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What feminist filmmakers and Marilyn Manson have in common

Posted on March, 2022 by MwBp • Leave a comment

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

Posted on March, 2022 by MwBp • Leave a comment

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 →

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The Putin-regime must have made a fortune placing ads next to their propaganda

Posted on March, 2022 by MwBp • Leave a comment

Misinformation campaigns aren’t just cheap – they are profitable. Continue reading →

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CBDC is dangerous for free societies

Posted on March, 2022 by MwBp • Leave a comment

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 →

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For students on plagiarism: If you can google it, I can google it

Posted on March, 2022 by MwBp • Leave a comment

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
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The real genius of The Matrix Resurrections

Posted on January, 2022 by MwBp • Leave a comment

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
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What worked for him may not work for you

Posted on November, 2021 by MwBp • Leave a comment

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
Sounded Like A Good Idea

Car alarms sound like a good idea

Posted on October, 2021 by MwBp • Leave a comment

Few things illustrate the sounded-like-a-good-idea fallacy better than car alarms. Continue reading →

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The anatomy of a compliment

Posted on July, 2021 by MwBp • Leave a comment

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
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5 more ways to evaluate a philosophy

Posted on May, 2021 by MwBp • Leave a comment

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 →

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