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Richard Dawkins just failed a simple intelligence test. His latest post, called “When Dawkins met Claude: Could this AI be conscious?“, is a very disappointing read, to say the least. And I have some thoughts. He built a career on the princ…
There’s been a Wikipedia entry about Chug Chaluzi bothering me for a long time. It claims to document the only German resistance group that acted from Jewish-religious motives. Yeah, no kidding. But that’s not what you think it means. Relig…
Her name was Margaret Rock, also known as one of Chief Cryptographer Dilly Knox’s “girls” in Cottage 3 at Bletchley Park, working alongside Mavis Lever. In August 1940 Knox complained the sexist Civil Service grading system had miscla…
Have you seen the toxic campaign by the guy in Virginia who Hegseth just appointed to lead the Navy? It’s a lynching coin. In case that photo is a little too shiny, here’s the raw image; simply a noose, hanging an animal, invoking both Virg…
An 1865 newspaper article reported that Robert E. Lee’s wife had forty mixed-race half-siblings living in the Washington, D.C. area. Forty. Her father had acknowledged at least one of them, Maria Carter Syphax, to her face. Her husband managed th…
Reading an old cookbook in a German library archive brought this soupy gem to light. Berlin Reform-influenced Jewish bourgeoisie were well-integrated into German civic vocabulary. They kept a Hebrew anchor visible when they said happy Easter.
Monterey locals are buzzing like a hornet nest. Significant historical research has gone into this question over the years. And all of that research leads to the conclusion that it’s always been called Lovers Point. And it got that name because it was …
Calvin Duncan spent 28 years in prison for a murder he did not commit. During those years the Orleans Parish Clerk of Criminal Court office repeatedly denied him access to the records he needed to prove his innocence. He taught himself law inside the p…
Polymarket CEO tells insiders to leak. So cool, he says. Do it, for the market. …what’s cool about Polymarket is that it creates this financial incentive for people to go and divulge the information to the market and the market to change, a…
Montgomery, Alabama. April 21, 2026. The district where Klansmen firebombed the SPLC office in 1983. They’re back to attack the SPLC again. The district where United Klans of America operated until SPLC civil litigation bankrupted it in 1987 afte…