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12 April 2022: This is really shoddy by Rufo. I did far more work trying to put these numbers into cotext for a brief, paywalled Substack than he did for an article on the website of a major think tank https://www.city-journal.org/abuse-in-schools-no-conspiracy-theory
12 April 2022: In 15 years these will be seen as the most obvious points in the world and people will act like they didn't send us deranged torture-porn shit over it. There will be a lot of Who Me??? about the blacklists and the other bullshit
12 April 2022: In the latest battle of False Claim versus Debunking, Debunking has once again prevailed. The season series stands at 392,394,501,382 - 0, False Claim. pic.twitter.com/r4qtUO7WYd
12 April 2022: This is a very useful buzzkill thread. I want it to be the case that psychedelics will be as revolutionary to treating mental-health problems as their most enthusiastic proponents claim, but every serious flaw in the research Eiko mentions is a serious one. https://twitter.com/EikoFried/status/1513829020428816391
12 April 2022: 3/ Sure but this doesn't actually work - w/a few small exceptions (Alex Jones getting the YouTube boot), attempts to ban stuff always spread the thing in question far and wide. All this does is make liberal institutions ever crazier and more insular https://twitter.com/StephenDDudek/status/1513908921085444099
12 April 2022 (live): 2/ *Presumably signed by academics -- I don't think they are listing the signatories yet and it's unclear if they will or if it will remain anonymous
12 April 2022 (live): Petition, signed by academics, to have an upcoming book laying out gender-critical philosophical views cancelled before anyone can read it https://twitter.com/oupusaguild/status/1513655723519008772
11 April 2022: this is their response to me saying "hey, this is getting out of hand" and asking them to privately email me if they have feedback about my work unhealthy approach to disagreement, and one that fosters a culture of endless threats and over-the-top, eliminationist rhetoric https://twitter.com/theSitwellghost/status/1513627050837528576
11 April 2022: Are you saying you'd deny us treatment because you disagree with us on Twitter? Just wanna make sure I have this right. Even if it were life-saving, or no?
11 April 2022: 2/ One of the demands was that Lindo dissolve all her past business agreements w/r/t ghostwriting etc This is reasonable and normal stuff -- a healthy community just seeking justice https://twitter.com/marquisele/status/1512535790148014081
11 April 2022 (live): Tomorrow's @TheBARPod is about this blowup -- def check out the quote-retweets https://twitter.com/LindoBaconX/status/1512437830890528776
8 April 2022: I'm in favor of "keeping Europe European." No more migration from the Middle East. We must break up the present countries into warring chiefdoms and everyone has to go back to the patch of undeveloped mud their ancestors lived on, where they warred over potatoes for centuries.
8 April 2022: Don't always agree with Wesley but this is... exactly what he's saying? The kids were convinced by adults they'd been abused? Very confused by this interaction. Maybe I should be less online naw never mind clearly I should quadruple down on Twitter. pic.twitter.com/eeBktHtQhA
8 April 2022: There are few more serious warning signs that someone has a really bad personality, and that you should be wary about their presence in your life, than them attempting to exert control over who you associate with in any way, online or off
8 April 2022: Someone posted my story critiquing that finding about puberty blockers and hormones to Hacker News and it was immediately 'flagged.' There's nothing remotely offensive in the comments. In my experience it's seen as inherently bigoted to raise any qualms about these treatments. pic.twitter.com/rbuK2CKKvf
7 April 2022: w/ I guess I am a Koch Shill because I have written for Reason but on the other hand I am also, like Legum, a Soros Shill because I worked for CAP!
7 April 2022 (live): This is so insanely dishonest from Legum -- it is frustrating watching more and more of the left wing ecosystem become fever swamps https://reason.com/2022/04/07/stand-together-judd-legum-ukraine-russia/
7 April 2022: 2/ Some light background reading befre you tune in: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/14/us/adolph-reed-controversy.html
7 April 2022: 1/ Tomorrow at 5:30 ET I'll be discussing class, race, and the Democratic Socialists of America with @ClassUnityDSA member Jamal Abed-Rabbo, who has the good sense to not be on Twitter https://www.callin.com/room/lets-talk-about-class-race-and-the-dsa-CrLpmGKlKA
7 April 2022: 2/ I'm trying to check a potential critique of my article on this paper and it is very very hard to even understand what is happening, over time, with the three groups (medicine, no-medicine, and dropped out). It doesn't help that I can't even figure out the basic numbers.
7 April 2022: Very long day so I'm gonna throw this to the hive mind. Am I missing something or should the numbers in the same-colored boxes be the same? They should, right? pic.twitter.com/sL6oJ5ykKx
5 April 2022: 2/ They have a level of vindictiveness we lack -- constantly trying to get people fired, to dictate who is allowed to say what, and to engage in reputational napalming of anyone with even mild disagreement. The difference between Imani and Katie on actual substance is miniscule.
5 April 2022: Herzog's crime was telling the story of detransitioners in an article that also featured happy transitioners.These people are insane, man. I've tried so many times to engage but it's not worth it. They barely have fully-formed beliefs -- it's just endless vendetta and obsession. pic.twitter.com/T7sBbRgpVx
4 April 2022: 5/ She appears to have taken data provided by 8th through 11th graders and said "Let's assume that's the rate of vitcimization at all age levels," which seems pretty nuts. Obviously teenagers are much more likely to be sexually victimized than preteens. pic.twitter.com/aIFjvlD5kX
4 April 2022 (live): 4/ As far as I can tell he is getting this 100x 'stat' from one researcher whose methods were scrutinized. I'll look more into this when I have time but it is just not credible given the sex difference in perpetration rates. pic.twitter.com/eOTw97lbfL
4 April 2022 (live): 3/ Rufo is claiming that a group that is 67% female (teachers) commits sexual abuse at a MUCH higher rate than a group is 100% male (Catholic priests). I know you're not to say that this or that social science theory is 'impossible,' but this is pretty close. pic.twitter.com/81Gw9gCwY6
4 April 2022 (live): 2/ If Chris is right it means Catholic priests are far kid-rapier than teachers pic.twitter.com/PD9s58cxDN
4 April 2022 (live): Trouble with denominators pic.twitter.com/xaSduiLKBl
31 March 2022: 3/ Folks who think this is fearmongering should at least watch this documentary. At one of the top hospitals in the world, there was a major coverup scandal involving blockers, with kids suffering major physical and psychological probelms. https://www.svtplay.se/video/33358590/uppdrag-granskning/mission-investigate-trans-children-avsnitt-1?position=689&id=jp9dBRA
31 March 2022 (live): 2/ It's been very upsetting watching institution after institution, now including the Biden White House, sweep genuinely complicated bioethical disputes under the rug. You can oppose the proposed and enacted laws/policies in red states without exaggerating the evidence.
31 March 2022 (live): U.S. versus U.K. governments on the question of whether puberty blockers should be seen as full-stop reversible pic.twitter.com/gybwsa2lgv
28 March 2022: 2/ Plus politically won't it be impossible for anything BUT EU membership to ensue almost immediately?
28 March 2022 (live): Isn't "giving up on joining NATO" way less painful when you know that for years to come, the entire West will shower you with hundreds of billions of dollars of whatever military equipment you need to allow you to bolster your defenses and prevent this from happening again? https://twitter.com/maxseddon/status/1508518460405526530
28 March 2022: Guess I'll have to flip the GIF upside down
28 March 2022 (live): Hey @kittypurrzog , just wanted to say: pic.twitter.com/tn8Erfdrrt
27 March 2022: $1,400 for a single-use weapon easily hoistable by a single dude that can destroy tanks that are what, 2000x the cost? https://twitter.com/KimBenabib/status/1508140368637833218
25 March 2022: Her: Why don't you want you? This makes me feel unattractive... Me: pic.twitter.com/gMILRmMMaj
24 March 2022: 2/ Really good btw https://surviveaplague.com/
24 March 2022: It might feel like Twitter is good for the brands of public intellectuals, but the benefits are often offset by outbursts like this: Why should I trust a Yale MPH who rants at "arrogant fucks" and and exclaims to gay men that he and his colleagues "saved your asses" from AIDS? pic.twitter.com/oy3qrD6E8b
24 March 2022: The argument here seems to be that I erred in claiming NHJ, a journalist who has won the Pulitzer and MacArthur awards, not to mention countless others, has sufficient job security that she doesn't risk firing as a result of an online mob. That anyone could argue with this... https://twitter.com/shanenrhoades/status/1506745224248315907
23 March 2022: What is the best evidence you've seen that this is the case other than many articles claiming it is?
22 March 2022: Had a sense of how weird this stuff was getting when in ~2019 a highly regarded writer said on a listserv I was on that arguments against trans women competing as women reminded them of arguments against black people competing with white ones ¯_(ツ)_/¯ https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/we-should-be-celebrating-lia-thomas-we-did-jackie-robinson-ncna1292521
20 March 2022: Politically-tinged Habanero catcalling pic.twitter.com/i3CJNycUF8
18 March 2022: 3/ That being said obviously the average American of any race doesn't have strong feelings on "counter culture" or any other too-online stuff, but the point is there is zero polling to support the idea that general concern over this stuff is narrow and white. It's made-up.
18 March 2022: 2/ You see this claim a lot but what's amazing about it is one of the groups LEAST likely to say this stuff is a concern is... liberal white people! It's just like an exact 180ing of the actual racial politics.
18 March 2022: "At the same time, a full 84 percent of Black people polled shared the concern of this editorial that it was a “very serious” or “somewhat serious” problem that some Americans do not exercise their freedom of speech out of fear of retaliation or harsh criticism." https://twitter.com/drvolts/status/1504877988319404032
18 March 2022: 3/ I have learned a lot from Adam's work and mean no broader disrespect but no normal person who isn't in too-online left-of-center circles can look at the reaction to this or the Harper's letter and say "Yup, this is sane an healthy stuff."
18 March 2022: 2/ Anyway I'm in Havana and I'll make sure to see if Cubans share this outrage at the idea that it is bad to foster a culture of punishment for unpopular speech.
18 March 2022: This view, that a relatively milquetoast editorial arguing the left has a free-speech problem (while denouncing "an even more extreme version of censoriousness" on the right) is such an indefensible act that it might warrant staff resignation, is dominant among lib media types. https://twitter.com/adamdavidson/status/1504808498646949889
16 March 2022: 2/ I think it's basically privilege. It's hard for anyone born in the U.S. in the last very many years to imagine the widespread, full-blown suppression of free speech (notwithstanding disturbing outlying cases like J20). But thinks can change very quickly!
16 March 2022 (live): Between Russia and China, ~1.5 billion people live in terrifying dystopias when it comes to the government's near-total ability to control and punish disfavored speech. It shocks me Americans are so blind to the dangers of giving government and tech more power on this front.
15 March 2022: Why is such a jawdroppingly gorgeous city run by such loons?
15 March 2022 (live): "San Francisco will not enter into contracts with businesses headquartered in most of the U.S. — 28 states in all. Official travel to those states is also forbidden. And this list includes some surprises: Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Wisconsin." https://missionlocal.org/2022/03/san-francisco-is-now-boycotting-most-of-the-united-states/
13 March 2022: 2/ If a right-wing outlet misrepresented a left-wing bill this badly, the Times and other outlets would rightly call it 'misinformation.' How is this different? Is it just that because this is a bad bill (from our perspective), it's okay for our outlets to misrepresent it?
13 March 2022: First two paragraphs of a NYT column. Everyone knows this is false. Everyone knows there is nothing like this anywhere in the bill (the only part about sexual orientation refers explicitly to "classroom instruction," anyway). What is the point of this? pic.twitter.com/rSMCqkiKiM
11 March 2022: Could someone email me a PDF of this? Not available via the Usual Methods. I'll delete this tweet after I have it, so please hit refresh before taking the time to grab it. Thank you so much. https://academic.oup.com/mind/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mind/fzab086/6541791?redirectedFrom=fulltext
11 March 2022: If someone could email me a PDF of this I'd really appreciate it! I'll delete this tweet after I have it https://twitter.com/Rongwrong_/status/1502319537236099077
11 March 2022: 30 Thing The Elden Ring Tutorial Doesn't Tell You About The History Of Russo-Ukrainian Relations
11 March 2022: I wanna read this review -- does anyone have an archive link? https://twitter.com/Sean_OConnell/status/1501299749898567680
11 March 2022: "At a minimum, courts ought to permit prohibitions on false information disseminated with reckless disregard for its falsity that materially influences people’s vaccination decisions. " This this through more. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-health-forum/fullarticle/2790169
10 March 2022: 4/ Historically, I think what happens when this many people are so aggressively wrong about an important subject is they just sorta slink away and try to bury their past writing/advocacy. Not a direct analogy but there wasn't much of a post-repressed-memory-panic reckoning
10 March 2022 (live): 3/ @glaad : I should be on a list of anti-LGBT bigots because I said sexual abuse/other trauma can lead to gender concerns Major report to the NHS: Sexual abuse/other trauma can lead to gender concerns ¯_(ツ)_/¯ pic.twitter.com/RuMc76QhdL
10 March 2022 (live): 2/ I remain a tad frustrated that those of us who pointed out stuff like what's in this chart experienced the blowback we experienced. We were reporting what clinicians themselves told us, and now groups like WPATH and the NHS are making it clear that yes, this is complicated. pic.twitter.com/a3rWuvurH3
10 March 2022 (live): 1/ Looking forward to reading the interim report of the Cass Review, a major attempt to evaluate the NHS's youth gender-identity services and suggest improvements. https://cass.independent-review.uk/publications/interim-report/
9 March 2022: 5/ Sorta speechless pic.twitter.com/FsAzLVJvb0
9 March 2022 (live): 4/ "I am mad you tweeted about one thing instead of the other thing that I am just informing you about" https://twitter.com/JSidewinder1/status/1501579372192485381
9 March 2022 (live): 3/ To date, this strategy of loudly broadcasting to ~90% of the population they are horrible anti-science bigots seems to be failing. On sports, for example, "the numbers are so bad they aren't included" in a Transgender Law Center report. Not normal! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxR78esqpEQ
9 March 2022 (live): 2/ Stock is arguing that in some situations, biological sex should prevail over gender identity. This view is likely held by 90%+ of the population. What is the strategy of the activists, journalists, and academics trying to make it unsayable in liberal spaces? pic.twitter.com/GUNKSfsTBN
9 March 2022 (live): 1/ This is so pathetic and such a prime example of the intellectual rot going on in my general backyard Resign in bombastic outrage over an article, and then 'predict' what it will be about. https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-essay-that-prompted-an-editorial-revolt pic.twitter.com/Vr49GDeUXg
9 March 2022: Can I just say I'm fascinated by this?? According to a ton of people on Twitter, we should be skeptical of free-speech claims because there are SO MANY people demanding we debate the merits of slavery. And yet I've never met a single person who holds this belief! Huh.... https://twitter.com/bradwparr/status/1501372088795291650
9 March 2022: North Dakota's proposed "Don't Say Podcaster" bill is unbelievable. Second graders ARE old enough to learn about podcasting. In today's economy it's an act of child abuse to deny them from this knowledge.
