Thread: When I accepted my OBE I did so in full knowledge there would be backlash from academic philosophers in my discipline, and here it is. The letter contains some basic errors about my view - but that's to be expected as their aim is not truth.

I won't bother correcting errors, as I've made my written position clear many times before. We aren't dealing here with an ordinary philosophical dispute here, but rather a pathological desire to roleplay an ethical stance for public applause. But their stance isn't ethical. 2/

They want me - and by extension others, including their own students - to stop talking about biological sex and its social importance, wherever it could make conceivable difference to a trans person (which in their view, is almost everywhere). So, they want me to stop talking..3/

about the fact that in Canada - the country of the letter-author Jonathan Ichikawa - male sex-offenders have been placed in female prisons alongside women prisoners (also in Ireland and UK). I care about those forgotten women. 4/

They pretend any discussion whatsoever of violence against women, and what policies we should have about woman-only spaces in response, can only imply one thing - "all trans women are violent" (OF COURSE most are not, and this is not the implication). They want.. 5/

As it seems that everyone right of centre will be purged from this platform in due course, whilst acknowledging that my lowly position means it’ll be a while before they get around to me I thought I’d go for broke whilst I’m still here.

Here goes.

Parody accounts aren’t funny.

Men & women are different.

Tax cuts are good. They stimulate economic growth & let people spend more of their own money.

Alcohol is enjoyable. So is sugar.

Judge people on merit, not gender or ethnicity.

There is such a thing as the canon in the arts. Good, better, best.

I don’t care what box sets you’ve watched.

Cycling enthusiasts are weirdly culty and self-righteous. Which is unfair on a perfectly good form of transport.

America is a force for good in the world.

Capitalism has lifted billions out of poverty.

There is little worse or more dull than the desperation amongst so many on Twitter to (pretend to) be offended.

Party politics - a good thing.

It’s possible to question whether government has the right response to something without being a conspiracy theorist.

Real friendships exist in real life; the virtual world can mean that the real is neglected. OTOH, in enabling people to be in touch with others they might otherwise never have found, social media is a good thing.

It’s possible to like both dogs AND cats.

Columbo is the best TV.

@samtorode @eliehonig @maggieNYT Tell me Why Nancy Pelosi is talking to CCP antifa and fake news during on Jan 6 while PENCE was approving the election count. That little insurgency was a sting. WHILE CONGRESS WAS rushed to safety the undercover Marines (infiltrated antifa) took their laptops in the

I went to bed last night really angry and frustrated that people are still forcing learners to be on camera...

At this point I wonder if the holdouts are people we can get through to, who are just in need of more support and information about the science of teaching and learning, or if they are committed to their own ignorance? Is it worth continuing the conversation?

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Lunch break chart dump for final 2020 regular season numbers

Sheesh Packers/Bills

Rodgers finishes with a big lead over everyone

Which teams were best at avoiding rush attempts in the worst time to rush? (2nd & long)

NGS and @nflfastR CPOE finished pretty similar

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I am working on a paper on why interest rates and yields are as low as they are. I will share some preliminary results here.

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What I will share are some of the output from a simple model for US 10-year Treasury bond yields.

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It is key to me that the model not only is statistically significantly, but is also economically significant. We need to understand economic developments within economic theory.

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I have estimated a model for the US 10-year bond yield based on the following fundamental variables.

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1) Nominal GDP growth (per capita).

Someone recently said of the American right that its Gramscian phase had come to an end and now it was in its Sorelian phase, meaning it no longer sought hegemony over institutions but was now animated by myths and the belief in redemptive acts of violence 1/

MLK Day gives me mixed feelings. When he lived, MLK was hated by most Americans. That hatred may have been seeded in white resentment, but it grew as Dr. King focused his attention on our unjust economic system & started marching with workers, joining them on strike lines. 1/

Today, we see major corporations like McDonalds, Walmart, Amazon, Uber, etc. produce million dollar ad campaigns celebrating Dr. King. If he were alive, he would be in the marches and rallies continuing to protest with the workers these companies exploit. 2/

He’s celebrated for racial harmony. However, he saw economic injustice as the engine that drove the racial injustice he fought so hard against. He condemned “the tragic inequalities of an economic system which takes necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.” 3/

He believed we needed massive wealth redistribution. And, today, we have more income inequality then when King was alive. It’s easy to focus on the racial harmony piece while ignoring the hard work required to achieve racial equality within our economic system. 4/

“We must see now that the evils of racism, economic exploitation and militarism are all tied together...you can’t really get rid of one without getting rid of the others… America is a hypocritical nation and [we] must put [our] own house in order.” 5/

So.. that's the final bit of our transmission for now. Find a statement in this thread from our volunteers.

The Volunteer Presenters at Wrexham's CalonFM are planning for a new future after Calon Communications Limited has taken the decision to close from 20th January.

A statement issued by the volunteers, who run and present the award-winning station, said they are in negotiation with a number of interested parties and hoped to make an announcement soon on the station's new direction.

The statement said:
"We are disappointed that the board in charge of Calon Communications Ltd in conjunction with the station’s landlord Glyndwr University took the decision to close the station down with very little notice.

"In the four weeks since the bombshell announcement, we have come together as the remaining Stakeholders to discuss and formulate an alternative plan that will ensure the OFCOM licence is preserved here in Wrexham (continued)

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Apropos Ike, one of the biggest mistakes in analyzing the right is thinking that the right ever became 100% liberal, centrist, conservative, populist under Ike, Nixon, Reagan, &c.

This is especially so under Ike, who people think tag-teamed with Rocky to basically crush anyone who wasn't part of the old NE establishment. It's a nice story, but it's not really true.

Ike was very popular afterward, but he did not sweep the GOP primary in 1952. He instead ran neck and neck with Old Righty Robert Taft and had to play all sorts of backroom deals to get a majority of delegates.

He spent much of the primary "playing to the base" in a way that Goldwater fans would like and at least rhetorically was pro-smaller government.

Even so, many R Senators and Congressmen were not Ike men, and they often gave him trouble or killed reform ideas he had. National politics is not just the President.

Some #CIAdocuments posts..

#Q772 - "Read very carefully." -Q
Click hashtag for info. (Isn't obvious to everyone).

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For some of us that are yet to see an ✈️ not to talk of boarding one, these Buhari’s new trains (Ibadan/Lagos/Ibadan) are giving us that kinda vibes.. Obvious that work is still in progress... I can’t wait to share my experience. Thank you @MBuhari | @ChibuikeAmaechi

There’s a lot of emphasis on time even while buying tickets...

They left at exactly 8am
For the unfortunate ones that like to throw local jobs at Ibadan, does your city have a functional rail station?
Se Buhari fùn yin ni train

We have just arrived the ‘ongoing’ Abeokuta Train Station, Ogun State to pick more passengers....
Guess who I saw... Our own Nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka.

Another ‘very brief’ stopover at Papaa in Ogun State... You can see the ongoing works...

One of the value chains and good things about these inter states train stations is that the it opens up the communities around to opportunities. Somewhere in Ogun State...
Ku ise @ChibuikeAmaechi
Ose @MBuhari