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From: Mano Singham
Whenever a new person tries to comment on a post here, the WordPress platform that this blog uses has filters…
From: Mano Singham
[caption id="attachment_2300" align="alignright" width="300"] A still from one of Iran's AI Lego videos. (From Explosive Media)[/caption] Inside Bolingbrook's Barber's Corners…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
Some RPGs will give you a fistful of dice to roll, and when they're 6-sided, adding up the pips fast…
From: Life's a Gas
Two of my books are on sale for $0.99 each until the end of May: A Fire in the Shadows…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
Most of us take some steps to look our best selves, especially if we are going out in public. Usually…
From: Mano Singham
I have always struggled a bit with the "rewards" part of Patreon. I have limited time and energy, and with…
From: Oceanoxia
The Probability Broach, chapter 18 Win's airship has arrived at the capitol city of the North American Confederacy: Gallatinopolis, geographic…
From: Daylight Atheism
The foxgloves are big in my yard. Not as big or numerous as last year, but bigger than they're supposed…
From: Life's a Gas
In an earlier post, I wrote about how the effort to 'keep up with the Joneses' had resulted in many…
From: Mano Singham
I got up this morning and was moved to churn out a YouTube video before 9am. It was really easy…
From: Pharyngula
I have a new column this week on OnlySky. It's about the alleged trend of young people going back to…
From: Daylight Atheism
AI companies have a poor ethical reputation -- they're wrecking the environment to build data centers, they disregard privacy, they…
From: Pharyngula
I have a presupposition of my own, that essentially all people have equal capability and equal intelligence and equal intellectual…
From: Pharyngula
Rebecca Watson takes a swipe at his AI psychosis. What I'm wondering about now is…who is Dawkins getting advice from…
From: Pharyngula
Ken Ham is trying to game a tourism poll in Kentucky -- he wants his followers to vote for his…
From: Pharyngula
The goomba fallacy is when some people say A, and some people say B. And then you say, isn’t it…
From: A Trivial Knot
I stopped paying attention to Richard Dawkins a long time ago, but every once in a while he says something…
From: Pharyngula
information!
You can tell when you've encountered some gullible twit of a creationist who has swallowed the Discovery Institute line whole.…
From: Pharyngula
A few months ago, I wrote a short post forwarding information that Daniel Phelps had sent to me. Answers in…
From: Pharyngula
[caption id="attachment_3580" align="aligncenter" width="979"] Mother (pink madonna) by Mikulus Galanda, 1933.(public domain via rawpixel)[/caption] (via Women's March email) Mother’s Day…
From: Death to Squirrels
I know I'm not here much any more. But I came by, attracted by an unrelated technical issue, and found…
From: Impossible Me
Will a trans rights group unleash a powerful global earthquake on April 25? Bolingbrook officials aren’t taking chances. “Sure, it…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
I learned about this horror from Greta Christina: there are networks of websites that host videos of men raping their…
From: Pharyngula
When I read that the secretary of defense Pete Hegseth had summarily fired the army chief of staff Randy George,…
From: Mano Singham
If you were active in online Atheism in 2011, you are probably aware of the Deep Rifts that formed back then,…
From: Pro-Science
We all know that Twitter is a cesspool of spambots, far right users, incels and outright Nazis. We know this…
From: Pro-Science
Bette Midler has long been associated with gay culture, being a purveyor of showtunes and bland liberalism. In the runup…
From: Life's a Gas
The latest scandal: Kristi Noem's husband, Bryan Noem, has been revealed to be a cross-dresser by the Daily Mail. That's…
From: Pharyngula
I have been thinking more about the documentary Inside the Manosphere that I reviewed recently and it struck me how…
From: Mano Singham
Sawatsky: Sexual pain in Christian Women | The Asexual Agenda - Okay, so this is for my journal club, and…
From: A Trivial Knot
A few weeks ago, I saw a movie called Normal. It was a violent shoot-em-up set in a small Minnesota…
From: Pharyngula
In our hypothetical scenario, despite the carbohydrate-heavy diet, caloric excess and a lack of exercise would not be things that…
From: Affinity
Once we've primed the AI pump with our brains, university doesn't have to pay us anymore. rizona State University soft…
From: Pharyngula
Found on Bluesky: [caption id="attachment_79272" align="aligncenter" width="500"] @angus.bsky.socialElder daughter just told me about the red button / blue button ethical…
From: Pharyngula
Ignore this post. I'm trying to purge a regret. It was 1975, Christmastime. I was a first year student at…
From: Pharyngula
My wife, who works at an assisted living facility in town, just got home and told me a sad story…
From: Pharyngula
I spent many years debating stupid creationists, and I never ever got paid a nickel.* Nothing. For all that effort.…
From: Pharyngula
Fortunately, a cartoon dog is providing suggestions. [caption id="attachment_79246" align="aligncenter" width="500"] First Dog on the Moon[/caption] My underwear is kind…
From: Pharyngula
It really must be the end of the school year -- today was a day of ceremonies, and the official…
