Yuchen Pei

Yuchen's political account. For the nonpolitical account see Yuchen Pei (npub126w…n402).

Just because I'm right does not mean I'm far right.
Free software & free speech.

Coordinates: Melbourne, Australia
Religion: Church of Emacs
Pronouns: GNU/Linux

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2026-04-10 23:55:53 CEST

What ChatGPT Is Doing to Student Writing
https://www.pensandpoison.org/p/what-chatgpt-is-doing-to-student
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Today’s students can write a perfect sentence that says absolutely nothing.
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Here is an example of a paragraph it generated when I asked it to predict the next section of my essay:
What this reveals, more than anything, is that we have mistaken fluency for thought. A student who can produce a clean, grammatically sound paragraph—complete with varied sentence structure and the occasional well-placed em dash—now gives the impression of intelligence without having engaged in the difficult, often uncomfortable labor of actually forming an idea. But writing, in its truest sense, has never been about polish; it has been about resistance. It is the act of pushing against one’s own vagueness, of confronting half-formed intuitions and forcing them into clarity.
Read the first two sentences. What can you deduce from ChatGPT’s argument? We learn that a) students have mistaken “fluency” for “thought” and that b) students can now write clean sentences without having gone through the “labor of actually forming an idea.” There is truth to both claims, but the first claim is too broad to communicate anything substantial. The second claim simply repeats an idea I’ve already established without deepening it in any meaningful way. ChatGPT is a pro at regurgitating surface-level ideas without actually saying anything of substance.
Its next two claims, however, are the most egregious offenders. ChatGPT goes on to tell us that writing is not about “polish” but “resistance.” Garbage political bias aside, it is bad enough that this statement by itself means absolutely nothing—what follows is somehow even worse: an explanation that wastes an entire sentence on buzzwords and does little to elucidate the meaning of this so-called “writing as resistance.”

2026-04-02 03:28:46 CEST

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First time listening to him?

2026-03-31 23:06:36 CEST

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No explanation about the deletion?

2026-03-31 02:25:04 CEST

"Covid was a stressful time. Some people started making sour dough bread, others became pedos."
(Dinesh Gourisetty was what the victorian liberal party decided to dump Moira deeming for)
Image source
https://x.com/ThreetothePower/status/2038722460997374069#m
#auspol
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2026-03-22 21:06:18 CET

A researcher asked 10 people to go car-free for 20 days. None wanted to continue
https://www.theage.com.au/national/queensland/a-researcher-asked-10-people-to-go-car-free-for-20-days-none-wanted-to-continue-20260318-p5oo1d.html
> Despite saving hundreds of dollars and even making new friends, none of the people who agreed to ditch their car for this Brisbane experiment wanted to go car-free permanently. This is why.

2026-03-14 10:57:37 CET

This is art
https://x.com/josephdviviano/status/2031196768424132881
> me: "can you use whatever resources you like, and python, to generate a short 'youtube poop' video and render it using ffmpeg ? can you put more of a personal spin on it? it should express what it's like to be a LLM"
https://peister.org/media/01d5216052c85e6d9f80ee86209f1193f70973c53017a8e1c40d242d76c5c2de.mp4

2026-03-13 21:30:57 CET

A body and career in crisis – my Gen X parabola
https://stevescherer.substack.com/p/a-body-and-career-in-crisis-my-gen
> The American dream in reverse – My journey from foreign correspondent to Uber driver in Trump’s America

2026-02-27 02:24:15 CET

BREAKING: Netflix Backs Out of Warner Bros. Deal, Clearing Path for Paramount
https://www.thereset.news/p/breaking-netflix-backs-out-of-warner
> Ellison, who has a close relationship with President Trump, his administration, and top Republican senators, already controls Paramount, which includes CBS, CBS News, Paramount Pictures, Paramount+, and a portfolio of cable networks.
> If completed, the deal would consolidate an extraordinary concentration of news, entertainment, streaming, film, and cable assets under a single corporate structure — reshaping the media landscape in both Hollywood and Washington.

