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How To Inoculate Yourself From Establishment Bullshit

July 26, 2019

How To Inoculate Yourself From Establishment Bullshit In a recent interview with CBS This Morning host Gayle King, former First Lady Michelle Obama contrasted her husband’s presidency with that of his successor by claiming that unlike Trump, the Obama family had had “no scandal”. “I had to sit in [Trump’s inauguration] audience, one of a handful of people of […]

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1984 Is Not The Future

March 17, 2018

1984 Is Not The Future Jacobello Alberegno The Beast of the Apocalypse 1360-90  The Guardian ran an article yesterday by one of its editors, David Shariatmadari, that both proves and disproves its own theme at the same time: “An Information Apocalypse Is Coming”. Now, I don’t fancy the term apocalypse in a setting like this, […]

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The Controversy around Skin in the Game

February 26, 2018

The Controversy around Skin in the Game Skin in the Game is another addition to the Incerto, now volume 5; I avoided duplication by referring to where in the Incerto some points were developed such as via negativa or monoculture of forecasters or expert problems. You simply don’t repeat in chapter 23 what was said in […]

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The World is Awash in Bullshit

January 23, 2017

The World is Awash in Bullshit This is really the best paragraph I have read so far in 2017: The world is awash in bullshit. Politicians are unconstrained by facts. Science is conducted by press release. So-called higher education often rewards bullshit over analytic thought. Startup culture has elevated bullshit to high art. Advertisers wink conspiratorially […]

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If Your BS Detector Isn’t Shrieking, It’s Broken

June 9, 2015

If Your BS Detector Isn’t Shrieking, It’s Broken Wishing it was true doesn’t make it true–it makes you a chump who fell for the con. Once upon a time in America, no adult could survive without possessing a finely tuned BS detector. Herman Melville masterfully captured America’s fascination with cons and con artists in his 1857 […]

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George Monbiot and the Iraq War bullshit brigade

June 5, 2015

George Monbiot and the Iraq War bullshit brigade Why the ‘liberal’ defence of the Iraq Body Count falls flat on its face There has been a response to my investigation into Iraq Body Count (IBC) and the people behind it — and longstanding Guardian columnist George Monbiot himself has popped out of the woodwork to give it […]

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Faux News

February 5, 2015

Faux News You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. – Abraham Lincoln It’s beginning to appear that ‘ol Abe might have been wrong. We have seen war after war after war, intervention after intervention […]

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The battle with bullshit

January 6, 2015

The battle with bullshit No Future For You, edited by John Summers, Chris Lehmann and Thomas Frank. MIT Press, 2014. One of my pleasures over the holiday period has been readingThe Baffler‘s third book-length collection of articles, No Future For You. (I read the first one, Commodify Your Dissent in the early 2000s, but missed the second one.) For […]

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