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  • (Jan 2025) Dittemore’s Law – Casey Handmer's blog

    Pournelle’s iron law of bureaucracy states that “In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control and those dedicated to the goals that the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and sometimes are eliminated entirely.”

    I think this is one mechanism by which Dittemore’s Law can occur. Within NASA there are plenty of dissenting voices, critical voices, skeptical voices, but the mission assurance apparatus overseen by Ron Dittemore and his colleagues in senior management, as described in various accident investigation reports, systematically sidelined information that conflicted with the desired outcome. But Dittemore’s Law can occur in relatively unbureaucratic places too, such as small team start up companies, failing marriages, and even with an individual unable to halt self-sabotage – think the Streisand Effect.

    The coordination problem is a known hard problem, which has beset humanity at least since we first started to build pyramids. Getting large groups of people to work together on a shared collective enterprise is very unnatural and very difficult. Thousands of books have been written on the subject. The entire professional managerial class exists to try to solve this problem, with a track record best described, charitably, as a bloody stalemate.

  • Iceland's Covid Baby Surge: Why Third Births Jumped 38% Among Educated Women

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  • Top 50 Nick Fuentes Pedophile Scandals

    This 33,000-word exposé is the most in-depth investigation ever conducted into Nick Fuentes’ media empire. It draws on leaks, public records, and interviews with ex-girlfriends, ex-employees, streamers, FBI informants, catboys, police chiefs, and a Catholic priest, to uncover 50 interconnected Groyper scandals ranging from grooming, child pornography, revenge pornography, and pedophilia to swatting, doxxing, drug trafficking, crypto scams, tax fraud, rape, brainwashing, mental illness, mass shootings, election interference, foreign interference, and domestic terrorism. The Groypers operate like a cult, targeting young conservatives grappling with autism, trauma, or sexual identity, and grooming them into unwavering loyalty to wealthy, older gay men who exploit them for sexual gain, blackmail, and kompromat.

    an American far-right political pundit, activist, and live streamer who promotes white supremacist, misogynistic, and antisemitic views. Fuentes has promoted antisemitic conspiracy theories against Jews and called for a "holy war" against them, and has denied the Holocaust. He has been described as a neo-Nazi by various sources.


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  • Dems Have No Problem With The Censorship Industrial Complex

    Democrats had a tough time at a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing yesterday on the censorship industrial complex. They had to argue there was never any censorship during the Biden administration (including during Covid!) and that free speech and freedom of the press were never threatened by the partnership of government agencies with private institutions to combat “disinformation.” After all, the government was just trying to catch foreign disinformation operations, they argued, so any censorship that did happen was necessary and proper. Put another way, the censorship industrial complex never happened — and if it did it was a good thing and the targets deserved it.

    Released in tranches to a group of journalists shortly after Elon Musk bought Twitter in 2022, the Twitter Files exposed a coordinated and sustained effort by the intelligence community to co-opt and deputize social media platforms like Twitter into censoring American citizens. Basically, it was a scheme to allow the government to censor Americans in a way that would have been straightforwardly unconstitutional if the feds had tried to do it directly.

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

  • Hamas hostages' families sue Mahmoud Khalil, anti-Israel groups for 'aiding and abetting' terror group

    The families allege that as Hamas launched its brutal attack, where the terror group killed about 1,200 people and kidnapped 251 others, it put out a message abroad for it’s supporters to “join the battle in any way they can.” The lawsuit accuses Khalil, Kiswani, Alwan and Jones of taking up the call and preparing to launch anti-Israel rallies at Columbia University. “Associational Defendants have distributed pro-terror propaganda produced by and literally stamped with the logo of the ‘Hamas Media Office,’ ” the filing claims.

  • Secret CIA files claim Ark of the Covenant has been found

    The CIA conducted experiments in the 1980s with individuals who claimed they could perceive information about distant objects, events or other people. The report details one of these tests where Remote Viewer No. 032 was given coordinates to locate a target, and they described the Ark of the Covenant hiding in the Middle East.

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