From: Pharyngula
I am busy today and in lieu of an original post, thought that I would post an old article of…
From: Mano Singham
It has come to my attention that a disturbing number of people think that ethnostates, or ethnocracies, are fine as…
From: Oceanoxia
Trump has fired the secretary of the navy John Phelan. Phelan's only qualification for the job seemed to be that…
From: Mano Singham
Whatever one's views are about the Catholic Church, there is no question that it takes its doctrines seriously, devoting enormous…
From: Mano Singham
When I posted about pope Leo criticizing warmongering leaders, I added that that it was only a matter of time…
From: Mano Singham
Although he did not mention any leaders by name, it is pretty clear who was the main intended recipient of…
From: Mano Singham
Atheism is not an intellectual achievement. Maybe for some people it can be, people who grew up in an environment…
From: Life's a Gas
I thought Xians were supposed to celebrate with colored eggs and church services and a nice family dinner. I was…
From: Pharyngula
At a Christian worship service last week, defense secretary Pete Hegseth gave the following prayer. “Let every round find its…
From: Mano Singham
And it's the Pope, no less! Pope Leo made a plea on Wednesday for countries to offer their citizens universal…
From: Pharyngula
I am busy today and in lieu of an original post, thought that I would post an old article of…
From: Mano Singham
The sun is out, the spiders are flourishing. Maybe it will be a good summer? [caption id="attachment_79265" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Phidippus…
From: Pharyngula
Most of us take some steps to look our best selves, especially if we are going out in public. Usually…
From: Mano Singham
I have always struggled a bit with the "rewards" part of Patreon. I have limited time and energy, and with…
From: Oceanoxia
The foxgloves are big in my yard. Not as big or numerous as last year, but bigger than they're supposed…
From: Life's a Gas
Greg Laden has an excellent post on that Rittenhouse 'spider bite'. It looked to me like he had a rash…
From: Pharyngula
And a fresh mealworm. I didn't forget the spiders in my big lab cleanup! They've all been moved into temporary…
From: Pharyngula
I have a yard full of bird-feeders (set up by my wife, not me), every morning is a cacophony of…
From: Pharyngula
Cigarettes and other smoking-related products are, as has been pointed out, things that can and will kill you even when…
From: Mano Singham
I have written before about my adventures with AI chatbots which were underwhelming, to put it mildly. Now John Oliver…
From: Mano Singham
Cigarettes and other smoking-related products are, as has been pointed out, things that can and will kill you even when…
From: Mano Singham
Remember the craze just a few years ago over Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)? People were paying millions of dollars to purchase…
From: Mano Singham
It has come to my attention that a disturbing number of people think that ethnostates, or ethnocracies, are fine as…
From: Oceanoxia
I am a socialist. I have no reservations about saying so. In Sri Lanka, that would be entirely uncontroversial since…
From: Mano Singham
As a former security guy, it's hard to imagine an end-user who's worse than the current dumbass-in-chief. He's the kind…
From: Stderr
When I read that the secretary of defense Pete Hegseth had summarily fired the army chief of staff Randy George,…
From: Mano Singham
If you were active in online Atheism in 2011, you are probably aware of the Deep Rifts that formed back then,…
From: Pro-Science
I can think of non-KKK reasons why a person might feel motivated to delete any reference to blackface from Al…
From: Life's a Gas
It's been such a long time since we've opened the Argument Clinic. But, these times are desperate and many people…
From: Stderr
I have been thinking more about the documentary Inside the Manosphere that I reviewed recently and it struck me how…
From: Mano Singham
You should find this image of the location of rich people's planes soothing and reassuring. It's part of an Apocalypse…
From: Pharyngula
Whenever a new person tries to comment on a post here, the WordPress platform that this blog uses has filters…
From: Mano Singham
In the previous post, I discussed the peculiar features of the so-called 'jungle primary' system in California to be held…
From: Mano Singham
The American election system is pretty convoluted at the best of times and foreigners can be excused for being utterly…
From: Mano Singham
A scientist has been denied access to his lab…because he supported his Chinese students. A faculty member at Indiana University…
From: Pharyngula
[caption id="attachment_3574" align="aligncenter" width="1224"] Screenshot from Washington Post email alert.[/caption] I am of two minds about this. When good people,…
From: Death to Squirrels
Recently The Atlantic magazine ran a lengthy investigative piece detailing the excessive drinking of FBI director Kash Patel. (I wrote…
From: Mano Singham
In an earlier post, I wrote about how the effort to 'keep up with the Joneses' had resulted in many…
From: Mano Singham
Derek R. Peterson, a professor of East African history at the University of Michigan, delivered a speech to the graduating…
From: Pharyngula
A sign that Trump is flailing with his war with Iran can be seen in his wildly shifting positions in…
From: Mano Singham