British Feminists Invite Migrant Rapists

England is importing criminals

New research conducted by the Centre for Migration Control has revealed that in 2024 foreign nationals accounted for between 28% and 34% of convictions for “sexual assault on a female” across England and Wales.

It also shows that foreign nationals accounted for a quarter of all “rape of a female over 16” convictions last year, despite them accounting for roughly just 10.9% of the population.

So what do the feminists say? They want to import more rapists, of course:

The End Violence Against Women Coalition is one of more than 100 women’s rights groups that have today (19th August 2025) written a joint letter to the Prime Minister calling for urgent action against the weaponisation of violence against women and girls by far-right groups and mainstream politicians to further a racist, anti-migrant agenda.

Pinker Denies Bitcoin Common Knowledge

Steve Pinker is suddenly everywhere, hyping his new book, When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life.

He hits all the usual stories that everyone knows, such as the emporer with no clothes. He mentions how common knowledge leads to logic puzzles, as I predicted. But his attitude towards the bitcoin blockchain is curious.

The Bitcoin blockchain is the modern digital codification of common knowledge. Every ten minutes or so, the whole world has to reach a common understand of what transactions are being accepted. The blockchain is a protocol for doing that, and it is popular because it does not require a central bank or other authority.

No, Pinker does not see it that way. He says Bitcoin is a form of the "greater fool theory," which connects to other financial bubbles and manias. He argues there is no good reason to trust blockchain technology.

In short, Pinker's new book uses the frenzy around cryptocurrency as an illustration of his core concept, not a vindication of the technology. For Pinker and other critics, blockchain does not offer a novel, "trustless" form of common knowledge, but rather exploits human psychological tendencies to create a speculative bubble built on a deceptive premise.

This is surprising. He jumps on every other example of common knowledge, whether it supports his main points or not. And yet he eschews the biggest example of them all.

It is funny that he accepts that fiat money has value based on common knowledge, but not bitcoin. My guess is that he is more inclined to accept knowledge if it has the backing of human authorities, not computers.

Violence comes from the Left

Prof. John R. Lott writes:

On Sunday, at the memorial for Charlie Kirk — murdered by a leftist because of his political views — President Donald Trump declared “that violence comes mainly from the left.”

This is hotly disputed, and some leftists claim the opposite.

Not everyone agrees. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) countered with its latest annual report, claiming, “This is the third year in a row that right-wing extremists have been connected to all identified extremist-related killings.” According to the ADL, between 2022 and 2024, there were 34 so-called “right-wing extremist” murderers, with 23 of them (68 percent) white supremacists. They say their attacks took 61 lives.

Lott goes down the list, and finds as many left-wingers as right-wingers.

Yahoo reports:

Having designated “Antifa” a “domestic terrorist organization,” President Donald Trump has signed a memorandum seeking to “dismantle” what he is calling domestic terror “networks” in the wake of a deadly shooting this week at an immigration facility in Texas.

Trump has solely blamed Democratic officials and left-leaning groups for incidents of political violence while largely dismissing evidence against right-wing or other ideologically motivated attacks.

Censorship also comes from the Left. The Jewish Leftist ADL tweets:

We're glad to see @YouTube acted to remove Alex Jones' and Nick Fuentes' new channels within hours of their creation. But why were they able to create new accounts on the platform after being banned for many years?

Fuentes is anti-Israel, but I thought that Jones was pro-Israel.

The Danger in Being Red-pilled

Bill Maher had meme expert Aiden Walker explain:

The 14:06 red pill. So the red pill is a meme that emerges from the matrix which is from the '9s, 14:12 right? Um and that movie, you know, you offer the blue pill and the red pill and Keer Reeves takes the red pill to break out 14:19 of his re. What does it mean today when people see it? It means so what it means is if you take the red 14:24 pill then you've broken out of what they call kind of the oppressive reality of like you know mainstream society

It is not that complicated, but a lot of particles have been warning of the dangers of the red pill. Parents magazine writes:

“The term is frequently used within online communities and subcultures, particularly those associated with men's rights, ‘incel’ (involuntarily celebite) ideology, and white supremacy,” says Dr. Poncin. “This includes…adhering to heteronormative gender roles with ‘gender-typical roles’ for each.”

Redpill communities are explicitly sexist

Oftentimes, young men who join redpill communities on spaces like Reddit are exposed to misogynistic ideas, because a main tenet of the redpill belief system is that men are disenfranchised in a society that they feel favors women.

