“Wheels within wheels” as they say. Between this and AI generated video we have no real sources of verifiable information left.

So, what do we do now?

One of the most interesting changes of the last 15 years has been the global public realizing that most international issues and conflicts are a series of pump-and-dump or rug-pull schemes to the benefit of the kind of assholes who can afford superyachts.

If that.

Why do we as a species hate teenage girls so much?

My take: business interests do not in the main care about Pride or DEI. They care about PR.

Do you have a link to the Canadian polls? I’m looking on my own but I’m an analyst by both trade and inclination and I’d like to see that data.

I’ve been saying for years that the only difference between the GOP and the DNC is the timeline.

This is starting to feel more and more like a planned property grab.

I knew he had said problematic shit, but this is disturbing.

Among many other domestic terror groups who should be scaring the shit out of us as a nation.

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We really need to avoid this thinking–again, one of Hayak’s concern about this particular prize–that any of it comes down to “one person” or one set of research.

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Ah, gotcha. We’re talking at cross-purposes a bit I think.

Thank you for being civil through this; I genuinely appreciate that and it’s nice to meet someone else who cares about these issues.

If you’ll recall I did mention that postcolonial economists have been discussing this issue.

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As a quick semi-aside: 20 years isn’t that long in academic research, and it’s especially not that long when we’re talking about colonialism/post-colonialism. It’s a tremendous amount of time in the hard sciences I’m told but it’s a mistake to apply that lens here.

My dude, generations historians, economists, and social critics from India and across sub-Saharan Africa have discussed these issues at length. There are libraries full of diverse works on the subject. The erasure of all that is on-brand for the Nobel Prize in Economics (which even Hayek said shouldn’t exist in his own acceptance speech) and frankly on-brand for the Western academy as a whole.

I think the important bit is getting lost in the shuffle over particulars: This research and the conclusion it presents are not original to three Western men from a first-world university. They’ve been discussed and explored at length by the academies of the post-colonial states who are dealing with the aftereffects of their own colonial experiences. This is a Eurocentric/Western-centric move on the part of, frankly, a bunch of privileged and insulated people.