Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- The Future of the Free Press.

- OpenAI and chipmaker AMD reach deal that gives OpenAI 10% of company.

- Douglas Murray: The war Israel won - and the one the West is losing.

- It seems we are getting to this point.

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- Rob Henderson: We Act Before We Understand. Lots of evidence of "nature" and very little for "nurture."

- VDH: Reactionary, neo-confederate Portland. He's not wrong.

- The Robot Revelation.

- Bari Weiss' letter to CBS News employees.

Linky Links

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- Bari Weiss is right - not only was globalization but the failure of the media to report it was also a failure.

- NY Dems support of Letisha James keeps getting more bizarre (and more costly).

- Mike Rowe makes a lot of sense. 

- Informal, Hyperlocal History. Can't help but think of Louis L' Amour who grew up in the west and used local stories known to the "old timers" as the basis of many of his books.

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

Have a new Quotes for Today up on my Substack. As I've mentioned doing this as a way to thank those who have Subscribed. If you are a Subscriber - you should have received an email. Thanks!

Linky Links

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- Bari Weiss: Dark Tunnels and Moral Beacons. Morning the deaths of 6 Israeli hostages brutally killed.

- Mathbabe Blog. Periodic math-related content that I'm going to check out. Can't vouch for the quality - but like I said wanted to check it out.

- Glenn Reynolds with some thoughts on Labor Day

- Government censorship and the war on free speech. Reminder that Kamala Harris's campaign manager was one of the ones in charge of government censorship in the Biden-Harris administration.

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- Average lifespan of mammals.

- Analysis true! But it does make sense when you realize his press secretary makes his Tweets.

- Bari Weiss on anti-Semitism on college campuses. The problem is only growing bigger.

- Greenpeace's war on the poor. They exist solely to trick you out of your money these days. Article is from last summer but new to me.

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- Is smoking cannabis as bad as smoking cigarettes?

- Mad Max came out 45-years ago this week.

- Bari Weiss: the holiday from history is over. October 7th in Israel.

- Dan Wentzel on Scottie Scheffler winning the Masters

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- Some good background reading on the Murthy v Missouri censorship case in front of the Supreme Court. I was expecting a verdict shortly but reportedly that's not due till June.

- Bari Weiss on ending DEI (HT Execupundit)

- Ireland's PM unexpectantly resigns. Surprising but his woke language was just badly rebuked by the entire nation (not mentioned in the article).

- Interesting. Texas removes $8.5 billion investment from Blackrock. Can the lawsuits be far behind?

Bari Weiss on DEI

Linly Links

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- SpaceX is set to launch 80% of space's cargo this year. First China's bond gets downgraded and now this.

- Bari Weiss: End DE I. You can't have antisemitism at the college level without it. 

- Tyler Cowen on the testimony in front of Congress by the Presidents of Harvard, MIT, and Penn. As Tyler put it "a dark day for education."

- Or as the Babylon Bee put it.

The Last Line of Defense by Bari Weiss

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, that when we grasp it - in a decade, a century, or a millennium - we will all say to each other, how could it have been otherwise?" - John Archibald Wheeler

"But speak up you must. There is strength in numbers and I assure you, the numbers are there." - Bari Weiss

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." - Abraham Lincoln 

"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter." - George Washington

More Linky Links

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- Attack of the archaeologists (a defense of Graham Hancock)

- Honest advice for people in their 20's from Zuby. Honestly the advice is great for people of any age. 

- Bari Weiss on how she got to work on the Twitter Files and why

- The supply chain that keeps tech flowing into Russia despite sanctions. Business finds a way.

Bari Weiss Twitter Files Reveal Systematic 'Blacklisting'

Reason does a nice job of laying out how Bari Weiss' Tweet Thread shows how Twitter employees shadow banned users. 

You can read Bari Weiss's Twitter File thread here.

A few observations on the Twitter Files:

• What was done in the darkness is being brought out into the light and what it's showing is not a cold sore - it's herpes
• As both Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss primarily publish on Substack - that platform is perhaps the biggest winner here. Substack will shortly become the most trusted source of journalism in the country
• Elon Musk, however, wisely stipulated that whatever information is found must first be published on Twitter which I'm sure is driving up engagement (and trust) on his platform
• What's being exposed at Twitter (pre-Elon) is still happening on Facebook and YouTube. Keep that in mind when engaging on those platforms
• There is so much that needs to be exposed and will be exposed that this will be a long running series of "Twitter Files"
• Know many are anxious for the suppression of COVID related revelations to come out but I think Musk has rightly prioritized exposing how Twitter suppressed information and how the government was sometimes behind that suppression. That needs to be shown first and foremost before other issues are addressed.  

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, that when we grasp it - in a decade, a century, or a millennium - we will all say to each other, how could it have been otherwise?" - John Archibald Wheeler

"But speak up you must. There is strength in numbers and I assure you, the numbers are there." - Bari Weiss

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." - Abraham Lincoln

 "I think the meaning of life is to do things for their own sake. Ironically, when you do things for their own sake, you create your best work." - Naval Ravikant

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Medical Schools Update Hippocratic Oath to Exclude Unvaccinated

- The little known heroic humanitarian deeds of heavyweight boxing champ Max Schmeling. (From the archives.)

- Morgan Housel: History's Seductive Beliefs

- NCAA's sky is falling NIL rhetoric looks all the more ridiculous now. "It's almost like the establishment made up the sky-will-fall panic." We seem to be getting a lot of such panic mongering from many different such "establishments." 

- Bari Weiss: Everybody Hates the Jews. That antisemitism is on the rise in the country is undeniable. That antisemitism is repugnant, and ignorant in all it's forms is also undeniable. 

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- Heroes come in all kinds.

- Bari Weiss (and Substack) have been a great success. Good for her - but not sure where that $800,000 per year figure comes from since 14,000 paying subscribers at $5 each is just $70,000. (Edit - math is hard that's $70,000 PER MONTH - now I go to the penalty box where I will feel the shame.)

- Most of the Kennedy family (and most of America) are against the parole of Sirhan Sirhan.

- The FBI's involvement in the plot to kidnap the Governor of Michigan keeps getting more bizarre. 

Linky Links

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- Bari Weiss: Amazon's Woke Smokescreen. 

- This would be perfect! 

- Haven't bought any Nike products in a couple years and don't see that changing. Fuck Nike!

- Good Advice

- Noah Smith on the wealth of (Asian) nations

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- The straw that cures the hiccups.

- Do Cannabis users have lower BMI and less risk of obesity than non-users?

- Bari Weiss: When a Free Society becomes a Police State. The closing of Apple Daily in Hong Kong was the biggest news of last week. And it happened with very little coverage from the MSM.

- Pretty cool

Linky Links

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- Bari Weiss: The Books are Already Burning. I support Abigail Shrier.  

- VDH: The Biden No-Go Zones

- Enjoy the Perks of Private Flying - Without the Price Tag

- Matt Ridley: Flawed Modeling is Condemning Britain to Lockdown