It then advises parents to be on the lookout for a son learning about the red pill, and:

Young men will need extra guidance from their parents and potentially a mental health professional if they become entrenched in online redpill forums

Similar articles were in USA Today and a mommy site.

This is crazy paranoid. Those red-pill site are primarily concerned with studying human nature, and presenting facts and evidence. Sure, some of it is anecdotal, but it is not inherently misogonystic. Women are also red-pilled. You do not send your child to a shrink just because he learns the truth about something. Later on, Maher said:

Post hoc ergo propter hoc.

Glad to see a logic point explained.

These articles try to ostracize incels:

The Rise of Incels and the Real-World Violence It Fuels

A particularly dangerous corner of the Manosphere is the incel community. Incel is short for “involuntary celibate.” These are mostly young men who feel rejected, resentful, and entitled to sex and relationships. Incel ideology often blames women for male suffering, dehumanizes them, and glorifies violence as a form of revenge or reclamation of power.

Yes, incels feel rejected because they are rejected. But they are no more violent that anyone else, and attacking them like this is cruel.

Firing Black Woman has Dire Repercussions

Yahoo reports:

Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook urged the Supreme Court Thursday to reject President Trump’s effort to fire her, arguing it would harm central bank independence and disrupt financial markets.

“Granting the President’s request for immediate relief to alter the status quo would sound the death knell for the central-bank independence that has helped make the United States’ economy the strongest in the world,” Cook’s lawyers argued in a new filing. ...

Cook's lawyers also make the argument that if the Supreme Court sides with Trump, it could have “dire repercussions” for financial markets while risking "chaos and disruption."

Really? Pres. Biden appointed Cook because she is a Black woman. She wrote some dopey academic on African colonialism, or some such nonsense, and had no banking expertise. Maybe Biden somehow confirmed that she would do what the Jews want.

The idea that our economy depends on the employment stability of an appointed Black woman banker is absurd.

The Federal Reserve Bank as a whole has been a big failure for a century. Academic research indicate the USA would have been better off without it.

The argument is often made that these bankers should be sheltered from public accountability. The best evidence for this is that Latin American dictators have sometimes used central banks to manipulate the money supply unfavorably. Yes, that's right, but I think the USA is better than that.

The other argument is that Jews have controlled the Federal Reserve Bank for the last few decades, and Jews are good with money if we do not watch them too closely. Jews have a reputation for moneylending that goes back centuries. Okay, I am sure Jews do make better bankers than Black women.

Trump's Secretary of the Treasury is not Jewish but he is gay. Maybe that is just as good.

It is funny to see Kamala Harris say in her book that she did not pick the previous gay cabinet secretary because he is gay, and then try to deny it:

Buttigieg “would have been an ideal partner — if I were a straight white man,” but he was “too big of a risk,” Harris continued.

Maddow, who is gay, pushed Harris to “elaborate,” adding: “To say that he couldn’t be on the ticket effectively because he was gay, it’s hard to hear.”

Harris quickly jumped in.

“No, no, no, that’s not what I said, that he couldn’t be on the ticket because he is gay,” the former vice president said as she shook her head.

“My point is, as I write in the book, is that I was clear that in 107 days, in one of the most hotly contested elections for president of the United States against someone like Donald Trump, who knows no floor — to be a black woman running for president of United States and as a vice presidential running mate a gay man, with the stakes being so high — it made me very sad. But I also realized it would be a real risk,” she continued.

The real problem with Buttigieg is not that he is gay, but that Blacks hate him.

New H-1B Visa Fees

News:

The Trump administration last Friday announced a new $100,000 annual levy on H-1B visas, which allow 85,000 skilled foreign workers to enter the U.S. each year. The fee applies to companies hiring these workers, primarily in tech.

Veteran venture capitalist Michael Moritz isn’t having it. ...

Moritz argues that Trump fundamentally misunderstands why tech companies hire foreign workers, saying it’s about skills and filling labor shortages, not replacing Americans or cutting costs. The policy will backfire, he warns, by pushing companies to relocate work to Istanbul, Warsaw, or Bangalore instead of keeping it stateside.

“Engineers with undergraduate degrees from the better eastern Europe, Turkish and Indian universities are every bit as well qualified as their American counterparts,” Moritz writes.

If the workers are so valuable, then employers shojld be willing to pay a market rate for them. Eg, the 85k visa could be auctioned off to the highest bidders.

Moritz reveals the weakness of his position, when he says the American and Turkish college grads are equally qualified.

Sore, they are similarly qualified if they have similar degrees. That is because the qualification is the degree. But that does not mean that they are equally valuable as workers. And it certainly does not mean that they are equally desirable as American workers.

