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  • (Nov 3 2024) There is no "censorship industrial complex"

    In writing criticisms of misinformation alarmism and the anti-misinformation industry, I have been aware that the arguments partly align with those advanced by pundits like Matt Taibbi, Glenn Greenwald, Michael Shellenberger, and Jacob Siegel. These writers are most responsible for articulating and defending the “censorship bad!” side of the modern culture war. the deeper reason I have not wanted to associate my arguments with those within the “censorship bad!” discourse is simply that the most influential writings and commentary about a sinister “censorship industrial complex” involve extreme exaggerations and misrepresentations, low-quality reporting, smear campaigns, and cherry-picking. These flaws are bad enough on their own, but hysterical discourse about “totalitarian” censorship is being used to justify Trump's dangerous lie that the 2020 presidential election was fraudulent and his claim that the real threat to American democracy comes from the Democratic Party’s support for online censorship. In fact, one of the most remarkable things about the “censorship bad!” discourse is that the very people who complain about the liberal establishment’s alarmism about online misinformation advance far more hysterical and unsupported claims about the prevalence and impact of online censorship.

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Electric / Self Driving cars

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

  • a taxonomy of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion – Daniel Frank

    conversations about diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) often become quite dumb. One camp insists demographics should never influence decisions—may the best candidate win! The other sees any demographic skew not mirroring the broader population as evidence of discrimination requiring intervention. 10 years into DEI going mainstream, it seems shocking how little progress the discourse has made. Both extreme perspectives seem obviously wrong to me, yet it seems like there have been no bona fide good faith attempts to actually come up with a thoughtful framework for analyzing DEI decisions. To this end, this post aims to establish a comprehensive taxonomy of DEI considerations. The goal is to highlight all relevant factors that may be taken into account when evaluating the potential value of a DEI intervention.

  • Teacher: Men should wear blue bracelets post-election to indicate they’re ‘safe’ to be around.

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

TechSuck / Geek Bait

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

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  • Why California is still counting votes and how long it may take to finish

  • Gary Gensler's Ambitious SEC Agenda Could Be Near Its End

  • California votes 'no' on measure to ban forced prison labor

  • Claims about how the two parties have evolved

    In the 20th century, the republicans were the party of classical liberalism, and the democrats were the party of social liberalism (the welfare state). These two parties no longer exist. This isn't obvious because both new parties used the old names and infrastructures, which they infiltrated. This was easier than building something new, and allowed them inherit the resources and connections of the old parties. But they are not the same, because not only are the philosophies different, the new parties aren't based on philosophies at all. The new parties represent communication technologies. The neo-democrats are the party of television. The neo-republicans are the party of the internet. This single relationship underlies all of their character and policies.

  • The Real Mission of the Fed - by Arnold Kling - In My Tribe

    For much of our history, Americans resisted a central bank. The first Bank of the United States was created to help resolve debt that was created during the Revolutionary War. By 1811, with its mission largely accomplished, its charter was allowed to expire. A second Bank of the United States was chartered in 1816, but it was famously abolished by President Andrew Jackson twenty years later.

    The populist era in American banking finally ended in the 1980s. Before then, a bank could not have a branch in more than one state. Many states allowed only a single branch within the state. Our contemporary banking system, dominated by a handful of large national institutions operating in every city, would have been unrecognizable as late as the early 1970s.

  • Women Cryptologists of WWII Forever Stamp

  • It Wasn’t an Election. It Was an Intervention.

    Trump drove so many mad, from the Never Trumpers to the Woke Left, because they destroyed themselves trying to destroy him. Their biggest problem was that they were never fighting the real Trump. They were fighting one they invented, a supervillain whose mere presence could end democracy itself. It’s hard to imagine such smart people losing their critical thinking ability. Power will do that to you, though. No one gives it up willingly. But still, you’d think some of them might have had an inkling America was ready for change by now.

  • The question not being asked - by Tom Knighton

    It turns out that personnel working for FEMA knocking on doors to see if people were eligible for federal funds were told to skip the homes of obvious Trump supporters. However, while people are focusing on what happened—and for understandable reasons—I can’t help but ask the question no one else seems to be asking. Why did she think she could get away with it?

    It’s possible she just figured that no one would learn about what she did, but at least one of the screenshots in the Daily Wire piece linked above shows that people were spelling this out in their official notes. She put it in a “best practices” memo that was sent to employees. Washington had to know someone would potentially see all of this sooner or later. That means she felt like she wouldn’t face any repercussions for her actions. She felt that her leadership would approve of what she did, even if not directly.

