ROBIN HANSON: Morally Full Of Ourselves: What happens to cultures when selection pressures weaken while pressures to change remain due to cultural activism and environmental changes? “One simple possibility is a faster random walk into maladaption.”
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
July 20, 2025
July 19, 2025
OPEN THREAD: It’s Saturday night.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: China conducts structural tests for Long March 10 human spaceflight rocket.
PROFESSOR CARRINGTON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Humans Felt The Effects of Weird Space Weather 41,000 Years Ago.
GOOD. State Dept. Layoffs Led By Team of Outsiders Willing to ‘Break Stuff.'”
I mean, it’s already broken.
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Machine learning uncovers 10 times more earthquakes in Yellowstone caldera.
GOOD LUCK, GUYS: Boeing looks for Starliner fixes despite costs, ISS age.
GIVEN W.H.O.’s RECORD, THAT CAN ONLY BE A PLUS: U.S. officially withdraws from enhanced WHO pandemic response.
THEY’RE GOING TO CONJURE AN ACTUAL WHITE NATIONALIST MOVEMENT IF THEY KEEP THIS UP: Kentucky professor links pro-life movement to ‘white nationalism’ in upcoming book.
QUOD ERAT DEMONSTRANDUM:
— Rothmus 🏴 (@Rothmus) July 18, 2025
ANALYSIS: TRUE. If Britain Is Our Bellwether, Things Do Not Bode Well.
WHICH ONE IS LOT’S WIFE? Dead Sea’s salt giants reveal how massive salt deposits form over time.
DON SURBER: Highlights of the week. “Oh no. That means there will be no Sesame Street in Iraq or transgender opera in Colombia.”
July 18, 2025
OPEN THREAD: You know what to do.
EH. IF YOU WANT TO GO BACK TO THE MOON, I THINK SPACEX IS HIRING. NASA workers plan ‘Moon Day’ protest on July 20 to oppose mass layoffs, budget cuts. ‘This year has been an utter nightmare that has not stopped.’
NASA has been a bureaucratic black hole for a half a century.
PARTLY THROUGH U.S. NEGLIGENCE: How China Became the World’s Biggest Shipbuilder.
NO. HE’S LYING BECAUSE HE THINKS YOU’RE STUPID. Has Gavin Newsom Undergone a Miraculous Road to Damascus Gun Rights Conversion?
WELL, SHE CAN’T ADMIT OTHERWISE:
Do you think Sweden became the rape capital of Europe because of Swedish men? https://t.co/hieD92fNPx
— 𝗡𝗶𝗼𝗵 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗴 ♛ ✡︎ (@NiohBerg) July 18, 2025
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Women when an 18yo sleeps with a 16yo:
“Absolutely disgusting pedophile”Women when a 14 yo gets brutally gang raped by migrants:
“Err she doesn’t look 14. Can we get an age check?” https://t.co/ENfxJDRzCi— Prometheus (@CaribbeanRythms) July 18, 2025
WAGES OF LOST TRUST: Few babies getting RSV antibody shot, study says.