RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/October 2021

October 2021
This is what 3ºC of global warming looks like Kyle Rittenhouse and the New Era of Political Violence I suppose it would be too easy to simply call Kyle and his ilk despicable, over-privileged scumbags in need of a damn good kicking. A comedy website posts a surprisingly reasoned article on Anti-vaxxers and science, I'm shocked, but your results may vary. The wealthy backers of the Alt-Right Frances Haugen says Facebook is 'making hate worse' London hospital uses ‘James Bond medicine’ to tackle rare heart condition Reddit clone Ruqqus shuts down: "No one sees a frontpage that's nothing but racism and anti-Semitism and thinks to themself 'wow, all this free speech is great!'...Ruqqus failed - and all similar projects will continue to fail - because the userbase is spectacularly, impossible-to-satirize levels of unintelligent" How Netflix executives are like Squid Game VIPs (spoilers) [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/24/pfas-forever-chemicals-epa-pollution Lethal ‘forever chemicals’ taint our food, water and even blood. The EPA is stalling] The nicotine-stained man frog that is Nigel Farage appeared on Irish national TV station RTÉ One's show, Claire Byrne Live and is left stunned by his own stupidity The look on his face at the end is beyond words. Full interview courtesy of Lusephur Dragajósið Deplatforming controversial figures (Alex Jones, Milo Yiannopoulos, and Owen Benjamin) on Twitter reduced the toxicity of subsequent speech by their followers The harsh truths of partition in Ireland can’t be avoided in the name of reconciliation How the wellness industry leads people towards right-wing conspiracy theories and QAnon.

The hardest working man on Youtube does smallpox (its a youtoob. bite me) 10 shocking statistics about the US death penalty that you won’t believe are still true in 2021 (beware of the comments section) Oh my fucking god, get the fucking vaccine already, you fucking fucks