tripu @tripu@qoto.org

To mention #Fukushima in the same breath as #Hiroshima is like discussing controlled explosions in mines together with bombs planted by the IRA: completely different phenomena, derived from radically opposed approaches, with very different outcomes; both just happen to be related to the same area of research in science and technology.
#nuclear

…and here, #DouglasMurray urges the “silent majority” to stop being silent and to face the illiberal mob with courage.
I see a common pattern among the intelligent commentators.
#IdentityPolitics #woke

http://podcasts.joerogan.net/podcasts/douglas-murray-2
QT: https://qoto.org/@tripu/104886332376006200

That explains why I just got a transfer of $18,160.23 and two hundred boxes of lollipops in the mail from you.
QT: https://aaronparecki.com/2020/09/19/14/yubikey

Here [subscriber edition], #JohnMcWhorter encourages honest #Americans to be brave to stand their ground against the mob of the “elect” (generally well-intentioned #progressives caught up in the new religion of #IdentityPolitics), to politely express disagreement, and to resist the urge to try to reason with them (it's futile) and instead let the petty scandal of the day dissolve by itself.

Listening to the conversation, I was thinking I should extend that pessimistic, if also liberating, piece of advice to my own country (#Spain) and to other topics beside #racism (#sexism, #EconomicInequality, #nationalism), and try to apply it myself — if nothing else, for my own sanity.

https://samharris.org/podcasts/217-new-religion-anti-racism/

Melomaniac like me?
Mistrustful like me of #Shazam and their use of your mic and your data?
Can't be bothered to keep an app just for identifying music you hear?

https://www.aha-music.com/ just helped me find
https://soundcloud.com/erasedtapes/rival-consoles-vibrations-on-a-string

This. This all the time.

On #FakeNews and #DeepFakes (and #PersonalResponsibility!):

“It's not really the #journalists that are being taken in by things. It's readers. […] The only solution that I could imagine is some kind of new norm by readers. That is, by consumers of media. Right now, I don't get a sense that people feel much shame when they find out that they've been had. If you share a video […] and it turned out not to be real, then: ‘yeah, too bad’. […] I would certainly like more of a burden to be placed on readers. That is, if you're not going to feel ashamed about that kind of thing, then I would hope that the people you shared it to, encourage you to feel that shame. […] I don't see the #media as being the problem here.”

— #GraemeWood, on the #MakingSense podcast (in the subscriber version)

https://samharris.org/podcasts/216-september-3-2020/

“There is an inherent tendency in #capitalism towards cronyism, and democracy enhances it. That means that capitalism is not sustainable in a #democracy, and those of us who defend #markets need to take that part of the argument from the left seriously. #Cronyism is not the opposite of capitalism. It is something that capitalism turns into in a political system that allows #freedom, and we should be worried about that. We should credit that as legitimate #criticism.”

— #MichaelMunger, on the #FreeThoughts podcast

https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/free-thoughts/capitalism-and-its-critics

❤️ 🎵
https://soundcloud.com/theweeknd/blinding-lights

The capitals of the world are broken — #London, #NewYork…
#cities

https://nypost.com/2020/08/24/sorry-seinfeld-your-love-of-nyc-wont-change-the-facts-about-its-crisis/

https://www.ft.com/content/d8eb62ef-a1cb-4597-867b-15a79dbdcd5d