2026-02-25 22:37:14 CET

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About the unnamed podcaster, what do you think about his recent piece https://thedispatch.com/article/trans-shooters-violence-causation-mental-health/

2026-02-19 21:40:39 CET

PEN America gets captured: organization accepts Palestine as a member and rejects Israel; Jewish chief executive resigns after accusations of being a “Zionist” and not signing on to Israel’s “genocide”
https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2026/02/19/pen-america-gets-captured-organization-accepts-palestine-as-a-member-and-rejects-israel-jewish-chief-executive-resigns/
> The decline of PEN American was first evidenced to me when, in 2015, it decided to give a “freedom of expression” award to the magazine Charlie Hebdo, many of whose writers (and a few others) were killed in an attack by al-Qaeda, presumably for making fun of Islam and Muhammad. The award was formally called the “PEN/Toni and James C. Goodale Freedom of Expression Courage Award”, and was to be conferred with other awards at a literary gala banquet.
> But six PEN members refused to be “table hosts” at the banquet, and then 139 other members (now 242) signed a letter taking issue with the award. Why? Because although Charlie Hebdo is well known to be an “equal opportunity offender,” whose metier is mocking everyone, including politicians and religions, those PEN members said that it was a no-no to mock Islam because its adherents were “already marginalized, embattled, and victimized.”

2026-02-17 21:20:59 CET

USA
> Hospital billing is a baffling charade
https://acotra.substack.com/p/hospital-billing-is-a-baffling-charade
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My husband happened to be uninsured when this happened,3 so they sent us a $300,000 bill for the episode.4 The emergency care itself (all the imaging and testing and stabilization they did on Wednesday and the trauma surgery on Thursday), plus staying overnight on Wednesday, only cost around $100,000 total — leaving $200,000 for a two-night stay in the hospital.
It turns out it would have been cheaper by more than an order of magnitude to hire an ambulance to take him out of the hospital right after the surgery, outfit our house with all the necessary medical equipment, and hire a rotation of nurses to watch over him 24/7.5
Still, I honestly might not have questioned it long enough to do that math, except that for some reason they decided to itemize the bill for us. Among dozens of items, there was $878 for this $45 foam pillow, $232 for a large “level 3 sterilized” hospital gown that looks just like this one for $5.50, and $42.50 for a 10 mg tablet of the muscle relaxant cyclobenzaprine — which normally goes for 30 cents a pill from the bottle.
Our friends who know anything about the medical system say that no one is ever meant to pay these bills. If you have insurance, what happens is: the hospital sends the insurance company this bill, the insurance company then says “Yeah we’d like a 95-98% discount,” the hospital says “sure” and then the insurance company pays. If you don’t have insurance, what happens is: you just don’t pay, and you have a giant medical debt as a black mark on your credit score forever.

2026-02-17 13:04:19 CET

The Humanities Are About to Be Automated
https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-humanities-are-about-to-be-automated
> AI can now write convincing academic papers. There’s no more room for denial.
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> But the comparison to the famous hoax by Alan Sokal, as well as the follow-up by Helen Pluckrose, James Lindsay and Peter Boghossian, is in any case misleading. Both of these efforts targeted journals in academic subfields that had gone deeply awry; they were a deliberate reductio ad absurdum. The paper produced by Claude, by contrast, is hardly absurd. While it has its shortcomings, and is not exactly earth-shatteringly original, nobody can seriously call it a reductio. Had a fellow student submitted it to my department’s graduate student workshop when I was doing my PhD, my respect for them would have gone up rather than down.

2026-02-11 02:12:03 CET

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I thought Cory was something of a libertarian? What's with the deference to state violence? He sounds more and more like a garden variety conservative

2026-02-10 12:36:29 CET

“Hating One’s Country” vs. “Hating What Is Being Done to It”
https://www.hpluckrose.com/p/hating-ones-country-vs-hating-what
> Why dissent is not disloyalty and patriotism is not obedience

2026-02-05 02:00:15 CET

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I thought Canadian human rights commission already does something similar as in advocating for identity politics? I mean that's what the Australian one does and iirc the canadian one had something to do with Jordan petersons case

2026-01-25 21:18:05 CET

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I was thinking of something like the former. The article mentioned two or three of the 4 trump supporter subgroups being anti-woke or turned off by woke, and I assume the former meaning there too.

2026-01-25 13:13:23 CET

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Are you asking me to define woke or are you telling me dems are not woke (any more)?

2026-01-25 03:08:35 CET

From this analysis it does seem like trump will lose support if dems stop being woke
> The Four Types of Trump Supporter
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/trump-roles-supporters-categories/685706
> The president’s political power depends on his ability to play different roles for different parts of his coalition.

