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Archive for 2022
December 10, 2022
OKAY, YOU FOUND IT, NOW WHAT? It’s that thing. You know, the Truth thing. There’s a problem with it. John Unger, a friend of HillFaith, explains what that problem is and how to solve it.
Warning: John originally wrote in response to a post in Discourse Magazine. I read it and liked it so much that I asked him for permission to publish it on HillFaith. He said yes, and you ought to read it. It’s a little deep into philosophy but not so much that nerds like us can’t get through it.
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GREAT MOMENTS IN STOCKHOLM SYNDROME: Just What Did the Times Walkout Change?
The picketing outside the Times’ Renzo Piano–designed headquarters went on for more than an hour this afternoon. Over a hundred people gathered under the scaffolding on West 40th Street, surrounded by a crush of cameras. Nikole Hannah-Jones, their star magazine correspondent and the intellectual force behind “The 1619 Project,” stood next to Scabby the giant inflatable rat and spoke into a microphone: “Let me tell you, I know what it’s like to work at a newspaper and not make enough to pay your bills. I worked two jobs until I was 30 years old. I reported at my local newspaper and then I had to sell mattresses on nights and weekends just to make ends meet. I loved my job, but we shouldn’t have to struggle financially to work at a place like the New York Times, no matter what position we hold.”
Donald McNeil was there, wearing an old union T-shirt and a brown leather coat with a shearling collar. He was ousted from the paper last year, and Hannah-Jones had played a minor role in that, but he’d always been a dedicated union man. He nodded along while she spoke. “I thought she was great,” he told me.
But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Sister.
(Found via Guy Benson, who tweets, “Damn, Don, have some self-respect.”)
OUR INCESTUOUS RULING CLASS: Head Of Twitter’s Censorship Operation Was A Former FBI, CIA Operative.
According to a now-unavailable LinkedIn profile discovered by journalist Andy Ngo, Jeff Carlton, whose prior work included serving as a federal intelligence officer, became the leading member of Twitter’s Strategic Response Team (SRT) last month. As revealed in a batch of “Twitter Files” released by reporter Bari Weiss on Thursday, SRT is one of the main groups at Twitter tasked with shadowbanning conservative accounts and tweets on the platform.
In his LinkedIn profile, Carlton states that his role as SRT head involves “resolving the highest-profile Trust & Safety escalations,” as well as managing “crises and non-standard incidents in content moderation and customer support to promote ‘healthy public conversations.’” Before leading the group in his new role, Carlton served as a senior program manager at Twitter, starting in May 2021.
Prior to joining the Big Tech giant, however, Carlton was heavily involved in intelligence-related work within the federal government. In addition to serving as a senior intel officer in the U.S. Marine Corps, he also worked as an intelligence analyst for the FBI and CIA, according to his LinkedIn profile.
Read the whole thing.
NUCLEAR AUTUMN: How the world almost ended in 1983.
GENESIS: Artists Who Changed Music – Part 1 (Video).
WHO ARE THE MOST GENEROUS AMERICANS? HillFaith reports that the latest edition of the American Bible Society’s annual “State of the Bible” survey of more than 2,500 demographically representative Americans pretty decisively shows followers of Jesus Christ as the most generous givers to charitable causes.
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IN A SANE WORLD, YES. BUT, ALAS: Top Gun: Maverick Should Win Best Picture.
Some will argue that Top Gun: Maverick doesn’t “deserve” the Oscar, that it wasn’t the “best” movie of the year. I’d, frankly, agree with that. It’s not even at the top of my own list, and it’s likely to be up against the movie I do think is the best of the year (Tár) in the best picture category. But to quote another Oscar favorite: Deserve’s got nothing to do with it. This is a moment for self-preservation, pure and simple, not just for a Hollywood struggling to retain relevance in an increasingly niche-ified entertainment universe but also for The Academy Awards themselves, which have seen ratings decline year after year and can’t expect the rousing triumph of Coda to remind people that, hey, the Oscars are a thing.
So, I beg you, Academy: nominate Top Gun: Maverick in all the Oscar categories for which it is eligible. Heap gold upon it on Oscar night. And bask in praise from masses who remain at least a little confused by the suggestion that the greatest film of all time is a three-plus-hour foreign flick about a woman peeling potatoes in her apartment.
As Sonny Bunch writes, “the Oscars are a trade show. But they’re a trade show that has its nose a bit up in the air.” The latter is obvious, the former is absolutely true — just ask the men who founded Hollywood. And they in particular would like to see Hollywood give itself a jump-start, before it’s too late.
HEADLINES FROM 1984: France will distribute free condoms to fight rising STD rates.
K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: White English Teacher Refuses to Teach Grammar Because it is ‘White Supremacy.’
REPORT: Parents of FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried not teaching at Stanford in ’23.
There’s still much to unpack about the nuclear explosion that was crypto exchange FTX, founded and run by former billionaire and “effective altruist” Sam Bankman-Fried. The 30-year-old, who’s already earned the acronym/moniker “SBF” — normally a cool accomplishment, unless you become infamous rather than famous, as is the case here — has been on an ill-advised media tour attempting to prove he isn’t a completely-over-his-head fraudster. Good luck to him on that front.