American policy should be for the good of Americans. Why import a Turk if it puts an American out of a job when he could do the work just as well?

More Countries Recognize the War

CNN reports:

France is expected to recognize the state of Palestine during a summit later today in an attempt to pile pressure on Israel as it presses on with its campaign in Gaza despite international outrage. Britain, Canada, Australia and Portugal formally recognized Palestine yesterday. ...

At least 50 Palestinians were killed yesterday in Israeli strikes on Gaza and the war has overall killed more than 65,000 people, according to the enclave’s health ministry.

Are they trying to pressure Israel to kill more Palestinian Arabs?

I am not sure of the logic here. A nation is expected to defend its borders, and make decisions about war and peace. If West-Bank-Gaza is a nation, then it is a nation at war, and it has the responsibility to decide whether to keep fighting or surrender.

It seems to me that recognizing Palestine is functionally the same as saying, "Israel, keep bombing Gaza and the West Bank until they surrender."

Gaza is still holding hostages and refusing to surrender.

AI is Not yet a Bubble

Azeem Azhar and Nathan Warren write:

A month ago, I set out to answer a deceptively simple question: Is AI a bubble?

Gauge 1 – Economic strain: Is investment now large enough to bend the economy?

Gauge 2 – Industry strain: Are industry revenues commensurate with the deployed capex?

Gauge 3 – Revenue growth: Is revenue rising/broadening fast enough to catch up?

Gauge 4 – Valuation heat: How hot are valuations? Compared to history, are stocks excessively overpriced?

Gauge 5 – Funding quality: What kind of money is funding this? Is it strong balance sheets, or fragile, flighty capital?

All these new technologies have boom and bust phases, so AI will surely become a bubble and crash.

The article makes a convincing argument that we are not there yet.

Jews are Not the Enemy

Jared Taylor has been kicked off the major platforms for being a White nationalist, and he normally avoids the Jewish Question. He does not oppose the Jews, and has Jewish speakers at his conferences.

He addresses it here:

And then there is the question of Jews. Jews are surely the most cohesive, energetic, and — per capita — the most influential people in the history of the world. Where are the other tribes of the Old Testament? The Hivites, Jebusites, Midianites, Moabites, Perizzites, Amorites, Amalekites, Edomites, Philistines, and all the others I can’t even remember? Gone without a trace. But the Jews? Three thousand years later, they’re still going strong, and most of that time, they didn’t even have a country of their own.

In the United States, their disproportionate influence is obvious in media, Hollywood, universities, finance, politics, and they have used their power for Jewish ends, most obviously to support Israel. This explains why our legislators, who would slit their wrists rather than say France should be for the French, give standing ovations to the head of a Jewish state where ethnic coherence is national policy number one.

Jews have, without a doubt, been pioneers in every movement that undermines white solidarity and even survival: integration, immigration, white guilt, white privilege, DEI, feminism, and the pretense that race is an illusion.

However, by no means are all Jews enemies of our race. My earlier video was about the suicidal refusal of whites to understand race differences. And yet many of the great pioneers in this field have been Jews: Hans Eysenck, Daniel Seligman, Richard Herrnstein, Mark Snyderman, Michael Levin, Stanley Rothman, Seymour Itzkoff.

Who seems to have the clearest, most consistent understanding of race in the Trump White House? Stephen Miller, who is Jewish.

Many Jews are waking up to the fact that the WASP America they helped pull down was the best thing to happen to them since Moses.

I have criticized Leftist anti-White anti-Christian anti-Trump anti-American Jews, but there are also lots of Jews with good political views.

Big Fees for Foreign Workers

CNN reports:

President Donald Trump signed an executive action on Friday to impose a $100,000 application fee for H-1B visas — in an effort to curb what his administration says is overuse of the program.

“We need great workers, and this pretty much ensures that that’s what’s going to happen,” Trump said from the Oval Office, where officials detailed how the measure would incentivize companies to employ American workers while still providing a pathway to hire highly skilled foreign workers in specialized fields.

The proclamation will restrict entry under the program unless accompanied by the payment.

In a separate order, Trump also directed the creation of a “gold card” immigration pathway that he said would fast-track visas for certain immigrants in exchange for a hefty fee. The policy will expedite visas for foreigners who pay the US $1 million, while allowing a company to pay $2 million to speed up the process for a foreign worker that it sponsors.

This program is usually defended on the grounds that businesses desperately need foreign talent, and US workers cannot meet the demand. This is false, of course. The vast majority of these workers are brought in as cheap replacements for Americans.