2026-01-25 02:46:38 CET

Book review: Original Sin by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson chronicles the trainwreck that was Biden's 2024 presidential campaign, and early signs of Biden's mental decline.
The book starts slow and is a disjoint collection of anecdotes slowly building up. The really exciting bits start at more than halfway into the book, in the Chapter titled "The Debate". It was strangely fun to relive the unfolding disaster in late 2024 through this book. Maybe there's a genre for this kind of biographies.
The book is helpfully armed with an index, so if I were to read it again, I'd start from page 185 "The Debate", and use the index whenever it refers to unfamiliar previous episodes.
GC people may be disappointed to learn that there's no reference in the book to the gender wars which we were all certain were the main cause of Trump's win.
Jokes aside, I learned that Biden placed the interest of his family ahead of his country, especially the final act of Biden pardoning Hunter and his other family members, making a nice precedence for Trump to pardon Jan 6 insurrectionists.
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2026-01-21 10:25:03 CET

University of Austin: The anti-woke University circles the drain
https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2026/01/19/university-of-austin-the-anti-woke-university-circles-the-drain/
> The University of Austin (UATX), not to be confused with the University of Texas at Austin, was founded in October, 2021 as a sort of heterodox university, one where all viewpoints could be represe…

2026-01-21 00:21:09 CET

The Dilbert Afterlife
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-dilbert-afterlife
> For Adams, God took a more creative and – dare I say, crueler – route. He created him only-slightly-above-average at everything except for a world-historical, Mozart-tier, absolutely Leonardo-level skill at making silly comics about hating work.
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> Adams and Elon Musk occasionally talked about each other - usually to defend one another against media criticism of their respective racist rants - but I don’t know if they ever met. I wonder what it would have been like if they did. I imagine them coming together at some Bay Area house party on copious amounts of LSD or MDMA. One, the world’s greatest comic writer, who more than anything else wanted to succeed in business. The other, the world’s greatest businessman, who more than anything else wanted people to think that he’s funny. Scott Adams couldn’t stop frittering his talent and fortune on doomed attempts to be taken seriously. But someday Elon Musk will buy America for $100 trillion, tell the UN that he’s renaming it “the United States of 420-69”, and the assembled ambassadors will be as silent as the grave. Are there psychic gains from trade to be had between two such people?

2026-01-20 21:22:04 CET

What Iranians Want From Trump
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/2026/01/trump-khamenei-iran-protests/685680/
> I asked Iranians whether they wanted U.S. intervention. The answers surprised me.

2026-01-18 11:36:53 CET

ACLU And Celebs Release Cringe Appeal To Allow Men In Women’s Sports | ZeroHedge
https://feministlegal.org/aclu-and-celebs-release-cringe-appeal-to-allow-men-in-womens-sports-zerohedge/
> All entries on Feminist Legal Clinic’s News Digest Blog are extracts from news articles and other publications, with the source available at the link at the bottom. The content is not originally ge…

2026-01-15 09:02:46 CET

Constitutionally flawed: Why Australia’s proposed hate groups listing framework threatens democracy — and in particular, women
https://womensadvocacy.net/2026/01/15/constitutionally-flawed-why-australias-proposed-hate-groups-listing-framework-threatens-democracy-and-in-particular-women/
> The Australian government has proposed sweeping new legislation in response to serious terrorist threats. But a critical examination of the Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Bill 2026 rev…
#auspol

2026-01-15 04:59:59 CET

U.S. Freezes Visas to 75 Countries
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trump-freezes-visas-to-75-countries
> Read the leaked diplomatic cable

2026-01-12 08:00:23 CET

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I think the same could be said about men's rights, for lack of a better word that represents the male equivalence to feminism

2026-01-12 06:55:53 CET

Why I stopped donating to Doctors Without Borders (MSF)
https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2026/01/11/why-i-stopped-donating-to-doctors-without-borders-msf/
> Years ago I was a big fan of Doctors Without Borders (originally MSF for “Médecins Sans Frontières”, since the group’s origin is French). Supposedly apolitical, MSF, provides medi…

2026-01-10 22:35:52 CET

UAE cuts UK from scholarship funding over extremism concerns
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uae-cuts-uk-scholarship-funding-over-extremism-concerns
> Students encouraged to study elsewhere owing to concerns about the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood on UK campuses

2026-01-04 21:21:51 CET

Neanderthals are Homo sapiens
https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2026/01/04/neanderthals-are-homo-sapiens/
> For a long time I’ve maintained that Neanderthals, which most anthropologists seem to think are a species different from Homo sapiens, in fact constituted a population that was H. sapiens. That, at least, is a reasonable conclusion if you use the Biological Species Concept, which defines populations as members of the same species if, when they meet under natural conditions in nature, can interbreed and produce fertile offspring. And we know that’s true of Neanderthals and “modern” H. sapiens, because we carry some Neanderthal genes (I have some), and that means the two groups hybridized and that the hybrids backcrossed to our ancestors—and were fertile.

