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Freedom is always under siege from the roving bandits that seek to tyrannize and plunder the free. To protect themselves, the Founding Fathers of the United States erected the Constitution as a citadel of freedom. Like Minas Tirith, it was built with seven walls. From outer to inner, the walls are:
A written constitution.
A vertical separation of powers.
A horizontal separation of powers.
A government of enumerated powers.
A government of mixed type.
A bill of enumerated rights.
An acknowledgment of unwritten rights.
All seven walls have been breached, or worse — many of the gates were opened by naïve fools, would-be tyrants, and disloyal magistrates, or left unmanned by a decadent and distracted citizenry.
https://treeofwoe.substack.com/p/the-seven-walls-of-fortress-america?utm_source=post-email-noscript&publication_id=99806&post_id=19561273&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email
Freedom is always under siege from the roving bandits that seek to tyrannize and plunder the free. To protect themselves, the Founding Fathers of the United States erected the Constitution as a citadel of freedom. Like Minas Tirith, it was built with seven walls. From outer to inner, the walls are:
A written constitution.
A vertical separation of powers.
A horizontal separation of powers.
A government of enumerated powers.
A government of mixed type.
A bill of enumerated rights.
An acknowledgment of unwritten rights.
All seven walls have been breached, or worse — many of the gates were opened by naïve fools, would-be tyrants, and disloyal magistrates, or left unmanned by a decadent and distracted citizenry.
https://treeofwoe.substack.com/p/the-seven-walls-of-fortress-america?utm_source=post-email-noscript&publication_id=99806&post_id=19561273&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email
Contemplations on the Tree of Woe
The Seven Walls of Fortress America, Part I
How The Outer Walls Fell...
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The number of science and technology research papers published has skyrocketed over the past few decades — but the ‘disruptiveness’ of those papers has dropped, according to an analysis of how radically papers depart from the previous literature1.
Data from millions of manunoscripts show that, compared with the mid-twentieth century, research done in the 2000s was much more likely to incrementally push science forward than to veer off in a new direction and render previous work obsolete. Analysis of patents from 1976 to 2010 showed the same trend.
“The data suggest something is changing,” says Russell Funk, a sociologist at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis and a co-author of the analysis, which was published on 4 January in Nature. “You don’t have quite the same intensity of breakthrough discoveries you once had.”
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04577-5
My take on the reasons?
1) A culture of conformity enforced by centralized control of funding and a peer-review process that spikes work with the potential to upset the status quo.
2) An emphasis on social diversity and consensus instead of intellectual diversity and an openness to work that threatens mainstream ideas.
Data from millions of manunoscripts show that, compared with the mid-twentieth century, research done in the 2000s was much more likely to incrementally push science forward than to veer off in a new direction and render previous work obsolete. Analysis of patents from 1976 to 2010 showed the same trend.
“The data suggest something is changing,” says Russell Funk, a sociologist at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis and a co-author of the analysis, which was published on 4 January in Nature. “You don’t have quite the same intensity of breakthrough discoveries you once had.”
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04577-5
My take on the reasons?
1) A culture of conformity enforced by centralized control of funding and a peer-review process that spikes work with the potential to upset the status quo.
2) An emphasis on social diversity and consensus instead of intellectual diversity and an openness to work that threatens mainstream ideas.
Nature
‘Disruptive’ science has declined — and no one knows why
Nature - The proportion of publications that send a field in a new direction has plummeted over the last half-century.
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Posing as a scholar, a Chinese woman spent years writing alternative accounts of medieval Russian history on Chinese Wikipedia, conjuring imaginary states, battles, and aristocrats in one of the largest hoaxes on the open-source platform.
The scam was exposed last month by Chinese novelist Yifan, who was researching for a book when he came upon an article on the Kashin silver mine.
Discovered by Russian peasants in 1344, the Wikipedia entry goes, the mine engaged more than 40,000 slaves and freedmen, providing a remarkable source of wealth for the Russian principality of Tver in the 14th and 15th centuries as well as subsequent regimes. The geological composition of the soil, the structure of the mine, and even the refining process were fleshed out in detail in the entry.
Yifan thought he’d found interesting material for a novel. Little did he know he’d stumbled upon an entire fictitious world constructed by a user known as Zhemao. It was one of 206 articles she has written on Chinese Wikipedia since 2019, weaving facts into fiction in an elaborate scheme that went uncaught for years and tested the limits of crowdsourced platforms’ ability to verify information and fend off bad actors.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkgbwm/chinese-woman-fake-russian-history-wikipedia
The scam was exposed last month by Chinese novelist Yifan, who was researching for a book when he came upon an article on the Kashin silver mine.
Discovered by Russian peasants in 1344, the Wikipedia entry goes, the mine engaged more than 40,000 slaves and freedmen, providing a remarkable source of wealth for the Russian principality of Tver in the 14th and 15th centuries as well as subsequent regimes. The geological composition of the soil, the structure of the mine, and even the refining process were fleshed out in detail in the entry.
Yifan thought he’d found interesting material for a novel. Little did he know he’d stumbled upon an entire fictitious world constructed by a user known as Zhemao. It was one of 206 articles she has written on Chinese Wikipedia since 2019, weaving facts into fiction in an elaborate scheme that went uncaught for years and tested the limits of crowdsourced platforms’ ability to verify information and fend off bad actors.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkgbwm/chinese-woman-fake-russian-history-wikipedia
VICE
A Bored Chinese Housewife Spent Years Falsifying Russian History on Wikipedia
She “single-handedly invented a new way to undermine Wikipedia,” says a Wikipedian.
