Commentary on sexism is indistinguishable from actual sexism. So why keep showing it if you want it to end? Continue reading
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What online health gurus don’t want you to know
Now that we know that they make more from AdSense than the biggest commercial TV channel in a year it is time to look at online health gurus and what motivates them. (Spoiler: it is not the goodness of their hearts) Continue reading
The Putin-regime must have made a fortune placing ads next to their propaganda
Misinformation campaigns aren’t just cheap – they are profitable. Continue reading
CBDC is dangerous for free societies
Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) make it possible for the government to see and control your wallet all the time. That is why they want it. Continue reading
For students on plagiarism: If you can google it, I can google it
By the time plagiarism software was invented students forgot how to use a library. Google is now enough to catch most of them. Continue reading
The real genius of The Matrix Resurrections
It was meant for the very same people whose “synaptic WTF lights” have been switched on in 1999 – and who got older since. Continue reading
What worked for him may not work for you
There is a tendency for people to believe that whatever worked for them (according to them) would definitely work for others. This is the premise of self-help, religion, politics, and even common core math in the US. Continue reading
Car alarms sound like a good idea
Few things illustrate the sounded-like-a-good-idea fallacy better than car alarms. Continue reading
The anatomy of a compliment
Expressing that we like something is often well meant. But it can also be an unspoken claim to be the judge of the thing we complimented. This claim is all the more poignant because it is unspoken – hence the controversy. Continue reading
5 more ways to evaluate a philosophy
The single most important standard by which to judge whether a philosophy is worthy of attention is to find out if it is condescending. If it is, it is wrong because people are not bad or immoral – they are conditional cooperators stuck in a perennial prisoner’s dilemma of whether the others would also behave … Continue reading
Meanwhile in Budapest 