Substack – a revival of blogging culture / blogs to read in 2020
In the last year or so, there has been a notable growth in people using Substack. This platform is essentially a platform for subscription blogs, where one can opt-in to…
Twitter intensifies their censorship: amren.com blacklisted
Twitter has generally been somewhat less censorious than other platforms, my impression. However, perhaps emboldened by the Victory of 2020, they apparently have implemented a domain block for amren.com. It…
Noam Chomsky’s famous free speech quote
Noam Chomsky has been a pretty consistent far left defender of free speech. He even has a book that advocates the media are biased -- towards the right! Well, sort…
Banned Medium post listing 279 terrorism supporting companies
https://twitter.com/Communism_Kills/status/1270050817089900546 This was unsurprising given Medium's increasingly censorious behavior (also for COVID data). I absolutely hate censorship, so I am reposting this list. It exists in archived versions already (https://archive.vn/mG72Y,…
The fire brigade: Ewan Birney to the rescue
https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/1265724131112357888 Ewan Birney, "Director of EMBL-EBI with an insatiable love of biology; small research group on genomics research.". He earlier embarrased himself by writing a zero-sources, full of errors pseudoscientific…
Danish study of freedom of speech and Muslim immigrants
Since a lot of foreigners are talking about this one and I am in a position to read the Danish language, it seems worthwhile to recap it here. The Danish…
The Facebook super spy AI
So, recently, we saw that Facebook added more sites to its block list. I don't know if there's a public listing of these, but the list must be getting very…
Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought by Jonathan Rauch (review)
Rauch, J. (1993). Kindly inquisitors: The new attacks on free thought. University of Chicago Press. There is a slightly updated 2014 version which I read. It's on Libgen. Many years…
Political bias in science: quotes from Gunnar Myrdal’s 1944 book
Gunnar Myrdal, who was Swedish, expresses an early version of the views the media repeat endlessly these days. To give some examples: White prejudice and discrimination keep the Negro low…
Noah Carl crowdfunding online
As you probably know, Noah Carl was attacked by the Red Guards at his Cambridge job. Eventually, the college ended up firing him after months of harassment. This firing is…