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RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/August 2023
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August 2023[edit]
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | Taxpayers are often left in the dark by politicians who have spent more than $3 billion to settle claims of police misconduct involving thousands of officers, among them many that have been repeatedly accused of wrongdoing. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 22 | EFF: ISPs Should Not Police Online Speech—No Matter How Awful It Is. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | -31 | Humanity is potentially on the brink of major scientific breakthroughs. Examples include artificial intelligence (AI), room-temperature superconductors, and nuclear fusion. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 24 | Undercover With the New Alt-Right: on how a network of young neo-Nazis and fascists have infiltrated the Republican Party to the congressional level. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 21 | Let's pour one out for Mike Lindell: MyPillow Guy wasn't important enough to get his own indictment |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 23 | Bernie Sanders writes for The Guardian: The U.S. and China must unite to fight climate change, not each other. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 25 | You are not a cactus - or how "building up heat tolerance" to resist climate change is willfully malicious bullshit. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | Labour is woefully out of touch with its own voters on trans rights. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | Trump plans to skip the GOP primary debate for an interview with Tucker Carlson. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 35 | More and more Christian radicals are starting to reject the teachings of Jesus. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 23 | Donald Trump has gone off the deep end for real: He's a danger to humanity. Even by his standards, Trump has gone berserk on social media since the last indictment. Drop this guy, America |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | A new leader of the QAnon cult that believes John F. Kennedy is still alive has emerged: A 13-year-old girl, who's announced plans to indoctrinate more children into it. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 24 | The Lost Boys of the American Right Since the ascendance of Donald Trump, with depressing regularity, right-wing men have been outed for using the most vile rhetoric. In private chats and sometimes in full view of the public on social media, they’ll engage in blatantly racist, sexist and homophobic speech, flirt with fascist imagery and then often disavow their words and actions the instant they’re caught |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | Netflix: How did it know I was bi before I did? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 31 | No, we haven't lived with diseases for millions of years - before modern medicine every waking hour was a struggle with death. Anyone who tries to tell you otherwise is selling you a lie. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | Moral panics and the bigoted subversion of biology |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 19 | Why do Nazis keep getting arrested for possessing child sexual abuse material? Answer: because they're Nazis. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 22 | How 6 Mississippi Officers Tried to Cover Up Their Torture of 2 Black Men |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 19 | Some properly good investigative journalism: Two of three big members of Andrew Tate's "War Room" |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 27 | Language Is a Poor Heuristic For Intelligence. Karawynn Long argues people greatly overestimate intelligence in LLM chatbots like ChatGPT for the same reason they underestimate it in people with disabilities who struggle with communication. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 28 | Republicans publicly bash Bud Light, quietly pocket Bud Light money |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 47 | Wisconsin's dairy industry relies on undocumented immigrants, but the state won't let them legally drive |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 34 | Senate Democrats blocked Ukraine funding watchdog bill from passing, ignoring vital lessons from Afghanistan |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 30 | The Kids Online Safety Act is a censorship bill in disguise. Its supporters continue to deny it'll affect queer people at all, but it's also supported by a flurry of hate groups, who explicitly say it will, and that's why they want it to pass. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 21 | Republicans desperately want to prove Democrats are trying to promote atheism globally. By attempting to prove this, they put the lives of atheists in Nepal and Sri Lanka in danger. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 63 | The COVID-19 lab leak theory is dead. Here’s how we know the virus came from a Wuhan market. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 21 | Here Are the 78 Charges Trump Now Faces, and All the Prison Time |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | Books-A-Million is stocking Nazi literature |