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Wed, 06/08/2025 - 17:58
When a liberal society faces the question of granting special privileges, immunities, and political autonomy to one cultural group … it cannot compromise on fundamental human rights. Furthermore, those who understand liberal democracy as itself a way of life grounded in a distinct moral faith cannot in good conscience agree to allow schools or the government […]
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Wed, 06/08/2025 - 08:18
Yesterday we discussed Chinese vs. American AI. The big difference is that a lot of China’s AI is Open Source. Not just Deepseek, but: In addition to Baidu, other Chinese tech giants such as Alibaba Group and Tencent have increasingly been providing their AI offerings for free and are making more models open source. For […]
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Wed, 06/08/2025 - 03:00

Some hyper-sensitive Americans love to cry buckets of liberal tears over every minor provocation, like the Sydney Sweeney jeans ad or how the policy of separating immigrant asylum seekers from their children has been revived.

Why are they so scandalized by a woman being sexy and by scandals?

It’s so predictable and pathetic how there’s some big uproar every time a cute young lady winks at the camera or a creepy old man who is president sloppily covers up his involvement with a pedophile sex offender.

If I had a dime every time people freaked out over something tiny like a blonde making a blonde joke or a president influencing a witness to change the details of their testimony in exchange for a more favorable prison sentence, I’d have at least half the cost of a seat at one of said president’s influence-peddling crypto-dinners.

Why do they act like it’s such a big deal to flaunt a preference for blue eyes or fire a respected career statistician for reporting real but negative employment numbers, thereby redefining all facts unfavorable to the president as “rigged” and rendering all future state-reported information meaningless?

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Tue, 05/08/2025 - 22:00


Art by Matt Smith

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In 2019, an abandoned smartphone was found partially buried beneath layers of sediment and urine in a South Boston alleyway. This forgotten relic was soon revealed to contain a remarkable audio text describing in great detail the religious beliefs of ancient Scandinavia. This oral manuscript was transcribed and released to the general public as Norse Mythology for Bostonians in early 2020 and translated into English and released as The Impudent Edda in late 2023.