Parts of this blog were made “private”; about 800 posts remain online
As this blog is not read much, in 2025 I removed about 2,000 posts, leaving about 800.
Media: Previously ACA cheerleaders, the media now sees the problems, sort of
For 15 years, the media acted as cheerleaders for the ACA, unable to see the defects inherent in the design, leading eventually to its collapse and the need for subsidies.
Media: They just make stuff up, Part 2
Report’ish promotes claim that more people are living to 100. 0.03% live to 100 today and this will remain tiny. Uses numerous propaganda techniques to persuade you to purchase financial services.
Media: They just make stuff up, Part 1
How reporter’ish people use celebrity endorsements in propaganda to promote their own interests.
Policy: Tourists to U.S. to be required to provide 5 years of social media posts
This marks the end of social media. We have no idea what they are looking for and can be misconstrued. Only safe option is leaving social media.
Europeans claim U.S. has banned 23,000 books
But it is not true. Not even close.
The BBC mischaracterizes Twitter’s old Blue check
The BBC does not understand the old Twitter Bluecheck, which was restricted only to the elite.
The financial idiocy on X is off scale
Read the Community Notes correction …
Climate: COP30 seems to be suggesting a call for censorship…
“Truth” comes solely from government, academics, and environmental journalists.
Climate: Climate change news coverage of COP has vanished
I noticed this too
Everything is awful: Doomerism in the headlines
The media: Everything is awful and something bad happened to someone, sometime, someplace.