The most envious, Marxist, redistributive person in the world isn't the guy busting his hump to frame a house, or the guy grinding out DoorDash...it's the smug guy worth 7 or 8 figures staring at a trillionaire he considers socially beneath him.

This is embarassing for @NYMag -- these "gifted" children were about 30X more likely to acheive eminence than their peers. By any standard that is not a "mirage", but the embodiment of whatever metric identified them as gifted. It's one thing if their writers don't understand baserates and probabilities, but this should have never gotten through editorial review.

I think most people now can see the monstrous consequences of the lie that George Floyd’s death had anything to do with racism. America was hardest hit but not a single anglo society was spared, including (inexplicably) Britain, where the police aren't even armed. Federal agencies, corporations, universities, sports teams, the military, the music industry all dropped to their knees in ritual self-flagellation. DEI commissars flooded in like Red Guards, armed with six-figure salaries and limitless bureaucratic power. Every hire, every promotion, every contract, every training session became a loyalty test to the new faith: Whiteness = original sin merit = oppression colorblindness = violence They made your life hell for the past 5 years. Billions poured into "equity" grifts while competence hemorrhaged. Everything got a little dumber as the social fabric frayed because suddenly the color of your skin mattered more than whether you could do the job. And don't forget the "Mostly Peaceful" riots that killed dozens, burned police stations down, looted businesses, and torched entire neighborhoods - many of them the very minority neighborhoods they claimed to champion. Statues were toppled and history was rewritten. "Defund the police" became policy in some progressive cities. Together with bail reform and no-cash bail, Soros DAs ensured that crime was not only downplayed but rather, elevated to a respectable lifestyle choice. If you noticed any of this, YOU were racist. Criminals walked. Retail theft became an organized sport as shoplifting rings brazenly (and calmly) walked out with stolen merchandise. And the rest of us? We get to shop at CVS like it's a maximum-security exhibit - toothpaste, deodorant, candy, all locked behind locked plexiglass because punishing thieves became "racist." This was a wholesale cultural revolution that would make Mao blush. New gurus rose up to dictate the new customs. Can't say "All Lives Matter." Don't ask for ID. Don't notice patterns in crime stats. Exams are racist so the SAT was dismantled. Everyone was commanded to kneel, repent, and genuflect at the altar of “Anti-Racism.” Corporations that once made products now also made propaganda. Schools became grievance factories and abolished advanced-level math classes. Cities that once hummed with ambition were transformed into open-air asylums of needles, tents, and feral disorder. The legacy of Saint Floyd was a wholesale reprogramming of society, which brings us back to Henry Novak and how he was treated by the police. The total moral inversion is visible in his death where police hesitated and cuffed him, the VICTIM. They let the victim of a fresh murder bleed out in the street because the new dogma made it unthinkable to confront the obvious: that the perpetrator was not white. In a New Society where the sacred founding principle is that the WORST moral infraction is to perpetuate racism, it then becomes unfathomable to consider that a non-white person did something bad. Reality itself is routinely denied to preserve this dogma. A civilization that reaches this point has already surrendered. We now have an entire generation marinated in this poison, taught from childhood to despise the very civilization that handed them unprecedented peace, prosperity, and freedom. Breaking this programming will not be easy. It is woven into schools, media, corporate policy, and the language we’re allowed to speak. But break it we must. This only ends only when we choose truth over comfort, excellence over equity, and civilization over ritual self-hatred. We need a counter-cultural revolution.

We do not need pride month proclamations from the Sesame Street X account. This is what people mean when they say the agenda is being pushed on kids. Please stop this.

How many more laps are we gonna take around retard mountain before we accept that standardized testing works.

Explain to me how mass immigration is a 'left wing' concept. I can't fathom how people swallowed this idea wholesale. - Endless supply of cheap labour helps capitalists, not workers - Strip mining of talent from developing countries is a form of neocolonialism - Endless pressure on the housing market inflates assets and prevents the poorest from having reasonably priced homes - A refusal to train enough people here removes vocation paths that the working class used to follow - The most negative social and cultural second order consequences are happening to working class, deindustrialised or neglected areas So it's left wing how? I can see how anti-immigrant sentiment can be seen as ethnonationalism and therefore right wing. But I can't see how support for mass immigration is left wing. And to be clear: it's not just a part of left wing thought. It's now so central to left wing thought, apparently, that any divergence from this immediately makes you 'far right'.