8 March 2022: It literally takes more time to write a tweet like this than it would to just google https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Athefire.org+palestinian&rlz=1C1UEAD_enUS953US953&oq=site%3Athefire.org+palestinian&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i58.3376j0j9&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 https://twitter.com/emmalineJen/status/1501274077025214465
8 March 2022: 2/ When someone is being publicly shamed, this happens CONSTANTLY -- folks popping up to claim they lied about this and that. A lot of the time these claims are themselves false! If you have a huge following you need to be careful about casually spreading unvetted rumors.
8 March 2022: One of the classmates of the author of that Times piece popped up and disputed one of her claims. I don't understand the point of Nikole Hannah-Jones inserting herself into this by retweeting that claim. Did she check it? Is it true? This makes the Times look dysfunctional. pic.twitter.com/zLi2vIFwsL
8 March 2022: I know that she got to write for the Times, but, like... she's still a college student? I don't get the point of the performative cruelty from big-name journalists with massive platforms. What purpose does this serve? The pileon was pretty ugly and unwarranted. pic.twitter.com/GSIUyO0SZl
7 March 2022: The old me would engage here but instead I'm just going to obnoxiously screencap and ask people to explain what sort of mental gymnastics could possibly connect what I wrote to Jeet's accusation pic.twitter.com/RjuAcJMc3F
7 March 2022: I do not think SNL writers should steal jokes -- not even on Twitter! If you're gonna do it at least change a word or two. pic.twitter.com/H2ZQSwVChY
5 March 2022: Wattch! https://twitter.com/CathyYoung63/status/1499975717727133704
5 March 2022: You can't just acquire Nuance pic.twitter.com/zTGzcVDjOh
4 March 2022: 2/ Not 'negative' ration but under 1 is what I meant
4 March 2022 (live): 1. Random person with a negative following:follower ratio (both in the hundreds) expresses a silly but inconsequential opinion 2. One conservative account with 20k+ followers quote-retweets it 3. Another RTs the QRT This is how Twitter keeps everyone at everyone's throat pic.twitter.com/EOl5K2p0xF
4 March 2022: Welp Don Lemon just said he thinks it's inevitable we'll have boots on the ground
4 March 2022: There should be a term for this: viral Twitter threads of the form "A ton of people are saying X, but here's why they're wrong," where X is an argument most people haven't encountered until that thread. Feel like it happens a lot and partly explains the platform's badness. pic.twitter.com/9A2p42wsFX
2 March 2022: This is a weird cousin of "musician accused of bad thing so we must immediately remove his entire catalogue" and is similarly stupid https://twitter.com/EASPORTSFIFA/status/1499057030857777154
28 February 2022: 2/ I'm sure explains some of* the differences between how a European might react to different migrants. But the whole thing started with the leader of Europe's most powerful country announcing she was throwing open the doors to ME refugees! *can't deny religion also huge
28 February 2022 (live): I am seeing oversimplified takes about how Europe was super hostile to Syrian/other Middle Eastern refugees. At first there were literally Germans lining the train stations to cheer and welcome them! It definitely went south later but it's more complicated than folks saying.
28 February 2022: 2/ A TON of people say this with the breezy confidence of predicting the sun's rise tomorrow. Does it make much sense on its face? Can't it be that there are a million reasons to not involve US/NATO forces directly, but "Putin will instantly end the world" isn't a good one?
28 February 2022: 1/ Genuine question: I agree that this tweet is a bit beyond what the experts see as a reasonably safe option. But a lot of people seem to be saying that if the U.S. or NATO attacked any Russian asset directly, Russia would instantly respond by ending humanity via nukes. https://twitter.com/RichardEngel/status/1498381591306981379
28 February 2022: Me to fleeing Ukrainian: pic.twitter.com/0FwzGqIxoA
27 February 2022: 3/ This is also undeniably true https://twitter.com/damonlynch/status/1497964198168612866
27 February 2022: 2/ I guess that can change very quickly once the bodies pile up -- I'm just saying it seems like a very different sort of war versus ruthlessly slaughtering Syrians from thousands of miles away https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/02/russia-committed-war-crimes-in-syria-finds-un-report
27 February 2022: I'm curious about this dynamic. Intuitively, it seems so much harder to rile up soldiers to harm civilians who are so linguistically/ethnically/geographically nearby. I'm obviously not saying such tribalism is good , but I think it's a thing https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1497962806402064387
26 February 2022: guyyyyyyyyyyyyys please just talk to some geopolitics experts or something I am all for criticizing illiberal tendencies in our institutions and have done so a lot but not everything is about this one thing https://twitter.com/HeatherEHeying/status/1497376585858498562
25 February 2022: I am having trouble knowing how to Trust The Science https://twitter.com/AndrewRomano/status/1497347375035150339
25 February 2022: 4/ There's also an indication that she was already reprimanded at the institution (not UW) where she was when this took place: "We also recognize that this particular incident was largely handled administratively at another institution." Anyway, justice!
25 February 2022: 3/ A lot of these overwrought, overly punitive responses are make-work for bureaucrats: "we are convening a series of affinity group meetings in the next few weeks to provide spaces for mutual support, reflection, and response (see Zoom link below)."
25 February 2022: 2/Just to situate everyone, the event in question happened several years before the most recent instance of 30 Rock airing blackface-oriented comedy to tens of millions of people. What she did was a bad idea but at the time was obviously not seen as too risque even for network TV pic.twitter.com/BNTM4nsjM4
25 February 2022: 1/ A U. Washington doctor who has dedicated her career to fighting HIV in Africa, including research w/sex workers, is having her reputation and career incinerated because she dressed up as Michael Jackson, in blackface, once in 2009. She faces an "intensive education process." pic.twitter.com/mMqzND6Nsw
24 February 2022: In the U.S., a lot of people are under the misapprehension that they can bully and browbeat their way out of an actual discussion of the evidence here, but there are a lot of signs, including shifts in mainstream coverage, that that discussion is coming.
24 February 2022 (live): Sweden is seriously tightening up access to puberty blockers and hormones for young people outside of medical settings, following in the footsteps of Finland and to a lesser extent the UK. https://genspect.org/breaking-sweden-drastically-changes-protocol-prioritizes-psychotherapy/
24 February 2022: Unsubscribing to Putin's Patreon
24 February 2022: report plz https://twitter.com/arya_kidding_me/status/1496600619121061900
23 February 2022: I feel like when people tweet stuff like this they don't understand that for all they know, the person they're tweeting at is suicidal. To be clear I'm not, but I just think this crosses a line. I dunno, maybe others disagree and think telling people to kill themselves is good https://twitter.com/crushbort/status/1496561098681729026
23 February 2022: Can you point me to what I've written in support of banning youth gender care?
23 February 2022: Nope, that's me. I stand by it. It includes the story of a couple teenagers who physically transitioned and whose lives got much better as a result -- the folks who would be harmed by these sorts of laws/acts in conservative sttes. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/07/when-a-child-says-shes-trans/561749/ https://twitter.com/adamszym/status/1496560667440160770
23 February 2022: There are a lot of these vaguely threatening notes indicating that "blood is on my hands," I will be haunted by my views (meaning "Kids should be assessed before going on hormones" I suppose) and so on. The level of obsession, and frequently violent imagery, gets creepy. https://twitter.com/stiff_piques/status/1496551507684118531
23 February 2022: Me: We are talking about this on the next podcast episode Twitter: Why aren't you talking about this? People should just find other stuff to do, for real. I'm out of patience on this one. It's ridiculous. https://twitter.com/Erik01/status/1496549075235352579
23 February 2022: 3/ Anyway, my annoyance here is not a major concern. It's a horrible and deeply authoritarian announcement and we'll be talking about it on the next public episode of BARPod.
23 February 2022: 2/ Not only did I come out against bans, I even came out against hard age gaps -- a much more moderate policy. I wrote about this issue anticipating it would become big (on the basis of activists who were correct), which it did. Find a better target. https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/why-the-hard-age-caps-on-youth-gender?utm_source=url
23 February 2022: 1/This is really, really deranged, and reflects a couple really nasty DMs I just got. I have never in my life, in any context, called for youth gender care to be banned. I've said the opposite. If your first reaction to today's horrible news is LET'S TWEET AT JESSE, get a life. https://twitter.com/josefkstories/status/1496536584761802753
22 February 2022: SHE WAS ALREADY BANNED FROM TWITTER SHE WAS ALREADY BANNED FROM TWITTER SHE WAS ALREADY BANNED FROM TWITTER SHE WAS ALREADY BANNED FROM TWITTER SHE WAS ALREADY BANNED FROM TWITTER SHE WAS ALREADY BANNED FROM TWITTER SHE WAS ALREADY BANNED FROM TWITTER https://twitter.com/electriceden92/status/1496243263711461378
22 February 2022: Does anyone have [deep breath]... a screenshot of Grace Lavery calling for the death of the Queen of England? JUST ANOTHER TUESDAY AFTERNOON ON THE INTERNET
21 February 2022: I am going to Cuba with a friend for about nine days next month. All recommendations welcome! We want to do a mix of city (mostly Havana) and nature-y stuff.
13 February 2022: This is a quote-retweet of a link I posted to a story where a law professor, teaching about discrimination, put the characters "n_____" on a test. He never SAID OR WROTE the word anywhere -- just that censored version. That's what he's facing discipline for. But cool! https://twitter.com/ryanfdoc/status/1492930385730326535
13 February 2022: I'll never forget the time my newborn daughter, Khaleesi, ran up to me with tears in her eyes crying hysterically. "Daddy," she said. "Where are the pansexual orcs? I renounce this fantasy universe until they materialize." pic.twitter.com/PaouGrYBxk
9 February 2022: If you already do freelance copyediting and would like to work on my newsletter -- just ~1-4 more hours of work per week, with a fair amount of variation from week to week -- please send me an email with your resume (or other rundown of experience) and hourly rate.
5 February 2022: Deleted my original tweet but I still think Sachs is talking about the difference between parents having access to curricula and any wacko anywhere having the same access. This is in part because in my own interview with him he said he was not opposed to the former. https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1489770856611921921
5 February 2022: There's obviously a difference between anyone being able to review any curriculum and parents in a given school district being able to do so!
5 February 2022: This is very bad-faith. I'm editing an interview with Sachs, as we speak, where he talks about how certain forms of transparency -- posting curricula online -- are totally fine, while others -- allowing 'observers' IN THE CLASSROOM (!) -- aren't. Really out of context quote. https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1489759578464014337
2 February 2022: Someone remind me which fully mainstream guests Rogan discussed coronavirus with? I'm blanking here. I think he talked about it with Christakis but who else?
2 February 2022: 2/ The Internet of Beefs is a really dumb and bad thing and I guess I should just stop responding to these provocations, but they annoy me.
2 February 2022: I'm far from the only person Doyle has lied about repeatedly, and there's not much I can do about it -- last year she accused me of stalking multiple victims without providing any evidence. It's deranged. That being said, this is obviously false and I'm obviously gonna say so. https://twitter.com/sadydoyle/status/1488534913078992906
26 January 2022: Can you imagine being in academia, being online, and realizing that your career depended in part on not pissing off the wrong people in this subculture? https://twitter.com/CathrynTownsend/status/1486425794830290944
26 January 2022: I've been revisiting Stephen Jay Gould's obsessive, neverending attempt to destroy E.O. Wilson's reputation, often by simply lying about his work and arguments. It's a shame that these types always exist in academia and refuse to engage honestly with their perceived adversaries. https://twitter.com/kph3k/status/1486354085154590721
20 January 2022: Are there any social-media management programs that'll automate the process of figuring out when to self-retweet something you've already tweeted? It's an obnoxious habit but important for The Numbers and I don't like having to sign in just to do it.
20 January 2022: You forgot the part where they accused her of potentially breaking the provincial human rights code for saying a book presented youth medical transition in too one-sided a way But no, nothing weird going on on this front -- it's all quite justicey https://twitter.com/ProgPilgrim/status/1483973948333244424
18 January 2022: 6/ really tell us all that much, because it's noisy and often hard to tease out causality, and yet despite this we're hearing from very loud, very angry experts ('experts'?) that anyone who believes X or Y is a monster. It's very loud and tiring.
18 January 2022: 5/ My issue isn't questions like whether the vaccines offer tremendous protection -- they do. But on almost every debate that is still live, from the usefulness of lockdowns (vs tradeoffs) to whether young kids should be masked (ditto), the data can't https://twitter.com/angrybklynmom/status/1483444153564418051
18 January 2022: 4/ None of this means I'm gonna turn to weirdo anti-vaxxers or, like, IDW figures with increasingly melted brains for guidance -- LOL. My point is don't act shocked when people do turn to these alternative sources. You've given them no reason to trust mainstream ones!
18 January 2022: 3/ You layer atop this the endless drumbeat of WE MUST CENSOR PEOPLE WHO DON'T TRUST THE SCIENCE coming largely from individuals with mileslong track records of wrongness... it's just a really bad time epistemically
18 January 2022: 2/ I don't think people fully understood, at the time, just how devastating it was to public trust in science when so many big-name public-health types did complete 180s on covid precautions when the protests started. It was just like, Oh, so none of them were ever trustworthy!
18 January 2022: I've reached a point where I have absolutely no fucking clue who to believe about anything omicron-related. I just think the informational landscape is so awash in complete grifters, and that supposed public-health experts have loudly beclowned themselves so many times. It's bad!
7 January 2022: YO IT'S BLACK GANDALF https://twitter.com/lastpositivist/status/1479523264032559104
31 December 2021: First person to photoshop my dumb face onto Biden's in this photo gets a free month of my newsletter pic.twitter.com/GAdtaXV862
29 December 2021: @threadreaderapp unroll plz
29 December 2021: There is some really crazy stuff in here, including a full-blown HR investigation Dreyfuss faced on the basis of a truly asinine racism charge. So many progressive organizations are becoming deeply dysfunctional basket cases. I'm so, so thankful I don't have to deal with this. https://twitter.com/bendreyfuss/status/1476011928530997249
24 December 2021: The extent to which reporters -- not columnists, but reporters -- at major outlets like NPR are now comfortable loudly and explicitly calling for other journalists to be BANNED from major platforms in response to vague and often thoroughly dishonest charges of wrongdoing is awful https://twitter.com/deepa_shivaram/status/1474111235847335936
22 December 2021: In the last year or so some podcast did a really good long reported episode on Facebook's "supreme court" that dove into some of the tricky cross-cultural issues with defining hate speech etc. Anyone remember what I'm talking about?
