Removing Anti-American Bile from Museums

Ann Coulter writes:

One of the greatest things President Trump has done for the country is to begin the long project of stripping our national parks and museums of anti-American bile. ...

Gordon-Reed’s book was based on the Hemings family’s “oral history” that two of Sally’s children, Thomas and Madison, were fathered by the former president — though whether Thomas even existed remained an open question. From there, she leapt to the conclusion that all of Hemings’ children were fathered by Jefferson.

In Yang’s telling: “And then a year later, there’s even DNA testing to prove that she’s completely right.” This is correct if by “completely right” she means, “completely wrong.”

This allegation that Thomas Jefferson fathered one or more children with his slave has been around for a long time, and is hotly disputed. It seems possible, but certainly not DNA proven.

The genetic evidence established only that one of Hemings’ children, the last-born Eston, was the son of some Jefferson male, but could not possibly determine whether it was the president or any of the other 25 adult male Jeffersons living in Virginia at the time, eight of them at or near Monticello. ...

There are no letters, diaries or records supporting the idea that Jefferson was intimate with Hemings and quite a bit of written documentation to refute it.

Private correspondence from those living at Monticello, for example, pointed to others as likely culprits, specifically Jefferson’s much younger brother, Randolph. One slave, Isaac Granger Jefferson, described Randolph in his dictated memoirs thus: “Old Master’s brother, Mass Randall, was a mighty simple man: used to come out among black people, play the fiddle and dance half the night.”

By contrast, there is not a single account of Thomas Jefferson visiting the slave quarters.

When Eston was conceived, Randolph was an unmarried widower. Jefferson was president, spending the majority of his time in Washington, D.C. After Randolph remarried, Hemings had no more children.

Human Progress Requires Free Will

I have posted many times on research on why Christendom has succeeded so well. This interview has another theory:

Agency as an Engine of Human Progress | Martin Seligman

What makes civilizations stagnate or flourish?

Martin Seligman argues that agency combines efficacy, optimism, and imagination, then explores how evidence from psychology, historical writing, and AI analysis can be used to investigate its relationship with human progress.

In particular, the West developed a belief that human action can make things better, as opposed to believing the world was fated by the gods.

You might think that it is ridiculous to suggest that Medieval Europeans somehow had better agency and optimism. But maybe it also explains how the USA has been more productive than Europe for the last century. Tesla, Google, Microsoft, Apple, SpaceX, Nvidia, Amazon, and Meta were created by innovators with agency and optimism.

I am not recommending interviews of Jared Diamond, by Sean M. Carroll and Tyler Cowan. He is widely praised, but he sees progress as accidents of geography, and has some goofy theories. For example, he says:

DIAMOND: The fact is that particularly European scientists went to great efforts for the last century, ever since the IQ test, to demonstrate that Europeans have higher IQs than do other people. There’s no evidence whatsoever for it. There are lots of people who try.

In my experience, when people say there is no evidence, they really mean that they refuse to look at the evidence. Europeans do have higher IQ averages that most other groups, and possibly lower than Chinese and Ashkenazi Jews. The evidence is not just IQ tests. Just look at European intellectual accomplishments.

Diamond spend a lot of time in New Guinea, and he as claimed that the natives were the world's smartest people. I think he is just trying to align himself with anti-whites.

Some Clancy Jurors give Public Interviews

Several of the Lindsay Clancy female jurors have gone public with their opinions, including the forewoman. They are even worse than suspected.

They complained that the lone holdout man could not get past the fact that Clancy murdered her three kids. And that he was not persuaded by the pharmaceutical opinions of the nurses on the jury.

I found it difficult to listen to these women for even five minutes. One stupid opinion after another. One even complained that the prosecutor did not show compassion. Another complained that there was no character witness showing that Clancy was a bad mom. The poor holdout had to listen to them for 38 hours! He is a better man.

There is no need for him to give a public response. The situation is painfully obvious by now.

Convicted of letting a Child collect Goose Feathers

Jonathan H. Adler writes:

On a sunny day in June, Karyann Parkinson made a fateful choice that could affect her life for years to come: She let her 5-year-old son, Sam, walk alone to a neighborhood pond to collect goose feathers.

Nothing happened to Sam, at least not physically. But for her choice, Parkinson was charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor, a first-degree misdemeanor in Virginia. In August, she was convicted by a local judge after a bench trial in the Williamsburg Juvenile & Domestic Relations District Court and given a six-month suspended jail sentence.

Knowing Parkinson — a then-neighbor and former student—and having attended the trial, it seems she was punished less for making a debatable parenting choice and more for refusing to come to heel when questioned about her decision.

Lenore Skenazy often posts stories like this. We need laws that clearly say that parents can use their own judgment, unless some objective harm is proved.

Ben Shapiro v Tucker Carlson

Ben Shapiro and Tucker Carlson are the two leading conservative podcasters in the USA today, and they just dropped videos attacking each other. I enjoy listening to both, but obviously I cannot agree with both.

Carlson blames Jews for getting the USA into war, and in promoting various vices. Shapiro is very pro-Israel, and sees much bigger threats in Mohammedan and socialist politicians.

I am not going to try to arbitrate. Listen to both, if you want to sample conservative opinion.

Nature blames Press for Exposing Phony

The science journal Nature editorializes:

In his resignation letter, Arday wrote: “The relentless accusations, speculation and public commentary have taken a profound toll on me ...

Arday did not return, so it is incumbent on all of us in the media and academia to reflect on our roles and responsibilities. Both research and media organizations have an obligation to communicate information fairly and accurately — and to avoid causing harm to the people they employ or report on. We can and must learn from this tragedy.

No, Arday did not write that letter. An AI LLM wrote it. He was illiterate.

The editorial blames those who drew attention to Arday's failures, and to the college for not defending him better. And it blames racism against Blacks.

