More or less the same sort of discussion in Malice's "New Right". Essentially the internet is as corrosive as perestroika was to the USSR, and for the same reasons. Mostly posting because I enjoy the modern left being referred to as the interhamwe.

All aboard the federal railroad

quite a breakthrough. Now nobody's secrets are safe without one time pads.

That said IBM throws cold water on the claims. The improvements are not nearly as exciting as claimed by google, which is even more worrying.

In which the Muscovites are enlightened

In which the interests of the permanent state prevail over the fleeting interests of the elect. This might actually be considered a moderating influence in the hoppean framework; this is probably *why* things have worked out this way practically everywhere -- without a "deep state" you have "one man, one vote, one time" and African style democracy.

DISBAND

Schmuck

Not quite as lulzy as reading Bhandari on India, but it will do. As in the states, they are their own worst enemy.

Hinduvata up to it's usual tricks

The moral panic reaches it's crescendo

Great news.

Looks like the fighting over that has more or less degenerated into outright hostility by these previous allies.

Nice to see playboy still delivers with good articles. It'd be nice if the rest of the left would realize title IX is in practice yet another excuse to clap niggers in irons, as all calls for discarding due process in this country tend to be. Also gets the impact of this on the workplace:

Should low barriers of proof and unchecked claims of violation continue to be publicly classified as legitimate, one fear, Sokolow says, is that we could find ourselves in situations where “men on campus don’t want to mentor female faculty. Hugs are absolutely prohibited in the campus workplace. And while there is good reason for concern about lecherous colleagues who cop a feel or physically abuse their positions of power under the pretense of an affectionate hug, this prohibition cuts two ways. A workplace so sterile you can’t express affection for your co-workers is not a place people want to work.”

This is already the case in corporate America. Workplace used to be the source of 75+% of relationships, now less than 20%. Government oppression looks exactly like that.

Huge if true. Would be a huge boon for productivity if it could be made into a gene drive, or as TFA suggests a drug sleep subsitute.

It’s funny to read mainstream reviews of Official Secrets now—they seem to still not fully grasp the importance of what they just saw. The AV Club review (8/27/19) leads: “Virtually everyone now agrees that the 2003 invasion of Iraq was a colossal mistake based on faulty (at best) or fabricated (at worst) intelligence.” Well, “mistake” is a serious understatement, even with “colossal” attached to it, for something so fervently pursued, and you just saw a movie about the diabolical, illegal lengths to which the US and British governments went to get everyone in line for it. So, no, “fabricated” is not the “worst” it is.

Yet more tales from the Iraq War Crypt

It wouldn't shock me to find out most of the violent shitheads in Antifa militias are feds.

Trump’s ultimate objective, as China clearly knows, is to whip up a world crisis over trade, then dramatically end it – of course, before next year’s elections. Trump has become a master dictator of US financial markets, rising or lowering them by surprise tweets. No president should ever have such power, but Trump has seized it.

There is no telling how much money his minions have made in short or long selling on the stock market thanks to insider information. America’s trillion dollar markets have come to depend on how Trump feels when he wakes up in the morning and watches Fox news, the Mother of Misinformation.

what else is new

Method behind their explosive madness clarified.

Huge applications for things needing insulators.

How dare people use your scopes

Epicureanism is truly a philosophy of no use to those who suffer. Christ, on the other hand, is a universal savior. This is what re-converted Russia, and will eventually return the rest of the west to the righteous path.

Good show.

psychiatric diagnoses are scientifically worthless as tools to identify discrete mental health disorders

Great for scamming insurance carriers though. They love their categorizations. As always, "The myth of mental illness" is the book to read here.

Of course, the author ends on his blind spot:

The resulting balance of strong property protections and weak regulatory and taxing power may or may not have been conducive to economic growth (that’s for economic historians to figure out).

That case is already laid out abundantly clearly. Everywhere that is applied, it results in strong economic growth; when property is not protected and taxes and regulations are maximized the people are immiserated.