Physics & Poetry: An Anthology

Broad-spectrum amateur (lover) of science and esthetics

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"We are the carpenters of an invisible cathedral."

-Ray Bradbury

[Dima Zeniuk @DimaZeniuk]

SpaceX Starship team

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@datadriven_tdoc @smfox @dilanesper Actually, I don't find Wesley unattractive.
He is a 6 or 7.

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@davidrieff Interesting - wonder where he expects them to be used.

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@davidrieff Hmm...so it is possible to tell who is a woman and who is not..

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Ah...given the wording, she is not making a case.

[Oli London @OliLondonTV]

Lindsay Clancy juror says she was frustrated with male juror for being the lone holdout in the trial of the mother who suffocated her 3 children to death.

“He had the hardest time getting off the fact that Lindsay visciously killed her children.”

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@C1N0R3V @EndWokeness Will they be able to manage those resources to keep a prosperous society?

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Where is this happening, outside the 3rd World?

[Christopher Lasch's Angry Ghost @ghostofchristo1]

Contemporary bandits and pirates taking over roads and rivers to extract a toll. On an opportunistic basis now, but looking to make these arrangements more permanent. These roads and rivers being our internal worlds, our psyches and limbic systems, our ability to think itself.

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Suppose AIs did brilliant central planning, beneficial to all - would we become socialists?

[Christopher Lasch's Angry Ghost @ghostofchristo1]

“Here’s how to save Late Soviet Britain with this one weird trick …”

[Physics & Poetry: An Anthology @ElWellwright]

Eerie, graceful or both?

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Good point. There is no way to reconcile these positions.

[Wesley Yang @wesyang]

Post-feminist, gay-friendly Westerners see trans as a kind of Gay+ but traditionalist cultures (Iran, Puerto Rico, African-Americans, some evangelical whites) see it as a way of preserving the gender binary. If you are the former it is *really* hard to understand the latter.

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Suppose Islam conquers the West. What will happen when it comes up against China?

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

What is Islamism? How is it different from Islam?

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@wesyang What about Singapore?

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Really?

[Hunter Ash @ArtemisConsort]

“It’s totally arbitrary to say there are three clusters here”

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Bread and circuses

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

Mamdani doesn’t want to catch heat for requiring an ID like he did with the grocery stores, so for these tickets, you only have to provide a NYC zip code. Without that eligibility verification, anyone from anywhere in the world can get these discounted tickets. Ironically, that still makes the case for voter ID and citizenship requirements.

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Alas...is there a turnaround in sight?

[Christopher Lasch's Angry Ghost @ghostofchristo1]

Having exchanged their entire intellectual tradition for a heavily moralised, children’s book version of 20th-century American history, British academics now fight their battles with imperfectly understood analogies snippeted from the pages of US history.

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Given contemporary communications and transportation, can't a planned downsizing occur, so that nature can thrive along with humans?

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

True

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@PhilJ1895 @avidseries Islam does not do quid pro quo.

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The West is really asking for it, isn't it?

[i/o @avidseries]

The same week that Nathan Cofnas was suspended by Ghent University after he drew attention to a pathologically lying retarded race mascot, Cambridge University appointed a woman who has encouraged Muslims to study engineering and computers so that they can successfully wage jihad against other religions; argued that freedom, democracy and evolution should be condemned in schools; and, demanded that non-Muslims must receive Islamic education.

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@davidrieff She is both frank and pragmatic.

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The Constitution is a miracle of careful planning and serendipity. It is uniquely effective and should be treasured.

[Christopher Rufo @christopherrufo]

Tell me you've never read anything about John Adams without telling me you've never read anything about John Adams

The entire design of the Constitution was Machiavellian, in that it relied on balance of faction and separation of powers, in order to "turn vice into virtue"

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Excellent analysis

[Wesley Yang @wesyang]

There is no "sincerity" requirement or test in NYC Human Rights law for who should be granted access to women's spaces and competitions. "Gender identity" is a non-observable inner essence knowable only through self-report. There is no medical requirement and there is no social requirement for who must be treated as the woman they claim to be under the dogmas of the global transgender movement, or under the strictures of NYC Human Rights Law. NYC Human Rights does not say that "a woman is anyone born female plus any man who cuts off his genitals." It does not say "a woman is anyone born female plus any man who injects himself with synthetic estrogen." It does not say "a woman is anyone born female plus any man who wears a dress, or has a yearlong history of wearing dresses, or who would start crying and heaping invective on you if you referred to him by his sex." It simply says that no one can be discriminated against for their gender identity.

The instant a middle-aged, married father of two teenaged daughters who worked as a federal budget analyst at a conservative think tank in Manhattan declared himself to be the bearer of a "female brain," proven by brains scans (no such brain scans exist), the institute was required by law to refer to him by she/her pronouns and his made-up name. The think tank complied rather than commit itself to years of costly litigation. It may have also been influenced by the campaign of social pressure that the budget analyst stirred up among (overwhelmingly conservative white male) friends employed by Con Inc. who all gloried in their embrace of a Stunning and Brave Woman Becoming Her Authentic Self.

Had the Manhattan Institute refused this request and challenged NYC Human Rights Law in federal court, they likely would have eventually prevailed in the Supreme Court and created durable precedent preserving the free speech rights of all Americans individuals and institutions. It would have been a vital defense of the core liberty that the transgender movement exists to eradicate: the ability of each of us to say what we know to be true and not to be coerced into saying that which we know to be false, a freedom that the transgender movement must eliminate in order to attain its goals, which it has worked feverishly for two decades to eliminate.

They would have succeeded by impeaching the vaporous and undefined concept of "gender identity" in law, demonstrating that a non-observable, unfalsifiable, and unprovable claim by someone to be something they are not can never serve as the basis of a right claimed by an individual or a duty imposed on those that interact with them. They would have demanded that NYC define what a woman is, define what a "trans woman is" and define what "gender identity" is, proving dispositively that the movement has no answers to these foundational questions without which none of the concepts can be instantiated into law in any remotely consistent way. (The ACLU lawyer's declined to define the term "woman" before the Supreme Court.)

The WNBA now faces a conundrum in court. It must argue that Enes Kanter and Roye White are not women despite their claim to be women. It must therefore argue that some men who claim to be women aren't women. It must therefore say what a woman is and what a trans woman is. It must therefore establish criteria for what it means to be a man who has a female gender identity that could serve as the basis of legal recognition. It cannot do any of these things because all of them cut against the grain of the goals of the transgender movement that the Democratic party has declared to be the "civil rights movement of the 21st century. The party declared forbidding any woman or girl from drawing a boundary between herself and any man who says he is a woman in any public place, in any school, in any changing room, domestic violence shelter, prison, or sporting field, to be the non-negotiable sina qua non of human decency in America and the world. Indeed, having to do any of these things will prove fatal to the movement in any world governed by reason and law, which is why the ACLU declined to do so before the Supreme Court of the United States.

The work of making Enes Kanter and Royce White valid trans women based on their claim to be women is the work of decades -- the work of the transgender movement itself, now attained.