If the companies have to pay big fees, it will show the demand.

Kimmel deserves to lose his TV Show

The press is complaining that the FCC pressured ABC tv to fire Kimmel for telling an anti-Trump joke, and this is a threat to free speech. Nope.

According to the Hollywood Reporter:

Kimmel was “defending what he said [as] being grossly mischaracterized by a certain group of people,” the show source says.

THR reported on Wednesday that Kimmel did not plan to apologize for his comments, but did plan to address the situation on-air.

Talks between Kimmel and Disney/ABC hit enough of a stalemate that executives there decided Wednesday’s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live! had run out of time to be salvaged. The show’s live-to-tape time was not far off — the studio audience was lined up outside but had not yet been brought in. (Jimmy Kimmel Live! tapes live at 4 p.m. PT.)

By this point, 66 of the roughly 200 affiliate stations had said they would not carry the episode — that’s when ABC announced it was suspending the program — a Bob Iger and Dana Walden joint decision that was a “last resort,” the first person says. Walden delivered the news to Kimmel but did not ask him to apologize, says the source, who described Wednesday as “a very heavy, very hard day” inside the walls of Disney and ABC.

Kimmel did not tell a joke. He told a nasty anti-Kirk anti-Trump lie, and refused to correct it.

Kimmel broadcast a claim that maga Trump supporters killed Kirk. This is false. Someone who tells nasty lies like, and refuses to correct them, that should not be on the air.

Kimmel is not funny, and not entertaining. He disgusted a lot of people in the past, such as when he went on a rant about how the government should pay for his baby's health care, based on an entirely false argument about pre-existing conditions.

The real threat to free speech is how evil jerks like Kimmel demonize normies like Kirk, and encourage the shooting.

Kirk had a genuine following. It will be interesting to see if Kimmel loses his tv show, and he has a genuine following, then he should be able to prosper with Youtube shows or other new media channels. I doubt it.

I am not suggesting that Kimmel be canceled like Alex Jones. Both got into trouble for theorizing about a recent tragedy. The difference is that Kimmel's employer asked him to correct himself, and he refused. And Jones was ruined while Kimmel is still drawing a salary.

More Thoughts on Charlie Kirk

The Killing of Charlie Kirk continues to dominate the news.

The killer was a smart student, but a dumb criminal.

Utah has a reputation as a conservative state, but the Mormons have been corrupted by the transgender lobby.

The killer was brainwashed by propaganda that Kirk was an evil extremist. In fact he was a normie, with mainstream Christian Republican views.

The crime has exposed a lot of evil on the Left. Many are cheering his death.

Some are saying that Kirk was killed for expressing his free speech views. This is not correct. The killer was from a family with views not much different from Kirk's, and it is not clear that he had any violent opposition to those views. Instead he had been convinced by the Leftist press that Kirk was evil.

The killer is a mixed-up kid whose thinking may never be understood.

The real issue is how we have let the Leftist press demonize normies to the point where this book-smart kid thought that normies were evil. Or how he thought that roomming with a transgender furry lover was acceptable.

The kid was an adult, limiting the ability of his parents to help him. Maybe kids should not be adults until age 25.

All the talk of federal prosecutions is crazy.

Kirk was very pro-Israel, but was starting to say stuff like this:

"Jewish donors have been the number one funding mechanism of radical open borders, neoliberal quasi Marxist policies"
-Charlie Kirk

It seems that we have the whole story, but see Who Ordered The Hit On Charlie Kirk? | Candace Ep 237. She points to some fishy aspects. In particular, the Jews had been financially threatening Kirk, and the transgender roommate may be more involved that he admits.

She also claims the France President Macron's wife is transgender. That seems very unlikely to me, but there are many strange things about that marriage.

I see the NY Times had an article trashing Nick Fuentes as a young radical right-winger with a cult-like following online. Yes, but do not confuse Fuentes with Kirk. Fuentes does say some inflammatory things, and is anti-Trump. Kirk had mainstream normie views. Fuentes has been banned from Youtube, but here is a new interview, and you can judge for yourself. As an example of his inflammatory comments, see his advice to move to a safe White neighborhood. He is mostly hated for his criticism of Israel.

A lot of quotes are circulating supposedly showing that Kirk was an extremist, but factcheck.org shows that most of them are false.

Dangerous Whites are Colorblind

This article is from six years ago:

During a guest lecture at Boston University on Monday, University of Washington Professor Robin DiAngelo told the audience a “dangerous white person” sees people as individuals rather than by skin color.

