Will it get out of Twitter jail?
Category Archives: Social Commentary
What Elon Should Do About Twitter
EFF has some suggestions.
[Tuesday-morning update]
Elon conquers the Twitterverse.
[Update Wednesday morning]
The great Musk Twitter meltdown.
[Bumped]
[Update a couple minutes later]
Eccentric billionaire does more for free speech in one day than Republican politicians have in decades.
[Update a few minutes later]
Musk’s acquisition is making academia angry and nervous.
Good.
[Update a while later]
The week in pictures, Muskageddon edition.
[Late-morning update]
The need for Elon.
“…The likelihood of skewed priorities with the operational mindset within a company that displays this kind of lack of viewpoint diversity is stratospheric. When a GOP donor is harder to find on the payroll than a vegan cannibal, you have to expect that a uniform level of thinking would become entrenched. When every single person in the offices sits in the same bubble, those overseeing the enforcement of the terms of service will not question things when questionable decisions are made…”
Zero Tolerance For Tolerance
Thoughts on the Marxist hijacking of the language by the Left.
Our Failed Covid Response
A long but excellent history and analysis of perhaps the greatest public-policy blunder in history.
Trans Ideology
How it dehumanizes women.
Brendan O’Neill made the sacrifice of reading a vile heap of insanity from a Berkeley professor, so you didn’t have to.
Footprints On The Moon
Why should we care about them?
Tunnels
Why do dudes dig them?
I personally have never had the urge (partly because I’m too lazy, and partly because I tend to be claustrophobic). Keith and Carolyn Henson, founders of the L-5 Society (and before they divorced) had tunnels under their house and lot in Tucson, which was quite a feat, considering the hardness of the caliche there.
It’s Earth Day Again
I know I’ve managed to do so.
Covid Closures
How they took a toll on the kids.
Many of us frustrated by the lengthy school closures were enraged by a statement we found far too dismissive and even callous: “Kids are resilient.” (The great Mary Katharine Ham tore this apart back in January.) All too often, that was a blasé slogan designed to excuse an intolerable status quo.
Our kids aren’t necessarily resilient, and we didn’t like having their need to be resilient shoved upon them by teachers’ unions who kept dragging their feet on reopening schools and public-health officials who deemed birthday parties, travel, summer camps, visiting grandparents, etc. an intolerable risk.
Infuriating.
Progressive Intellectual Life
Thoughts on the end of it.