  • FEMA worker Marn’i Washington breaks silence on not helping Trump-voting hurricane victims

    The FEMA boss who was fired after ordering volunteers not to approach homes displaying Trump signs in Florida after Hurricane Milton has insisted her edict ‘was not isolated’ and also happened in North Carolina. Speaking out for the first time since she was fired, Marn’i Washington accused the Federal Emergency Management Agency of ‘lying’ about the scandal, and making her the scapegoat of a wider practice. Washington was blasted publicly and lost her job after a text chain was leaked that showed her instructing colleagues to ‘avoid’ houses that had Trump signs in their yards. Washington told DailyMail.com she is seeking an attorney and is ‘at risk’ as a result of the backlash she’s received. ‘I have information that proves FEMA is lying,’ she said. In a podcast appearance last night, she went further — claiming more FEMA employees are guilty of the same bias, but that she is the only one being hung out to dry.

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  • He'll try, but Trump can't stop the clean energy revolution

  • The WIRED Guide to Protecting Yourself From Government Surveillance | WIRED

    President-elect Donald Trump has promised to deport millions of undocumented immigrants. He’s vowed to jail his political foes and journalists. A Republican-controlled government could further restrict abortion and transgender rights. Influential conservatives have called for a crackdown on left-leaning activist groups, a replay of Trump’s hardline attitude against protesters in his first administration. To carry out all of those spoken and unspoken threats, the incoming Trump administration and Republicans in Congress will tap into—and may very well expand—the American government’s vast surveillance machinery, and they appear poised to use it more than any administration in US history. That means now is the time for anyone in an at-risk group, those who communicate with them—or even those who want to normalize privacy and create cover for more vulnerable people—to think about how they can upgrade their data security and surveillance resistance ahead of a second Trump administration.

  • The mirror of fascism in big tech

    Now that the US election is over, we have a fascist firmly ensconced in the most powerful political position in the world. I've spent most of the last few days in a pit of misery, and I'm only just starting to claw my way out of it: I'm a trans woman, and I'm genuinely scared. I think I'll be writing quite a lot more than usual in the days to come. But for some reason (and I'm as surprised by this as anyone else), today I wanted to write about how the tech industry acculturates us. Looking at so much of my time immersed in tech and in the tech industry, I can't help but see tech acculturation as the distorted mirror of the fascist regime that we're now staring down the barrel of. The work culture, the way we talk and think... so much of it points inexorably towards Donald Trump's election win as the necessary consequence of it.

  • Blue tribe is starting to win by adopting the best of conservative values

    My prediction is that the blue tribe is going to update their narratives to see “conservative / anti regulation” as a useful tool, not as a blanket bad thing. They’re going to do this not because they will suddenly start loving their enemy, but for the opposite reason: they don’t want to keep losing to their enemy. This will accelerate if the red tribe adopts the same strategy: they can start winning by adopting the most useful of their opponent’s tools, giving them access to the full range, while their opponents are still stuck with a subset.

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

  • Minn. dad Anthony Nephew ranted against Trump, killed family in murder-suicide

  • Other reports mention political activism Corey Burke accused of killing father Timothy Burke with ice ax

    A 33-year-old Seattle woman killed her father with an ice ax after the pair got into an argument over keeping the lights off on Election Day, prosecutors alleged last week. Corey, who was sent to the hospital for a mental health evaluation, allegedly confessed to investigators the next day that she killed her father with the ax and also by strangling him. She also admitted to biting her father while choking him, the docs alleged. “Corey stated … when her father started arguing with her, about the lights being shut off, that she ‘just freaked out,’” according to the documents.

  • L.A. man accused of robbery string while wearing GPS ankle monitor

  • 'FYI. A Warrant Isn’t Needed': Secret Service Says You Agreed To Be Tracked With Location Data

    The Secret Service has used a technology called Locate X which uses location data harvested from ordinary apps installed on phones. Because users agreed to an opaque terms of service page, the Secret Service believes it doesn't need a warrant.

  • Jack Teixeira Sentenced to 15 Years in Leaked Documents Case - The New York Times

    Airman Teixeira, who served as an information technology specialist at an air base on Cape Cod, shared the classified material that he had obtained on the social media platform Discord. At one point, he acknowledged he had disclosed material that “I’m not supposed to.” In the courtroom on Tuesday, an assistant U.S. attorney, Jason C. Dolan, said a sentence of nearly 17 years was appropriate. “His conduct and his offenses are unparalleled in breadth, in depth, and in quality of the information,” Mr. Dolan said. Among the airman’s disclosures was top secret information about another country’s plans to target American service members in the United States and internationally.

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