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From Scotland:
"In short, your children CAN consent to irreversible hormone treatments and surgeries rendering them permanently infertile and incapable of orgasm, and should be actively encouraged to do so, but they CANNOT consent to talking about their mental health in any way which might result in them changing their minds about that path, because to do so would render any person they talked to a criminal."
https://wingsoverscotland.com/raise-all-of-the-flags/
"In short, your children CAN consent to irreversible hormone treatments and surgeries rendering them permanently infertile and incapable of orgasm, and should be actively encouraged to do so, but they CANNOT consent to talking about their mental health in any way which might result in them changing their minds about that path, because to do so would render any person they talked to a criminal."
https://wingsoverscotland.com/raise-all-of-the-flags/
Wings Over Scotland
Raise all of the flags
As a journalist, readers, sometimes you want to pep a story up a bit. From time to time, it’s perfectly legitimate to sensationalise a relatively minor aspect of something in order to draw at…
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Substack
#15: Breeding Our Way Out
The unnaturally preserved blog of Dr. John C Bennett
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Forwarded from Gab.com
If the historic American people and culture will be preserved anywhere it will be right here.
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"The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday issued a proposal to ban the use of noncompete clauses, a move that would allow workers to take jobs with rival companies or start competing businesses without the threat of being sued by their employers."
https://archive.is/nLiSq
https://archive.is/nLiSq
archive.is
FTC Proposes Banning Noncompete Clauses for Workers - WSJ
archived 5 Jan 2023 15:07:09 UTC
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Forwarded from John Carter
Yep. Here's Dutton's take:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/gEP4IDNYJqoy/
https://www.bitchute.com/video/gEP4IDNYJqoy/
BitChute
Why Has "Disruptive" Science Declined Since the 1950s, But Less Dramatically In the 2000s?
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Media is too big
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🔥 Joe Rogan Sends an EPIC Wake Up Call to the Covidians
"The idea that you wouldn't be upset that you were duped into injecting actual poison when you were thinking that this was somehow going to save people and save the world is so insane!"
https://rumble.com/v23y5kg--joe-rogan-sends-an-epic-wake-up-call-to-the-covidians.html
@ChiefNerd
"The idea that you wouldn't be upset that you were duped into injecting actual poison when you were thinking that this was somehow going to save people and save the world is so insane!"
https://rumble.com/v23y5kg--joe-rogan-sends-an-epic-wake-up-call-to-the-covidians.html
@ChiefNerd
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Forwarded from Breaking911
2 Charged With Attacks On Four Power Substations In Washington State https://breaking911.com/2-charged-with-attacks-on-four-power-substations-in-washington-state/
Breaking911
2 Charged With Attacks On Four Power Substations In Washington State - Breaking911
One defendant told police they committed the crimes so they could burglarize nearby businesses Tacoma – Two Puyallup, Washington, men have been charged with conspiracy to damage energy facilities and possession of an unregistered firearm, announced U.S. Attorney…
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Forwarded from Jessica Rose
The scope and scale of the humanitarian catastrophe caused by the global Covid vaccine campaign is in even plainer sight now. But are the ears and eyes of U.S citizens fully open yet?
CDC Releases Its VAERS Safety Analyses for COVID Vaccines via FOIA
https://jackanapes.substack.com/p/cdc-finally-released-its-vaers-safety?r=iutjw&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
👉@DrJessicaRose
CDC Releases Its VAERS Safety Analyses for COVID Vaccines via FOIA
https://jackanapes.substack.com/p/cdc-finally-released-its-vaers-safety?r=iutjw&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
👉@DrJessicaRose
Jackanapes Junction
CDC Finally Released Its VAERS Safety Monitoring Analyses for COVID Vaccines via FOIA
And now it's clear why they tried to hide them.
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Forwarded from Joseph de Critchfeld
IGN
Joker Becomes Pregnant in New DC Comic, And You'll Never Guess the Father - IGN
The new year is off to a truly bizarre start at DC Comics, with a new book revealing what happens when Joker suddenly becomes pregnant and gives birth. Find out all the scandalous details.
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"Arkhaven isn’t even competing with the “Big Two” anymore. We are leaving them so far in the dust, the dust has settled, been plowed, planted and will be harvested shortly."
https://arkhavencomics.com/2023/01/04/and-now-joker-is-pregnant/
https://arkhavencomics.com/2023/01/04/and-now-joker-is-pregnant/
Arkhaven Site
And Now Joker is Pregnant - Arkhaven Site
Well that happened. What do I even say to this? Yes, the Joker is pregnangt. He gives birth to a mud monster. Is Joker Clayface’s bottom now? The absolute state of DC Comics As stupid as the subject matter is, the artwork is so much worse. Arkhaven isn’t…
Forwarded from The Babylon Bee
McCarthy Warns Not Voting For Him Could Delay More Funds To Ukraine
READ: https://babylonbee.com/news/mccarthy-warns-not-voting-for-him-could-delay-more-funds-to-ukraine/?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=telegram
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Forwarded from Today I Learned
TIL the longest and most contentious election for the speaker of the U.S House of Representatives occurred during its 34th Congress (1855-1857). It lasted two months, took 133 ballots, and necessitated a rule change allowing for a simple plurality of members to select the speaker.
https://ift.tt/0caFqHN
https://ift.tt/0caFqHN
reddit
TIL the longest and most contentious election for the speaker of...
Posted in r/todayilearned by u/T_Dougy • 153 points and 28 comments
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