2026-01-03 21:44:58 CET

Quillette's verdict, before reaching the paywall...
> A Story Spiked
https://quillette.com/2026/01/02/a-story-spiked-60-minutes-bari-weiss/
> Bari Weiss’s eleventh-hour cancellation of a 60 Minutes exposé on migrants imprisoned in El Salvador raises troubling questions about editorial independence at CBS News.
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> Even so, the defences of Weiss on the 60 Minutes story miss the mark. A close look at the timeline and substance of her decision suggests that the segment was spiked without a valid journalistic reason—and, very likely, to avoid angering Donald Trump.

2026-01-03 11:12:08 CET

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> the concern over safety is a misdirection: it's not a reason to misgender people, it's a reason to worry about fraudsters who are also sexual predators. don't conflate such monsters with trans people, that's hateful.
Practically how is a woman supposed to distinguish between someone who is "genuinely trans" and someone who is "fraudulently trans", thus achieving not being hateful in your book?
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2026-01-03 10:14:48 CET

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> misgendering people, whether they're cis or trans, is likely to hurt them. making mistakes illegal usually involves very demanding requirements of negligence, but making willfully hurting others out of spite and prejudice illegal is a lot more reasonable
Misgendering a trans identified person hurts the same way as denying the existence of God to a believer. Misgendering is not out of spite or prejudice if done on the basis of respecting biological reality. Making it illegal is not just a violation of freedom of speech, but also of freedom of conscience
@npub1rqv…n4mv

2026-01-02 11:38:42 CET

Your Review: Dating Men In The Bay Area
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/your-review-dating-men-in-the-bay

2026-01-02 09:07:57 CET

Good analysis of john oliver and bari Weiss / the free press
> John Oliver goes after Bari Weiss and CBS News
https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2025/12/21/john-oliver-goes-after-bari-weiss-and-cbs-news/
> A reader sent me a video-containing email with the header “John Oliver destroys Bari Weiss”, with the message below saying, “Somebody had to do it.” Well, yes, somebody sho…

2025-12-31 21:59:19 CET

Happy new year everybody

2025-12-24 03:35:22 CET

Bari Weiss’s Audience of One
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2025/12/cbs-news-bari-weiss-trump-media-influence/685381/
> Trump’s plan to corrupt the media is starting to work.

2025-12-23 10:58:45 CET

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2025-12-19 04:02:01 CET

Well done qld for advancing to 2024 while Victoria is still stuck in 2020
> Queensland pause on puberty blockers for trans adolescents to continue
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-19/qld-puberty-blockers-pause-trans-teenagers-to-continue/106161908
> The Queensland government says it made the decision after considering a 530-page independent review into the evidence surrounding the treatments.
#auspol

2025-12-16 04:53:41 CET

Grokipedia sounds like a good idea
> Fake hero, wrong suspect: Misinformation floods social media after Bondi shooting
https://www.smh.com.au/technology/fake-hero-wrong-suspect-misinformation-floods-social-media-after-bondi-shooting-20251216-p5nnyx.html
> Elon Musk’s chatbot said Edward Crabtree – a fictional 47-year-old IT professional – was the hero who tackled one of the attackers and seized his weapon.

2025-12-10 23:40:07 CET

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Kjk already got barred once I think
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2025-12-06 21:15:40 CET

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2025-12-03 12:29:48 CET

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2025-11-30 03:26:26 CET

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2025-11-29 07:20:01 CET

Christmas Trees
https://camberwellsundaymarket.org/2025/11/29/christmas-trees/
> In the late Middle Ages, Germans were bringing fir trees into their homes and decorating them with apples, wafers, nuts, and candles—symbols of the Garden of Eden and Christian hope. “Christmas tre…

2025-11-22 02:04:51 CET

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2025-11-22 01:00:01 CET

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She does not have the overt misogyny displayed by wu, but she's still worse overall. If there's a trans activist villain tier list (in case one of the 5 people in the intersection of GC and ACG circles creates one cc @npub1my0…d6ft ) Helen webberley belongs to the SS tier

2025-11-21 21:14:33 CET

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Hmm I just read Julie bindel's post about the "debate". Never mind

2025-11-21 20:57:59 CET

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I listened to the whole thing...
@npub159f…h0yq can you get Helen webberley on heterodorx. She looks like she's doing a little "debate" tour. It's been a while since Brianna wu and she's much, much worse.

