HWFO Reading List July 2023

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1. Jessie Singal continuing to point out transgender misinformation from a relatively fair vantage point:

Do You Want Alex Joneses? Because That’s How You Get Alex Joneses

2. A look at the very incomplete case that modern weed increases schizophrenia.

Cannabis probably causes schizophrenia

3. YLE, which is a publication we both love and hate on HWFO, does as reasonable a job as anyone has trying to figure out what the actual impacts of the RVW ruling look like:

The one year (scientific) story of the fall of Roe v. Wade

4. Posted for the phrase “change recession”

The Change Merchants

5. Rozado continues with his efforts on data driven woketracking:

The Great Awokening as a Global Phenomenon

6. A really crunchy look at how excess mortality from Covid (and or vax, depending on your kool aid flavor) moved through the country regionally:

https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.adf9742

7. The Shellenberger / Taibbi smoking-gun and or not-smoking-gun depending on your position on Lab Leak:

First People Sickened By COVID-19 Were Chinese Scientists At Wuhan Institute Of Virology, Say US Government Sources

8. And more:

COVID Patient Zero Will Never Be Known

9. Mises struggles with human fallibility:

https://mises.org/wire/trouble-constitution-and-social-contract

10. Simon Sarris considers parenting:

https://www.palladiummag.com/2023/06/06/school-is-not-enough/

11. Not reading but rather watching, I’m not a huge fan of Wesley Yang’s writing style in Year Zero, nor am I a huge fan of his podcast hosting ability to be honest, but here he does a good job letting an amazing guest talk - the lead attorney on the case where Affirmative Action was “overturned” and or “clarified” depending on your point of view. This is a great podcast:

12. This is hard to describe but very good. Toying with HWFO Egregore concepts and/or rational/postrat memeplex concepts using different terminology:

https://www.epsilontheory.com/men-of-god-in-the-city-of-man-part-1-virus/

13. More egregore sightings:

The trillions of conspiracies in a collective hysteria

14. I’ve been meaning to do a full article about the top to bottom true costs of wind and solar, but the research involved in doing that topic properly is daunting. Thankfully Manhattan Contrarian did it for me:

https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2023-3-18-a-proposal-for-exposing-the-true-costs-of-getting-electricity-from-wind-and-sun

15. This is just weird.

https://blog.desdelinux.net/en/open-source-with-profanity-in-comments-is-statistically-better-than-code-without-it/

16. HWFO Slack got into a huge argument about whether this article about the history of the USA was good or not, so you’re going to have to form your own opinion:

https://collabfund.com/blog/how-this-all-happened/

17. This article by Yglesias tremendously pissed me off so I’m hate-sharing it. Here he seems to be trying to do a tongue in cheek mea culpa about the left’s (and Vox’s in particular) behavior during Covid.

What I got wrong about Covid

18. People are already making fakenews GPT bots:

https://blog.mithrilsecurity.io/poisongpt-how-we-hid-a-lobotomized-llm-on-hugging-face-to-spread-fake-news/

19. Video on how to make ChatGPT write original music and port it to MIDI:

20. An old Slate Star Codex classic about Thanksgiving:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/11/28/the-story-of-thanksgiving-is-a-science-fiction-story/

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