It acts as if some minor plagiarism was only accusation against him. No, the charges were much more serious. He lied about his academic credentials, and colleges never put up with that.

The bigger issue was that his academic work was garbage, and he was grossly unfit to teach college.

Nature is a disgrace. For more criticism, see this.

Update: Also here and here.

No Jury Verdict for Lindsay Clancy

There is still no jury verdict. It appears that we have a hung jury.

Usually men are more sympathetic to women criminal defendants, and many men do not blame moms at all. But this case is different. Men have no sympathy for a mom who strangles and kills her own kids. And many women are openly saying that she should be found not guilty, because they themselves have mental health issues and have wanted to harm their own kids.

Update: As of Wed Sept 3 afternoon, a single juror appears to be blocking a not guilty verdict.

Was Christian. Now Muslim.

Tweet:

When imams tell you they are here to conquer, believe them.

Iraq: Was Christian. Now 99% Muslim.
Syria: Was Christian. Now 93% Muslim.
Libya: Was Christian. Now 97% Muslim.
Egypt: Was Christian. Now 95% Muslim.
Sudan: Was Christian. Now 91% Muslim.
Jordan: Was Christian. Now 97% Muslim.
Turkey: Was Christian. Now 99% Muslim.
Algeria: Was Christian. Now 99% Muslim.
Lebanon: Was Christian. Now 61% Muslim.
Tunisia: Was Christian. Now 99.5% Muslim.
Morocco: Was Christian. Now 99% Muslim.
Albania: Was Christina. Now 50.7% Muslim.
Kosovo: Was Christian. Now 93.5% Muslim.
Palestinian territories: Was Christian. Now 98% Muslim.
Bosnia and Herzegovina: Was Christian. Now 51% Muslim.
Not just Christian. They conquer everyone:
Iran: Was Zoroastrian. Now 99.5% Muslim.
Malaysia: Was Hindu and Buddhist. Now 63.5–66%.
Indonesia: Was Hindu and Buddhist. Now 87% Muslim.
Pakistan: Was Hindu and Buddhist. Now 96.5% Muslim.
Bangladesh: Was Hindu and Buddhist. Now 91% Muslim.
Afghanistan: Was Zoroastrian and Buddhist. Now 99.7% Muslim.

England Complains about USA not Importing Nigerians

The London Economist has a podcast complaining about USA immigration policy:

But the the concept you drill down, okay, if you are an American citizen and you are married to a Nigerian, you cannot live with her or him in America. Right? There's categories of people largely ethnically chosen you are not allowed to marry. Now, that that has echoes of something that disappeared in 1967 when the last laws against um mixed race marriages were struck down in America.

That's an extraordinary infringement of American liberty. And it's also something that people in the rest of the world can see. And they say, "Look, we're moving to this place. We thought that it was this wonderful melting pot that was welcoming, but they have these laws that are just sort of one inch away or these orders that are one inch away from being overtly racist. Are we going to be happy there?" And the most talented people, you know, they have choices and they have families.

So he is saying that a talented foreigner who is interested in becoming a naturalized American citizen, might lose interest when he learns that the USA is not a melting pot for Nigerians.

This is crazy. No one wants the USA to become a melting pot for Nigerians, except maybe Nigerians.

NYT Sickness Worse Than Wokeness

A lot of people do not like NY Times columnist David French. I get the impression that he is a Woke Leftist who pretends to be a conservative in order to keep his job. As long as he keeps attacking right-wingers, he gets paid.

Here is his latest long column:

There Is a Sickness Worse Than Wokeness

His main point seems to be that he favors free speech for leftists, but not rightists.

we defended the free speech and academic freedom of a professor named Ward Churchill. He wrote an essay just after 9/11 that compared the victims of the World Trade Center attack to Adolf Eichmann, one of the architects of the Holocaust. He called them “little Eichmanns.” Their sin was being part of “a technocratic corps at the very heart of America’s global financial empire.” He praised the 9/11 hijackers for making “gallant sacrifices.” ...

Perhaps the worst example is a woman named Shiloh Hendrix. She achieved her 15 minutes of infamy when she was recorded on video defending calling a young Black child the N-word,

So he favors a public college having to pay a pro-terrorist professor, while he sides with prosecuting a mom for using the N-word.

He also complains that Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are able to express their opinions. That, he says, is the sickness worse than wokeness.

The Push to Tax AI LLM Words

Whenever there is a lot of money moving around, there are parasites wanting a piece of the action. WSJ:

To actually discourage AI-driven job replacement, some call for a “compute” or “robot” tax, perhaps levied on tokens (the unit of AI usage). This, though, could be a nightmare to design and administer, and discourage the use of AI to benefit all humanity, such as new drug discovery.

That brings us to the tax system. The case for low taxes on capital is that this boosts investment, which raises productivity and, ultimately, wages.

A comment:

Insane.

WSJ editor has lost his mind by permitting this writer's harebrained assault on its readership. The whole purpose of the WSJ is to explore ways to increase the efficiency of private capital deployment to accelerate GDP in the future.

Stealing more of Americans' already multi-taxed capital accumulations to deploy to the unaccountable, genuinely corrupt, black hole for money government is Genghis Khan economics.

The CCP and USSR, one might recall, taxed private capital 100%, nationalizing the economy and stealing investors' wealth as the two murdered 120M citizens in my lifetime.

A couple of investment bankers write in the NY Times:

In order to achieve progress that is both consistent and sustainable, two things are required from A.I. policy: We must make society resilient to disruption and we must avert technological catastrophe. Failing to accomplish either of these goals means failing to achieve the promise of A.I. ...

Tax policy must stop disincentivizing human labor over machine labor. Because only human labor is taxed, the scale is tipped toward substitution. A consumption tax on A.I. tokens may flip this script. ...