DiAngelo, whose main field of work is “whiteness studies,” added that those who say they were taught to treat everyone the same deny black people of their reality, she said.

In making the claim, DiAngelo said she was lifting the terminology from her frequent co-facilitator at speaking engagements, black scholar Erin Trent Johnson. ...

She encouraged the audience to think in terms of race, and not the character of individual people, because all white people are racist to some degree, no matter what.

DiAngelo is a frequent guest speaker at campuses across the nation, coined the term “white fragility,” and recently wrote a book on the subject titled “White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism.”

The world was going mad at that time. Do the race hustlers still say this?

Of course she is just saying what she is paid to say. And to accommodate Blacks who want free benefits.

Nosferatu and Nefertiti

I just realized that I confused Nosferatu with Nefertiti. My bad.

Foreign Criminals take over Paris

News:

New data shows that 64 percent of violent robberies, physical and sexual violence on public transport in Paris are committed by foreigners, with 43 percent of this number being North African, who represent only 3.4 percent of the population. ...

These statistics do not break down information based on race or ethnicity, as France does not track such information.

France also refuses to collect statistics by religion.

Creating a colorblind society must have seemed a laudable goal at one time. But what if it is destroying the nation?

New Questions about Kirk Assassination

News:

Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin Tyler Robinson was living with a transgender partner who was in the process of transitioning from male to female, a law enforcement source confirmed to The Post Saturday.

Kirk was shot while answering a question about transgender violence.

The Jewish defamation group ADL still has a page trashing Kirk, but now posts:

One of the most popular unfounded narratives promoted a “false flag” conspiracy theory, suggesting Israel or Jewish organizations colluded to have Kirk killed because he had supposedly become more critical of Israel, or that Israel suspected he would eventually “turn on them.” Since September 10, there have been over 10,000 posts on X that include the phrase, “Israel killed Charlie Kirk.”

Kirk had been very pro-Israel, but in the last month he expressed fear about how Israel would punish him for his criticisms. It was reported a month ago that Kirk thought Israel would kill him if he turns against Israel.

Maybe these are coincidences. Stay tuned.

Grievance Professors Demand Reparations

This academic lecture was recently posted:

Righting Wrong When “Sorry” Isn’t Enough

How should federal governments attempt to right, or at least remedy, past wrongs? Is it appropriate for victims of group-based harms or their descendants to press current generations to atone for the sins of their predecessors? Grace Kao, Professor of Ethics and the inaugural Sano Chair in Pacific and Asian American Theology at Claremont School of Theology, explores these questions by drawing upon the emerging human rights standard for reparations, theological resources from her Presbyterian faith tradition, and four case-studies of acknowledged wrongdoing against AAPI communities.

She argues that non-whites should combine their grievances to get million dollar payoff for supposed injustices to remote ancestors.

The main gripes are:

1. Chinese were not allowed to become American citizens, a century ago.

2. Japanese aliens were relocated from the west coast, during WWII.

3. Some Filipino fought for the USA in WWII, but never got citizenship.

4. Hawaiians had native sovreignty in 1893, before becoming a USA territory.

None of these were wrongs, and even if they were, none deserve remedies. These grievance professors suffer some sort of White envy, or they are just grifters trying to get free money.

Glenn Greenwald calls out Ben Shapiro for saying Jews would not accept reparations. It turns out that Jews in Israel are aggressively demanding reparations all the time, and have collect $90 billion from Germany.

Harris Trashes Biden in Book

CNN reports:

“In retrospect,” Kamala Harris writes of letting Joe and Jill Biden decide on their own whether the then-president should have tried to run for re-election, “I think it was recklessness.”

That is the assessment that the former vice president makes in her forthcoming memoir of her abbreviated 2024 run, in a significant break from the dutiful stance she took toward her old boss throughout their time in office and since.

“‘It’s Joe and Jill’s decision.’ We all said that, like a mantra, as if we’d all been hypnotized,” Harris writes in the first excerpt of “107 Days” published Wednesday morning by The Atlantic. “The stakes were simply too high. This wasn’t a choice that should have been left to an individual’s ego, an individual’s ambition. It should have been more than a personal decision.”

Part of the problem, Harris writes, was a Biden team so committed to not helping her that she says it ultimately came at his own, and the country’s expense.

“When polls indicated that I was getting more popular, the people around him didn’t like the contrast that was emerging,” Harris writes. “None of them grasped that if I did well, he did well. That given the concerns about his age, my visible success as his vice president was vital. It would serve as a testament to his judgment in choosing me and reassurance that if something happened, the country was in good hands. My success was important for him.”