20 December 2021: no comparison between surgery to fix a broken boke and the kinda surgery in this article
20 December 2021 (live): i mean it is unlikely to kill you but yes, side effects, failures, etc. this article acknowledges that
20 December 2021 (live): 1/ This journalist said he'd been cured of his trauma in 2011 via violent sex. A decade later, he again says he's been cured, now via major, risky surgery. I think there are some really fraught journalistic challenges inherent to covering the first-person accounts of folks who pic.twitter.com/pHcdBmpdLL
17 December 2021: 2/ This is true of all sorts of different areas where consultants come in to supposedly improve schools or the organizations. I'm not singling out DEI because of that industry's (worthy!) mission. But few other consulting areas are enjoying such a wild flush of demand.
17 December 2021 (live): Folks should be careful about the current generation of equity trainings. There is such a profound quality-control issue in this field, and such an explosive increase in demand, that there are going to be a lot of embarrassing lawsuits and document dumps. https://taibbi.substack.com/p/loudoun-county-freedom-of-information
14 December 2021: Why is the ACLU doing this? It is so counterproductive. Regardless of what you think about the policy it just makes no sense for every progressive organization to feel like it has to publicly take the 'right' view on every single issue. https://twitter.com/ACLU/status/1470770918397984771
9 December 2021: 2/ Even if you don't believe in the principles of free speech in artistic contexts, which the overwhelming vast majority of Creative Types Who Tweet (CTWTs) clearly don't, just think about what you're advocating for from a pragmatic perpsective.
9 December 2021: Creative types coming out in favor of giant amoral corporations exerting more control over other creative types' output, loudly and proudly and repeatedly... I dunno, man. Maybe think this shit through! pic.twitter.com/AiEXQqNtBi
7 December 2021: "Two plus two DOES equal four, thought Winstona in a womanly manner" https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1468296783038197768
4 December 2021: Does anyone know how to enable printing on this? I'm sorry for being incompetent (evergreen apology). https://www.wpath.org/media/cms/Documents/SOC%20v8/SOC8%20Chapters%20for%20Public%20Comment/SOC8%20Chapter%20Draft%20for%20Public%20Comment%20-%20Adolescent.pdf?_t=1638406852
2 December 2021: It's so good. pic.twitter.com/82GH1vCzu7
2 December 2021 (live): Very excited to announce that I'm going to have @asgribbin on Singal-Minded Conversations to talk about her EXCELLENT essay "The Empathy Racket" on Monday at 5:00 p.m. ET. Will schedule the room when I'm back at my loaner iPhone, but read the piece now! https://alicegribbin.substack.com/p/the-empathy-racket
20 November 2021: Reply with a link to a factually inaccurate tweet about the Rittenhouse case published by someone with 100k+ followers since the verdict.
18 November 2021: I'm trying to remember a column, I think in the Times, by someone who said he was afraid to leave his house because of the risk police would shoot him, or language very close to that. Ringing any bells? Can't find it.
16 November 2021: As we all recall, the Democrats recently won an important gubernatorial race in Virginia by accusing the Republican candidate, and parents complaining about 'CRT,' of being racist, so it makes sense they would double down on this strategy. https://twitter.com/dsamuelsohn/status/1460649487114948620
31 October 2021: The reason I'm passionate about this story is if I were a pilot I would insert politics into EVERY PA announcement and then I would claim my employer was violating my 1A rights for sanctioning me for telling passengers to look for "Fuck Donald Trump Canyon, off the left wing"
31 October 2021: "Leaving aside the thing we are talking about, this other thing is true." Ah, Twitter! Also, this neatly shows that if you do "some reflection" publicly, no matter how pandering and stilted and disconnected from the material world, rubes will automatically give you points. https://twitter.com/CasMudde/status/1454856564217630724
30 October 2021: this can't be real. it is honestly like something a right-wing troll would come up with (said as someone who thought the blackballing of kaepernick was disgraceful) https://twitter.com/MythinformedMKE/status/1454561312990715904
29 October 2021: We should base all of our policy decisions on parents telling us what their 3- and 6-year-olds said. I think this is a good system. In fact I can't see any downsides other than maybe cutting out the middlemen and letting the kids themselves write our bills.
29 October 2021 (live): 3/ I think a lot of the takesmanship coming from mainstream outlets doesn't have much of an audience at all and is mostly written for a tiny group of people within and adjacent to media. It's a really, really advantageous situation if you have anything remotely interesting to say
29 October 2021: 2/ Most conservative possible estimate suggests Yglesias is now taking home well over a million per year after fees
29 October 2021 (live): The extent to which the newsletter/Patreon/whatever you wanna call it revolution has revealed that certain people were seriously underpaid when they worked for mainstream outlets is gonna be... disruptive https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1454031690419118080
28 October 2021: I tried to hate-read this but after the third slide I couldn't, in good conscience, continue pic.twitter.com/IyJIdTs1BQ
28 October 2021: "Singal, Sullivan, Weiss, Greenwald and Shrier... frequently draw a line around age, declaring that trans children are not really trans[.]" Constant, constant lying. Lying as a way of life and politics. https://archive.md/tHKZI
27 October 2021 (live): oh i still think it was a scandal the way this was handled
27 October 2021 (live): No sign they did. Obviously tough to interview a victim in a situation like that, so maybe that explains how they didn't get this part. But it just seems weird we're only now finding out this pretty crucial detail.
27 October 2021: 2/ The point is not that this justifies the act(!!!!!!!), but that the specific storyline here didn't really fit into the broader political debate over bathrooms and TGNC kids.
27 October 2021: I don't understand how The Daily Wire had such good access to the dad in this case but wasn't able to come up with the crucial detail that this started as a consensual encounter. More really bad reporting. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/in-case-at-center-of-political-firestorm-judge-finds-teen-committed-sexual-assault-in-virginia-school-bathroom/2021/10/25/42c037da-35cc-11ec-8be3-e14aaacfa8ac_story.html
24 October 2021 (live): They assemble and launch incendiary claims in order to defeat what they see as “gender ideology” or “gender studies” by any rhetorical means necessary. I mean, usually "gender ideology" refers to the idea that we all have an innate gender identity that determines whether we are
24 October 2021: This is such a confused piece, largely because it lumps together some very different political forces. It reads as though Butler has just started looking into these issues and is mostly relying on Twitter and Tumblr. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/commentisfree/2021/oct/23/judith-butler-gender-ideology-backlash
23 October 2021: 2/ On what planet is it appropriate for a news reporter, after a source says to use whatever pronouns she wants, to pressure the source on this front? How is that remotely her place?
23 October 2021: "What are your pronouns?" "Use whichever you think fit" "No, you need to tell me" Again, there are no coherent rules or principles undergirding any of this. The 'rules' are deployed opportunistically to punish (predetermined) Bad people and reward (predetermined) Good people. https://twitter.com/VitoGesualdi/status/1451412258047684613
20 October 2021: 5/ I guess not 'zero.' Maybe one of 12. Every possible permutation of external pressure, with one internal one thrown in. https://twitter.com/karlbykarlsmith/status/1450647160865841152
20 October 2021: 4/ Read that above survey instrument and then read this quote he gave On The Media https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1450514775214108673
20 October 2021: 3/ Anyway I was turned on to this by Lisa Littman, who mentions it (in academic diplomaticspeak) in her latest paper. Just unreal, man.
20 October 2021: 2/ The level of just absolute garbage research published in this field... it is going to cause harm.
20 October 2021: Jack Turban did a study where he asked trans people who previously detransitioned why they did. He included zero options (other than write-in) for strictly internal factors. Then he told media outlets he had discovered that it's mostly external factors driving detransition. pic.twitter.com/MoSPebVOSD
20 October 2021: Can someone send me a PDF? Usual method not working. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33794108/
19 October 2021: Deleted these tweets about Donald J. Trump's supposed Colin Powell statement until someone confirms it's real. It's not on his website but Google may have just not crawled it yet. If you got it directly into your inbox from his mailing list lemme know. Probs being overly cautious pic.twitter.com/fhcWEKH2TY
19 October 2021: I assume this is legit because Maggie Haberman tweeted it so if it isn't this, like anything else that goes wrong in my professional or personal life, is her fault.
19 October 2021: I'm torn between "We are incapable of ignoring it, which is bad" and "It isn't realistic to expect journalists to ignore it" pic.twitter.com/lvB8rQXjzg
19 October 2021: I don't have another four years of this in me pic.twitter.com/GGGrveeXN9
19 October 2021: Our latest premium episode is about everyone and everything getting cancelled, except for us! The people who would actually benefit from it! It's super unfair and our fellow Substackers need to do better and call for our removal louder and more vigorously. https://www.blockedandreported.org/p/premium-episode-on-chicago-museum/comments
18 October 2021: 2/ This is what I mean: Some of the best researchers doing the most carefully controlled evaluations of real-world programs and the results were... pretty meh. If Stonewall has come up with a massively better approach, that would be extremely newsworthy. https://digest.bps.org.uk/2019/04/10/finally-some-research-into-whether-diversity-training-actually-works-unfortunately-its-not-very-promising/
18 October 2021: I'm not aware of any workplace diversity training that 'massively' reduces discrimination, as @PeterTatchell is claiming of Stonewall's. In fact, in real-world settings, it's often hard to find much of an effect at all. If this is true Stonewall should publish its evidence. pic.twitter.com/nyB8GfslEj
18 October 2021: Five tweets apart pic.twitter.com/TWW1QjMcvj
16 October 2021: 2/ Your job is to review podcast where comedians talk about their weird dicks. If the phrase "the erasure of intersecitonality" ever emerges from your keyboard, it is a sign something has gone very very wrong!
16 October 2021 (live): "The content of Dave Chappelle’s controversial stand-up special The Closer—the dangerous transphobia, the gaslighting, the false equivalence of marginalized communities, the erasure of intersectionality..." Culture writing is becoming completely unreadable https://www.thedailybeast.com/netflixs-ted-sarandos-fucks-up-dave-chappelle-anti-trans-backlash?source=articles&via=twitter_page
14 October 2021: 2/ As in, either cops were or weren't dispatched to the school in response to an alleged assault/sexual assault on a student, versus a supposedly raging parent.
14 October 2021: I absolutely trust Scott Smith more than the Loudoun school administrators and board, but, just as a practical matter of reporting, wouldn't this be a very easy thing for a local reporter to confirm via dispatch records? pic.twitter.com/bc1i5vzIKF
14 October 2021: 1/ For paying subscribers (w/free preview), I wrote about teens and social media. I think we have a paucity of good data but that there are good reasons not to write this off as just another "moral panic" https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/we-dont-have-good-data-about-social?justPublished=true
14 October 2021: People are lining up to defend a school board that appears, on the basis of solid reporting, to have covered up a rape by publicly denying it occurred and moved the alleged rapist to another school, at which point he allegedly raped someone else. There is no bottom to this. https://twitter.com/dropoutnation/status/1448667803066806274
14 October 2021: You just tweeted that no one was assaulted in a bathroom. Why'd you delete it?
14 October 2021 (live): Me: A school superintendent shouldn't publicly say that no one's been raped when someone appears to have been raped. This is bad Isaac: This stance shows that you are opposed to trans equality ¯_(ツ)/¯ ¯_(ツ)/¯ ¯_(ツ)/¯ ¯_(ツ)/¯ https://twitter.com/ijbailey/status/1448665641519484938
10 October 2021: for the love of God pic.twitter.com/8xWnJxJMLB
8 October 2021: The problem w/arguing with these people is that it doesn't matter how much the bilge Twitter pumps into their brains is debunked -- they will continue to repeat it, sometimes years later! We need to have a frank talk about this level of radicalization https://reason.com/2019/09/03/andy-ngo-video-antifa-patriot-prayer-attack-media/ https://twitter.com/KatzOnEarth/status/1446495431572267036
7 October 2021: I think that @chick_in_kiev , most famous for having to resign from a fact-checking job at the New Yorker for falsely accusing a disabled veteran of being a neo-Nazi, should just screenshot anything I've said, anywhere, that warrants me being kicked off from Substack. pic.twitter.com/rwcX9hlT2i
1 October 2021: It is unusual to see one Times staffer attack another one this openly and vociferously -- would be interesting to see them have a back-and-forth in print to try to address their differences substantively https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1443648573921546244
27 September 2021: Please stop this dude's demonstrated record of BS https://reason.com/2021/09/27/frederick-joseph-emma-sarley-stay-in-your-hood-viral-video/
26 September 2021: Wait so Richard Spencer published a no-knead bread recipe? And it's... really good??? This is going to cause a LOT of internet reactions.
25 September 2021: 2/ I'm getting this up on my newsletter now, so soon there will be a more readable copy.
25 September 2021: Kimball Atwood, an editor emeritus at Science Based Medicine, just sent this email to the editor, Steven Novella, asking him to defend the site's recent claims and editorial choices regarding sex, gender, and youth gender dysphoria pic.twitter.com/lDmWbnAneZ
25 September 2021: There were some very attractive bodies with vaginas out tonight
20 September 2021: Looking to ask a pretty specific question to a foundations/501(c)(3) expert. If you are one, please shoot me an email. I'll delete this tweet once I've found someone. Thanks!
7 September 2021: now it's personal https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1435336647814619137
6 September 2021: Same piece: "What specific criteria would Singal use to decide which trans youths without gender dysphoria should and should not receive gender-affirming care? Inquiring minds want to know!" Oh my God... pic.twitter.com/YfieeZneG7
6 September 2021 (live): AJ Eckert, a Connecticut youth-gender clinician writing in Science Based Medicine, is advocating for even kids without gender dysphoria to be put on hormones (yes, the context is youth care). Really curious how this plays out in practice. Is it just, like, if they want them? pic.twitter.com/Kje9o0B811
5 September 2021: What did Danielle Rose say? https://twitter.com/BarrenMagazine/status/1434248666970300422
5 September 2021: I don't usually like-police but it is pretty audacious to openly be like, "Yup, we reviewed this book negatively to show we hate the author's work on a totally unrelated issue" pic.twitter.com/mVB1kUDvYC
31 August 2021: We aren't one country (yes they have almost identical populations) pic.twitter.com/iw9pbvb6vm
30 August 2021: You hate to see it (this is an econ professor! this is how these people talk, in public, under their own name!) pic.twitter.com/lbGJIfbw7w
30 August 2021 (live): These are some of the most socially dysfunctional people on this whole website, and I feel guilty about it but there's undeniably a spectator-sport aspect to watching them do their thing
30 August 2021 (live): LOL one more thing: Arthur Chu did a VERY long tweetstorm publicly denouncing Noah Berlatsky in every possible way, announcing his unfollow, but also saying (publicly) Berlatsky could contact him privately if he wanted to try to change his mind
30 August 2021 (live): This complete my contribution to the Twitter discourse on this matter
30 August 2021 (live): B E NOAH BERLATSKY G H A Z I
18 August 2021: Your grandpa, the one who bombed the Germans and taught you the value of quiet unassuming dignity and competence, reincarnates in a glorious blaze of light. He leans over you. "So this machine basically says what the most important thing going on right now is?" You: Uhhhhhh pic.twitter.com/Vq4qGCX7IJ
17 August 2021: Help me to understand how this has not generated a revolt that forced them to change this policy. I know I'm basically the dude wandering into the climactic scene of a movie and demanding the whole plot be explained to me, but... really? People are cool with this? pic.twitter.com/kAN6E1C2St
17 August 2021: AND THE 2021 AWARD FOR BEST AND LEAST INSANE ANALOGY ON TWITTER GOES TO pic.twitter.com/i9sXhDlhls
15 August 2021: From The Daily Beast. I can't find the clip but about a decade ago Louis CK had a joke about how if he came across a dead baby, he would have sex with it. His material hasn't changed! This is a common playbook, though - very specific type of retconning. https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/when-we-argue-about-dave-chappelle pic.twitter.com/oy4IJKWwhB
13 August 2021: This is from a review of a show that is a sitcom about cops pic.twitter.com/irMCxv07c9
12 August 2021: utterly spectacular https://twitter.com/TheOrwellPrize/status/1425054159045337111
12 August 2021: It's useful when people say out loud that they think opinions that are widely held but which they find offensive should perhaps be criminally prosecuted. It clarifies things. I have a weird sort of sideways respect for those who will say this out loud. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/03064220211034451?journalCode=ioca
9 August 2021: @yami721 mind sending me a quick DM?
9 August 2021: What's the name of the proposed solution to the Fermi paradox that basically posits advanced civilizations retreating inwards into ever-more-advanced civilizations rather than expanding out into the cosmos?