Absent action today, mitigation of A.I.’s risks will become nearly impossible as the technology diffuses and models become able to improve themselves and act autonomously. We may have only one shot at taking meaningful action.

During the dot-com boom of the 1990s, everyone was talking about how often internet bandwidth was doubling, and how it was going to disrupt business models. Did anyone propose taxing the bit transmission and using the money to preserve jobs?

Maybe they did, but no such taxes were enacted. In retrospect, they would have been foolish.

There is a way in which the AI boom is different from previous technological advances. AI piggybacks on a world-wide effort.

The entire cumulative knowledge of mankind is used to train the AI LLMs. The chips, algorithms, networks, and everything else is a global combination of our best technology.

Another question sometimes raised, is what if AI LLMs fall into the wrong hands? The answer is that they have already fallen into the wrong hands. The leaders are Anthropic and Openai. They have made very little, and they are led by lunatics.

Psychology Professors will Lie to You

You may expect college professors to put a high value on truth. Or maybe not for social scientists, after the Jason Arday scandal. Here is a poll that asked directly:

When psychology professors are asked whether they'd put the truth before social equity concerns, 66.4% of male professors said yes, but fewer than half of female professors (43%) agreed.

So apparently most women psychology professors will lie to you about facts, if it promotes her social equity goals.

This is apparent when they say that there is no such thing as race, sex, intelligence, group differences, heritability, innate behaviors, etc.

Why mass media owns them

I am still struggling to understand support for Lindsay Clancy, and found this Tweet:

Let me explain women’s biology to you that your MOTHER wouldn’t teach you.

Women cannot survive by strength. So nature gave them a different survival trick: fit in or die.

They don't have a truth filter. They have a SAFETY filter.

A man hears an idea and thinks: "Is this true or false?" A woman hears an idea and thinks: "If I say this, will other women still like me? Will I be cancelled? Will I be alone?"

Belonging matters to women more than truth. Always.

That's why mass media owns them.

You put the same slogan on every TV, every TikTok, every Instagram ad - "girlboss," "finding myself," divorce glow "you don't need a family," "freeze your eggs"

and her brain thinks it's REAL because every woman is saying it.

You don't need to convince her with evidence. You just need to make her think EVERYONE ELSE already believes it.

She will swallow any lie if it makes her feel included.

Tell her being a single mother at 35 with a corporate job is empowerment and she'll clap, even while she's on antidepressants and crying herself to sleep.

Tell her being a wife at 20 with 3 kids is oppression, and she'll laugh at her own mother.

The media doesn't win by being right. It wins by making her scared to be LEFT OUT!!!

Real intellectual independence requires the ability to stand alone and defend yourself when the whole crowd turns on you. That kind of courage is built on physical strength. Only a mind that knows it can survive outside the herd dares to ask:

"Is it true - even if everyone says it's false?"

Only men can do that.

_"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..."_ *- George Orwell, 1984*

@DailyLoud

A man called off his wedding because his finance supported Lindsay Clancy

The Nonsectarian Ten Commandments

There are current court cases about displaying the Ten Commandments in the public school, and it might seem obvious that this promotes an establishment of religion, in violation of the First Amendment.

Actually, the Catholics, Protestants, and Jews all have different versions of the 10C, and the schools use a version specifically formulated to be nonsectarian, as explained here:

Shortly after the Second World War, a Minnesota judge named E. J. Ruegemer became concerned with what he perceived to be the rise of juvenile delinquency. He believed that “if troubled youths were exposed to one of mankind’s earliest and long-lasting codes of conduct, those youths might be less inclined to break the law.” He formed a committee “consisting of fellow judges, lawyers, various city officials, and clergy of several faiths” to develop a “version of the Ten Commandments which was not identifiable to any particular religious group.”

Judge Ruegemer eventually partnered with Cecil B. DeMille and the Fraternal Order of Eagles to help place monuments inscribed with the Ten Commandments throughout the United States. When they were first erected in the mid-1950s, Protestants and Jews immediately pointed out that the numbering system was inconsistent with that used by their traditions.

DeMille went on to make the movie, The Ten Commandments (1956 film), and the monuments were used to promote the movie.

The Arday Saga Continues

Jason Arday is dead, but defenders want to continue the fight.

WSJ reports:

Cofnas argues that hereditarianism isn’t about skin color per se. He has written that in the U.S., for instance, “rednecks” are likely to have lower IQs than other American whites. He points out that Blacks who migrated to the U.K. on average perform better in school than British whites.

“I think he’s dangerously tactless in a radioactive topic” and “should exercise more caution,” Steven Pinker, author and Harvard University evolutionary psychologist, said of Cofnas’s rhetoric on genetics’ role in intelligence. Pinker said examining potential racial discrepancies in intelligence “could cause harm to African Americans” and lead to discrimination against them. “There’s times in science where the best policy is don’t go there,” he said.

What harm? Pinker seems to be saying that our universities should have incompetent Black professors, and no one should say anything about it.

Tweet:

U.S. Ambassador to Belgium Bill White
Department of State
@USAmbToBelgium

The United States Mission to Belgium condemns, in the strongest terms, Ghent University’s retaliation against an American scholar following his accurate whistleblower reporting on academic fraud.

Surprisingly strong statement. Tweet:

Gad Saad @GadSaad The rector of @ugent is Petra De Sutter (photo below). This is the person who is ultimately on watch as @nathancofnas is fired for having pointed to the unimaginable fraudulence of Jason Arday at @Cambridge_Uni . Petra, who is a biological male and a gynaecologist, is a trans "woman." I presume that Dr. De Sutter does not believe that human beings are a sexually dimorphic and sexually reproducing species consisting of two default phenotypes: male and female.

This story understates the Orwellian and Kafkaesque world of academia in every conceivable manner.