“His team,” Harris ends the chapter by writing, “didn’t get it.”

This is seriously delusional. She was never popular. People did not think she could do the job, if Biden died.

Nobody thought Biden had good judgment in picking Harris. It was a deal to win an endorsement for Black votes in S. Carolina.

If it was reckless for Biden to run, it was also reckless for her to support him, and then backstab him to steal the nomination from him.

I look back at all the supposed political leaders who supported Harris. They were either dishonest or hypnotized. We should disregard everything they say in the future.

RIP Charlie Kirk

Charlie Kirk was assassinated.

In googling him, I find Jews calling him anti-semitic. This is bizarre, as he was very pro-Israel, and friendly to Jews.

He was Christian, and he was pro-America. Apparently many Leftist Jews hated him for that.

As I write this, the killer's motives are not known. I doubt that they have anything to do with Jewish issues. I am not trying to blame Jews for this. It could have been a Mormon for all I know. I am just trying to understand why he was controversial.

Update: 22-year-old Utah boy Tyler Robinson has been accused of the murder.

The NY Times has formally retracted an accusation that Kirk was antisemitic. It is a good example of the Jewish press attacking a Christian as antisemitic, when the obvious truth is directly the opposite.

Apocalyptic Visions of Demographic Replacement

The London Guardian Science Weekly podcast reports:

The fertility rate in England and Wales has fallen for the third year in a row. It is a story that is being repeated all over the world, with two thirds of the global population now living in countries with below replacement level fertility. Low fertility rates have become a talking point on the political right, with Elon Musk claiming that population decline is an existential threat to the future of humanity. But for others, the timescales involved are too vast to start worrying about now. So how should we be thinking about population decline?

Notice that the Leftist press is always telling us how we should think.

[15:34] Far right and nationalistic groups have been pushing apocalyptic visions of future economic crashes or population collapses. Behind this panic around depopulation are often ideological stances on feminism and immigration, which sometimes slide into the racist debunked science of eugenics.

A lot of the people talking about low birth rates and worrying about not enough babies really means low birth rates for people they consider like them. Worried about the national identity of their countries, or even the racial makeup of their countries, and that's awful. Some of that is truly terrible.

No, it is not terrible for nations to be worried that they are being depopulated and replaced with foreigners having different national and racial identities. Nations should defend their people against being invaded and replaced.

Feminism has everything to do with the birth rates. It teaches that having babies should be entirely the choice of women, and that women can better fulfill their desires by having a career and forgoing babies. Birth rates always decline sharply when countries become more feminist.

And immigration also has everything to do with depopulation. In the USA, the population has increased entirely from immigration, and immigrant groups have the highest birth rates.

Wikipedia and others call this demographic change a conspiracy theory, there is no doubt that it is happening, and that it is driven by feminism, immigration, and differential ethnic fertility.

The London Daily Mail reports:

New polling released by NBC has revealed some eye-opening statistics about the gender and political divides of Generation Z.

While ranking over a dozen options of scenarios on their importance to an individual's definition of personal success, male Donald Trump voters selected having children to be the most important, and female Kamala Harris voters ranked child-rearing as least important.

Only six percent of female Harris voters thought that having children was most important to them, while 34 percent of male Trump supporters said the same.

Yes, this is feminism and ideology at work. Throughout most of human history, women viewed having children as most important, not doing paperwork in a cubicle.

Palestinian Arabs Want Jewish Prosperity

NPR Radio re[pr

AYESHA RASCOE, HOST:
Every year in New York City, about 150 world leaders attend the United Nations General Assembly, known as U-N-G-A or UNGA. One leader will be notably absent at the meeting this month - the president of the Palestinian Authority, the party in charge of roughly 40% of the West Bank. The U.S. has blocked him and 80 other Palestinian officials by revoking their visas, a decision the U.N. has opposed. ...

And I think for those who - you know, if you believe in the idea of the Jewish people and the Palestinian people, you know, kind of equally deserving the same levels of freedom, security and prosperity, and you believe in the idea of a two-state solution where the West Bank and Gaza would be integrated as a Palestinian state, eventually, it's really not a good sign for that.

RASCOE: Former U.S. special representative for Palestinian Affairs, Hady Amr, thank you so much for joining us.

Really? Is that what this war is all about?

I thought that the Palestinian Arabs wanted independence and autonomy for the West Bank.

Nope, not at all. They want a Jew-free state that somehow has prosperity equal to what the Jews have created in Israel.

Not all of them. This is the "two-state" view. Many others want a "River to the Sea" solution where Arabs control the entire area, and Jews are either expelled or subordinated to Arabs.