9 August 2021: Gleason's in Peekskil lafter. VERY good bar-style pizza pic.twitter.com/KPGsyNipIL
9 August 2021 (live): Breakneck Ridge is a crazy-ass hike but the views are worth it pic.twitter.com/5votwiMh83
5 August 2021: I do not understand what is wrong with people. Whether this is trolling or not, it is like they are trying to water down concepts like 'abuse,' 'harassment,' and 'violence.' It's just not a good thing to put out in the universe. pic.twitter.com/q75UbO7Fs7
5 August 2021: Can anyone email me an MP3 of this ep? I used to be able to rip streaming audio right into Audacity but my computer is having a L I T E R A L meltdown https://www.honestlypod.com/podcast/episode/256bac0b/the-real-story-of-the-central-park-karen
4 August 2021: 2/ The idea that it is acceptable for a professional philosopher to point to a researcher's work and say "This was retracted" when it wasn't is just... I don't know, man. I think I'm living in a different universe with regard to basic norms of accuracy and fairness.
4 August 2021 (live): This comparison, endorsed by more than a thousand people on this hellsite, is insane. It is also 100% false to say that Littman's paper was ever retracted. Oseroff-Spicer is either lying or does not know enough about this to weigh in, but either way he should delete this. pic.twitter.com/G0iruZKfI6
4 August 2021: one of the best MM sounds
2 August 2021: In my case it's because they remind me of freedom and individuality, which, as a liberal, are concepts I despite, because I want a Marxist overlord* to centrally plan every aspect of my life. *liberalism and Marxism are the same thing https://twitter.com/JoshMandelOhio/status/1421857685457326085
31 July 2021: Quote-retweeting this for transparency's sake but I mean... "I have also heard that Cass Eris, a cognitive psychologist, has done a good job evaluating the book in question, though I haven't personally investigated it" Seems pretty clear to me what 'it' references https://twitter.com/JoCoMicallef/status/1421551790894456834
31 July 2021: 4/ When I was working on my Substackery about this, I emailed Lovell with a specific question and she responded quickly (I integrated her response into my post). Then I realized there was some evidence she hadn't fully read ID so I asked her that, too, and never got a response. pic.twitter.com/vKXT00mFp1
31 July 2021: 3/To summarize the weirdness: Rose Lovell (on SBM): I looked into the claims a/b Irreversible Damage and here is why it's awful Rose Lovell (on Reddit, via pseudonym): I haven't looked into the claims a/b Irreversible Damage but here's an article about why it's awful ¯_(ツ)_/¯
31 July 2021: 2/ If that isn't Lovell, it's a person with the same first two (out of three) names who is also a doctor and who is also interested in trans medicine and who is from the exact same part of the country. (It's her.) Archive link for posterity: https://archive.is/wip/kSVHR
31 July 2021: 1/ Science-Based Medicine fiasco keeps getting weirder. Via a correspondent, here's Rose Lovell, one of the SBM authors, recommending her own piece on Reddit without disclosing she wrote it, while claiming to have not looked into the claims about Irreversible Damage herself. pic.twitter.com/UXu6HF8w1K
31 July 2021: welp https://twitter.com/WebMD/status/1421312166108581888
30 July 2021: It's mostly intra-elite squabbling. If you're a PhD student and you can blast out to the world that an older, more established prof is ENDANGERING students, it's a way of trying to secure a bigger slice of the pie, because what administrator would ignore claims of DANGER?
28 July 2021: This is a really ugly photo of Blizzard employees holding up a picture of Bill Cosby. For the sake of social justice, can you guys photoshop it so it's something else? A slice of pizza, someone's puppy, Katie Herzog, whatever? Direct action works! I'll retweet. pic.twitter.com/08iytaPVom
26 July 2021: For paid subscribers: On Wi Spa And Our Stunted National Conversation About Self-ID https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/on-wi-spa-and-our-stunted-national
26 July 2021: Via an email, apparently at one point in this week's podcast I wrongly say the Emerson Collective supported The Transphobia Project. Total brainfart moment that I gotta delete/correct, but I can't figure out where I said it. If anyone happens to know lemme know. Very silly error.
25 July 2021: Cubanaangel, the Instagram user at the center of the Wi Spa incident, is using this as an opportunity to build an email list pic.twitter.com/QBAKuTVLoe
21 July 2021: 13/ LOL apologies, second sentence. https://twitter.com/thhamilton/status/1417894041220521987
21 July 2021: 12/ "interview[s] only those professionals who support her narrative." Shrier interviews an LGBT educator who she clearly disagrees with and attempts to interview Johanna Olson-Kennedy, one of the most famous gender-affirming clinicians in the U.S. More blatant dishonesty. pic.twitter.com/TO1zW2S1vx
21 July 2021: 11/ Because I'm a masochist I started reading Part Two of the Science-Based Medicine review of Shrier's book that, in Part One, had ~17 errors. There's an error in the very first sentence of this one. Eckert writes that Shrier:
21 July 2021 (live): 10/ Yes. In that case they didn't say, "Dr. Hall, take a look at these critiques and let us know what you think." They just pulled the review. Their editorial and evidentiary standards both flap wildly in the wind depending on the claim being made. https://twitter.com/kay_empty/status/1417882262163623939
21 July 2021 (live): 9/ Update: David Gorski tells me that it'll be the authors of the pieces -- the ones who I argue committed ~19 errors -- who will decide whether corrections are necessary. This is an unusual editorial policy. (Blocked-out stuff is about another argument and not relevant here.) pic.twitter.com/jYMSxdtFcM
21 July 2021: Among Democrats, what's the ratio of voted-in-primary to voted-in-general?
20 July 2021: 3/ Scienced-Based Medicine: Bailey practiced psychology without a license [which is definitionally illegal] SBM, after correcting this: We never said Bailey practiced illegally You couldn't make this up if you tried. https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/ilcs3.asp?ActID=1294&ChapterID=24 pic.twitter.com/PnAQCp99Mk
20 July 2021 (live): 2/ With the stealth deletion of what had been a reference to Ray Blanchard being fired in the Lovell article (Blanchard was never fired), that brings to five the number of corrections SBM has made in response to my work. One really shouldn't talk shit under such circumstances! pic.twitter.com/gFa14mcxNj
20 July 2021 (live): 1/ Instead of comparing me unfavorably to anti-vaxxers, David Gorski should use the limited available hours in his day to correct the 14 errors I've identified across Science-Based Medicine's recent work on youth gender medicine that remain uncorrected. pic.twitter.com/jUnVL1EnKc
20 July 2021: As Gorski compares me unfavorably to anti-vaxxers, his site still has up two articles with, by my count, 19 uncorrected errors. He should focus more on addressing that than on attacking me for calling a made-up quote a made-up quote. pic.twitter.com/0KKqBooi3T
20 July 2021: Not a single one of the people I called incorrigible pieces of shit have agreed to meet me halfway by adopting my political beliefs... what gives?
19 July 2021 (live): 8/ Because someone asked me via email: I didn't send this out to my subscribers. Not after the behemoth I sent everyone next week. I'll mention it in my next paid and free newsletters, though.
19 July 2021 (live): 7/ More. Shrier writes that kids who go on blockers + hormones are infertile. Eckert responds by claiming a case of successful fertility preservation in a kid who went through both. Except that kid hadn't gone on hormones yet -- it's right there in abstract. Blatant lying. pic.twitter.com/9AhnDlNhl7
19 July 2021: Can someone send me a PDF of this? Will delete this tweet after I've received it. Thank you! https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33795140/
19 July 2021 (live): 6/ More. https://twitter.com/BlanchardPhD/status/1417214999739740165
19 July 2021 (live): 5/ Sure enough, in the next post... Who could have seen this coming? https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1417194430310895621
19 July 2021 (live): 4/ After being informed their author had invented multiple quotes that supposedly appear in Irreversible Damage but which don't, Gorski and Novella went ahead and published Part 2 of this author's series without even a brief pause to figure out what the hell happened here. pic.twitter.com/GEVp5DU5tw
19 July 2021 (live): 3/ I came down on "misdemeanor plagiarism," which I think is accurate, but it's insane the hoops people will jump through to not see what's in front of their face.
19 July 2021 (live): 2/ It's a side note, but seeing people online try to argue that taking a published sentence on a very specific subject, ever-so-slightly changing the wording, and passing it off as your own without linking or citing isn't plagiariam, was wild.
19 July 2021 (live): New from me: Science-Based Medicine's Coverage Of "Irreversible Damage" Includes About 19 Errors, False Claims About Three Sex Researchers, Made-Up Quotes, And Endless Misinformation https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/science-based-medicines-coverage
18 July 2021: Science-Based Medicine has begun correcting the errors I have noted, but there is an error in this error correction. I never described the fabricated quote -- yes, it was fabricated -- as 'libelous.' Science-Based Medicine should correct this error in its error correction. pic.twitter.com/pxrGNi5A4r
16 July 2021: Could someone email me a PDF of this? Usual workaround not working. If this tweet is still up I don't have it yet so please refresh before taking the time to dwonload and send. Thank you! https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2019-52280-009
13 July 2021: 2/ If anyone has a timestamp for the shroommates moment please let me know -- I urgently need to send that clip to the friends who were with me that night
13 July 2021 (live): I sat down to speak with an up-and-coming podcast host named Joe Rogan https://open.spotify.com/episode/6iNgd3IPIK0OEXfyEQqZA8?si=f552ab61f07f4222
11 July 2021: i do fucking love those goddamn green chiles
11 July 2021 (live): everyone has super strong opinions about Austin food like OHNONONONONONO YOU WENT TO THE WRONG TACO PLACE YOU WERE OFF BY HALF A BLOCK KNOCK THRICE ON THE BARBERSHOP'S BACK DOOR AND ASK FOR PEDRO but I went to Torchy's and it was very good and if you disagree you hate America pic.twitter.com/KXuYoiP0DG
11 July 2021 (live): hmm pic.twitter.com/bU1D5brqD6
8 July 2021: Cat Person stole details from my life, I was the dude
7 July 2021: Could someone email me a PDF of this? If this tweet is still up I still need it -- will delete as soon as I have a copy. Thanks! https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bioe.12912
6 July 2021: I think @gorskon should address the numerous errors and distortions in Science Based Medicine's recent coverage of youth GD issues rather than try to attack my reputation behind the scenes. My full critique of his and Steve Novella's article will be up in a day or two. pic.twitter.com/NTDYtZhb6q
6 July 2021: The extent to which we are normalizing the habit of energetically digging through prior interactions with other human beings to search for evidence -- even circumstantial -- that we have been oppressed.......... pic.twitter.com/NTwtb7yBSn
5 July 2021: Blocked and Reported: Now Depraved, With Broken Will And Reason, Possible Possessed pic.twitter.com/pobKON53Po
1 July 2021: 15/ If you are a long-time SBM reader, the most pressing question should be about this discrepancy. I'm really baffled by this and thing it is genuinely dangerous when trusted institutions give such slanted guidance that runs so far ahead of the evidence.
1 July 2021 (live): 14/ Last thing: Compare the authoritative-sounding way the authors, who have no expertise in this area, summed up the evidence, versus how the NHS did in a systematic review. This is irresponsible. Full-stop. https://www.evidence.nhs.uk/document?id=2334889&returnUrl=search%3ffrom%3d2021-03-10%26q%3dEvidence%2bReview%26to%3d2021-04-01 pic.twitter.com/g5g0Ybi22C
1 July 2021: This is probably only of interest to those following the debate over youth gender dysphoria closely, but Science Based Medicine published a document that is strikingly out of line with basic standards of evidence, and suggets there's some real ideological capture there. https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1410700552598704130
1 July 2021 (live): 13/ that, as science communicators, it is also imperative for them to highlight the problems with the Turban study given how large it looms in a research ecosystem with so little data on that vital question. fin
1 July 2021 (live): 12/ At the very least, @gorskon and @stevennovella should correct their claim that a study in which the authors said they didn't have the stats to truly measure suicidality showed reduced suicidality. That is undeniably an error from a science comms perspective. I would argue
1 July 2021 (live): 11/ I had planned on writing about this and reached out to Gorski and Novella for comment. What they sent me in response suggested they had bought some clearly false claims, as I tried to point out! They stopped answering my (admittedly pointed) questions. pic.twitter.com/YtOrOy8aDo
1 July 2021 (live): 10/ I do think what's going on here is, to a certain extent, ideological capture. It's anecdotal and Twitter nonsense, yes, but for someone like Gorski to tweet "OK Karen" at J.K. Rowling suggests he might see this as a matter of allyship more than careful scientific evaluation. pic.twitter.com/TFxstIBIln
1 July 2021 (live): 9/ Ppl have been confused about this for years, in part because the listing was "gender identity disorder" in IV and "gender dsyphoria" in 5, but it's still a disorder, and in neither case was "My gender identity is different from my sex assigned at birth" sufficient to qualify
1 July 2021 (live): 8/ Also worrisome for an ostensibly evidence-based org: the recitation of plainly false activist talking points. It is not simply not the case that you could be diagnosed w/something in the DSM IV just by "having a gender identity that differs from the gender assigned at birth." pic.twitter.com/jk8pPjo3Cq
1 July 2021 (live): 7/ Zooming out, what's worrisome here is the way @gorskon and @stevennovella gesture vaguely at uncertainty in the lit without mentioning any of the major European medical authorities that are alarmed about what's going on in youth GD care. (From my Spectator piece.) pic.twitter.com/lBSJUuBoLJ
1 July 2021 (live): 6/After citing a study conducted on young people clearly confused about whether they had been put on blockers, the authors write "You cannot blind a trans individual to whether or not they received a gender affirming intervention." I guess not, but clearly there can be confusion!