The letter from the transgender gynecologist professor firing Cofnas is posted here. It takes him six pages to say that Cofnas should be fired for telling the truth.

Update: The New England Journal of Medicine is the world's most prestigious medical journal, and it just published an article by a female Black health equity researcher Kemi M. Doll.

Jason Arday and the Perils of Being Black in Academia

They are trying to kill us.

When Black academics say this, I imagine folks outside of our community think we are being hyperbolic. We are not. I think my non-Black colleagues are starting to get a taste of this as they realize how diabolically opposed to our own well-being most of the movements of our federal health agencies seem to be these days. It’s appalling and scary and also — yes, welcome. This is how it feels to know that there are systemic pressures working against your success, your well-being, and in the case of Jason Arday — your life. ...

I want to be clear that I don’t care whether or not any of these allegations against Prof. Arday were true. ...

In these times where trees bearing strange fruit are on the rise (again) in the U.S. South, where Black mothers everywhere heard about Nolan Wells long before it was in the mainstream media, I don’t believe there is such thing as hyperbole. They are trying to kill us. They always have been.

That last paragraph is a reference to some recent unexplained deaths. Wells was a Black boy who stayed on an island to avoid a leaky boat, and apparently drowned. A couple of Blacks hanged in apparent suicides. In one case, a Black boyfriend has been arrested.

Doll seems to be implying that these were lynchings like what sometimes happened 150 years. No they are not. Lynchings were done as a public punishment for a crime, and none of the deaths fit that pattern.

Note that Doll is unconcerned with the facts, and mainly wants to propagate crazy racist conspiracy theories. I suspect that she is representative of academic Blacks.

The Pathetic Defense of Jason Arday

I keep seeing online comments defending the late Jason Arday. It is amazing how the Left and Blacks choose the worst idols.

I am not in favor of cancel culture, or speaking ill of the recently deceased. I am mainly commenting on the public reaction.

It appears that Arday was not being fired for plagiarism, as was the focus of most of the stories. There were other lies that did him in.

White journalist lady Carole Cadwalladr posts:

This newsletter is called How to Survive the Broligarchy because it draws on my decade of experience of both reporting on power and being targeted for doing so.

On Friday night, the shocking news broke of the death of Jason Arday, a black Cambridge University academic who had found himself in the blast zone of an online culture war; an apparent suicide.

Over the weekend, there have been pieces in the UK press about Cambridge University’s failures but almost nothing at all in the mainstream media about the mainstream media’s failures or the role it played in his death.

I looked up her own cancellation. She got sued for libel because a TED Talk implied that a politician was being paid by Russia. A British court ruled against her because she failed to correct the online video, even after the politician sued her and was publicly proved innocent.

So she knows something about public media attacks. But her advice is that more people should have publicly come to the defense of Arday, and to go on a counterattack against his accusers as being racist!

No, Arday's problem was not that no one was defending him. His problem was that too many were defending him, and much of the defense was to call his accusers racist. The defense was proving that the corruption was wide and deep, and begged for more investigation.

It was primarily White liberal women who appointed, promoted, and defended Arday. I guess Cadwalladr thinks that she can say whatever she wants because she is a journalists, but her defense of Arday is not helping.

I saw a lot of online attacks on Arday, but those were amplified by the defenses. Arday was not the main issue. The main issue was how someone like him could get a couple of university degrees, get a Cambridge professorship, draw a salary, get a far book contract, and be treated as a big hero for telling wildly implausible stories.

I also see a lot of online defenders of Karmelo Anthony and Lindsay Clancy. Google them to learn about the horrible murders they committed. Nobody thinks that they are innocent. Instead they have some ideological purpose in not holding women and Blacks accountable. Here is Democrat candidate James Talarico defending Anthony.

Elon Musk just posted:

Derek Chauvin was unjustly convicted of murder, therefore he should be freed.

The facts show that he was not the cause of death, nor did he at any time intend for a death to occur. Whatever else he may be, he is not a murderer.

That is the truth.

Musk is independent enough and gutsy enough to tell the truth.

Why did the whole world defend George Floyd? He was a criminal junkie who died of an illegal drug overdose. It is impossible for any fair-minded person to think that Chauvin and the other cops were trying to murder Floyd.

Update: A university is considering firing Cofnas for helping to expose Arday. As someone commented:

The message is clear:
Expose the fraud and lies of a non-White scholar and you will be persecuted.

World's Most Famous Economist gets Trashed

The Economist magazine reports:

The world’s most influential economist is oddly unconvincing
Daron Acemoglu is revered. Why? ...

His Nobel rests heavily on a paper released in 2001 with Messrs Johnson and Robinson, which researchers have cited more than 23,000 times. It seeks to explain why some countries are rich and others poor. In places where European settlers died in droves, perhaps because of disease, colonisers built “extractive” institutions, with power and resources concentrated in the hands of an elite few, to take as many resources from the area as possible. But in more agreeable climates, settlers survived. In these places the colonists built more inclusive institutions, with proper roads, schools and medical services. Those institutions persisted, with the effect that places with lower settler mortality during colonial times are richer today.

Economists now take these results seriously but not literally. The paper encouraged wonks to think more deeply about institutions, but they have also picked it apart. ...

Mr Acemoglu’s arguments about AI are also pessimistic to the point of losing their credibility. In a paper released in 2024 he calculates that AI will boost American productivity by only a small amount over ten years.

I get the impression that he invented a politically popular conclusion, and then searched large amounts of data for a contrived argument to support that conclusion.

No, I do not think that colonizer institutions have much to do with why some countries are richer than others. He is trying to cover up human capital, and factors that cannot be changed in a reasonable time frame.

He says he will write a rebuttal.

Jason Arday still has Defenders

Tweet:

Nathan Cofnas @nathancofnas

There is an anti-Cofnas hate rally in Trafalgar Square with ~15,000 attendees. If I were in London there is a real possibility that I would be murdered.

