CHINA DID THIS TO VIETNAM! A gigantic Chinese vessel rammed& eventually sank a tiny wooden Vietnamese fishing boat near #ParacelIsland. China installed an oil rig in the disputed waters of the Paracels When Vietnam said it's not right, China showed its brutal side @may_talcott

Wow. “Low T cell counts”, huh? That’s one in every 6 Americans. I wonder if there might just be, you know, a disease that knocks down your T cell counts for several months at a time, which you can get maybe once a year if you refuse to take any precautions? 🤔

Tumsonība. Tikmēr Latvijā… Oficiālie veselības sargi gatavi ievazāt Andu vīrusu un ebolu. Par spīti trešdaļas mirstībai un Ķīnas vīrusa pieredzei. Arī tumsonība. Lielāka nekā Libērijā, Sjerraleonē un Gvinejā. Kaut zināms, kā sērgu nepieļaut un uzveikt: necsi.edu/ending-pandemics

"Ticamākais variants, ka jaunu valdību šobrīd izveidot neizdosies, izņemot, ja prezidentam ir kāds trumpis padomā," prognozē politoloģe Iveta Kažoka.

Democracies need the “bad policy → population pain → voters ‘fire’ the political actors who enacted the bad policy” feedback loop. Debt obfuscating this loop is the #1 undiscussed issue in western democracies.

ANNOUNCEMENT: WE’RE SAVING SCIENCE! We’re often told that science is “self-correcting.” But that’s not really true. Science doesn’t correct itself like a thermostat adjusting the temperature in your house. Science is a human institution run by human beings. And human beings are vulnerable to career incentives, groupthink, moral fads, political pressure, and fear. And when those forces capture academic journals, peer review stops being a filter for bad ideas and starts becoming more of a credentialing system for fashionable nonsense. This isn’t exactly new. In 1996, the physicist Alan Sokal managed to publish a totally gibberish article in the journal Social Text full of trendy postmodern jargon. His point was simple: if you flatter the ideological commitments of certain academic editors, nonsense can pass as real scholarship. Two decades later, @ConceptualJames, @HPluckrose , and @peterboghossian pulled off the “grievance studies” hoax, placing over a half dozen absurd papers in peer-reviewed journals. One paper used dog parks to analyze rape culture and queer performativity. Another rewrote parts of Mein Kampf in the language of feminist theory. The problem wasn’t just that fake papers got published. It was that they were completely indistinguishable from the real thing. And today, the problem is even worse. We now have serious SCIENCE journals publishing papers about feminist lesbians marrying brine shrimp. We have disturbing papers that aim to “queer” and sexualize infants. We have scholarship on “lesbian-queer-trans-canine relationalities” and “trans-dog intimacies.” But while Clown World papers are concerning because it makes a complete mockery of academia, the same broken, ideologically captured system is also publishing research in legitimate science and medical journals that pushes sex and gender pseudoscience, relies on deeply flawed data, and influences policies on the medical transition of children and young adults. That’s not funny. That affects real people. It affects medicine. It affects law. It affects children. And when critics try to respond, they often discover there’s no serious mechanism for correction. Submitted Letters to the Editor often go completely ignored. Contrary evidence is rejected without comment. As a result, the best critiques are often relegated to personal blog posts, social media threads, or newspaper op-eds, while the original paper remains in the literature wearing the armor of “peer review.” That is untenable. So Kevin McCaffree, editor-in-chief of Theory and Society (@Theory_Society), and I decided to do something about it. Today, in the Wall Street Journal, we announced a first-of-its-kind article type called “Peer Review.” The idea is simple: publication should be the beginning of academic scrutiny, not the end of it. A Peer Review article can critique a paper from any scholarly journal. It can address problems with methods, evidence, logic, definitions, theory, or interpretation. But it has to focus on the claims and arguments, not personal attacks. Submissions are capped at 2,500 words and go through a straightforward merit review instead of endless gatekeeping and ideological screening. We ask just one basic question: Is this critique coherent, serious, reasonable, or even popular enough to deserve scholarly attention? If yes, it gets published. And the authors of the original paper get a built-in right of reply, so readers can see the critique and the response in a legitimate academic venue. That’s how science is supposed to work. Science becomes self-correcting only when real people build the mechanisms that allow correction to happen. That’s what we’ve done. Now it’s time for academics to use it. Read our announcement on the @WSJ below. 🔗wsj.com/opinion/a-way-to-cha…

If you are a Millenial or Gen Z, you are literally robbed of your future by endless immigration. They take everything you were promised: Jobs, houses, a future in prosperity. Remigration will end this injustice against Europeans.