I have wondered why the Palestinian Arabs have always rejected two-state proposals. It is because they would not have prosperity equal to the Jews in Israel.

Florida Drops Vaccine Mandates

Health authorities are upset that Florida dropped vaccine mandates, but other countries do also:

Countries like Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands, the UK, and most of Scandinavia do not condition public school attendance on vaccination status. Japan – Vaccines are strongly promoted, but school entry is not denied for unvaccinated children. Denmark, Norway, Finland, Iceland – All Nordic countries besides Iceland follow voluntary vaccination policies for school entry. Switzerland – Vaccination is voluntary, and school entry does not depend on vaccine status.

Until about ten years ago, Californians could opt out of vaccines by just checking a box on a form, saying they had a philosophical objection. Vaccination rates were still quite high.

A couple of times there were measles outbreaks at Disneyland, but they were always from foreign tourists.

Supreme Court to reverse Same-sex Marriage

Axios reports:

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton predicted that the Supreme Court will "do to gay marriage what they did to abortion" and send it back to states to decide.

That is not likely anytime soon. But in the long run, having the Supreme Court interfere in marriage law in this way is indefensible.

Marriage has had a crucial role in the development of civilization for thousands of years. When the Court mandated same-sex marriage in 2015, it ignored this, and reasoned instead about applying Civil War Reconstruction laws to getting a copy of an out-of-state AIDS-related death certificate. That got extrapolated to everyone, without considering what it would do to civilization.

You might say that the decision has been widely accepted, and it expressly gave dignity to personal choices and beliefs. Who could be against that?

Maybe, but I am not so sure.

Humanists Fully Endorse Transgenderism

I expect atheists and humanists to be anti-God and anti-religion, but it appears that they are more interested in promoting transgenderism. See Prof. Jerry Coynes comments here and here.

See this essay:

A humanist framework grounded in reason, equality, and bodily autonomy holds that denying care based on gender identity is not only a practical failure, but an ethical breach. “To deny someone care… is not just unethical, it’s inhuman,” says ethicist Casey Ruhl.

. . . This is where humanism can make a unique impact. Unlike traditional religions that may treat gender diversity as a moral debate, humanism begins from a different premise: that every individual has inherent worth, and that self-determination is not a privilege, but a right. “Humanism allows us to honor people without pretending to know them better than they know themselves,” says Elan, a queer humanist chaplain.

The essay favors transgender hormone and surgery treatments for minors.

Update: Coyne notes that out of 17 atheist/humanist/freethought/secular/skeptic organizations, 16 are fully committed to pushing for LGBTQ+ rights as a fundamental stance in their fight against Christian nationalism, and one says:

CFI will continue to promote the separation of church and state, the rights of nonbelievers here and around the world, and the end of pseudoscience wherever it arises. And we strongly disagree with people or groups who think discussion is dangerous, biology is bigotry, and science is Christian nationalism in disguise.

That's right, transgenderism is bad for reasons that have nothing to do with religion.

It is funny to see the supposed freethinkers succumb to Leftist ideological groupthink contrary to modern science.

On the Need for Eugenics

David Skrbina writes:

Eugenics is one of those ideas that has come to acquire a negative reputation for all the wrong reasons. Under pressure from mainstream academics and writers since World War Two, and largely due to its association with National Socialism, the very concept of eugenics has been derided and defamed for decades. Today it is widely seen as misguided, racist, or as some downright evil social-programming scheme; but in fact, as I will argue, it is vital for our collective survival. ...

I claim that everyone, already, is a eugenicist—they just don’t use the term.

The term is certainly out of favor. Everyone will say he is against, saying that history has shown it leads to bad things, or something like that. Not really an argument.

As a rough outline, though, what might a contemporary eugenic program look like? We must work from first principles here, and I find four to be of central importance. First: No one has a ‘right’ to bear children. In a dysgenic world, childbearing is a privilege, not a right. ...

A second core principle relates to the notion of human equality: In no meaningful sense are all humans equal. People differ in every conceivable way: abilities, skills, interests, capabilities, intelligences, creativities, appearance, etc. ...

Third: Eugenics works best in ethnically homogenous societies. ...

Fourth: The best individuals have the highest obligation to the community—and vice versa.

I do not expect these arguments to persuade anyone. If he is right, then we will have a systematic decline in the gene pool until some drastic action is necessary.

The AI Bubble Gets Bigger

Some people say were are in an AI bubble, with many billions being invested with no clear monetary return. P. Greenspun estimates that if AI power consumption continues at its present rate, it will exceed the Sun's generation in 43 years.