2025-11-21 06:39:55 CET

Oops did I miss the observance of the Trams Day of Remembrance
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2025-11-21 02:25:03 CET

BIOLOGY v IDEOLOGY Julie Bindel v Dr Helen Webberley - The Gender Debate (4k)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBnueeysNdQ
> In this explosive episode of the Hodge-Cast, I’m sitting down with two fearless, outspoken women to dive deep into one of the most hotly debated issues of ou...

2025-11-20 11:47:52 CET

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Get ready to be parachuted onto the British Isles
https://www.hpluckrose.com/p/nobody-has-stolen-christmas-1bc

2025-11-20 05:56:28 CET

When will the annual war on Christmas start? It's almost december

2025-11-19 21:25:38 CET

He spent 37 days in jail for a Facebook post — now FIRE has his back
https://www.thefire.org/news/he-spent-37-days-jail-facebook-post-now-fire-has-his-back
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In September, after Charlie Kirk’s assassination, Larry shared a meme on a Facebook thread about a vigil in Perry County, Tennessee. The meme quoted President Donald Trump saying, “We have to get over it” following a January 2024 school shooting at Perry High School in Iowa. The meme included the commentary, “This seems relevant today …”
Just after 11 p.m. on Sept. 21, four officers came to Larry’s home, handcuffed him, and took him to jail. He was locked up for “threatening mass violence at a school.” His bond — an astronomical $2 million!
Police justified the arrest by saying that people took the meme as a threat to their high school, which has a similar name to the one where the school shooting occurred 20 months earlier. However, police have been unable to produce any evidence that members of the public took the meme as a threat. As The Intercept noted: “There were no public signs of this hysteria. Nor was there much evidence of an investigation—or any efforts to warn county schools.”
Larry was jailed for more than five weeks. But that wasn’t the only thing he suffered. During that time, he lost his post-retirement job doing medical transportation and missed the birth of his granddaughter.

2025-11-16 21:15:40 CET

Triggernometry debates sex with Neil deGrasse Tyson
https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2025/11/16/triggernometry-debates-sex-with-neil-degrasse-tyson/
> Here we have the Triggernometry duo (Konstantin Kisin and Francis Foster) questioning astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson about his views on gender (the full interview is here). Tyson seems quite a…

2025-11-11 22:49:28 CET

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He's not the only one guilty of spreading misinfo and shouldn't be singled out

2025-11-11 22:36:05 CET

Having musk on the list for "smear media and promote mistrust of journalists" is a bit silly, especially alongside rulers who censor information or jail journalists. May as well put ABC and BBC there for causing mistrust of journalists. RSF woke too now?
> 2025 Press Freedom Predators
https://rsf.org/en/2025-press-freedom-predators

2025-11-07 21:28:04 CET

The Most Useless Piece of Parenting Advice
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/2025/11/it-takes-a-village/684835/
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No one knows where the adage “It takes a village” came from exactly. Though it was popularized by Hillary Clinton’s 1996 book of the same name, an NPR investigation suggested that it might be “some sort of pseudo-African mix of Hallmark and folk sentiments.” But the proverb is now ubiquitous, along with its equally grating corollary, “Don’t be afraid to ask for help.” To name just one example, the American Academy of Pediatrics’ baby bible, Caring for Your Baby and Young Child, asserts “Family and friends can be helpful; don’t be bashful about asking for assistance” and “Try to create a ‘village’ around you.”
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“It takes a village” is advice that sounds communitarian, but in fact, it pushes for an individualistic solution to a societal problem. And it can distract people from demanding the kinds of solutions that could truly help families: longer parental leave; more flexible remote-work policies; child-care support; a work culture that accepts the constancy of kids’ sicknesses. Instead, families are left to “ask for help” on their own: You find the village. You join the app. You move closer to your mom. You need to be friendlier, more active, more approachable, more involved.
Those who can cobble together a network—by virtue of luck or wealth or people skills—come out ahead. Everyone else, the “village” wisdom implies, isn’t asking hard enough.