> Shouting “Allahu Akbar” > “✨Swiss Man✨”

Aircraft pilots should probably be chosen on pure merit

The rarest object type in the universe isn't black holes. It's us. Conscious matter. The flame of life. We have a duty to expand it in scope and scale in order to preserve it.

Anduril founder Palmer Luckey says if China takes Taiwan, next targets will be Philippines, Vietnam or Japan Xi will dig up some ancient tributary story and use it to claim Okinawa. We saw Chinese media already pushing a Ryukyu independence story That’s the real domino effect

This is wild... Russia seems to be threatening a *commercial* satellite that provides imaging services to Ukraine: ▸ starting about two weeks ago, Russia started maneuvering five (!) of their classified satellites to the same orbital inclination as the ICEYE satellite ▸ these burns were big, on the order of 100 m/s, clearly using chemical propulsion given the speed of the burns — very expensive and deliberate maneuvers ▸ as of last Friday, all five Russian satellites are now co-planar, at ~97.8° inclination, with three of ICEYE's satellites, and aligned in other orbital elements (e.g. RAAN) that make it clear they're specifically targeting this set ▸ I am a little skeptical that Russia is specifically targeting -X36 — there are two other satellites at the same inclination/RAAN (-X37 and -X38) — but the Russian sats are now all within striking distance of -X36, which is why people are concerned about it specifically; the closest cross-track distance is an estimated 500 meters (!!), all while the satellites are orbit 550 kilometers above Earth ▸ Russia has unleashed a cyberattack on a commercial satellite before (Viasat), and it is official Russian policy that commercially-owned infrastructure that aids in military efforts "may be legitimate target[s] for a retaliatory strike.” ▸ there's speculation that this could be a precursor to an RPO mission (meaning: physically grabbing the satellite or some other kind of non-kinetic attack like blinding/jamming) Worth tracking closely. And unfortunately more evidence that space is militarizing, fast.

😷🚢 “When a hantavirus outbreak struck a Dutch cruise ship earlier this month, human transmission was confidently downplayed based on scant knowledge and a prayer that the virus isn’t airborne. Exposed passengers eventually disembarked the stricken ship wearing blue medical masks with gaps on all sides, offering them as much protection as a mesh umbrella in the rain.”👇

"Is it possible to be a Christian in times of war? Yes, it is possible,” says Shevchuk, who recounts a meeting with Pope Francis during which he asked for advice: “I often ask the Lord, ‘Why did you resurrect Ukraine after the fall of the Soviet Union? Why did you resurrect our Church, which was annihilated during the communist era? Why are you making us face death again?” The Pope’s reply was: “No, what it means is that you have a mission.” My article on the book launch in Madrid for the book by Archbishop Major of Kyiv-Halych and Primate of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, His Beatitude Sviatoslav Shevchuk, in @vocedelpatriota. lavocedelpatriota.it/en/you-…

Vickrum Digwa ha sido declarado culpable hoy de asesinar a Henry Nowak, de 18 años, en el Tribunal Penal de Southampton. El jurado rechazó sus alegaciones de legítima defensa y de racismo, y su madre, Kiran Kaur, fue declarada culpable de ayudar a un delincuente al retirar el arma. Se dictará su condena el 1 de junio y la su madre el 17 de julio. Digwa dijo a los agentes que había sufrido un ataque racista y los policias esposaron a Henry Nowak mientras se desangraba, en lugar de prestarle primeros auxilios de inmediato. Hay una investigación en curso por parte de la Oficina Independiente para la Conducta Policial. Esperemos que esos agentes también acaben en el banquillo.

Most Ukrainians support sending the military to help defend Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and other countries if Russia posed a threat @RatingGroup

morožennoje Ļeņingradskoje kā no bērnības ражотс криевия

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