Here is a new Stanford study:

First, we find substantial declines in employment for early-career workers in occupations most exposed to AI, such as software development and customer support.

• Second, we show that economy-wide employment continues to grow, but employment growth for young workers has been stagnant.

• Third, entry-level employment has declined in applications of AI that automate work, with muted effects for those that augment it.

It is worse in Canada:

Canada's tech job market has gone from boom to bust in a matter of years, a new study says.

Canada has been radically importing Third World workers, and now they are being replaced by AI.

I believe that AI really is transforming the economy, but mostly in ways that are difficult to measure. Millions of jobs will be replaced or eliminated.

Scientists Discover Silent Male Crickets

SciAm plugs a new book on nonbinary sex in animals. Their best example is singing crickets.

One of my favorites is the crickets of Hawaii. So field crickets are, are well-known for their loud chirping, which is a sexual signal, and so a lot of people have studied their sexual signaling to understand how that works in a sexually reproducing species. ...

these parasites would then kill the loudest crickets. ...

We’ve known since about [the] mid-1970s that some male crickets don’t chirp, ...

So when the scientists finally started taking them a little bit more seriously, they noticed that these males engage in same-sex courtship and that they work together with chirping males to court females and that females often prefer paired males rather than solo males, for reasons that we’re still trying to understand.

This is supposed to prove that nonbinary sexual behavior is normal.

Trying to Use Google Passkeys

I expect Google to have decent login security, but it is a mess. Now it is going to passkeys, but it is not easy.

Passkeys were standardized in about 2018, so they are not new. Google explains them here, by a woman with a funny accent. I will be glad when I can substitute an AI voice.

Google has a online demo on that page, but the demo did not work on my Windows 11 machine.

The passkeys are essentially public key cryptography, where the private key is bound to a device like a phone, and can only be used to sign a challenge message from a particular server (like google.com or ebay.com), and for a particular username. When done right, the user does not have to bother with usernames or passwords, and gets a more secure login.

It does have the advantage that I will not be tricked into logging into a phishing site, and no one can intercept my password. That makes passkeys worthwhile to me.

But it is very confusing on Google. It is hard to tell what Google requires for a login. It can keep you logged in for months, so you think you are safe, but then suddenly ask for an extra factor. Instead of letting you choose among the factors you have configured, it asks what it thinks will be the most secure. Last week it asked me for a bluetooth token that I set up five years ago, and never got to work.

I can log into my Gmail account on Firefox with just my passkey, but curiously it does not work on Google Chrome, where I have to supply my username first.

You can put a credential on a usb token, but Google will query the token and decide what it wants to put there. If you have a token with multiple capabilities, it can be impossible to configure it for the capability you want. Google will decide on its own what to put on the token. You might be better off with a ten-year-old token, depending on what you want to do.

It is hard to keep track of the tokens with passkeys, as Google uses generic names like "Windows Hello" and "Security Key", even though it queries the type of computer and token. It does try to distinguish between "devices" and "security keys", without any obvious purpose. Sometimes a passkey is called a security key if it must be used with a password, so it is not really a passkey but a predecessor fido key, but sometimes a usb tokey with a genuine passkey is also called a security key.

Sometimes Google will create a passkey on its own. This is usually okay, but sometimes it creates the passkey under the control of the "Google Password Manager" for some other Google account, and it refuses to tell you what that other account is. It allows your passkey to float around in the cloud, which might be convenient, but it also defeats the purpose of binding a passkey to a device, and makes it nearly impossible to control use of credentials. I had to delete a passkey, because I could not figure out who was using it.

Apple, Microsoft, and many others are going to passkeys. Banks not so much. They are also confusing. I thought that this would have been sorted out five years ago. Maybe it wil take another five years.

Update: I ran into more problems with Google passkeys. If I try to edit my Google Wallet, after being logged into Gmail, then Google wants to confirm my identity. Fair enough. It asks for a "security key" and does not allow any of my other options, such as password, authenticator, SMS, etc. So I supply a usb security key with a passkey. And that is not good enough! It wants one particular passkey, and it will not tell me which. I have to keep guessing until it accepts one.

I don't know how I would pay for something on a trip, as I have no way of knowing what security key Google will ask for.

Part of the point of passkeys is that they are easily created and bound to a device. So I can have one at home, one at the office, one in the safe, one in my luggage, etc. But that assumes that Google is going to accept the one I have, or at least be predictable about what it needs. Most people are probably better off sticking to passwords, until Google and the other big tech companies make passkeys usable.