After being outraged over expensive beef for an entire week, people are now outraged about beef getting cheaper. The only solution that would satisfy people is Trump conjuring beef from the aether and giving it to small farmers to sell at a profit.

I've published my claude config, which has a decent amount of specialized functionality If you're a heavy AI user, point your AI at it and ask: 1) what can your AI learn and use from it? 2) what could the creator of this project learn from you?

The United States Mission to Belgium condemns, in the strongest terms, Ghent University’s retaliation against an American scholar following his accurate whistleblower reporting on academic fraud. The United States government regularly funds and supports research, academic exchanges, and other engagements with overseas universities. Dishonest, corrupt institutions that engage in, or reward, scapegoating mob behavior are not desirable partners for us. This is particularly true where the purpose and effect of the scapegoating is to punish accurate journalism unearthing academic dishonesty. We are therefore reviewing any relationships we have with Ghent University. Bad-faith idealogues will try to make this a referendum on the content of Cofnas’s scholarship – or polemical distortions of it. That’s wrong. Free speech means that controversial views are protected. And Cofnas’s views were known to Ghent University when he was hired. The ultimate purpose of freedom of speech is to overturn lies, fraud, and false ideologies. This is precisely what Cofnas was doing, and precisely the reason his home institution wants to silence him. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

10 reasons why leftists inevitably capture democratic institutions: 1. Humans want status. 2. Politics is primarily about self-interested attempts to redistribute status. 3. Status is roughly zero-sum and power-law distributed. A minority of people has most of the status. A majority is low-status. 4. The low-status majority wants status in exchange for votes. Leftists elites give economic (money) and social (DEI) status in exchange for power. 5. Leftists have more motivation to control institutions because their status depends on it. Meanwhile, the rightist business owner wants to be left alone. 6. A feedback loop forms. What’s left-coded is promoted; what’s right-coded is discouraged. Leftists are further encouraged to join or stay, and rightists are further discouraged from joining or staying (think proto-religious land acknowledgements, diversity training, etc.). 7. Rightists in institutions get increasingly outcompeted. 8. Ways to correct the leftist capture of institutions become personally costly (intimidation, job loss, cancellation, arrest, etc.). 9. Ways to get ahead in life involve reinforcing the leftist capture of institutions (publicly agreeing with DEI, promoting blank-slate-compatible explanations for persistent differences in outcomes, etc.). 10. In the end, everyone lies all the time because they know what’s best for them. This is where we are.

The anti-datacenter psychosis sweeping through both sides of our national politics might be the worst mass movement I've seen in my lifetime. The magnitude of lies underpinning it, the threat it poses to our economy and civilization, and the sheer scale of its popularity are totally unprecedented. It should be an enduring national shame that the country that invented the airplane, landed on the Moon, and created the Internet is descending into superstitious panic at the very moment growth matters most

Nathan Cofnas, a Jewish man, has been hounded out of multiple universities for being honest about race and intelligence. At least people who complain about Jews and Zionists controlling everything will change their beliefs, like the good rationalists they are.

I will be interviewing @jeremykauffman on the recent @LPNH disaffiliation (tonight, unless something goes awry). Does anybody have any questions they think should be addressed, and additionally, does anybody have a good grasp of what the major critiques are from the anti-pragmatist side? I already know what the LNC is accusing them of, but what are the main anti-pragmatist arguments in favour of disaffiliation?

I had been thinking of donating some of my personal money to my campaign so that I could afford to send a flyer to everyone in town telling them that I think that politicians who violate the constitution should be killed...but then a Dem PAC led by California Adam Schiff did it for me!

This is terrible. Swift punishment for the man who revealed the truth about Jason Arday. Surely, this is only because Arday was a coward and killed himself. Emotional, spiteful retaliation from a woman who was leader of the Green Party.

In 2020, Mike Adams committed suicide after being canceled and losing his job as a professor. Adams was never dishonest. All he did was say things like "rioters are thugs" and "women's studies aren't essential". Even in death, the media ran awful headlines like this.

So far as I can tell, it's simply not true that food has gotten more expensive in real dollars in the United States. Why are people so convinced this is true? What's the evidence?