Nope. Still mad. The idea that these tech bros think creators should give up the copyright to work after 30 years, and Bezos and Zuckerberg et get to collect billions forever…it really says a thing.

— sarah maclean (@sarahmaclean) March 5, 2021

Nice false choice, you fucking dipshit. Like that is the only two possibilities.

It really is true that most people literally cannot even imagine the world being different than it is currently configured. They cannot even think about it, even a little bit.

We are a nation of fucking simpletons blathering and blithering on about bullshit.

Going off current evidence, it looks likely to me that the vaccines reduce transmission by 80-90%, and if I had to bet on a point estimate I’d bet on the high end of that. People deserve to know this when trying to make risk decisions.

— Kelsey Piper (@KelseyTuoc) February 23, 2021

Yeah, I’d say ~90% transmission reduction. And! Due to the way the virus tends to spread by a few superspreaders and superspreading events, if you vaccinate those (of course you don’t know who they are in advance), you start having an outsize effect.

That’s one of the main reasons why I say case rates will fall through the floor in summer. Assuming we get to roughly 50% vaccinated, even with variants, we’ll be ok.

Is This the End of French Intellectual Life? The country’s culture of argument has come under the sway of a more ideological, more identity-focused model imported from the United States.

Yes, it is the end of French intellectual life. And it’s fucking terrible. The last country that I know of with a bit of independent thought and that had not been completely captured by wokesterism and meaningless identity sloganeering has now fallen.

Intellectual inquiry is being destroyed everywhere, all for the blandest and most useless lowbrow pseudo-cerebral movement that is not even remotely self-coherent and doesn’t actually help the groups it purports to raise up, but instead individuates us all into ethnic groups of one lone person. It’s a Hobbesian war of all against all, in the name of equality.

The first ten on today’s playlist: