I finished Darryl Cooper's first podcast episode on WW2, and the series looks set to basically just be a rehash of David Irving's garbage.

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I had a fascinating interaction with ChatGPT this morning, in which it generated-- without any prompt from me-- this intriguing image. I proceeded to psycho-analyze (albeit tongue-in-cheek) ChatGPT's subconscious to figure out why it made this.

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1/🧵 The context: I was using ChatGPT to prepare for my medical physics board exams by having it ask me multiple choice questions on relevant topics, and then critiquing my answers.

When I asked for the next series of questions, it randomly made this image.

A taxonomy of anti-semitism: a thread 🧵

Anti-semitism has a plurality of characters; one can distinguish between no fewer than 4 different strains. They are theistic anti-semitism, right-wing anti-semitism, left-wing anti-semitism, and black American anti-semitism.

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1) Theistic anti-semitism

As the world's oldest monotheism, the religious dimension of Jewish national identity (which is entirely voluntary, as evidenced by the preponderance of irreligious Jews-- present company included) stands in a historically unique position of prestige.

Science is NOT a democracy; the truth of a matter is never determined by the public's approval of the propositions put forward by scientists. Scientists, in the course of developing theories, are under no obligation to seek the public's approval of their claims.

HOWEVER.

When scientists interface with the democratic process in the course of advancing public policy, they are no longer engaged in the pursuit of truth; advocacy is an entirely separate activity, and is thereby beholden to the strictures of the democratic ethos.

ALL technocrats,

Feminism seems to be tending, which obviously means that everyone wants my two cents on the subject.

Cent #1: My critiques of feminism have always been rooted in my disagreement with its subjectivist epistemologies, as expressed by authors like Harding, Irigaray, Keller, Haraway, Barad, and other widely cited feminist scholars. I have never objected to things like the validity of abortion rights, unambiguous (and thereby non-abusable) rules of conduct in professional/academic settings, and just general toleration for women to pursue their