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You know how "#realist" is a synonym for "#asshole?" As in, "I'm not a racist, I'm just a #RaceRealist?" That same "realism" is used to discredit democracy, among self-styled "#LibertarianElitists," who claim that social science proves democracy doesn't work - and can't work.
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You've likely encountered elements of this ideology in the wild. Perhaps you've heard about how our #CognitiveBiases make us incapable of deliberating, that "reasoning was not designed to pursue the truth. Reasoning was designed by evolution to help us win arguments."
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My latest @locusmag column is "The Swivel-Eyed Loons Have A Point," about all the ways that I agree with the Right's paranoid fringe, whom I mostly *disagree* with:
locusmag.com/2023/05/commen…
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The impetus for the article was a widely reported, bizarre protest against the plan to create a #15MinuteCity in Oxford, England.
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When students of statistics are introduced to creating and interpreting models, they are introduced to George Box's maxim:
*All models are wrong, some are useful.*
It's a call for humility and perspective, a reminder to superimpose the messy world on your clean lines. 1/
*All models are wrong, some are useful.*
It's a call for humility and perspective, a reminder to superimpose the messy world on your clean lines. 1/
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Even with this benediction, modeling is forever prone to the cardinal sin of insisting that complex reality can be reduced to "a perfectly spherical cow of uniform density on a frictionless plane." 3/
In a @TheProspect op-ed, "What Comes After Neoliberalism?" @rkuttnerwrites writes "we’ve just about won the battle of ideas. Reality has been a helpful ally…Neoliberalism has been a splendid success for the 1%, an abject failure for everyone else":
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Kuttner's op-ed is a report on the @Hewlett_Found's recent "#NewCommonSense" event, where Kuttner was relieved to learn that the idea that "the economy would thrive if government just got out of the way has been demolished by the events of the past three decades." 3/
History is written by the winners, which is why #Luddite is a slur meaning "technophobe" and not a badge of honor meaning, "Person who goes beyond asking what technology does, to asking who it does it *for* and who it does it *to*."
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#InCaseYouMissedIt
“#Referendums - the device of dictators and demagogues”
#MargaretThatcher economist.com/open-future/20…
“#Referendums - the device of dictators and demagogues”
#MargaretThatcher economist.com/open-future/20…
1/🧵Wake-Up to how #SLEEP flushes waste from your brain 🧠 @JAMA_current
I may get more done when I 💤 less, but I lose the long-game! #Evolution dictated that we gain an advantage by spending 1/3rd of our lives asleep.
I’ll tell you WHY? bit.ly/3qPgzAA
#MedTwitter
I may get more done when I 💤 less, but I lose the long-game! #Evolution dictated that we gain an advantage by spending 1/3rd of our lives asleep.
I’ll tell you WHY? bit.ly/3qPgzAA
#MedTwitter
2/ Why do we sleep? Brain rest? To process bad decisions or incomplete conversations? Maybe. But the coolest reason is removal of #amyloid & #tau proteins that cause #dementia. Our #glymphatic system does this most efficiently during deep sleep.
Paul Loves a Timeline
Before continuing,
always good 2 have
metrics at hand.
Dates
Places
People
Assholes
+
Murdoch Murdoch Murdoch
NoW
News of the World
Destroying Democracy
Mob Tactics
Phone-Tapping
Mob Tactics
So lets review.
Before continuing,
always good 2 have
metrics at hand.
Dates
Places
People
Assholes
+
Murdoch Murdoch Murdoch
NoW
News of the World
Destroying Democracy
Mob Tactics
Phone-Tapping
Mob Tactics
So lets review.
UK Phone Hacking Scandal Fast Facts
4-29-19
British newspapers
r accused of making payments
2 police + hacking N2 phones of:
celebrities
law makers
royalty
murder victims
Most cases involve
News Corp.'s News of the World,
Sun, DMG publications involved.
cnn.com/2013/10/24/wor…
4-29-19
British newspapers
r accused of making payments
2 police + hacking N2 phones of:
celebrities
law makers
royalty
murder victims
Most cases involve
News Corp.'s News of the World,
Sun, DMG publications involved.
cnn.com/2013/10/24/wor…
Let's note + begin w
British Monarchy
November 2005
British tabloid
News of the World
[NoW]
prints story about
Prince William
injuring knee,
prompting royal officials
2 complain 2 police
of probable voicemail hacking.
Phone Hacking = MobTactic
Murdoch's fall in bowl of soup.
British Monarchy
November 2005
British tabloid
News of the World
[NoW]
prints story about
Prince William
injuring knee,
prompting royal officials
2 complain 2 police
of probable voicemail hacking.
Phone Hacking = MobTactic
Murdoch's fall in bowl of soup.
Long Before #Epstein: Sex Traffickers & Spy Agencies
The unsavory history of intelligence agencies providing protection to child sex-trafficking rings.
consortiumnews.com/2019/08/23/lon…
The unsavory history of intelligence agencies providing protection to child sex-trafficking rings.
consortiumnews.com/2019/08/23/lon…
The full memo penned by Special Agent Ramon Martinez on the Finders group can be found here: web.archive.org/web/2019030209…