1 July 2021 (live): 5/ "2020 study of pubertal blockers and suicidal ideation" which supposedly found an important link. That study has been torn to shreds, in part because the participants demonstrably did not know what puberty blockers are. https://mobile.twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1407459263111389193
28 June 2021: Our live video hangout with $10+ Patrons is at 9:00 pm Eastern / 6:00 pm Pacific tonight https://www.patreon.com/posts/june-10-patrons-53012395 Katie's dog Moose will be performing an extremely inappropriate striptease
28 June 2021: It sounds like we should be leery about giving broad deplatforming powers to such an incompetently run, for-profit institution. https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1409498743158812675
28 June 2021: What are some good examples of major liberal outlets providing oversimplified definitions of CRT that sand of its radical edges?* *I mean this descriptively! CRT folks themselves describe it as a radical theory
24 June 2021: Every email I get from Planned Parenthood of Greater New York makes it seem like less of an organization for poor/underinsured people and more like an organization for privileged, college-educated white #Resistance types pic.twitter.com/63KIfGQj0u
24 June 2021: This is such a silly hill to defend given that guns are portable https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1407812088739897346
23 June 2021: I call this Chickpea Whatever because it's chickpeas and literally whatever and turmeric and yogurt
20 June 2021: I really resent the fact that I can no longer trust outlets like the Post to report things accurately, sentence-to-sentence, in their news writing. There was never a push from Trump to "cancel all diversity trainings." You can just click the links and see that this is false. pic.twitter.com/IwnLU4cXft
20 June 2021: i had assumed that person didn't write anymore given this but apparently I was wrong since htey have recent bylines https://twitter.com/WomenReadWomen/status/1300891439451185152
20 June 2021 (live): Daily Dot: "others pointed out that Adichie is using her influence and audience to essentially harass a trans author." Essentially! These takes are wild and I don't understand how these outlets continue to exist. Who is this for? https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-twitter-essay-akwaeke-emezi/
19 June 2021: 4/ In yet more NYT coverage, this time in The Daily (just millions of downloads per day, nbd) they misrepresented the study even worse. Now it's completed suicides. Vox did the same thing. The legend of this one, broken study grows, and parents misinformed on a vital subject. pic.twitter.com/nKz71BepvM
19 June 2021: 3/ Jack Turban misrepresented his own study in the NYT. If his study had found a link w/suicidality in young adulthood, as he says (falsely), then it would offer a bit of evidence supporting his preferred causal explanation. It didn't. The link was to lifetime suicidality. pic.twitter.com/AgQUIXfKmu
19 June 2021: 2/ I am not exaggerating when I say "zero evidence." Journalistic coverage of this has been complete malpractice.
19 June 2021: This is another one of my super controversial, reactionary takes -- content warning etc. etc. -- but I think it's bad, rather than good, to tell parents that a medical treatment will make their children less suicidal when zero evidence supports this view. https://link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007/s10508-020-01743-6?sharing_token=4lxoAwCpdxDzBOmihD4WZPe4RwlQNchNByi7wbcMAY5lBImXdEDexLMlKT4blNwNtNWzs4LGAr-P1gm_KbcAAo-8hJe0sphrFwwZ95W9PmN6Gtz46rYIci4OyO7UA6547MPjEND0oAD1_tFGCacHlL3XQQnKZURnH8wbnmupfhU%3D
18 June 2021: This is just completely made-up. Seriously! Part One is about someone who identifies as a woman, and CMA uses 'she' pronouns. Part Two is about a nonbinary person and CMA uses 'they' pronouns. The level of dishonesty online continues to be staggering. https://twitter.com/LGBTfdn/status/1405559049203163137
17 June 2021: Some critiques of DEI are overstated, but then you get Vancouver cutting honors courses b/c the "district says they do not comply with the equity and inclusion goal of ensuring that all students can participate in every aspect of the curriculum" https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/british-columbia/article-vancouver-school-board-phases-out-honours-programs-in-high-schools/
17 June 2021: lol I lied last tweet of the night -- a snippet of a Pitchfork review someone just sent me OKAY GOODNIGHT NIGHT EVERYONE DON'T CALL OR REFERENCE THE COPS pic.twitter.com/GLOmJJ5NUc
17 June 2021 (live): I violated my no-tweeting-except-to-promote stuff rule today, repeatedly. I didn't get in any dumb fights or anything but I still feel stupid and sullied so I need you all to do a better job shaming me and harassing me.
17 June 2021: If there are any Derrick Bell experts online, I have a Critical Race Query
17 June 2021: Someone posted some truly epic internet history to the BARPod subreddit. I don't know if this is all accurate but I deeply want it to be. https://np.reddit.com/r/BlockedAndReported/comments/nznos4/episode_68_whiteness_whiteness_aclu_whiteness/h1sk1xj?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 pic.twitter.com/adIeEQWxqJ
16 June 2021: What was the recent story that purported to have actual data of some sort on the percentage of Native scholars actually of Native descent?
16 June 2021: If you know who this is referring to, DM me or email me. I'm not going to help spread their name but I'm curious.
16 June 2021 (live): This is the perfect mix of a "I am going to make some substantive points about the present culture" and "Holy fucking shit am I tired of being entangled with this person and tired of being polite"
16 June 2021 (live): whoaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa You gotta read this https://www.chimamanda.com/
15 June 2021: Really enjoyed this interview -- Sana and her producers were very well-prepped for it https://twitter.com/sana_qadar/status/1404599004478861312
11 June 2021: 2/ It's noteworthy that according to various well-credentialed voices, what this young woman said happened to her is impossible, because young people "know who they are" and couldn't be confused or influenced by external factors when it comes to something like this
11 June 2021 (live): Interesting video from a detransitioner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNsIpF7g2lQ&ab_channel=graysonsprojects
11 June 2021: Via Freddie deBoer's consistently great Substack (paywalled), the student body at the tony Dwight-Englewood School, w/annual tuition ranging $30k (for pre-school!) - $50k+, is now 0% white, because self-identifying as such is apparently frowned upon. https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/quickie-a-nation-of-dolezals?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo2MjY4MTYsInBvc3RfaWQiOjM3NDQ5MTQ1LCJfIjoiNk9MNzkiLCJpYXQiOjE2MjMzNzIwNjksImV4cCI6MTYyMzM3NTY2OSwiaXNzIjoicHViLTI5NTkzNyIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.2Q9IHMC4H0tpsjYP150w-xLpJaSSK4f-dPvLppPZins pic.twitter.com/rMjphe1LVh
10 June 2021: I gotta let this one lie but this is the only thing I think she could even be referring to, and if harshly criticizing Robin DiAngelo is out of bounds because that's considered rasing a fearmongering frenzy about CRT more broadly... I guess no one should criticize anything, ever! https://twitter.com/OmnesResNetwork/status/1402988990433619974
6 June 2021: Can someone point me to where in the Endocrine Society guidelines for youth transition they discuss how long blockers are safe? Or is this not explicitly mentioned?
3 June 2021: 2/ I am ashamed to say that I immediately accepted the claims of the many well-credentialed-sounding people who said this was a blockbuster study. It's swiss cheese! Just read this rundown of the methodology. We're in a real crisis of authority atm. https://medium.com/beingwell/can-white-doctors-treat-black-patients-61310d095a50
3 June 2021 (live): Great piece from my cohost a/b the moral panic that is starting to affect medical research and practice. I don't care about dumb college students being dumb. But when this stuff starts to badly distort important areas of research and life, we're in trouble https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/what-happens-when-doctors-cant-speak
1 June 2021: 3/ This is the weirdest strawman I have seen in my life. "Everyone's all like, 'Huh, we don't understand how the Holocaust happened. Literally no one has any idea because it's so disconnected from other historical forces.' Allow me to explain: white supremacy and colonialism."
1 June 2021: 2/ Definitely going to watch this film given that until this moment I always thought that the Holocaust was inexplicable and there were no historical forces that could explain how it happened. Seriously under-examined subject! I'm happy to learn that it was Whiteness wot done it.
1 June 2021: Decentering the role of anti-Semitism in causing the Holocaust, for social justice pic.twitter.com/T2MzMr08kJ
31 May 2021: . @BARPod watch party? Looks super good and not sanctimonious https://twitter.com/bbcthree/status/1396511745137512450
27 May 2021: Could someone email me a PDF of this? My normal method isn't working. I'll delete this tweet as soon as I have the paper. Thanks! https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11606-021-06786-6
7 May 2021: Hi Josh! I've been distracted the last day responding to your org's attempt to libel me, but this article I wrote a year ago, "Why The Hard Age Caps On Youth Gender Transition Being Proposed By Conservatives Are A Very Bad Idea," might be relevant. https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/why-the-hard-age-caps-on-youth-gender https://twitter.com/JoshABlock/status/1390457273865093122
29 April 2021: There is some stuff going on in liberal spaces that is crazy and worth pushing back against, but there's also a cohort of people who have fixated on that to the exclusion of all else and whose brans have melted even more than the people whose brainmelt sparked this whole issue!
29 April 2021: It won't do anything but I sent this to the editor who reached out to me about the correction. pic.twitter.com/TNvhpiXaRT
29 April 2021: They just throw in @mattyglesias 's name, implying controversy and a need for 'accountability,' w/o explaining how anyone could possibly view him as beyond the pale. It's Twitter-True, so no explanation needed -- we just know Matt is Bad. Such inexcusably loathsome 'journalism.' https://twitter.com/ConfusedMiddle/status/1387793318399012872
29 April 2021: Glad they corrected this but also glad the correction, which boils down to "We stated that something was true because people on Twitter said it was true," comes immediately before the appeal to give them money to make sure they can continue to promote "truth and integrity" pic.twitter.com/Z4giGevUW9
24 April 2021: This is just one study but I bet five years from now it'll be clear that the 'experts' were wrong about almost everything 'rona-related, other than the basic stuff like "Don't be in crowds without a mask" https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/23/mit-researchers-say-youre-no-safer-from-covid-indoors-at-6-feet-or-60-feet-in-new-study.html
23 April 2021: I am bad at internet. What is the current URL for the Substack leaderboards?
21 April 2021: I can't believe The Quick Fix has sold 1.2 billion copies... just insanely grateful https://twitter.com/rhymeswithbee/status/1384949084537098240
21 April 2021: Is there any straightforward breakdown showing average SAT score by family income decile, all else controlled for?
21 April 2021: "We dropped our client before investigating whether the allegations against him are true." https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2021-04-20/blake-bailey-philip-roth-biographer-dropped-by-agent pic.twitter.com/lx4Ncl9ILT
18 April 2021: Is there any consensus on the least amount of time you can go between doses 1 and 2? Is three weeks the bare minimum?
16 April 2021: Are there events types whose job is to try to set up live podcast tapings? Is that a thing?
16 April 2021: Watching vanilla reference websites try to get woke is so cringe https://www.webmd.com/sex/what-is-demisexual-demisexuality
16 April 2021: 1/ This is REALLY misleading. Almost dangerously so. He did have a gun in his hand one moment before the shooting. I don't think anyone should be stating, with confidence, exactly what happened here, but that's an absolutely vital detail to leave out. https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2021/4/15/22383392/adam-toledo-shooting-video-released-chicago-police-bodycam https://twitter.com/ajplus/status/1382787596556894209
15 April 2021: just a lil whoopsie! jfcjfcjfcjfc https://twitter.com/ajplus/status/1382787596556894209
15 April 2021: These videos are always horrific but this one's particularly bad in that it involves a 13-year-old who was clearly complying https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/video-fatal-chicago-police-shooting-13-year-old-adam-toledo-n1264172
14 April 2021: What's the West Village Middle Eastern place that has like 'mother' or 'daughter' in it, something like that? Killing me I can't remember but it was so good. Outdoor seating and on a major avenue.
14 April 2021: My 3-year-old child Trope just toddled up to me and said "Daddy, am I even real? Or was I summoned into existence solely to serve as ammunition in an ephemeral Twitter spat you will have no memory of in six hours?" Precocious lad!
14 April 2021: What are the best, most trusted charities dedicated to helping people with depression, either via funding research or treatment for individuals?
12 April 2021: Here's an 80-minute chat with @meghan_daum about my book and other stuff https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkLnBvZGJlYW4uY29tL3RoZXVuc3BlYWthYmxlcG9kY2FzdC9mZWVkLnhtbA/episode/dGhldW5zcGVha2FibGVwb2RjYXN0LnBvZGJlYW4uY29tL2JhNGU3ZGM0LWUxZWUtMzM2YS1hODViLTkzMTkzOTAwZTE2MQ?hl=en&ved=2ahUKEwjZwumn6_jvAhUYElkFHWbaCm8QieUEegQIIRAF&ep=6
11 April 2021: An antihero film about a mastermind Nazi who infiltrates Jewish communities during World War II to gain intel on the resistance -- The AshkeNazi
11 April 2021: For paid subscribers, I wrote about the potential socioeconomic status and homophily confounds in those classic experiments showing that 'black' names are penalized relative to 'white' ones in the American labor market https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/social-science-is-hard-resume-audit?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo2MjY4MTYsInBvc3RfaWQiOjM1MDI1NzY5LCJfIjoiV2cxcngiLCJpYXQiOjE2MTgxNDY0MzAsImV4cCI6MTYxODE1MDAzMCwiaXNzIjoicHViLTQ4MzMiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.Zcm0fbt3rZCji8QPzCFlbnORcOOScyGMCQdnHTIiQtU
11 April 2021: For paid subscribers, I wrote about the potential socioeconomic status and homophily confounds in those classic experiments showing that 'white' names are penalized relative to 'black' ones in the American labor market https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/social-science-is-hard-resume-audit?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo2MjY4MTYsInBvc3RfaWQiOjM1MDI1NzY5LCJfIjoiV2cxcngiLCJpYXQiOjE2MTgxNDY0MzAsImV4cCI6MTYxODE1MDAzMCwiaXNzIjoicHViLTQ4MzMiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.Zcm0fbt3rZCji8QPzCFlbnORcOOScyGMCQdnHTIiQtU
10 April 2021: with that husky voice of his? more like d m sex
8 April 2021: 1/ I offered @peez money for his professional-level production of My Flow Is Non-Replicable and he turned me down (jerk). So I forced him to name a charity or two and I'm donating in his name. First is to Against Malaria... pic.twitter.com/wTpRaVq0zA
8 April 2021: Important to reach a homoestasis in which half the strangers tweeting at you are accusing you of killing kids for doing X, and the other half for not doing X
8 April 2021: i'm a dark motherfucker but this is too much even for me https://twitter.com/moebius_strip/status/1380002550582190080
6 April 2021: 5/ Isn't this... extortion? pic.twitter.com/pnNebCmSkt
5 April 2021 (live): 4/ If I don't tell them, who will? Maybe I can pick up some work consulting for them on social-science matters. pic.twitter.com/BsEH3X6eaP
5 April 2021 (live): 3/ This organization is so incompetent that they are spreading the rumor that sexual truama turns you gay in order to... I don't know what
5 April 2021 (live): 2/ I am obviously not commenting on the study -- no idea if it's legit. I'm just trying to show the quality of research being used to create a list specifically designed to cause damage to people's careers and reputations via defamation.
