Further PSA: even if your state is not openly defying corrupt authority on the basis that high quality evidence shows boosters are incredibly effective and safe, if you just show up and get in the booster line, you’ll probably get one without questions.
I would never do such a thing, of course, but I have, uh, high quality evidence that this has happened recently in my vicinity.
Kinda weird… either you can defy the corrupt authorities by not believing them when they say the vaccine is safe and effective, or you can defy THE SAME ONES by illegally getting the same safe, effective vaccine they won’t allow you to have.

Rebels rejoice!
FDA & CDC are probably permanently discredited now, but will never go away. They’ll persist as giant zombies everyone in healthcare tries to ignore and route around, but which occasionally lash out and kill a few tens of thousands of people to show they are not utterly impotent.

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🌞 Seasonal affective disorder is caused by not enough sunlight. “Light boxes” using fluorescent bulbs were invented as a moderately effective treatment. They didn’t work well enough for me, and for years I used banks of halogen bulbs to produce brighter light.
🌞 In 2015 I realized LEDs used for commercial outdoor illumination had gotten powerful and cheap enough to replace halogens. Much better! Brighter! Whiter! Cooler! Cheaper! Longer-lasting!

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The text is a typical long incoherent repetitive depressed nihilistic rumination, so alluding to scientistic disenchantment would make sense, but science hadn't happened yet. Precognition? Time travel?

(Supposedly also one of the greatest English poems. Could have fooled me.)
This seems to be the answer—thanks Jake! Giordano Bruno was definitely a time-traveling alien, confirming my hypothesis.
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Why has "wokeness" been so successful? This @everytstudies essay contains much wisdom. Notionally a review of a book, _Cynical Theories_. (I haven't read that, and suspect I like this essay more than I'd like the book.)
Red herring: Analysis of pop-wokeness in terms of its origin in pomo theory—apparently the main topic of the book—is fascinating for intellectual history geeks like us, but as @everytstudies points out, it's irrelevant to the mass movement, who don't know/care/understand that.
Self-interest, and group interest, drive politics, not ideology—that's just an excuse. Understanding the rise of wokeism requires analyzing its distinctive payoffs for the several different groups who benefit from it.
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1️⃣ What we learn from Delphi silliness is that human moral judgements are made on the basis of the warm-fuzziness of individual words. (In its dataset, anyway.)

This probably explains 83.7% of culture war outrage.
2️⃣ Wait, is it true that human moral judgements are made on the basis of individual words?

No, of course not. But that’s the only way we can judge abstract decontextualized single-sentence statements. Those have nearly nothing to do with real-world ethics.
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Taking survey results at face value is a technical error, which it seems a professional should be held accountable for (even though it's pervasive in academic psychology). Misunderstanding belief is an ontological error; professional standards do not require getting those right.
Pinker's book does not discuss the haunted house anomaly any further. He footnotes this 2005 Gallup press release for the data.

Taking this as evidence of a highlighted, shocking logical error should at minimum involve considerable further investigation.

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Still haunted and chewing on @juliagalef’s saying she removed most citations of psychological studies from her recent _Scout Mindset_ because details are quite likely false.

I cite academic psychology sometimes. I might like to cite this study:
@juliagalef The finding of the study I believe is true and important, based on observing myself and (it seems!) a hundred other people. And maybe it’s common sense knowledge as well! “You need to get out of your head and go outside and do something fun,” says Mom when you are a moody 15-yo.
@juliagalef (For the record Mom’s advice is confirmed here by “Self-Perpetuating Properties of Dysphoric Rumination,” Sonja Lyubomirsky and Susan Nolen-Hoeksema, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 1993, Vol. 65, No. 2, 339-34.)
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