Run away, run far away
August 1, 2020
Highly-educated British people are fleeing to the EU: if that surprises you then you probably haven't been paying attention.
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Truth decay
July 31, 2020
It's kind of funny that the RAND project on truth decay has a Twitter hashtag (#truthdecay). I mean, point people at one of the big agents of truth decay so they can read lies about your project on truth decay: that makes sense.
If you care about the truth, stop wasting your time on Twitter and Facebook: delete your accounts and never look at them again.
While I'm here:
If you work for Facebook, quit.
It is morally indefensible for you to use your skills to make that company more powerful....
Getting away with murder
August 2, 2020
One of the many tragedies we are living through is that even though it is now obvious that populism is a disaster, they have got away with it. Populist regimes build their appeal on offering simple and appealing, but wrong, solutions to difficult, complex problems, and get away with it because either people don't notice that those solutions don't work or they can lie copiously enough that people believe the solutions did in fact work but somehow were foiled by the fiendish enemies of populism (y...