inflation' and raising prices
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Berkshire Hathaway’s questionable performance and governance
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Takes balls to rip off customers like they did with GME and then come back with this: The old guard of investing is at it again | by Jacqueline Ortiz Ramsay | May, 2021 | Robinhood
Poilitcks
Security / Militaria / Crime / Police
World
Health / Medicine / COVID
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Covid-19 Is a Vascular Disease: Coronavirus’ Spike Proteins Study
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CVS and Walgreens have wasted more vaccine doses than most states combined
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Airport security app Clear looks to score with U.S. ‘vaccine passport’
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Reaching ‘Herd Immunity’ Is Unlikely in the U.S., Experts Now Believe
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Elevated blood glucose as a primary risk factor for the severity of Covid-19
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India Is Counting Thousands of Daily Covid Deaths. How Many Is It Missing?