Punishing Professor for revealing Fraudulent Journals

Here.

The charges against Boghossian are pure bullshit: that duping editors of predatory or bogus journals is unethical human experimentation!  PSU delenda est.

The Outrage Economy

Making outrage pay.

July 16, 1969

This tweet is spectacular.

Remember Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia!

3Blue1Brown on Euler's Formula

As ever, 3b1b does an excellent job. 4 minutes.

Algorithmic Governance and Populism

A brilliant essay. This is pretty long, but it is the best thing I have read in months.

Project Veritas Google Video

YouTube banned the video. So did reddit. Here it is.

UPDATE: of course vimeo took it down. Here it is on BitChute Link.

Cartoon. Please don’t riot.

Sokal Squared Update

Here.  A moment of truth for American higher ed.  I predict failure.

Jordan Hunt Update

Jordan Hunt is the man who kicked a woman in Toronto because he didn't agree with her.  I blogged it and promised updates. he was tried, and convicted but got probation. Details.

Fantastic News — Oberlin

Terrific news. Oberlin College has been hit with the maximum allowed by law.

Pour encourager les autres.

Lying About Nothing

They literally lied about nothing. They said there was nothing. They said it without checking, and without any basis for saying it. They said it — loud and proud and certain.

UPDATE: Another example. It takes a special kind of mind to see something that surprises you and immediately — immediately — trumpet to the world the supposed ignorance of others.

UPDATE: Deliberate fakery.  This is such small potatoes, but they go to the trouble to fake it anyway.

Never forget Gell-Mann amnesia!

Cantor Function - The All Purpose Calculus Counter Example

The Cantor Set is a standard example and counter example in set theory. It has a cousin, the Cantor Function, sometimes called the Devil's Staircase, which is a very useful thing to know if you are looking for counter examples in calculus, or just building intuition. A nice explanation of it is here.

Normal people should ignore this but for the mathematically mature here is a case in point.

Hate-Sewing

I posted awhile ago about Hate-Knitting. Now there is Hate Sewing. Can Hate-Needlepoint be far behind?

Florida

Noah Carl Update

I agree with this

Liberal civilization is under assault in ways scarcely imaginable just a decade ago.

Hot Button Example

A jewelry store employee refused to serve a cop because he was armed. The employee was just fired. I think firing was excessive (I am giving the employee the benefit of the doubt here over the reason for denying service), but I am glad there were consequences, and the reason has nothing to do with cops or guns. We are plagued with a particular kind of principal-agent problem, where people use their positions of trust to enforce their private politics. This is an example. I suspect much of the idiocy we see at Google for example are cases of this. It corrodes the culture of trust.

Naval Ravikant On Digital Mobs

I have never heard of him but this clip, about 3 minutes, is fantastic. He echoes all my preconceptions! I hope he is right about the suicide. I think they are squandering trust and goodwill, which might make an antitrust breakup easier.