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TIL as an April Fool's Day prank in 1980, the BBC said that Big Ben was going to be replaced with a digital display and renamed 'Digital Dave'.
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Michael Mann exposed
Even if you’ve never heard of Michael Mann, you will have felt his baleful influence on your energy bills. He is the inventor of the hockey stick chart, which shows a sharp increase in late 20th century global temperatures, like the blade of an ice hockey stick. It put rocket boosters on the climate change scare and was used as an excuse by policymakers to send green taxes, tariffs and regulations soaring.
Mann was an obscure academic who had just been given his PhD at the University of Massachusetts when his graph was published in the journal Nature in 1998. Within months – fêted everywhere from the New York Times to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – he’d become the poster boy for the alleged global warming apocalypse. Never before had a scientist demonstrated the threat of imminent climate catastrophe so graphically or dramatically.
But from the start, Mann’s thesis came under attack from an array of critics. They argued, for example, that the proxies he had used to recreate early temperatures (e.g. tree ring data) were unreliable; that his statistical methodology was flawed; that his algorithms were so corrupt that whatever data you input, you’d always get the same unscientific, politically driven hockey stick shape.
And at last those critics have been vindicated. Not, unfortunately, by an official re-examination of Mann’s chart, which is never going to happen because there are too many vested interests at stake. But rather in the unlikely setting of a Jarndyce vs Jarndyce-style lawsuit, which Mann launched years ago with a view to impoverishing and immiserating his detractors, but which has recently backfired spectacularly…..
James Delingpole
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-downfall-of-climate-change-poster-boy-michael-mann/#comments-container
Even if you’ve never heard of Michael Mann, you will have felt his baleful influence on your energy bills. He is the inventor of the hockey stick chart, which shows a sharp increase in late 20th century global temperatures, like the blade of an ice hockey stick. It put rocket boosters on the climate change scare and was used as an excuse by policymakers to send green taxes, tariffs and regulations soaring.
Mann was an obscure academic who had just been given his PhD at the University of Massachusetts when his graph was published in the journal Nature in 1998. Within months – fêted everywhere from the New York Times to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – he’d become the poster boy for the alleged global warming apocalypse. Never before had a scientist demonstrated the threat of imminent climate catastrophe so graphically or dramatically.
But from the start, Mann’s thesis came under attack from an array of critics. They argued, for example, that the proxies he had used to recreate early temperatures (e.g. tree ring data) were unreliable; that his statistical methodology was flawed; that his algorithms were so corrupt that whatever data you input, you’d always get the same unscientific, politically driven hockey stick shape.
And at last those critics have been vindicated. Not, unfortunately, by an official re-examination of Mann’s chart, which is never going to happen because there are too many vested interests at stake. But rather in the unlikely setting of a Jarndyce vs Jarndyce-style lawsuit, which Mann launched years ago with a view to impoverishing and immiserating his detractors, but which has recently backfired spectacularly…..
James Delingpole
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-downfall-of-climate-change-poster-boy-michael-mann/#comments-container
The Spectator
The downfall of climate change poster boy Michael Mann
Even if you’ve never heard of Michael Mann, you will have felt his baleful influence on your energy bills. He is the inventor of the hockey stick chart, which shows a sharp increase in late 20th century global temperatures, like the blade of an ice hockey…
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There is much wisdom in this three-minute video. https://x.com/Rach4Patriarchy/status/1904576653210136975
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NEW: Historic magnolia tree, believed to be planted by Andrew Jackson, to be cut down at the White House over safety concerns
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Why do our elite dress up like them at their most formal affairs? How do the penguins of Heard and McDonald Islands maintain such magnificent livery in the supposed absence of trade or economic activity?
Wake up sheeple.
It was never lizard people pulling the strings.
It was penguins all along.
And yesterday was our day of liberation from them.
Wake up sheeple.
It was never lizard people pulling the strings.
It was penguins all along.
And yesterday was our day of liberation from them.
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Trump Admin Suspends $210M In Grants To Princeton University
https://www.oann.com/newsroom/trump-admin-suspends-210m-in-grants-to-princeton-university/
The Trump administration has paused dozens of Princeton University’s research grants, the school announced on Tuesday.
https://www.oann.com/newsroom/trump-admin-suspends-210m-in-grants-to-princeton-university/
The Trump administration has paused dozens of Princeton University’s research grants, the school announced on Tuesday.
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The town of Eromanga ("furthest town from the sea") is returning o it's prehistoric inland Eromanga Sea roots.
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As noted by observers, it happens she flies her Battle Flag in the Red Sea.
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This is one of the most interesting and autistic things I’ve ever read. I can’t believe I just sat here for half an hour, completely mesmerized, taking the entire article in. It’s long but well worth the read.
Summary: The article "HBD&D" by John Carter combines human biodiversity (HBD)—the study of genetic differences between human populations—with Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) game mechanics, assigning real-world traits like intelligence or strength to D&D-style stats to explore how human variation might look in a role-playing game.
https://barsoom.substack.com/p/hbd-and-d
Summary: The article "HBD&D" by John Carter combines human biodiversity (HBD)—the study of genetic differences between human populations—with Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) game mechanics, assigning real-world traits like intelligence or strength to D&D-style stats to explore how human variation might look in a role-playing game.
https://barsoom.substack.com/p/hbd-and-d
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HBD&D
Grokking human biodiversity with a D20 system
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"A prominent computer scientist who has spent 20 years publishing academic papers on cryptography, privacy, and cybersecurity has gone incommunicado, had his professor profile, email account, and phone number removed by his employer, Indiana University, and had his homes raided by the FBI. No one knows why."
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/03/computer-scientist-goes-silent-after-fbi-raid-and-purging-from-university-website/#:~:text=A%20prominent%20computer,one%20knows%20why.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/03/computer-scientist-goes-silent-after-fbi-raid-and-purging-from-university-website/#:~:text=A%20prominent%20computer,one%20knows%20why.
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FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado
Indiana University quietly removes profile of tenured professor and refuses to say why.
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The Convergence Chronicles
In 2015, I pointed out that convergence prevents an organization from being able to perform its primary purpose. And we’ve seen this playing out in diverse organizations from Boeing to Warner Bros. But what is remarkable about this chronicle of the convergence and collapse of a voluntary writing organization by Fandom Pulse is the way […]
https://voxday.net/2025/04/01/the-convergence-chronicles/
In 2015, I pointed out that convergence prevents an organization from being able to perform its primary purpose. And we’ve seen this playing out in diverse organizations from Boeing to Warner Bros. But what is remarkable about this chronicle of the convergence and collapse of a voluntary writing organization by Fandom Pulse is the way […]
https://voxday.net/2025/04/01/the-convergence-chronicles/
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China's planned 'super dam' in Tibet, it Could could Generate 3 times more power than Three Gorges Dam
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