5 April 2021 (live): GLAAD: "There is no proven link between sexual trauma and sexual orientation or gender identity." Study linked to on "no proven link": There is a link between sexual trauma and sexual orientation This is a very credible organization. I hope their third try is better researched. pic.twitter.com/vpMfVuCOz7
4 April 2021: No black-white disparities in the covid mortality rate among those with an education level less than "some college." https://cdn1.sph.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1266/2021/02/21_Chen_covidMortality_Race_Education_HCPDS_WorkingPaper_Vol-21_No-3_Final_footer.pdf pic.twitter.com/kcN2n5eoUZ
4 April 2021: No black-white disparities in the covid mortality rate among those with less than a college degree. https://cdn1.sph.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1266/2021/02/21_Chen_covidMortality_Race_Education_HCPDS_WorkingPaper_Vol-21_No-3_Final_footer.pdf pic.twitter.com/3NbtKWBbYC
3 April 2021: Liberal white discourse on race is super healthy and not at all condescending at the moment. Definitely nothing weird going on and no psychological hangups being projected out in the guise of allyship. pic.twitter.com/l93hMM9ajt
2 April 2021: It is impossible to do standard investigatory journalism on the controversy surrounding youth GD without this happening to you. pic.twitter.com/tVQZaJwh9h
2 April 2021: People are going completely insane https://twitter.com/rhymeswithbee/status/1378006562992758786
2 April 2021: extremely grateful pic.twitter.com/7FsQETnU57
2 April 2021: 3/ I understand that for a lot of you guys, constantly invoking the threat of suicides in response to everything has become a really important part of your online brand. But it's also potentially harmful, unless you know something all these orgs (including HRC and GLAAD) do not. pic.twitter.com/8prYBXDA6h
2 April 2021 (live): 2/ "DON’T talk about suicide “epidemics” or suicide rates for LGBT people." pic.twitter.com/YmPct1vDDu
2 April 2021 (live): 1/ From an American Foundation for Suicide Prevention guide: "DON’T attribute a suicide death to a single factor (such as bullying or discrimination) or say that a specific anti-LGBT law or policy will 'cause' suicide." https://www.datocms-assets.com/12810/1576937561-talking-about-suicide-and-lgbt-populations-2nd-edition.pdf pic.twitter.com/PI8kzlCuEH
2 April 2021: In all likelihood you'll regret not doing stuff way more than doing stuff https://twitter.com/itoldmythe/status/1377590932229476354
2 April 2021: Find me ANY other podcast that so consumes the minds of its enemies they obtain transcripts (which we don't even provide!) of our paywalled episoes and pore over them in search of material to be offended by pic.twitter.com/XF2WV4RPKz
1 April 2021: What are your 'favorite' recent examples of hyper-inflated harm claims not from random Tumblrites but in contexts where they should genuinely concern us?
1 April 2021: What Ben is failing to realize in this dismissive trip is that when you did a fellowship in Berlin, as I have (Bosch '13 - '14), you notice that there is a particular character to the way the light streams through the buildings lining Karl-Marx-Straße at the peak of June's glory, https://twitter.com/bendreyfuss/status/1377726290065829888
31 March 2021: I was making a diagnosis?? What planet are you on, man?
31 March 2021: 2/ There is something that comes across as almost a desire for kids to kill themselves for point-proving purposes in this rhetoric. It's completely sick.
31 March 2021 (live): This attitude, that any coverage of youth transition that "asks questions" about the efficacy of hormones and blockers leads directly to "a bunch of dead kids," is so disturbing I don't even know where to begin. I feel like I'm living on another planet from people like this. https://twitter.com/CashmereRebel1/status/1377379849946468353
31 March 2021: 4/ What really gets me is that if someone asked "Hey, was you kid ever assessed for gender dysphoria by a competent clinician?," they would be raked over the coals. This is such a deeply fucked up environment in which to discuss children's healthcare. These are big decisions...
31 March 2021: 3/ Kid's a natal male. In the thread Dad explains that her saying, on one occasion, at 5 years old, she was a girl, in direct response to Mom's priming, helped to explain the fact that she had preferred long hair to that point. If you don't find that troubling... ¯_(ツ)_/¯
31 March 2021: 2/ It could be the dad who authored it is leaving something out and there's more evidence than what he provides, but what sucks is anyone who directly responds will be accused of harassment, despite this being exactly the sort of thing we should probably discuss more openly.
31 March 2021: 2/ It could be the dad who authored it is leaving something out and there's more evidence than what he provides, but what sucks is anyone who directly responds will be accused of harassment, despite this being exactly the sort of thing we should probably talk abou topenly.
31 March 2021: There is a thread going around, being retweeted very enthusiastically by everyone, that I find really disturbing. Kid about to go on puberty blockers who doesn't appear to have ever had gender dysphoria. That anyone thinks this is good baffles me.
31 March 2021: The Daily Beast has graduated to just out an enemies list of ostensibly anti-trans figures without explaining what most of them even did. I'm just glad they finally brought Dan Savage to justice -- that dude has been an oppressor forever. pic.twitter.com/DUxzsGFkBm
31 March 2021: there are no consensus criteria for assigning the category 'pocaster' to an individual
30 March 2021: Good news everyone: It has been determined by Science (which, as my upcoming book argues, is never wrong), that I am the 94th most important public intellectual in the country, just one slot behind Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida, to whom I owe everything http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/the-top-150-intellectuals-selected-competitively/
29 March 2021: 3/ It's like the difference between "That was a disorganized workplace and I never had clear guidance" and "That was a disorganized workplace and the lack of clear guidance caused me to deeply question my own sense of worth every day in a manner that still haunts me"
29 March 2021 (live): More than anything else, Twitter selects for the sort of person who, upon suffering a small papercut on their pinky, falls to the ground howling and crying and rolling around for 20 minutes
27 March 2021: Is there still an archive MP3 of the podcast available somewhere? Would love to nab if someone has.
27 March 2021: 3/ I said 'alleged' in the first tweet because by then he had been arrested of the crimes but not yet convicted.
27 March 2021 (live): 2/ If the person in question had posted once to an alt-right forum and was subsequently called merely 'controversial,' there'd be a daylong pileon about how Verge's headline was irresponsible, harmful, etc. You shouldn't take people trying to micromanage headlines etc. seriously.
27 March 2021 (live): 1/ I know we could play this game all day, but more evidence explaining why I find many of the calls for "moral clarity" in journalism pretty disingenuous. "Controversial" = "appointed her father, a violent pedophile rapist, as her election agent." pic.twitter.com/wAuiWNoM9h
27 March 2021 (live): Anyway, the problem one faces as a writer these days is that there's an asymmetry. I can't honestly claim that when the people I disagree with merely express their disagreement, it is causing a tidal wave of trauma and shock and horror. Makes it hard to discuss stuff!
27 March 2021 (live): Something worth keeping in mind is that if one guy on one pod lightly questioning the "structural racism" frame causes "an incalculable amount of pain," what words do we have left to describe, for example, low-income, minority patients dying painfully of preventable illnesses?
27 March 2021 (live): I find it very unlikely that this is true, that physicians and doctors experienced an "incalculable amount of pain" because one guy on one podcast lightly questioned the "structural racism" frame. This is a moral panic. pic.twitter.com/USp3prURm8
27 March 2021 (live): This is completely insane and wildly disproportionate to the original 'offense' These institutions are having major moral panics https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/25/health/jama-bauchner-race-medicine.html
26 March 2021 (live): obviously shoulda been "has a heritable component" blah blah blah blah blah BLAH
26 March 2021: Is there a good term for the fallacy "We can't accept that X is Y, because then bad people will say Z"? As in, "If we say that intelligence is heritable, Nazis will create evil eugenics theories"? I feel like there is and I am blanking on it terribly.
24 March 2021: Last night I recorded a @fourbeerspod pod. Last time I was on, same deal: -feverish, time-consuming tweeting trying to get them in trouble for hosting me (didn't even talk gender) -requests for evdience -claims that it is exhausting, too much labor, etc. to provide evidence https://twitter.com/L0G1c9UY/status/1374546313409355776
24 March 2021: RT @jessesingal: @DrDavidLey @cmclymer @glaad Clymer herself was the subject of a ridiculously over-the-top pileon before her transition,…
24 March 2021: Clymer herself was the subject of a ridiculously over-the-top pileon before her transition, in 2014. It's so internet-famous she had her own hashtag 'warning' people about her, #StopClymer . To just turn around and subject others to the same treatment is really disgraceful.
24 March 2021 (live): This is really messed up, Charlotte. I've responded at length, pointing out this entry was riddled with errors I addressed year ago. And now almost the entire list has been temporarily pulled down. Stop using your platform to launch dishonest pileons. https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/glaad-took-false-previously-disproven
23 March 2021: The incompetents at @glaad have taken down my page, likely because they quickly realized it was incredibly defamatory. To be clear I issued no threats, legal or otherwise. BEYOND unacceptable. I can't believe they put me through this. https://www.glaad.org/gap/jesse-singal pic.twitter.com/rcJunWUIHi
23 March 2021: 2/ Because we live in the Upside Down, none of the people who treated every Trump utterance as a Grave Threat To Free Speech (some were!) will lift a finger to look into whether a $6b tech giant owned by a corporate behemoth is permabanning users who criticize its employee.
23 March 2021 (live): UK politician named Aimee Knight (née Challenor) hired by Reddit after being kicked out of multiple parties across the pond over scandals involving both her father and her partner and pedophilia. Unless Reddit can explain it certainly appears to be nuking negative mentions of her https://twitter.com/TradNorm/status/1374347739715284994
23 March 2021: This will be our first day with more than 15,000 first-day downloads. https://twitter.com/lushperson/status/1374174412589592583
23 March 2021: noah berlatsky himself could learn a lot from this but he won't
22 March 2021: Once again I have been silenced, like so many other martyrs throughout the ages pic.twitter.com/l5KTj8ahXb
22 March 2021: One fear I have is that because so many journalists have had annoying Twitter run-ins with this guy, and they tend to escalate quickly and get pretty surreal, one of the low-key craziest things he has ever seen is slipping under the radar. pic.twitter.com/DMUinEI7Ly
22 March 2021: 3/ On the other point, though, that I am in fear of competition from JD and therefore must discredit him, yes, that is completely true and makes a lot of sense and is how media works. Heidi has seen through a plan that was years in the making.
22 March 2021: 2/ To be clear I'm SO happy with how this Substack thing has worked out! These guys should try that whole "keep writing until you've built up an audience" thing, which certainly takes time, but clearly they have time what w/all the tweeting. They spread so much misinformation!
22 March 2021: I make less than 1/10 of what Yglesias does (if he hadn't taken the advance), and I believe MY makes less than Taibbi. It slightly worries me that these weirdos have built an entire parallel antifanfiction universe with so little connection to the one the rest of us inhabit.. pic.twitter.com/T5GUWxq7iZ
21 March 2021: I might be dumb and do something newslettery about the burgeoning panic over this 60 Minutes thing. I'd like to get a better grasp on all the pieces which are at all sympathetic to detransition narratives that have been pubbed since my 2018 Atlantic piece. What comes to mind?
21 March 2021: 'um' pic.twitter.com/37WfcTy0vl
21 March 2021: 3/ Part of the rage here is that people who are very entitled and used to having a lot of power to determine what is true and what is right are being greatly diminished by the collapse of journalism and the rise of direct-sub services like Substack. So they lash out adolescently.
21 March 2021: 2/ The idea that the average politically engaged normie has any idea that the 50 worst people in left journalism have decided Substack is Bad is as silly as the idea that the average politicaly engaged normie knows they're not "supposed to" link to Quillette.
21 March 2021 (live): "Gained a reputation for X" = "TNR, writing stenographically about a small group of angry tweeters and blog posts, has decided X is true." That isn't how things work anymore. The failure to understand this is part of the reason so many of these outlets are floundering helplessly. pic.twitter.com/PzzQYmOJcN
20 March 2021: 1. I don't know why @ronhogan thinks I received startup money from Substack. I did not. Please correct. 2. Ron has... turned off his own Substack income because he is morally outraged at the possibilty of... not sure. I have never been owned so hard. pic.twitter.com/b4IulbMgvd
20 March 2021: Anyone have a screenshot of Graham Linehan's original tweet falsely accusing someone of 'grooming'? Google not helping and I wanna make sure I reference the phrasing correctly.
20 March 2021: . @kittypurrzog and I went on Useful Idiots with @kthalps and @mtaibbi and it was a lot of fun. Of COURSE you're gonna listen to the whole thing BUT 33:00 - me talking about my book 56:00 - Katie joins for Substack-brouhaha discussion https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/useful-idiots-podcast-jesse-singal/comments#comment-1542325
20 March 2021: It strikes me as unlikely that if you took all the people who left Substack in this confused huff and combined what they had netted for the platform in the last year, it would be anything but a tiny fraction of what they'll make in Yglesias's first year alone pic.twitter.com/HeMzqOLKnF
20 March 2021: This at least resembles a real argument BUT 1. Substack only said it's neutral in that it takes a liberal stance on free-speech/moderation 2. Substack would have been psychotic to promise total neutrality in terms of who it choices to fund as a business decision! Never https://twitter.com/yeshallbeasgods/status/1373075675591012356
20 March 2021 (live): What is the principled case for why it is important, transparency-wise, to know exactly how much Substack has paid or advanced every writer, but not for us to know exactly what every NYT staffer makes?
19 March 2021: It's so weird to me that Aaron Rupar can do this and Vox just thinks it's... fine? Like, in this case you can very clearly trace the damage of this dishonest clip, and it was considerable https://reason.com/2021/03/19/aaron-robert-long-spa-killer-atlanta-jay-baker-cop-bad-day/
19 March 2021: The Biden administration has decided to potentially demolish some young people's careers because they smoked pot. What a disgraceful move. https://www.thedailybeast.com/biden-white-house-sandbags-staffers-sidelines-dozens-for-pot-use
19 March 2021: 5/ Someone pointed out that someone will see the "incognito mode" thing and be like HE IS TELLING PEOPLE TO EVADE BLOCKS. Nononono. I am saying I don't want to risk people not seeing harassment that is there because of blocks. People can judge for themselves.