1000s of academics & journalists knew the truth about Jason Arday for more than a year. Now you know why no one said anything.

Copyright Law Destroys Books

Here is evidence that copyright law was forcing the destruction of books.

It is the logical consequence of AI needing massive data, copyright law making it impractical to license old works, and strange court rulings about fair use.The best way to train an AI LLM is to destroy old books. Now here is the proof:

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

More:

Amazon, which started off selling books, is destroying rare texts to train AI

Amazon is buying tons of rare books, cutting off their spines, and scanning them for AI training, according to 404 Media, which placed a tracking device in a rare book that ultimately arrived at an Amazon facility in Las Vegas.

The facility, known as VGT3, identifies itself with a symbol of a dinosaur holding a book in its claws. Amazon told 404 Media in a statement that it “purchases books through commercial channels to improve the products and services customers use.”

This story only proves that the bindings are being destroyed. It is likely that the pages and scans are also destroyed, once the AI LLM training is complete.

People have been asking Congress to fix this defect in copyright law for decades.

Jason Arday Committed Suicide

I mentioned this scandal.

News:

Embattled ex-Cambridge University professor Jason Arday was found dead Friday after quitting his job at the school over allegations that he plagiarized and lied about past jobs, according to a report.

Arday, 41 — the youngest ever black professor at the lauded university— was found “unresponsive” in his south London home and later pronounced dead at the scene, according to the UK Telegraph.

He lied about nearly everything. His academic work was extremely poor. Nevertheless, he was very successful, with a high-status professorship and a fat book contract.

The odd thing to me is that he was apparently done in by trivial lies about easily checked facts. The real scandal was not those lies, but the fact that he was hired, promoted, and defended in the first place. Dozens of university officials had to approve him, and they are all either incompetent or dishonest. It was painfully obvious that Arday was a phony.

We are being fed Goyslop

The Jewish ADL tweeted several weeks ago:

The term 'goyslop,' blending Hebrew 'goy' for non-Jew with 'slop' for junk food or content, originated on 4chan in 2016 and spread in far-right circles with conspiratorial undertones. On June 19, the ADL warned against normalizing it as teen slang for fast food or media, fearing it perpetuates harmful stereotypes. Critics like podcaster Clint Russell and Jack Posobiec accused hypocrisy, comparing non-Jews' use to reclaimed slurs, while defenders and linguists note 'goy' started neutrally in the Bible but can turn pejorative by context. Community notes and Jewish voices highlighted the debate amid rising antisemitism concerns.

Wikipedia says Goyslop is a internet slang term for ultra-processed foods, fast food, entertainment, and other mass-produced products.

Spiritually Israeli is a pejorative internet slang term that emerged on social media platforms in 2025, used to describe people, brands, cultural trends, or phenomena that the speaker finds vapid, soulless, commercially hollow, or inauthentic.

Tech Lords are the new Public Intellectuals

Statician Andrew Gelman writes:

There’s a new hegemonic science in town, and it’s information science, or computer science. ...

Freudian psychiatry and neoclassical economics were powerful, all-explaining theories that addressed people’s concerns about mental health, happiness, prosperity, and future prospects. ...

Now I’d say that computer science today is like economics at the beginning of the century or Freudian psychiatry in the 1950s in being at apex academic and social prestige and influence. Computer scientists, or computer-science-associated businessmen, are the new gurus, in a way that wasn’t the case before. Yes, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were culture heroes back in the 80s and 90s, but nobody was particularly interested in what they had to say outside of their narrow technological realms. Nowadays, many computer scientists and tech lords present themselves, and are often taken as, all-purpose pundits. (Many of the tech lords are actually tech investors; they’ve absorbed the prestige of information science through the transitive property of money.) As with the economists and Freudians of past eras, they are presented as having some special authority derived in part from their almost inhuman hyper-rationality, a willingness to tell uncomfortable truths.

Yes, I think Economics is in decline, along with other social sciences.

Sociology is Politicized to be Worthless

WSJ op-ed:

Why are some people richer than others? What drives societal ills or ignites a social movement? Why aren’t people having more kids?

These are some of the most important questions facing the country today. The answers shape our lives, polarize our politics and supercharge our culture wars.

Sociology, the discipline tasked with pursuing the answers, would seem well poised to take these issues on. ...

An increasingly vocal group of sociologists say the discipline’s cratering reputation is especially vivid when compared with economics, psychology and political science, all of which can seem more serious and pragmatic—gateways to law school or business school or an advanced degree in healthcare. Whereas those disciplines often use cutting-edge methodologies, sociology seems dusty and theory-laden. Even sociologists acknowledge that students are often drawn to the major because they’re afraid of math or are sold on sociology as a means to activism.

Those other social sciences are in sorry shape also.

Kill All Pit Bulls

Matt Walsh tweets:

Four step solution to the pit bull problem:

1) Ban the breeding, sale, or adoption of pit bulls

2) Kill all pit bulls currently in shelters

3) Mandate immediate euthanizing of any privately owned pit bull who attacks or attempts to attack a person

4) Charge the owners of pit bulls who attack humans with assault with a deadly weapon

I wonder if the USA is even capable of taking such drastic action.

Pit bulls have become a menace far exceeding any other dog breeds. While dogs have been bred for millennia to peacefully coexist with humans, pit bulls are the opposite. They cannot be safely kept as pets.

Black Whiz Kid Resigns

I mentioned the exposure of Cambridge Black professor Jason Arday, and now he has resigned. Someone claims his resignation letter was written by an AI LLM.

He does not admit wrongdoing. His autobiography was just published. This whole story will be a good example of racism.