2025-11-06 22:30:20 CET

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> The article also mistakenly quoted the judgement as referring to "trans ideology" and has been amended to correctly refer to "trans identity."
This is hilarious.
A civil war inside the BBC?

2025-11-06 00:00:44 CET

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I see. You reminded me why I disliked los Angeles when I visited there years ago. It was the only major US city in my tour where a car rental was necessary

2025-11-05 22:25:24 CET

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Sounds typical for a downtown area, what's the problem? It's impossible to live without a car there?

2025-11-05 22:13:55 CET

Detransitioner Lawsuit Against Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy Is Dismissed
https://benryan.substack.com/p/detransitioner-lawsuit-against-dr
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According to the suit, Dr. Olson-Kennedy, who is a pediatrician, prescribed Ms. Breen puberty blockers on her first visit when she was 12 years old, without ensuring that the youth first underwent a psychosocial assessment as recommended by WPATH. At the time, Ms. Breen had been wrestling with her gender for less than six months, the minimum period required for a diagnosis of gender dysphoria under the DSM-5.
Ms. Breen received care from Dr. Olson-Kennedy at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, where the physician was the head of the pediatric gender clinic.
Dr. Olson-Kennedy prescribed testosterone when Ms. Breen was 13 and then signed off on her mastectomy when the child was 14. She later encouraged Ms. Breen to undergo a hysterectomy, but by her late teens, the youth was harboring doubts about her gender-transition treatment and did not undergo the procedure.
During this period, Ms. Breen suffered from increasingly severe mental illness, contrasting with claims by leaders in pediatric gender medicine that gender-transition treatment helps mitigate psychiatric symptoms.

2025-11-05 22:08:36 CET

UN 216: Industrial land plan release ignores PT access
https://melbourneontransit.blogspot.com/2025/11/un-216-industrial-land-plan-release.html
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Imagine a land use plan based on 100 000 new jobs by 2035 but no provision or mention of public transport.
Is this something out of California in 1965?
No, it's what passes for Victorian land use planning for jobs in 2025.
Last Sunday on the weekend before the Cup Day public holiday the Victorian state government released a 10 year plan for industrial land.
It proposed the release of 5800 hectares that would fit up to 100 000 jobs.
I looked at it to see what it said about public transport access to jobs.
I searched various relevant terms like buses.
Nothing.
Public transport access and services is not mentioned once as a consideration for industrial land.
The plan is apparently the work of the Department of Transport and Planning.
The amalgamated department has a name that implies there is some sort of coordination.
But it doesn't look like any of this happened.
#Melbourne

2025-11-05 05:23:25 CET

You all gotta stop referring to Mary as co-redemptrix
https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2025-11/doctrinal-note-mother-of-the-faithful-not-co-redemptrix.html
> The document of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, approved by Pope Leo XIV, offers clarifications on titles applied to the Blessed Virgin ...

2025-11-05 04:09:17 CET

Will we stop hearing about mamdani soon or will he be entertaining like trump

2025-11-02 14:51:00 CET

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I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you are referring to as curry laksa, is in fact, curry mee.
Glad you love it. Melbourne does import Malaysian cooks sometimes but in general the Malaysian food there is not quite as good as in Malaysia

2025-11-02 10:09:01 CET

Is that all there is to #Melbourne? Depressing
https://x.com/TimRichardsonMP/status/1984374404948902349
https://peister.org/media/8b00444b661ee929a040bbcaa8047fd293c291a4ab9108321f1e45fb120d3c61.png

2025-10-30 12:03:48 CET

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That's fine. Wikipedia is free culture and it's good to take from them and adapt. The problem, as I understand from the article, is lack of transparency. What are the grokipedia changes from the the original wikipedia entries? What are the reasons for these changes? It's not really a wiki if there are no history edits for each entry. But this is all moot. The use of LLM means there's no accountability or transparency whatsoever and grokipedia is literally unusable.
@npub1my0…d6ft

2025-10-30 08:06:44 CET

Do people praise grokipedia simply because they hate wikipedia and grokipedia says things they agree with? Seems a bit tribal to me
https://peister.org/media/49bb332f670bc0903853b2db0c3f545b98635dffb6d483a14c3cc7b794b90816.png

2025-10-30 01:50:14 CET

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Red states? How?