19 March 2021: 4/ A massive number of these 'harassment' accusations are "I criticized someone and they and their followers disagreed, sometimes archly." If that's harassment then half the folks making accusations ABOUT harassment are harassers! (Not Serano, who isn't sharp-elbowed on Twitter.)
19 March 2021: 3/ This exact same thing happened when I responded to Nicole Cliffe. She subsequently left for what she described as a regular break from Twitter, and half of lefty Twitter -- folks like David Klion -- announced I had "harassed her off it," or similar language, with no evidence.
19 March 2021: 2/ Some of this is internet shitflinging (on both sides), but underpinning it is a substantive disagreement about youth GD research. As I told Serano in an email, if she ever wants to discuss -- not 'debate' -- on my podcast, she's welcome. But by no means obligated.
19 March 2021: I understand that I'm going to have wave after wave of accusation hurled at me, but in this case it's pretty simple. Start incognito mode (so that blocks don't matter) and enter this URL to search Serano's mentions. You won't see much harassment... https://twitter.com/search?q=to%3Ajuliaserano%20&src=typed_query&f=live pic.twitter.com/9kJUzvHSAd
19 March 2021: god fucking dammit pic.twitter.com/Ul31BtrWEm
18 March 2021: There aren't enough chefs kiss emojis for "Substack is too immoral because [reasons] -- I like the cut of this 'Twitter' service's jib, so let's transfer there." pic.twitter.com/yF87IoX8X5
18 March 2021: 3/ I cannot repeat enough how much these people are hacks, desperately trying to write stuff, no matter how hasty or inaccurate, to make sure they are on the right side of a moral panic. It's undignified for writers to act like this.
18 March 2021: 2/ This'll be your second correction after you slagged Fredde deBoer as 'transphobic,' immediately acknowledged you had no idea whether he was, and stealth-edited the body. You shouldn't wander into new areas and sling accusations, @craigcalcaterr. It's objectional discourse. pic.twitter.com/Qo1bvbA1ve
18 March 2021 (live): Hi @craigcalcaterra ! I'm very alarmed that you have accused me of engaging in "objectionable discourse" -- it sounds serious and I'll be looking into this for sure. Problem is, I never got an advance from Substack so you should correct this. https://cupofcoffee.substack.com/p/cup-of-coffee-march-18-2021 pic.twitter.com/ObX3nEXQFH
17 March 2021: 1. Start a Substack on a platform someone you view as literally genocidal (me) has already been on for more than a year 2. Wait awhile 3. Complain how deeply outraged you are that you share a platform with me 4. This makes a lot of sense and isn't contrived outrage nonsense https://twitter.com/amywestervelt/status/1372012037316825094
17 March 2021: 2/Of course the guy's statement might not be honest. My point is the journalistic thing, in my opinion, is to report that as of now it appears to be more about this weird sex-addiction thing than an anti-Asian hate crime (and he did kill two white women)! Maybe we'll learn more.
17 March 2021: Hate crimes are such an understandable source of horror that I do think it's important to be precise and to stick with what we know about motivations. In this case, it doesn't appear to be race-related, so we shouldn't spread the (apparent) misinformation that it is. pic.twitter.com/Swn9FL0IfD
16 March 2021: I know this is petty but I cannot STAND people trying to fuck with other people's abilities to make a living on such thin and insanely exaggerated premises. It infuriates me. It's insane this is considered acceptable across a wide swath of media these days. Cops everywhere.
16 March 2021: I'm sorry you guys weren't able to get me kicked off Substack :(
16 March 2021: dozens of DMs and emails in the last few days yet https://twitter.com/MatthewGalanty/status/1371578737817485317
15 March 2021: Thread of My Brianna Wu Experience. Guys, I'm so scared right now. Not sure I should be alone........... https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1371467464333221889
14 March 2021: Substack is botching this catastrophically. For them to respond to Jude Doyle's post falsely accusing me of stalking many people by offering to pay him money -- an offer he (of course!) rejected unless they boot me from the platform -- is a really ominous sign. pic.twitter.com/IrohVt91a0
14 March 2021 (live): (2/ I originally tweeted this with the wrong pronouns for Jude but promptly deleted it. I apologize, but would note the insane asymmetry in which accidental misgendering is treated as horrible but unhinged fabrication of alleged crimes is meh, no big deal.)
14 March 2021: Just to catch everyone up: 1. Doyle uses Substack to accuse me of stalking countless people -- there's so much evidence he can't provide any 2. Substack responds by offering him money 3. He says no unless I am kicked off the platform Substack is fucking this up horribly pic.twitter.com/xj7FnB7y0G
14 March 2021: Just to catch everyone up: 1. Doyle uses Substack to accuse me of stalking countless people -- there's so much evidence she can't provide any 2. Substack responds by offering her money 3. She says no unless I am kicked off the platform Substack is fucking this up horribly pic.twitter.com/70Dov5szBC
13 March 2021: 2/ You can read more about this here: https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/how-science-vs-accidentally-invented
13 March 2021 (live): This is what drives me crazy about these ignorant people with NO reporting experience on this issue wandering into these convos. Childhood GD is considered a mental illness in the DSM. Maybe it shouldn't be! There's an argument. But he just has no familiarity with the subject. https://twitter.com/samthielman/status/1370813795883442177
13 March 2021: 1/ Edward Livingston has resigned as deputy editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) because he briefly and mildly questioned "structural racism" as a concept on a podcast mostly given over to advocating for it https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/947256
12 March 2021: "I will correct the false claim, but be warned that I'm also going to include links to these stories bashing you, noen of which bear on the false claim I made." So weird this dude got fired! https://twitter.com/broderick/status/1370401498564325376
12 March 2021: It is alarming to me that someone in as powerful a position as you is comfortable with the idea that Substack should be more aggressively censoring its writers. What do you mean by this?
10 March 2021: It is important we take him in earnest here, and give him a lot of attention, because he isn't the sort of person who flits around from identity to identity and belief to belief just to keep a spotlight on himself https://t.co/3b3OzdkgKb
8 March 2021: 9/ You can still listen to the original here
8 March 2021 (live): 8/ Update: The podcast was deleted and replaced with a brief statement in which the EIC asserts that its content had been "inaccurate, offensive, hurtful, and inconsistent with the standards of JAMA."
8 March 2021 (live): 7/ When people tell you, over and over, including with HR complaints, "You are not allowed to disagree on this subject," believe them! This does not represent a joint, pluralistic effort to work through these issues and achieve justice. It's much more authoritarian than that.
8 March 2021 (live): 6/ the host's mild disagreement with the structural racism idea, and that's why he's being dragged in for "restorative justice." If you don't think this is a moral panic I have no idea what to tell you. But feel free to listen to the episode -- it's just 15 minutes or so.
8 March 2021 (live): 5/ Should add that the controversy kicked off because of a silly tweet that seems, to me, like a failed framing device illuminating the individual/structural racism divide (unless you think JAMA was literally claiming there are no racist doctors). But the letter was clearly about pic.twitter.com/8n3Xn7yOT1
8 March 2021 (live): 4/In theory, "we respect each individual’s right to express his or her own opinions[.]" That said, the bosses "will be facilitating a Restorative Justice session w/his department and the DGSOM Office of Equity and Diversity Inclusion." At the bottom of the letter, bigwigs' names.
8 March 2021 (live): 3/ That the podcast host expressed some mild skepticism of structural racism was a sign of "white fragility" (link to fawning New Yorker essay on DiAngelo). "[W]e write to acknowledge the harms inflicted, and to help begin to repair them, at a minimum through solidarity." pic.twitter.com/WMRwV7LIRS
8 March 2021 (live): 2/ Because of an online outcry, including a highly circulated tweet claiming the podcast was "violent at best," UCLA Health blasted out a "Statement on JAMA tweet, podcast" to its entire system. It is pretty amazing and cultish. pic.twitter.com/FV53IA5yU1
8 March 2021 (live): 1/ The host of a Journal of the American Medical Association podcast expressed some skepticism over the concept of structural racism as it's commonly used, in an ep that devoted ~9x as much time to allowing his guest to advocate for SR as a useful concept. https://edhub.ama-assn.org/jn-learning/audio-player/18587774
7 March 2021: If a right-wing outlet announced, via headline, that a Trump policy which had just passed had succeeded in the long term success, people would rightfully roll their eyes pic.twitter.com/C3Sh7OJcp3
7 March 2021: I'm editing an 80-minute interview with a gender clinician that I think and hope people will find useful. Should be up this week. Pretty in-depth discussion of what that sort of work is like, certain current controversies, etc. etc.
5 March 2021: 13/ I should add that Seligman disagrees on the quality of the evidence for PRP/CSF, and in the chapter I explain why I don’t buy his rebuttal, and provide much more detail on how all this happened -- there are entire subplots I don't mention here. Thanks for reading!
5 March 2021: 12/ If you're interested in the social/institutional/cultural dynamics that cause this to happen, over and over and over, in various organizations, you might like my book. https://www.amazon.com/Quick-Fix-Psychology-Cant-Social/dp/0374239800/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
5 March 2021: 11/ But for the most part, it wasn’t a mess driven by malice. I do think the PPC routinely oversells its wares, including here, but at the end of the day CSF happened because good people tried to help a vulnerable group and simply didn't know how to rigorously evaluate evidence.
5 March 2021: 10/ It shouldn’t come as a surprise that there’s zero evidence that CSF, a mandatory Army program for over a decade, does anything to help soldiers. After all, there was never a strong theoretical rationale for the program. The whole thing was just a mess.
5 March 2021: 9/ Third, in designing CSF, Seligman and his colleagues added to the general PRP formula all sorts of other stuff from the positive psychology world that has even less evidence behind it. That means “PRP works, so CSF will” is an even weaker claim than it would be otherwise.
5 March 2021: 8/ Second, even if there were stronger evidence for PRP, for obvious reasons you can’t jump from “This program prevents depression and anxiety in 10-14-year-old students in general school settings” to “This program prevents PTSD and suicide in 18+ -year-olds in combat zones.”
5 March 2021: 7/ It openly questioned “whether PRP’s effects on depressive symptoms lead to clinically meaningful benefits for its participants.” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4667774/ So the progenitor and basis of CSF, PRP, was not itself validated as clinically useful.
5 March 2021: 6/ But CSF was the stretchiest of behavioral-scientific stretches for multiple reasons. First, as CSF was being implemented, a major meta-analysis of PRP came out, coauthored by its creator. It found statistically significant results, but small ones:
5 March 2021: 5/ It was rolled out to all the Army’s soldiers as a mandatory program without any pilot testing, despite what experts like Rich McNally and Seligman himself recommended. The Army was too excited, the urgency of this effort was too great. (Screenshot from my book.) pic.twitter.com/q4LMrC5TlG
5 March 2021: 4/ the Penn Resilience (or Resiliency) Program that, he and his colleagues claimed, prevented depression and anxiety among middle-school students, and could be adapted to military use. He won the Army over and soon Seligman and his PPC were leading this big new prevention effort.
5 March 2021: 3/ and fast. For reasons I explain in the chapter (reasons which might be less conspiratorial than some think), it eventually turned to the positive psychology pioneer Marty Seligman, who runs UPenn’s Positive Psychology Center. Seligman’s Center had an intervention called
5 March 2021: 2/Back in the late Aughts, the military had a crisis on its hands: The Iraq and Afghanistan wars had led to a horrifying uptick in PTSD, suicide, and (less frequently) trauma-related violent crimes, many of which made headlines, among vets. The Army, in particular, needed to act—
5 March 2021: 1/ There's one chapter of my book, which is out April 6th, that I'm particularly excited to get out in the world, because it's about a subtle military scandal that has been hiding in plain sight, and which has probably cost taxpayers north of $500 million. https://www.amazon.com/Quick-Fix-Psychology-Cant-Social/dp/0374239800/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
5 March 2021: I don't know who this person is and for all I know they're brilliant but there are definitely some grifters setting up shop in the 'disinformation' and 'deradicalization' spaces at the moment
4 March 2021: This person has 3k YouTube subs. She isn't a 'star' by any stretch of the imagination. This case is disturbing, yes, but it's clearly only being covered by TP because she's trans. It's ugly to do this. pic.twitter.com/g7VBoW97Wd
2 March 2021: I'm giving a way copies of some book called "The Quick Fix" by some jerk on my newsletter. Gotta be a free subscriber and contest open until tomorrow night https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/win-a-copy-of-the-quick-fix-why-fad
1 March 2021: i think she is just mad at bari weiss if i had to guess. hence the 'she' pronoun and the description that matches BW. Also "they aren't value-neutral" is very silly given a recent post in which they said "we aren't value-neutral." people just wanna be mad
25 February 2021: It's DR. Potato. A PhD in geography doesn't maker her any less of a DOCTOR!
23 February 2021: Mike Pesca was suspended in a memo sent "late last night," according to Defector. Noon today I got an email saying my interview, scheduled for March 29, was cancelled. Don't understand why they would be cancellation-racing like this unless the plan was to drop him completely. pic.twitter.com/fPj2oWbRPQ
20 February 2021: "It's not the right time to be sober Now the [radlibs] have taken over..." - NOFX https://nypost.com/2021/02/20/nyc-educator-fired-for-refusing-black-panther-salute-suit/
20 February 2021: I think public schools should absolutely be able to debate whether the U.S. is fundamentally racist! It stopped being explicitly so like 30 seconds ago. It's one thing to attack the worst excesses of diversity trainings but this is a clearly politicized right-wing PC power grab https://twitter.com/ciphergoth/status/1362908768913088513
19 February 2021 (live): 2/ Same author https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1228812321969098754
19 February 2021: Jezebel has applied the same standards of accuracy and rigor to a quick, jokey post about a film trailer that they apply to their 'investigative' articles (Chun Li is from Street Fighter, not Mortal Kombat) https://jezebel.com/who-forgot-to-invite-chun-li-to-the-mortal-kombat-1846300631
19 February 2021: 4/ in a controversy, except in your own paraphrasing, and then treat the other side's arguments so skeptically. It's hampering the quality of the show and weakening the case against BA.
19 February 2021 (live): 3/many people would roll their eyes at. Similarly, Adam Rapaport is fidgety at a meeting with staffers who want to capitalize the 'b' in black... and then we hear he's fidgety in all meetings because of ADD. I don't think you can explicity refuse to include the voices of one side
19 February 2021 (live): 2/ clean up a conference room before a meeting (the sort of task sometimes delegated to an EA who has just graduated from college). It's frustrating because the show mixes genuine, visceral insights into what it must feel like to be a "diversifier" with stuff like that that
19 February 2021 (live): 1/ In part because some of Reply All's reporting on Bon Appetit was too credulous, at one point a young woman who is a third-generation Stanford grad (her mom and grandmother both went there) complains that after she was hired at BA as an executive assistant, she was asked to
18 February 2021: Is there any good program that'll let me capture audio playing on my computer as an MP3? I literally just want to grab 15 seconds of a podcast for our podcast but can't figure out how because I'm dumb.
