Some people were making me mad on the internet so I wrote a blog post about it. On the different reasons for people have for being left wing and how people manage the psychological tensions of the fact that they come apart. sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2026/10/the-...

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What is happening in the West Bank isn't settlement of open spaces. It is land theft accompanied by state supported violence www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

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Although the response was spicy ... Just not Kim-level spicy

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We don't have to worry, this is as likely to turn into something useful & real as Elon's tunnel borer, his mars colony, the hyperloop, his promise of autonomous humanoid robots, & the Neuralink project. Elon likes style over substance, with the style being 'useless, dangerous, & Nazi'.

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A very prominent philosopher of physics took a question from a very prominent philosopher of biology. After listening to the question, the speaker said "That's interesting, but I really wanted to hear what [other philosopher of physics] has to say."

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