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

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October 2019

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Harvey Weinstein was a sacrificial lamb for misogyny and now he's back.

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TERFs 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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“It’s just a big illusion”: How homeopathy went from fringe medicine to the grocery aisles.

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Ben 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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Dominic 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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Public option on healthcare is a poison pill

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The radical guidebook embraced by Google workers and Uber drivers

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Right-wing websites (surprise!) attack transgender people by lying – from Hemant Mehta's site

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Reddit goes through another banwave of horrible subreddits, courtesy We Hunted the Mammoth.

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Not all men. A view from a woman working with sexual offenders.

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The Keynesianism of the United States Armed Forces and its effects on capitalism's survival prospects.