I want to thank the old-fashioned 80-year-old officer who pulled me over for driving 45 mph in a 35 zone in Baltimore, Ohio. It’s gentlemen like him that make that small town a more civilized place than the larger Baltimore to the east.
This gives new meaning to “silent but deadly,” but frankly I think the hypothesis just smells—a lot of hot air.
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Much of the “woke” and “cancel” culture of the last seven years or so (it really started ramping up around 2014) is basically softening up the culture for an all-out attack on the #Bible and Christians. Just wait. It won’t be pretty.
I’m making a list of all the ways that politicians have deliberately screwed up the world. What are the worst? Inspire me—be creative. Did you know banning DDT killed more people than the Holocaust?
Also, add: “And they didn’t care.”
If @TuckerCarlson is making “Occupy Democrats” this angry, they’re just confirming that he’s one of the most effective bulwarks against the insanities and evil of the left.
But of course he is. Keep giving ’em hell, Tucker!
Theee challenging B-flat hornpipes: Beeswing, Vinton’s, and the Hiawatha. The American name comes from “Ryan’s Mammoth Collection,” where I learned these.
I went on Peter King’s “Wired for Impact” podcast and discussed “The Radicalization of Wikipedia”:
The single most remarkable thing about the UFO phenomenon is that a bunch of swamp creatures now seem to want you to believe in them.
NY Post covers my blog & Unherd interview.
nypost.comWikipedia co-founder says site is now ‘propaganda’ for left-leaning ‘establishment’
I told Tucker: Wikipedia’s internal operations have become opaque; the Establishment twists them to its own purposes.
The solution is to make a knowledge commons out of all the encyclopedias.
I apologized to those WP has hurt.
Looking forward to hooking this up with the KSF microblogging software, and Minds, and the Fediverse…and Twitter…
Vice is well-named
The Independent has picked up my blog and Unherd interview.
Interesting how reportage on this story has moved gradually from lesser-known conservative sources, to mainstream sources, and now to centrist sources.
independent.co.ukNobody should trust Wikipedia, says man who invented Wikipedia
Jason Alexander and Tracy Morgan with a hilarious (if crude) takedown of the “private” space race among “private” space companies and the, er, dicks behind them.
Former tech giant CEO says we NEED the tech giants intact and powerful because weakening them is “going to set us back against China.” Oh, well, in that case…LOL.
Eric Schmidt ex google CEO: "asked about growing global backlash against tech giants Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google “These gross proposals like breaking them up and so forth, it’s not going to be helpful because it’s going to set us back against China, t.co/ZSQ2t2ZQVU
— Adam Tooze (@adam_tooze) July 19, 2021