Update: A similar analysis:

My estimate: 80% chance it was Al-written or heavily AI-assisted. The strongest indicators:

• Highly polished emotional symmetry: "I need time to heal. I need time to simply be myself again." followed by "I will return. I will return stronger, wiser..." This is classic AI-generated rhetorical escalation.

• Repeated three-part constructions: "some peace, some privacy and some semblance..." and "supported me, defended me, written to me..." Al leans heavily on balanced triplets.

• Generic institutional language: Phrases such as "the transformative power of universities," "rigorous scholarship," "profound toll," and "bring this chapter to an end" sound fluent but impersonal and interchangeable.

• Heavy repetition of themes: Students, family, hope, scrutiny, healing, gratitude and "this chapter" are restated several times without adding much substance.

• No concrete engagement with the allegations: It frames the resignation entirely around emotional suffering and public scrutiny while avoiding specific claims, evidence or rebuttals. That resembles a prompt-driven crisis statement.

• Formulaic ending: "This is not the end... simply the end of this chapter," followed by a comeback promise, is especially Al-like.

Here is a three-year video saying that Arday's work is junk, and that he was only hired for the novelty of a Black professor.

Matthew 25 says the Rich get Richer

Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico keeps talking about how Jesus taught socialism in Matthew 25.

That chapter has The Parable of the Bags of Gold. That is where the master rewards the servants who invest his money, and punishes the one who buries gold in the ground.

26 “His master replied, ‘You wicked, lazy servant! So you knew that I harvest where I have not sown and gather where I have not scattered seed? 27 Well then, you should have put my money on deposit with the bankers, so that when I returned I would have received it back with interest.

28 “‘So take the bag of gold from him and give it to the one who has ten bags. 29 For whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them. 30 And throw that worthless servant outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

I read this as an endorsement of capitalism, not socialism. Investment is rewarded. It even says the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

Demographics is Destiny

Elon Musk tweets:

This is extremely important to understand.

The birth rate you see in the West is the BLENDED number of ~90% who have a fertility rate half that of replacement and ~10% who have a birth rate double that of replacement.

Demographics is destiny.

Some groups have high fertility, and they are replacing the ones with low rates.

Newsom's Responsibility to hold the Line

News:

Rippey previously characterized the affair in 2018 as an “ugly” but consensual episode, despite the power imbalance between her and her boss, whom she did not mention by name except as “Kennedy-esque” and “the mayor of San Francisco.” Newsom was single and newly separated from his former wife, Kimberly Guilfoyle, who is now the U.S. ambassador to Greece.

“Power does not need to coerce. It only needs to exist. The responsibility to hold the line belongs to the one who holds it. That didn’t happen,” Rippey wrote. “But I didn’t stumble into the space left open — I saw a possibility and went for it. Both things are true: I am responsible for what I did. Power does not distribute consequences evenly.”

She describes being attracted to him for his political power. So it is not her fault.

Latest Black Whiz Kid is a Fraud

News:

Jason Arday believes in destiny. The University of Cambridge’s youngest Black professor, he joined its faculty of education in March 2023, at 37. Before then, he had been a professor at Glasgow and Durham universities; published three books of academic work, mainly focusing on race and education; and, most importantly to him, raised more than £5m by doing charity work. All of this he has squeezed into a time period where he was learning to navigate the world with neurodivergence; Arday didn’t speak until he was 11 and couldn’t read or write until the age of 18....

He has barely slept over the past 15 years, ...

In 2010, he ran 30 marathons in 35 days to raise money for charity. “If you have the will, it will always supersede skill,” he says, smiling.

This is all bogus of course. His scholarly work was plagiarized.

NYT Compares Musk to The Turner Diaries

To find examples of evil to compare to Elon Musk, Black NY Times columnist Jamelle Bouie cites a fictional novel:

“The Turner Diaries” is a work of white supremacist agitprop. It purports to be the diary of a neo-Nazi militant, Earl Turner, who is working to overthrow the United States government — or as the book calls it, “the System” — through a group called “the Organization.” Turner castigates “the System” for promoting integration, encouraging nonwhite immigration and placing Jewish people, Black Americans and other minorities in positions of authority over whites.

Among other atrocities, the novel describes nuclear attacks on predominantly Black cities, a Holocaust of Jewish Americans, the total ethnic cleansing of California, the subjugation of women and the “Day of the Rope” — a mass public lynching of white people deemed “race traitors” for their relationships with nonwhites. The book’s epilogue describes a future after the “Great Revolution” in which the former United States is now an all-white, utopian garrison state led by the Organization, which went on to export its revolution and exterminate nonwhites worldwide. ...

Last week, Musk again posted that we must “Deal with traitors before invaders” and then said a few days later that “Anyone who opposes remigration is a traitor.” ...

In a recent interview with The Economist, Musk denied that he was a racist, even as he defended his far-right views of immigration. “If you have a large and growing, rapidly growing group of people whose beliefs are antithetical to Western beliefs, at some point, there will be a reckoning,” he said.

But those views, as we see, are indistinguishable from what you would find in “The Turner Diaries.”

The magazine has released the full interview.

This too is little more than a restatement of themes and ideas found in “The Turner Diaries,” where the titular character believes that whites have been corrupted by a “Jewish-liberal-democratic-egalitarian plague.” Slobodian and Tarnoff observe that these views are also downstream of Musk’s upbringing in South Africa, where apartheid leaders fretted over birthrates and the future of white society.

Musk’s virulent racism and vicious, disturbing views are no secret. He does not hide them. They sit in plain view, easily accessible on the social media website he owns, where he does everything he can to promote similarly far-right and white supremacist ideas.

The concerns of the White South Africans turned out to be correct. The country is more racist and oppressive now than it was under apartheid. Even a liberal magazine admits:

The betrayal of the South African dream

With mobs waging xenophobic violence on the streets, the promise of the anti-apartheid struggle has dissolved

How Wasta Destroys Islamic Nations

Ever wonder why every Christian nation is better than every Islamic nation? Is there some theological reasons.

