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RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/October 2019

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October 2019[edit]

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22 Harvey Weinstein was a sacrificial lamb for misogyny and now he's back.
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32TERFs started out promising a non-binary pansexual utopia, and wound up enforcing a femininity so fragile and insecure it can be threatened by the wrong kind of tampon boxes.
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20“It’s just a big illusion”: How homeopathy went from fringe medicine to the grocery aisles.
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27Ben Shapiro, Dennis Prager, Adam Carolla and all your other favorite conservative media stars have made a movie about how universities are stomping on free speech and apparently it's not very good!
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8Dominic Cummings, the brain genius of Brexit, just happens to be a LessWrong/Slate Star Codex rationalist. When applied to actual real world stuff, this worked out about as #classicdom as you'd expect. Here's a philosopher trying to explain Dom to other philosophers: Dominic's Basilisk, part 1.
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11 Public option on healthcare is a poison pill
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19 The radical guidebook embraced by Google workers and Uber drivers
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25Right-wing websites (surprise!) attack transgender people by lying – from Hemant Mehta's site
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17Reddit goes through another banwave of horrible subreddits, courtesy We Hunted the Mammoth.
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7Not all men. A view from a woman working with sexual offenders.
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4The Keynesianism of the United States Armed Forces and its effects on capitalism's survival prospects.