I love this podcast. One of the hosts (Michael Hobbes) used to be on "you're wrong about" which also dispelled common myths and misinformation. They look at bad science and epistemology in airport-type books, like Malcolm Gladwell or right wing nut jobs, etc.
carlitoscohones
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This makes sense to me. I went through a Jars of Clay / Switchfoot phase, but never Stryper.
I have heard a couple of really good episodes of The Dig podcast, which is a Jacobin thing. Notably "The German Question" a couple of weeks ago.
Reminder that doing something extremely cool and good once doesn't make you immune to posting cringe
If you don’t believe me or don’t get it, I don’t have time to try to convince you, sorry.
Obviously it's a cult, but when they use this phrasing, they just give the game away.
Skip to 1:03 for a second ... this is the super-fast lyric portion of the video. Saying all of those syllables fast causes Mr. street-sounding rap guy to lose his accent code-switch and for that verse he sounds like a generic white guy. Pretty funny actually.
"12 foot ladder" helps with the paywall on this one. The article is written in a highly credulous tone. I would have appreciated an interview with someone that was actually receiving income and money in Euros out of the scheme. Like, money money.
At the end - Boston Consulting says that 10% of the market will be tokenized. Sure.
terrorists have and can used bio weapons to terrifying effect
Can you please tell me when and where? The Japanese subway gassing comes to mind. Anthrax envelopes in 2001. Any others since then?
r/nottheonion
Same here - basic but interesting. And hearing about the eugenics never fails to shock me, even when I already know about it.
This interview made me want to read her book.
The Unknowers: How Strategic Ignorance Rules the World by Linsey McGoey | Nov 15, 2019
im secretly NRx
Sometimes building my vocabulary here is fun. I know nothing about his company but I empathize with their PR people who no doubt comb the internet for media hits.
ChatGPT, give me a phrase for when university professors are found to have committed plagiarism in their dissertations:
*fifteen-year-stale peccadillos *
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