RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/July 2023

July 2023

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Against the Logic of the Guillotine: Why the Paris Commune burned the Guillotine and we should too

24

How Russian colonialism took the Western anti-imperialist Left for a ride

21

The Biden administration is seriously discussing making a formal security guarantee for Saudi Arabia. Here's why that would be a horrible idea.

22

Twitter deletes a fact-check of Elon Musk connecting Bronny James’ cardiac arrest to the COVID vaccine.

25

An overview of the criminal and civil cases against former president Donald Trump: where they stand and when trials are set to begin.

21

How Paramount buried a Vice documentary on Ron DeSantis at Guantanamo Bay.

13

"Extreme weather: the climate crisis in four charts – As much of the northern hemisphere endures blistering heatwaves and parts of Asia are deluged with rain, a number of climate records are being challenged"

12

Emily M. Bender on "AI ethics vs. AI safety": Talking about a ‘schism’ is ahistorical.

24

Shaun takes us through a very in-depth analysis of Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull's ideological history and her current connections to neo-Nazis.

7

No, Ukraine shouldn't join NATO right now, and the ongoing debate over this is pulling attention away from the more urgent issue of ending the war.

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The internet's "town square" is dead

13

Inside Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s biggest public Slack channel.

23

The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic’s con. Some researchers may be fooling themselves just like some psychics do.

30

Far-righters have started claiming the recent Philadelphia shooter, who was himself a far-right Trump supporter who was obsessed with the idea of protecting the 2nd Amendment, was actually transgender. For non-ideologically motivated people, the genuine confusion seems to have come from several social media posts showing him dressed in women's clothing.

25

David Hume vs. the UFO Whistleblower: Why we should be skeptical of reports of the extraordinary without evidence.