Writers and artists demand a moral imperative to support them as creatives and artisans, while happily buying mass produced bread, shoes, and furniture, and without demanding a similar support for artisan bakers, cobblers, and carpenters. This unacknowledged discrepancy speaks to a degree of snobbishness about how their craft is elevated and more quintessentially human than that of other artisans. #AI https://www.aaronrosspowell.com/p/ai-new-sliced-bread

I stumbled across this tabletop game that is supposed to help you get better at Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. And, based on the description, I'm not sure the author knows what the word "accomplice" means. https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/455447/Choose-Your-DEI-Adventure

The religious worldview is one of a universe created and guided by a divine being or beings. It is one where the supernatural is an omnipresent fact about reality, and not a mere contingent fact, but *the* fact central to the very nature of existence. Further, it's the fact that provides not only an explanation to reality, but gives everything within it meaning, as well. /3

If your response to Arkansas banning AP African American studies in public high schools is only "The answer is school choice," but you gnash your teeth at woke classes and programs in public universities—where students freely choose which school to attend—and demand they be abolished, consider that your stated commitment to liberty is merely opportunistic, giving way to statism when you see an opportunity to advance reactionary cultural values.

The culture on the far right is the "I studied the blade" meme blown up into an ideology. Musk, Trump, etc., all playacting a cartoon masculinity and toughness, while lacking the self-awareness to understand just how silly they look to everyone not bought into the same fictions and, in particular, to those they're most desperate to impress with their act. And they then read the snickering reactions not as evidence they're being silly, but as evidence that they've succeeded in being threatening.

Lawyer friends, what're the chances Trump talks—or Truth Social posts—his way into pretrial detention? (Or at least having his phone taken away?)

With the reporting on Richard Hanania's white supremacist writings, here's your reminder that Scott Alexander, another darling of the same people promoting Hanania, back in 2014 was talking about how he'd use his hugely popular Slate Star Codex blog to push the same white supremacist race science (along with far-right neoreactionary philosophy).

Richard Hanania writes white supremacist stuff openly now, so it's no surprise he did it under a pseudonym in the past. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/richard-hanania-white-supremacist-pseudonym-richard-hoste_n_64c93928e4b021e2f295e817

It is obvious that in the current political climate, the far right is a *much* larger and graver threat to liberty, prosperity, and peace than the far left. But the contemporary libertarian movement has long built its brand around believing and arguing the opposite, and so even when they're not transparently downplaying the threat from the right, particularly the populist right, they're engaging in disingenuous bothsides-ing. This makes them far less effective in actually defending liberty.