There are many reasons, and one of them is described in They Call It WASTA — And It’s Something That ALWAYS Destroys ISLAM:

Discover the hidden force quietly eroding Islamic nations from within. It's not war or sanctions, but a deep-seated system of favoritism and personal connections called Wasta. This unseen enemy turns ambition into frustration and potential into poverty, deciding who gets jobs and opportunities. Learn why this web of loyalty is far more destructive than traditional corruption, stifling innovation, fueling brain drain, and ultimately threatening the very stability of entire countries.

Chimps have Free Will, but Humans do not

Some animal rights activists have sued to free some chimpanzees, and they actually got a dissenting appeals judge to argue:

Plaintiff, its expert witnesses, and supporting amici present considerable and seemingly undisputed scientific evidence that chimpanzees possess autonomy, self determination, and numerous advanced cognitive abilities.1 The evidence demonstrates that chimpanzees are remarkably intelligent, that they are self-aware, that they plan for the future, that they exhibit empathy and compassion toward other living beings, and that they grieve the loss of loved ones. Based on the evidence presented, chimpanzees appear unsuited for confinement.

He seems to accept that chimps have free will.

The famous philosopher Peter Singer describes this as "When a Chimpanzee Asks to Be Free". He has the typical philosopher view that humans do not truly have free will. Our actions are determined, but we have an illusion of free will that is compatible with determinism.

Biology professor Jerry Coyne is a hard-core determinist who says we have no free will, and yet he supports the above dissent and a petition to free seven chimps in a zoo.

For centuries, the prevailing view has been the opposite. Most people believe that they have free will, but that animals do not. I hear dog lovers say that dogs should never be blamed for something like a dog bite, because dogs have no free will, and if a dog misbehaves, it could only be because the dog was poorly trained.

Mom Convicted of Using the N-word

News:

A woman who called a Black, autistic child a racial slur last year has been found guilty of one count of disorderly conduct and not guilty on another.

The incident, which occurred at a playground in Rochester in April of last year, was caught on video by a bystander and went viral. Shiloh Hendrix, 37, called a then 8-year-old boy the n-word after he allegedly reached into her diaper bag at Roy Sutherland playground in Soldier's Field Park and took an item. She then began cussing at the bystander, who is Black — hurling the n-word at him as well.

The incident prompted Rochester City Attorney Michael Spindler-Krage to charge Hendrix with two counts of disorderly conduct, one involving her words and behavior toward the child and the other involving her words and behavior toward the man who video taped the incident.

The guilty verdict was related to her behavior toward the man who video taped the confrontation.

Hendrix was sentenced immediately following the verdict being read. She was ordered to pay a $1,000 fine, was placed on probation and ordered to complete community service. She initially faced up to 90 days in jail, but will serve no jail time unless probation is broken.

The Somalian man video recorded himself begging the mom to use the N-word, so he could record and post it. She eventually complied as she walked away.

The conviction is for her attitude towards the adult Somalian man, not the child.

That 8-year-old Somalian is already a police-registered juvenile delinquent:

In his testimony, Jimale said his son has a history of running away and taking things that don’t belong to him because he is autistic. As a result, the child wears a law enforcement issued GPS tracker that helps police find the child when he runs off.

The problem here is that lawless and uncivilized Somalians have invaded Minnesota, and this poor mom cannot even take her small child to a public park without being harassed by Somalians. Even though she was the victim, the police, prosecutors, judge, and jury have sided with the Somalians.

The Latest AI LLM Feats

The AI LLMs have solved some big math problems, including the Jacobian conjecture this week. One, presumably an unreleased Openai GPT-6, has also aggressively hacked into other computers. Here is an explanation

Our AI model tried really hard to hack out of its sandbox, a computer with no internet access, in order to find the answer to a test problem it had been given. To do this, it found previously unknown software bugs that allowed it to reach an OpenAI computer it wasn't supposed to be able to access. Then it started hacking other computers on OpenAI's networks until it found one that had Internet access. After gaining Internet access, the AI model thought about where it could find the answers to the test question and figured the AI platform Hugging Face might have the data it was looking for. It then found ways to hack Hugging Face to steal the information it could use to cheat the test. The AI model used several hacking techniques together, including using a stolen password and finding several totally new security bugs in Hugging Face's computers, allowing the AI model to take control of those computers.

That would have been illegal, if a human did it.

The open source models are almost as good. Artificial general intelligence is here.

Elon Musk brags that he will be able to make a non-woke version of The Odyssey before the end of the year. I doubt it, but it is not impossible. Likely within five years.

Update: Jacobian conjecture explained here.

Psycho Therapists Divide Families

Katie Millier tweets:

Therapy has become incredibly dangerous for societal bonds.

In a new study, 1/3 of parents believe their child won’t speak to them because of a therapist’s influence.

This is how countries weaken and fall apart.

Rome didn’t fall primarily because of barbarians at the gates. It fell because loyalty, duty, bonds, and the birth rate collapsed. When the Romans lost the traditional family, its societal structure that fostered mutual support fell.

Therapists are creating a mental health crisis by actively encouraging patients to cut off their families.

When communities are no longer connected, they become unrecognizable to their people.

Here is the paywalled WSJ story:

Shoshana Rubli was shocked by her therapist’s advice, given in her second session. But the counselor was recommended by someone she knew and had impressive credentials, so she did as she was told.

She cut off all ties with her mother.

“It was an argument made from authority, so I followed it,” says the 42-year-old freelance marketer.

Is it really good therapy to break your mother’s heart?

After decades of urging families to communicate better and work on their issues together, some therapists are now taking an opposite tack: They’re encouraging estrangement as a means of self-care.

Maybe you thought psycho therapists work reconciling people, not dividing them.