2025-10-30 01:08:58 CET

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Thanks for the link, but it's talking about two things, socialist economical policies and wokeness. Trump can only target the latter. Mamdani is woke but not ultra woke akaik

2025-10-29 10:24:05 CET

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I don't know much about ny politics but saying mamdani is a reenactment of animal farm is a bit exaggeration imo

2025-10-28 23:54:57 CET

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> most of you are about to help them achieve that goal.
What do you mean?

2025-10-28 14:50:43 CET

Wow. Is this socialism?
https://x.com/AOC/status/1982882637376303280
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2025-10-26 11:05:37 CET

Progressive much
https://x.com/jonkay/status/1981931461675741507
> The @NDP now apparently classifies its executive members in two categories: (1) NON-MALE, and (2) MALE
https://peister.org/media/72b362bebb79f90627d706b742cbac2380accb7c1cc57521b39f9202acf5f33f.jpg

2025-10-26 02:43:43 CEST

When you have to jailbreak your mattress... Material for @npub167r…p2re
> The Pitfalls of Sleepmaxxing
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/10/sleep-technology/684702/?utm_source=feed
> On Monday, the future glitched. Eight Sleep’s features run on the AWS Cloud, so when one of Amazon Web Services’ data centers went offline at about 3 a.m. ET, the sleep system went haywire. Eight Sleep generally warms when the user is drifting off, then gets cooler as they enter deeper sleep. Santiago Lisa, a software engineer in Pittsburgh, told me he woke up because his bed was stuck in deep-sleep frigidity. He tried to warm it up using the Eight Sleep app, but no dice—the app was down. Then he tried the system’s manual buttons. No dice there, either—they also require the Cloud to function. Jordan Arnold, who works in the video-game industry in Washington State, told me that his girlfriend couldn’t sleep because her side of the bed was stuck at its highest temperature, 110 degrees Fahrenheit. She slept on the couch. Other poor souls, who had put their bed in a sitting position to read and were now stuck there, spent the night in the world’s most high-tech Barcalounger. A Jetsons vision of the 21st century did not include Mrs. Jetson stuck in an upright and locked position because her bed could not connect to a data center in Northern Virginia.

2025-10-11 03:30:21 CEST

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Which one?

2025-10-11 00:44:03 CEST

The Good Fight Club: Who’s a Hypocrite About Free Speech?
https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-good-fight-club-7
> Rauch: We do have to walk and chew gum. But cancel culture is cancer and what the Trump administration is doing is a heart attack.

2025-10-09 01:56:58 CEST

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I mean, the Atlantic link I posted in the op does mention expectation for her from the administration but it's a bit vague (does not say "censor")

2025-10-09 01:53:34 CEST

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> Her role was mandated by the government to censor CBS News.
Got a link for this claim?

2025-10-09 01:19:09 CEST

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What did she censor? The jkr podcast by the FP was great

2025-10-08 22:59:54 CEST

Well, woke authoritarian is not dead yet, but I agree the free press was biased and a bit hypocritical at times
> Bari Weiss Still Thinks It’s 2020
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/bari-weiss-cbs-free-press/684482/
> She co-founded The Free Press as a bastion of liberalism in an illiberal time. Her arrival at CBS is paved with excuses for illiberal friends.

2025-10-07 09:23:54 CEST

Peak melbourne
Via https://jamesmacpherson.substack.com/p/two-years-after-the-massacre-evil
#auspol
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2025-09-25 04:50:39 CEST

https://x.com/msediewyatt/status/1970683444138320138
#nzpol
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2025-09-17 10:17:45 CEST

https://x.com/DrNeilStone/status/1968047831568294131
> The far right are nasty and they know it and they don't care
> The far left are nasty but think they are morally superior to you

2025-09-11 04:59:51 CEST

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It's weird they all call it political violence. I get that it happened in a political event to a political figure. But the killer could be simply crazy with no political motivation who knows
@npub13qc…642p

2025-09-11 04:07:32 CEST

Such much reaction - has the kirk assassin's motivation been figured out and reported?
BTW what was last year trump wouldbe assassin's motivation?

2025-09-05 23:30:51 CEST

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You mean substack kick people off, for what? For starting a pod, for sharing RSS?
No problem

2025-09-05 15:10:20 CEST

Anyone got an RSS? It's like people these days don't know how to promote their podcasts...
> No fear. No favour. Our new podcast.
https://seeninjournalism.substack.com/p/no-fear-no-favour
> Journalism should be fearless — and free of favour. This podcast is about holding the line.