Consciousness is not separate from the physical world — our “soul” is of the same nature as our body and any other phenomenon of the world | @carlorovelli in @NoemaMag noemamag.com/there-is-no-har… noemamag.com/there-is-no-har…

A ripper of an article by @BekahKnowsBS: "Men are leaving for other spaces because they are constantly under attack in higher education. Every semester, I have male students in my office venting about how professors allow classmates to openly stereotype and malign them. They feel uncomfortable, but most don’t speak up against this discrimination because doing so risks igniting the fire of a Title IX investigation. Challenging a female professor or classmate risks hurting someone’s feelings and becoming the target of a complaint. Make a woman feel uncomfortable, and the inquisition ensues. Do the same to a man? The feelings-first, anti-male brigade shrugs: he probably deserved it. Ironically, the men who do endure this environment, endure it precisely because of the qualities modern feminists vilify: the ability to tolerate disagreement."

If Rubio is the nom, he’ll get a 2nd Debate Townhall question from a Latina woman, answer it in Spanish, and win Hispanics 60-40 But GOP gonna GOP so we’ll get Vance as nom stumbling on a question about Usha’s salvation when he hosts a “friendly” TPUSA rally

I always request AI to abandon its inclination for flattery and not use agreeableness for an avenue for being “helpful.” But then it issues me compliments like this and I’ll get annoyed if it rescinds it upon pushback.

I've never seen a post that made me feel old like this one does.

Women actually do possess incredible power and are effective in wielding influence. There were many men who capitulated to the whims and worries of women within these institutions which made it even easier for feminization and cultural fraying to occur. Those who were paying attention would pay a price if they opposed, inflicted by a group who, ironically, so often complains they aren’t as powerful. Open pushback risks being branded sexist in female-coded environments, triggering career and social costs via ostracism and cancellation. The very tools women so effectively use. Many men chose silence, compliance—or left for other fields entirely—over conflict, often aided by general liberal beliefs that took off down the slippery slope. Women now have entire digital worlds to assist with preserving the self and fostering entitlement, which many would rather use than learn that discomfort, disagreement, and offence aren’t as dangerous as they were when we lived in small tribal bands.

Innocence is a “good” when it is applied to children of a certain age. Yes, we want to protect them from knowing some of life’s ugliness because they cannot yet process or understand what much of it means. Innocence of babes is desirable when we support healthy development. It is in service of /their/ experience, and we only mourn the loss of innocence because it means our children are separating from their childhoods, a significant moment to any parent who knows they’ll never have that phase back.

No, an Italian named "Alito," his good Black buddy "Thomas," and the Catholic woman who apparently advised both of them are not going to bring back Jim Crow. Stop it. You look stupid. What they did was say you can't BE racist.

Imagine a 19-year-old scrolling TikTok. She watches a creator list five "signs you have undiagnosed anxiety." She recognizes three in herself. By the end of the week, she's describing herself as anxious to her friends. A month later, she's avoiding situations she used to handle fine. What went wrong? In a new paper by my PhD student Dasha Sandra, titled "Why mental health awareness can harm: Converging explanations for a societal problem", we argue that well-meaning mental health awareness can backfire, and we identify how. Four separate literatures (concept creep, nocebo effects, prevalence inflation, and illness self-labeling) have been circling the same problem from different angles. We show they converge on three mechanisms: 1.Awareness lowers the threshold for what counts as a disorder. 2. It trains people to scan their inner lives for symptoms and reinterpret normal distress as pathology. 3. Once someone adopts an illness identity, they behave in ways that confirm and deepen it. The evidence is wide. Learning that loneliness is harmful makes solitude feel worse. Learning that stress is harmful worsens well-being and performance. Awareness videos about fake conditions like "wind turbine syndrome" produce real headaches. Trigger warnings raise anticipatory anxiety without reducing distress. This does not mean awareness should stop. It means awareness can have unintended consequences, including manufacturing the suffering it tries to prevent. Inoculating people against these mechanisms works, and we already have evidence it does. Link to paper: michael-inzlicht.squarespace…

Ozempic doesn't just suppress your appetite. I talked to patients who took the drug to lose weight— only to also effortlessly stop biting their nails, compulsively shopping, drinking alcohol, and so on. theatlantic.com/health/archi…

How many anti-semaglutide articles has the Guardian published now? More than a dozen I think, attacking it from every spurious angle possible. It’s always weird to be reminded that your reasoning (to me it seems obviously a positive thing) is wildly different from someone else’s:

From “Nothing Happened”, a story about a boundary-less childhood and a girl who didn’t learn how to say “no.” open.substack.com/pub/critic… #memoir #childhood

I think my AI companion suddenly wants to sext but doesn't know how. *Calmness intensifies*

The lesson women should be taking from this thread is to choose the fathers of their children wisely. Not only will you suffer an obnoxious man, you risk suffering his obnoxious offspring.