HWFO September 2022 Housekeeping
And a list of publications by HWFO subscribers
I really like reading Freddie deBoer’s Substack. I don’t buy everything he’s selling, but he’s a fantastic writer, and I was pleasantly surprised to get a linkback from him in his monthly “subscriber writing” post. It was the Illustrated Guide to Plastic Straws, where we show how the most important thing you can do to reduce the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is throw your plastic in the regular garbage instead of the recycling bin, which makes me suspect he didn’t actually read it given his audience, but I’ll take what I can get. In honor of that, this months’ housekeeping is going to include links to many of the publications run by HWFO community members.
Liv Boeree’s Youtube channel about poker, science, effective altruism, and rationalist concepts popularized by Scott Alexander.
Psychosecurity, Patrick Ryan’s newsletter about culture wars and autocults, which formed many of the same or similar analysis sets HWFO did from another direction.
From the New World, Brian Chau’s Substack, which is half podcast and draws a lot of thinkers adjacent to HWFO, including me.
Contextual Insurgency, Erin Smith’s Substack, which ranges widely from articles describing Antifa strategy and tactics to chronicling her trip to Ukraine in the early days of the war to bring them tourniquets and such.
The Jim Rutt Show, a podcast interview format with lots of interesting people on it, including me.
Wonderland Rules by Jay Rollins, which covers a range of topics and has a nice rundown of other Substacks he finds interesting.
Do Your Own Research by Alexandros Marinos, which is one of the best places to go for a third party view of contentious Covid-19 topics such as ivermectin and vaccine efficacy.
Macrodose by Henry Ballvings, which is in its early stages of content generation covering Covid, stocks, and other stuff.
I’m sure I missed some, and those are only publications among the subscribers who chat on our Slack server and not among free subscribers. If you’re not on Slack and you run a publication, reply below.
Subscription
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Index by Topic
General
Things Jordan Peterson’s Rehab Taught Me
The Economics of Being a Teacher, by State
Burn the Universities and Salt the Earth
Peace in Ukraine and Universal Healthcare in One Go
The Land Development Market Crashes This Year
Case Study of a Chinese Pig Butchering Scam
The Compu-Crypto-Darwinist Case for Free Will
Guns
The Surprisingly Solid Mathematical Case of the Tin Foil Hat Gun Prepper
Explaining the USA Pro Gun Position to a Foreigner
Visualizing the 2021 National Firearms Survey
Everybody’s Lying about the Link Between Gun Ownership and Homicide
The Left is Making the Wrong Case on Gun Deaths
Geographic Evidence that Gun Deaths are Cultural
The Gun Homicide Epidemic Isn’t
The Magic Gun Evaporation Fairy
Gun Buybacks Don’t Work if you Believe in Math
Real Talk about School Shootings
Visualizing the State of US Gun Law
Doctors are Wrong about Firearm Effectiveness in Mass Shootings
The “Sabika Sheikh Firearms Licensing and Registration Act” Fails Third Grade Math
The Gun Lane We Need Doctors In, and Government Out
Analyzing the Ryan Thomas Balch Account of Kenosha
Justice Breyer’s Dissent on Bruen is a Mathematical Shitshow
Weighing US Homicide Rates vs European Genocide Rates
Egregores
Memespace Egregores and Nuclear War
Memespace Egregores and Maajid Nawaz
Memespace Egregores and Google Maps
Memespace Egregores and the Covid-19 Sensemaking Crisis
Memespace Egregores are Not Controlled
Culture
Accelerationist TERF War Strategy
A New Unit of Measure for Civil Unrest
We Are All Apes Behaving Like Ants
Osama Bin Laden’s Letter to America - a 20 Year Introspective
We Gave Them Everything They Needed to Defend Their Country Except a Country
Playbook to Fight Woke School Board Takeovers
A Detailed Look at Woke Update Mechanics
Social Justice is a Crowdsourced Religion
Game Theory on the Second Civil War
Science Says Sam Harris is Alt-Right
The Two Confusing Definitions of Racism
The Five Confusing Definitions of Racism
Explaining the Social Justice “Woke Anti-Semitism” Paradox
Modeling the Socioeconomic Future with Dungeons and Dragons
Conversations with Black Folks about Cops
Deplatforming, Sargon, MAGA Hat Kids, and the Kulturkampf
The Purge Will End in Violence
Visualizing the Costs of Government in Border Walls
Abolish the Federal Government and Realign the Nation Based on Football
An Outside Look at Election Fraud
No Uterus No Opinion? No Opinion No Obligation
Explaining Systemic Racism to the Right, with Guns
The HWFO / Jordan Hall Game B Dialogue
US - Europe Abortion Law Comparisons, Revised
Yumi Nu and the Sports Illustrated Cover
Tracking the Heat Level of the TERF War
Ron DeSantis Should Just Go For it
Media
I Offer You Joe Rogan’s Head on a Pike
Aural Hypertext and the Memory of Man
A Case Study of Memetic Compression Rates
I Just Made $100 off Some Dead Kids, and That’s the Problem
Can Fortnite Rescue Humanity from the Attention Economy War?
Rittenhouse as a Litmus for Adult Disagreement
Covid
The Trailing End of the Ivermectin War
The Covid-19 Sensemaking User Guide
Everyone is Wrong About Covid-19 For a Reason
Data From the Texas Prison Delta Outbreak Fits the Vax Narrative
The Covid-19 Red Ink Blue Ink Problem
The Vaccine Might Kill You and That’s Fine
HWFO Covid-19 After Action Report
Want a Vaccine? Elect a Nationalist
Does the USA have the Worst Covid-19 Response? Not at All
Covid-19 Stands to be Done by the Summer
Environmentalism
An Illustrated Guide to Plastic Straws
Nuclear Power and Hot Air Balloons
You might like this preliminary go at social science. (Almost) all of that.
https://helendale.substack.com/p/the-incompetent-falsity-of-social