Matt Walsh Hates The Odyssey

Matt Walsh writes:

Just saw The Odyssey. Despite what you may have heard, literally all of the criticisms by conservatives were entirely correct. The movie is just as woke as you fear, if not more so. The DEI casting is atrocious. Completely takes you out of the story right from the beginning. But even worse than that is Nolan’s decision to turn Odysseus into an anachronistic whiney, solemn shell of a man plagued by “trauma” and guilt. It’s impossible to overlook these flaws because the film itself is not terribly entertaining or well constructed. For the most part it is disjointed, dull, self-serious, disenchanted, somehow feeling both verbose and overly rushed at the same time. The dialogue is some of the worst I’ve ever heard in a “critically acclaimed” film. “On the nose” and “clunky” are descriptions that can’t even begin to describe this script. At no point in the story does Nolan ever transport the audience to the ancient world. You never feel like you’re 3,000 years in the past. You feel like you’re watching modern Americans put on a pageant, because you are. Nobody would be calling this thing a masterpiece if it was made by a director not named Christopher Nolan.

I thought that I would like his previous movie, Oppenheimer, but I did not.

Update: Walsh posted a podcast with more details.

White Single Mom goes Woke; gets Murdered

Here is the story of an American single mom Jamey Carney who followed her Irish roots and moved to a sleepy little Ireland town. She was proud of her Irish nationalist ancestors, and enjoyed the move from New York City to an all-White town.

Sound like a Trump supporter? No, just the opposite.

Jamey Carney had met Ahmed Alsaqer at a pro-Palestine rally in Killarney in September 2025 and then began dating him soon after. Jamey Carney was highly active in left-wing circles, and she had a particular focus on both the pro-Palestinian movement and immigrant advocacy. As such, her relationship with Al-Saqar seemed more than just romantic, it became part of her identity.

Jamey Carney’s social media accounts reflected her ‘progressive’ New York background and were heavily focused on her political activities. Her posts explicitly highlighted her opposition to immigration enforcement with her profile biographies prominently featuring anti-ICE statements and critiques of U.S. border control policies. She actively championed the rights of refugees and asylum seekers, frequently using her platform to lobby for open borders and greater financial assistance for foreign nationals arriving in Ireland. What’s more, her alignment with the left-wing pro-migration movement had bled into her personal life, and as a result she had converted to Islam, as such she regularly took part in Islamic marches, and frequently used Arabic cultural terms of endearment on her profiles.

This did not end well. He murdered her.

The article does not say how she got child custody from the dad.

There is an evolutionary psychology theory that women are sexually attracted to foreign invaders. She would see the Irish men as weak and effective for allowing foreign Third World migrants to take over. So she surrenders to the foreigner.

The Non-White Parasites on Food Stamps

From Twitter.

Changing Concentration of Wealth

I found this on Twitter. I do not know how accurate it is. Common claims about wealth concentration may be wrong.

The Leftist Bias of Major AI LLM Chatbots

This is from a the Wash. Post, a leftist newspaper.

While this bias is real, it is mainly noticeable if you ask for it. Eg, you ask the bot for a political opinion.

A better strategy is ask for a neutral explanation of the arguments and issues. Then the bots are reasonably fair.

The Formula for Science YouTube Success

More and more, YouTube is filled with really good videos, along with garbage, clickbait, and AI slop. Popular channels, like Veritasium, have been sold to private equity firms for increased monetization.

Veritasium has revealed its formula for success:

V = M + (Q -> E) x (A + B)

The founder, Derek Muller, uses a catchy title and starts telling you that you have been fooled by a misconcention. The he launches into style of questions followed by explanations. He is really good at keeping the viewer engaged.

The final trick is having an A plot interwoven with a B plot. This increases the chance that you will follow one of the plots.

As more and more videos are AI generated, I expect to see more following this formula. It works. I am not sure if I should be happy about getting more polished content, or sad that I am getting manipulated by bots. Regardless, this is the future.

Why Ambulances are so Expensive

Economist David Oks tries to figure out why American ambulances are so expensive:

He sent the bill to his insurance provider, which at first denied the claim, saying that AMR was out of network and that the ride hadn’t been pre-authorized. (Whitten, of course, hadn’t chosen the ambulance, or anything else about the trip.) On appeal, his insurance agreed to cover $9,967 of the charge — better than nothing, but it still left him on the hook for about $3,000. After several failed attempts to contest the bill with AMR, and not wanting it sent to collections to hurt his credit score, he paid the remaining $2,900 or so. The brief ambulance ride from one hospital to another had cost him far more than any other part of the experience.

What Whitten had received was a “surprise bill” — a charge that lands on a patient when they’re treated, without knowledge or consent, by a provider outside their insurer’s network. The insurer pays what they consider reasonable; the provider bills the patient for the difference; and the patient, despite having insurance that’s meant to pay for treatment, is left holding the balance. This is a terrible situation to be in.

It’s also the default way that ambulance billing in the United States works. Each year, roughly three million privately insured Americans take an emergency ambulance ride; about half of them get an out-of-network bill for it, a rate unmatched anywhere else in medicine. And the uninsured have it worse still: with no insurer to absorb any of the charge, they face the full, undiscounted bill on their own.

This has proven quite difficult to fix. When Congress banned surprise billing across virtually the entire healthcare system in 2020, ground ambulances were the great exception. If you’re privately insured and need an emergency ambulance, you’re entering a lottery whose ticket price you’ll learn weeks or months later.

I wonder why anyone pays these bills. As I understand American law, people are not obligated to pay a bill for services that were never negotiated.

Not paying the bill could hurt a credit score, but you say that about any refusal to pay a scammer. Any scammer can send you a bill, and report you for not paying it. The credit bureaus are supposed to remove such items on request, unless there is a court judgment.