2023-02-10
Worthy
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Freedom of speech in general and academic freedom in particular have always been placed under pressure or even active assault because they are, by design, uncomfortable. After all, no one needs the freedom or protection to utter comfortable pablum or to make statements which flatter the rich and powerful. Those statements do not require protection because no one is trying to silence them. It is the uncomfortable statements which require speech protections, which in turn means that free speech and academic freedom are in a sense always going to be unpopular. Now just because a statement is uncomfortable doesn’t make it true, but the wisdom here has always been that this discomfort is good, that it is valuable to create spaces in society where uncomfortable things can be said, precisely because sometimes those uncomfortable things are true and necessary to say and systems which try to selectively limit what can be said end up co-opted by the powerful to serve their interests, rather than the interests of the community
for-instance: every major state university system has at least dozens of historians and nearly every one of them has a university press. And yet state high school curricula still rely on expensive textbooks from major publishers, rather than, say, North Carolina using a textbook produced by the University of North Carolina for use in the state. It might change voter’s attitudes towards their state’s academics if they regularly saw some of their work in their own children’s classrooms.
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Horseshit
Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering
Musk
Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult
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Fauci: now he tells us – HotAir
No systemic vaccine for respiratory infections does or even can work to prevent infection and transmission of the viruses to others, because they never get a chance to. Everything important takes place in the mucosal system, which has a different immune response than the rest of the body.
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Molnupiravir Mutations in the Wild
teams at the Crick Institute and at Cambridge. They are finding what could be mutational signature from molnupiravir exposure in current coronavirus sequences, which is food for thought.
Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation
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Here’s the perfect response to woman who now regrets her ‘Harry Potter’ tattoos – twitchy.com
So you are saying you regret a decision you made to permanently alter your body when you were younger?
Media / ShowBiz / Advertising
TechSuck
Economicon / Business / Finance
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security
External Security / Militaria / Diplomania
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China claims second suspected spy balloon over Latin America was also lost.
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Experts Believe Chinese Satellite Fired Green Lasers Over Hawaii | ZeroHedge
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Actually examines and refutes his assertions, not just "Hersh is always wrong" Blowing Holes in Seymour Hersh's Pipe Dream