Meanwhile, Bankman-Fried’s parents have reportedly been (figuratively) struck by the collateral damage of their son’s reckless exploits. Bankman-Fried’s father, Joseph Bankman, has canceled the one law class he was scheduled to teach at Stanford early next year, according to the Stanford Daily. Bankman-Fried’s mother, Barbara Fried, also isn’t teaching any classes next quarter.
So no more seminars on how “free will is a myth and that we should not blame people for committing crimes?”
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Editor of Prestigious Psychology Journal Fired for Soliciting Criticism of Tendentious Article by Black Academic Claiming that Color-Blindness is Akshually Racism.
That led to a petition, published December 2 and signed by over 1,000 psychologists, that called for Fielder’s dismissal — and, shortly thereafter, to an email from Robert Gropp, the executive director of the Association for Psychological Science (APS), which publishes the journal, arguing that Fiedler had violated the journal’s “diversity and inclusion policies,” according to an email obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. Gropp demanded that Fiedler resign or, he said, “the APS will move forward with terminating your editorship.”
Fielder told the Free Beacon on Tuesday that he had submitted his resignation, adding that Gropp and his colleagues never asked for his version of events.
Though Roberts, the Stanford psychologist, was invited to reply to the critiques, which are forthcoming with the journal, he pulled his paper after becoming convinced that the debate was “rigged” against him, he told the Chronicle of Higher Education. He then published the paper on a preprint service, PsyArXiv, on December 2, along with his email exchanges with Fiedler, which he claimed provided evidence of his unfair treatment–and, he implied, of Fiedler’s own racism.
Plot twist! I never saw that coming!
More at the link.
…”In some ways, there’s no news here,” Jussim said. “This is now normal in academia.”
Yup. There is no more academia, there is no more science.
How long before the bridges start collapsing, planes start falling from the sky, and people start getting the wrong limbs amputated on the regular?
You mean more bridges start collapsing, right? We’ve already had at least one where political correctness led to its collapse: The 2018 Florida International University pedestrian bridge that killed six and injured eight, but whose engineers were praised beforehand for their environmentalism and gender equality.
SEGREGATION NOW, SEGREGATION TOMORROW, SEGREGATION FOREVER: Students of color allowed ‘safe space’ without white males at Pomona College.
It is a truism of American politics that money swills around the top candidates to an alarming degree. And it is also true, and inevitable, that many candidates trust their family members above anyone else to deal with money and other perks that can come their way. Yet even by these standards, the Biden emails showed a family involved in far from normal influence-trading.
For example, Hunter Biden had sat for years on the board of a Ukrainian energy company called Burisma. Why Hunter Biden sat on that board and was so well remunerated for it — around $50,000 a month — was hardly a secret. Hunter has no expertise in the energy sector, nor in anything much else. But proximity to the former vice-president — at the time possibly the next president — brought irresistible cash advantages. (As it did for Joe’s brother, James. He and Hunter signed a deal in 2017 with a Chinese energy conglomerate, CEFC, which paid $4.8 million over 14 months to entities controlled by the two Bidens.)
Hunter’s laptop included messages from Burisma executives going back to 2014, asking Hunter for “advice on how you could use your influence to convey a message”. Other emails described how a “provisional agreement” between Hunter and CEFC would include 10 per cent of equity held back by Hunter for “the big guy”. Who was “the big guy”? It was possible to guess. Elsewhere in the laptop, in January 2019, Hunter could be found sending an angry text to his daughter Naomi, scolding her for having no idea what demeaning things he said he had had to do to support his family. But, he told her: “Don’t worry, unlike pop, I won’t make you give me half your salary.” People had imagined that Hunter was using Joe. But no, it appeared that Joe was using his son to make money. If ever there were questions to be asked of a candidate here were some….
But such questions would not be asked by Democratic operatives with bylines, and would be squelched by the alliance of tech companies and intelligence/law enforcement agencies that aspires to rule us. We’re lucky that the British press, at least, is raising them.
BRAVO, KYRSTEN SINEMA. YOU REPRESENT MILLIONS OF AMERICANS WHO HATE BOTH PARTIES:
This is a major blow for Democrats. But they really only have their own side to blame. Sinema votes reliably center-Left on everything from abortion to immigration to LGBT issues, but because she has centrist views on economics, opposing tax hikes, for example, the far Left has viciously harassed her.
Protesters at Arizona State University even followed her into the women’s bathroom and screamed at her, reportedly breaking the law. More broadly, she has faced vitriolic criticism and attacks for positions that until very recently were mainstream among Democrats, such as maintaining the Senate filibuster.
Is it any wonder she’s leaving a party that has treated her so poorly?
There will, unfortunately, be serious downsides to Sinema’s move.
Exit question: Will Manchin follow Sinema — and take control of the Senate?
WHAT THE PROTESTS IN CHINA can teach us about the United States.