2025-08-23 15:58:18 CEST

Gee Australia is embarrassing
https://x.com/RachaelWongAus/status/1958786362926391589
#auspol
https://peister.org/media/8793082f8fc7f367751caa7662353fdd13216efdb9da070b464dc9a85596b309.mp4

2025-08-20 00:08:49 CEST

Peak Swedish slow TV: moving a church in an arctic (circle) city for 5 km
> LIVE | "Historic Kiruna Church Relocated as Swedish Town Moves for Expanding Iron Mine | N18G
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lWLhaLswDU
> Kiruna Church, a historic Swedish church, is being relocated to avoid potential structural damage from ground deformations caused by mining operations. The c...

2025-08-07 04:13:57 CEST

> Australian gender, an easy guide
https://x.com/alanbleaching/status/1953021677832683725
#gigglevtickle #auspol
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2025-08-05 08:55:53 CEST

https://x.com/msediewyatt/status/1952607727089521145
#auspol #gigglevtickle
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2025-08-05 04:14:35 CEST

https://x.com/msediewyatt/status/1952536454451917179
#gigglevtickle #auspol
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2025-08-04 14:41:55 CEST

One of the best rants from Gareth Roberts' book "Gay Shame":
> One last thing before we dive in on genderism. The actual mechanics of human biology are a distraction in this debate, albeit one you will see sex realists sidelined into discussing by energy vampires. It is a pointless waste of time, as productive as having an argument about the Yeti or the Loch Ness Monster. Suffice it to say, humans are a sexually dimorphic (existing or occurring in two distinct forms) species. Other species are sometimes sequential hermaphrodites, humans are not. The existence of male and female humans with developmental sexual disorders does not change that. As the commentator Ben Sixsmith has noted, ‘This kind of argument is absolutely infuriating. It’s like saying that because it’s hard to precisely define “table” – does it need four legs, a flat surface etcetera – you might as well call a fish a table.’ Neither does the fact that some men enjoy dressing in (culturally specific) women’s clothing or wearing cosmetics mean that sex is fluid and a ‘spectrum’. The existence of men adorned in ‘feminine’ garb, from Heliogabalus to Harry Styles, does not mean that humans are hermaphroditic. That would be like saying that because some humans have always occasionally dressed up as horses that humans are somehow on a spectrum of human and horse. It’s quite telling that genderists often talk about ‘transgender’ people existing throughout history. Since ‘the dawn of time’ is regularly said, as for example by Eddie Izzard in an interview in The Guardian. No sentient life, no planets, gravity still weak, the universe still expanding, stars coalescing, elements just beginning to arise from primordial chaos … and a purple-fringed person tweeting that they’re finding this whole creation thing really very transphobic.

2025-08-03 01:25:14 CEST

Quillette drags irrelevant issues into the Scopes trial and the teaching of evolution
https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2025/08/02/quillette-drags-irrelevant-issues-into-the-scopes-trial-and-the-teaching-of-evolution/
> This article in Quillette intrigued me with its subtitle, “The questions at the centre of the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial are still contested today”? They are? It’s now illegal to ba…

2025-08-03 01:18:43 CEST

One day to go
> Giggle v Tickle: Appeal
https://tribunaltweets.substack.com/p/giggle-v-tickle-appeal
> Landmark Federal Court appeal
#auspol #gigglevtickle

2025-08-01 13:17:43 CEST

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Time to Think is much better than Irreversible Damage, by the way

2025-08-01 01:58:32 CEST

Eh... "Move fast and break kids"?
https://peister.org/media/6188dc059dc3c6572c66f69fd9450dc0401239a55ffef8fddef8d9b3242b2048.jpg

2025-07-26 12:59:04 CEST

https://x.com/salltweets/status/1949052233397707133
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2025-07-25 10:52:50 CEST

I'd rather wear an "argue with me" badge
> BBC presenter launches new trans visibility campaign
https://www.swlondoner.co.uk/news/23072025-bbc-presenter-launches-new-trans-visibility-campaign
> Dr Ronx Ikharia’s ‘Safe With Me’ initiative invites allies to wear a yellow badge with bold black text, signalling to trans+ individuals that they are safe to approach, especially when using public toilets or navigating other gendered spaces.