17 February 2021: "During a heated dinner conversation after a day trip to an ancient Incan temple complex, McNeil began sparring with several students over a high-profile internet controversy. 'Gamers?,' the veteran science journalist said, according to three of students. 'Gamers are dead.' "
8 February 2021: 5/ Valenti herself experienced every conceivable accusation of racism during a bad-faith 2012 pileon. Should her career be over because a very angry group of people accused her? If not, why not? What standard would she apply to herself and to her friends? https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/feminisms-toxic-twitter-wars/
8 February 2021 (live): 4/ (Someone who, contra Valenti, thinks "cancel culture" is real and immediately determines this is an instance of it is making the same mistake in the other direction.)
8 February 2021 (live): 3/ This is a useful way to encourage people to turn their brains off and defer to pundits who build their brands around certain fights. If you reframe a new incident as part of that fight, you grant yourself authority over it despite being just as in the dark as everyone else.
8 February 2021 (live): 2/ out exactly what happened here -- and one thing that happened is a journo appears to have been forced out for mentioning a word the Times itself mentioned 20 times in the last year -- you're supposed to just use your thoughts on "cancel culture" or MeToo as a heuristic.
8 February 2021 (live): 1/ We're reaching a dangerous point where every single controversy immediately gets stripped of important details and simply slotted generically into some preexisting culture-war fight everyone already has strongly established feelings about. So instead of trying hard to figure pic.twitter.com/9xfONL2795
6 February 2021: i'm not being an annoying dork here, right? or not any more than usual? that is a journalistically weird thing to just slide in?
6 February 2021: 2/ This article also upgrades the charge to "racist and sexist" comments. No mention of the sexism allegation in past coverage and there's no explanation of what sexist thing he said. Some of this reporting is fuzzy and confusing. pic.twitter.com/JuqQ04ult1
6 February 2021: https://www.thedailybeast.com/ny-times-star-reporter-fired-after-daily-beast-expose Wait so NHJ just announces she is going to insert herself into the HR investigation as a reporter? Is this how things normally go at the Times? Her bosses are cool with that? The DB article cuts off right there so no answers! pic.twitter.com/wjwcuZAPXG
2 February 2021: Deleted a tweet expressing pessimism about the future of the virus but figured I'd delete it since I got a couple responses like this that are better informed https://twitter.com/MasonHargrave/status/1356705854452563969
2 February 2021: What is the good reason NOT to think that this pandemic is going to rage for years and years given the likelihood of new mutations frequently spinning off and some of them inevitably stymying the moment's vaccines and international travel spreading those variants immediately?
2 February 2021: Yeah I don't know enough to say for sure but each of hese communities is very insular and, as you say, Israel is a major focus. Among right-wing Jews it is treated as an article of faith that the Democratic Party hates Israel and perhaps wants it destroyed (which I think is nuts)
2 February 2021 (live): The Hasids do not like Democrats pic.twitter.com/4MB6BIJuca
2 February 2021: The Hasids do not like Democrats pic.twitter.com/XMdiF7Idwh
1 February 2021: I guess what it comes down to is that I am comfortable saying that 17,000 members of one detrans-related community offers fairly strong evidence there are 1000 ore more detransitioners. ymmv and no one knows for sure. Author offered no source for his own claim. https://twitter.com/iamwhoisme/status/1356354334330662912
1 February 2021: I understand GD is a subject where we just can't expect anything resembling journalistic rigor from Slate, but to claim that there are, at most, hundreds of detransitioners when /r/detrans alone has 17,000+ members (not all of whom are detransers, of course) is... not great... pic.twitter.com/XlXHUAPs4e
30 January 2021: 2/ One thing that has been interesting about watching this unfold is the complete collapse of the use/mention distinction. Like, people who are writers and journalists acting as though they have never encountered that concept before. Guild language argubaly reflects that.
30 January 2021 (live): Per a Times source, the @NYTimesGuild sent this statement about the Don McNeil Jr. situation around internally yesterday. Unless I'm missing something they didn't follow through and release it publicly. pic.twitter.com/mfG7idlga2
30 January 2021: One one points I make in the IAT chapter of my book is that the obsession with rooting out implicit bias in police departments is slightly strange in light of the fact that you turn over a rock in American policing, and more often than not you find a bunch of explicit racism. https://twitter.com/DarshunKendrick/status/1355506584219230208
29 January 2021: You absolutely cannot infer this causal claim from the study in question. Study itself says so: "Limitations include the study’s crosssectional design, which does not allow for determination of causation." This is irresponsible science writing on a gravely important subject. pic.twitter.com/s58kaATQlG
28 January 2021: I unironically want this thing (that is a crazy conspiracy theory) to happen because it would be funny in ineffectual https://twitter.com/PamKeithFL/status/1354902520146092034
28 January 2021: We've reached the point of colorful hyperbole with the GameStop THIS BRILLIANT DIRECT ACTION MAKES THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION LOOK LIKE A FORGOTTEN 250-WORD LIVEJOURNAL ENTRY FROM 2001
28 January 2021 (live): nothing says in touch with normies like quoting a fellow Voxxer for some reason pic.twitter.com/VfukO896NP
28 January 2021: in Vox's defense you can tell this is a super big story by the countless people who have stopped following this person oh wait no one cares pic.twitter.com/pPgZTeX90l
28 January 2021 (live): anyway it's super weird that conservatives have contempt for mainstream media who knows where it comes from they must just be psychos or something
28 January 2021 (live): DSS: We are taking your baby Heartbroken mom: What? Why? That's my baby! DSS: You taught your baby to sleep using a method developed by someone who donated to Trump Mom: What??? BURN MY BABY
28 January 2021 (live): This is just a guess but probably in the exact same place they were before finding out unless they are neurotic too-online losers whose unresolved issues are hindering their ability to function day to day https://twitter.com/voxdotcom/status/1354499421958975488
26 January 2021: Is she being disciplined or is this just a general announcement?
26 January 2021: RT @Orthoepeia: @jessesingal https://t.co/iRQmbfLvHN
26 January 2021: If Katie has tried to get both of us fired, what is the total number? How much of her day goes to trying to get her ideological enemies run out of journalism and/or DMing anyone who has friendly contact with them to sever the connection, which is another thing she does? https://twitter.com/kittypurrzog/status/1354117162097500160
24 January 2021: I understand this response but my understanding is that this is actually true. I don't know how much is legal and how much is norms but there are a LOT of instances where organizations don't give the full details of a firing because they're considered private. https://twitter.com/realMikeMartin/status/1353434587666341889
24 January 2021: 2/ I want to be clear that "both sides do it" in this case. Many conservatives are VERY full of shit on this subject (see how they react to anti-cop sentiment). But maaaaan the lack of self-awareness on display. Don't fire people over piddling nonsense! General rule!
24 January 2021: Some of us: "Maybe people shouldn't get fired for tweets deemed 'controversial' by random internet mobs" Twitter progressives: "Bigot!" "Fuck you!" "There's no such thing as cancel culture!" [Progressive gets fired for tweets] TPs: "Words can't express the injustice of thi
22 January 2021: This is a real abuse of journalistic power and someone at the Post should be suspended for a week or two for it. You can't whine about conservatives distrust for mainstream media and then pull garbage like this! https://reason.com/2021/01/22/the-washington-post-memory-holed-kamala-harris-bad-joke-about-inmates-begging-for-food-and-water/
19 January 2021: Really good demonstrating of gaslighting from a 1990s documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJvpOxemq_w&ab_channel=GottiBoyz14
19 January 2021: RT @tweetertation: Thrilled to be at @thesignal! https://t.co/5p3nburxDG
16 January 2021: pic.twitter.com/lrgVYcQn5Y
16 January 2021 (live): This man died of "smoke inhalation and excessive burns," and his charred body lay hidden under rubble for two months, as a result of the destruction many people were chided for criticizing, because it showed they weren't sufficiently down with the cause https://www.startribune.com/for-family-of-man-killed-in-pawnshop-fire-during-george-floyd-unrest-grief-wrapped-in-a-mystery/573079501/
16 January 2021: Also I am not getting actual gigabit anyway. Not saying this isn't very fast but still pic.twitter.com/iFbsxzULMU
16 January 2021 (live): At my new place, a gigabit internet connection was already installed and is now transferred to my Verizon account. That's total overkill in most circumstances and with normal numbers of devices, right? No substantive reason not to step down to a cheaper 400 Mbps plan?
15 January 2021: To be clear I'm not saying journalists shouldn't rebut individual bad claims! But something about this just strikes me as weird and paternalistic. There's less and less of a sense that readers can be trusted to maek up their own minds about stuff.
15 January 2021 (live): "I don't even know what to do -- how to go tell them now to not listen to Ben Shapiro" This is exactly what an increasing number of journalists see as their main job, to make sure their readers aren't exposed to Bad people and ideas https://twitter.com/ErikWemple/status/1349900614470393864
14 January 2021: dEpLatFoRmInG wOrKs
14 January 2021: It is INSANE to me that all these people claim to care about justice and yet not one of them has organized a single effort to protest a book by me, the single most harmful voice of my generation by far. pic.twitter.com/Q8h1D8zdUr
14 January 2021: fwiw my stance is that we don't not have a big political violence problem in this country (yet!) but it's undeniably true there's more RW than LW
14 January 2021 (live): I mean in the U.S. right-wing terrorism in fact kills significantly more people. In 2020 left-wing violence def did more property damage https://twitter.com/wastetime/status/1349502770781462528
12 January 2021: The real coverup has always been that Mac's has better chowder https://twitter.com/chandrabooks/status/1348328325211680770
11 January 2021 (live): 2/ Theodore is Presbyterian so I sent this to a couple Presbyterian churches. Other ideas for organizations to reach out to would be much appreciated as well.
11 January 2021: Longshot, but I'm trying to help an asylum-seeker who ICE released on parole to find a room in Greenbelt, Maryland. Below is an email I sent to a couple churches that has details. The odds of this working are slim but hey I usually waste this platform on nonsense so why not try? pic.twitter.com/eVdETq8h5y
10 January 2021: What are some good visualizations of that phenomenon political scientists have noticed of the Republican Party driving most of the increase in polarization by trending right?
8 January 2021: I... Isn't there a case that this should get her expelled from Congress? How is the GOP okay with this? https://twitter.com/MarkMaxwellTV/status/1346891485791330313
8 January 2021: CHAZ, created in part as a response to police violence against black people, led directly to two black kids getting murdered, while radical Trumpism, ruthlessly pro-cop in theory, killed a police officer.
8 January 2021: Even just strategically, the next time someone you are sympathetic to is killed by police under ambiguous circumstances in which they (the victim) are not 100% blameless, understand that conservatives will point to your garbage tweets and you will have no response.
8 January 2021: And the conflation of "I am not sure I am comfortable with the police shooting someone when we don't even know the full details" to "excusing white women" is the moral reasoning of a child. I'm sorry but it's a dark sign that people are rewarded for such grotesque sentiments.
8 January 2021: This stuff is getting a liiiiittle bit deranged, friends. I agree that by breaching the Capitol you are putting yourself at grave risk, but we don't even have the full account of why she was shot! This is a really really really unhealthy disregard for decency and human life. pic.twitter.com/cXXhg3FHuk
7 January 2021: It is a sign of poor editorial judgment, and complete hyper-bubblization, that Vox published a 4500-word piece about GamerGate on a news day like today.
7 January 2021 (live): The journalist who said that Laci Green is alt-right gets to write Vox's first draft of history of what happened yesterday. Seriously awesome progressive media ecosystem we got here.
7 January 2021 (live): For the love of Christ https://twitter.com/voxdotcom/status/1347240347529846784
7 January 2021: “We’ve just got to let them do their thing now,” the innovative new approach to law enforcement https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1346975267714199552
7 January 2021: Some of the replies I got today were among the worst replies I've ever received on this site. I hope you feel good about yoursels, reply-people.
6 January 2021: unspeakable destruction and chaos https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1346923396442058754
6 January 2021: Dems to immediately pursue DC and Blocked and Reported statehood. One electoral vote for DC, one for me, one for Katie.
3 January 2021: For a newsletter thing: There was one recentish study that showed that kid who went on blockers didn't see an improvement in their mental health (I'm mentioning other studies pointing in other directions too) -- can someone remind me which one this was? Can't find it. Tavistock?
2 January 2021: @MikeMcWhertor @AustenG did you guys have a specific opinion of hers in mind when you wrote that she was seeking to "roll back" trans rights? My understanding is she is against self-ID, which isn't yet law. This might warrant a correction...
2 January 2021 (live): 2/ (I don't follow those fights that closely but the general sense I got was self-ID is basically on hold in England but Scotland seems more likely to press ahead with it. Of course being opposed to a proposed policy isn't the same as seeking to roll back an enshrined right.)
2 January 2021 (live): Can someone point me to a policy J.K. Rowling is trying to roll back? My sense is she's against self-ID, which is under debate but hasn't been implemented in either Scotland or England, right? Am I missing something or is Polygon making this up? (Link is to Lavery's piece.) pic.twitter.com/CsflKmJxyQ
27 December 2020: 4/ BTW same thing sparked the insane meltdown that overtook this theater company. Someone asked a/b a snippet of a script that included the word, this was treated as equivalent to using it as a slur, so they brought in Robin DiAngelo to educate everyone. https://barpodcast.fireside.fm/bonus2
27 December 2020 (live): 3/ This also ignores the fact that this is, unfortunately, how a subset of teenagers talk online, regularly. It's nonblack people trying to use the word the way black people do. Which is bad! But it's clearly a different and less derogatory usage, which matters in this case.
27 December 2020 (live): 2/ If you're white, just don't ever say the word -- that's easy! She fucked up. But she was 15 and was imitating a style in which it means roughly 'dude' or 'motherfucker,' as is evident from the context. I don't understand why the story completely ignores that.
27 December 2020 (live): Are people pretending not to understand that "I can drive, [that slur]" is different from hurling it at a black person, or is the point to try to collapse the distinction? Not comfortable w/a 15-year-old's life getting torpedoed over this. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/26/us/mimi-groves-jimmy-galligan-racial-slurs.html
27 December 2020: 2/ In ther words, take two studies: A: finds Rogan listeners are a broad slice of the public on all sorts of different trajectories B: finds Rogan listeners tend to drift right B will get covered credulously EVERYWHERE in the Voxosphere, regardless of any quality differences
27 December 2020 (live): Not qualified to really dive into the studies purporting to prove a Harris/Rogan/etc. slippery slope but I'm IMMENSELY skeptical of them b/c their causal accounts are weird/incomplete and b/c pop-scence findings progressives find masturbatory are always held to lower standards https://twitter.com/olivertraldi/status/1343172119639842816
26 December 2020: Probably won't bear much on this paper's results, but I'm not missing something, right? These percentages are wrong? Like it depends on whether the intended denominator is 45 or 89 but the third one is wrong in either case? Am I nuts? pic.twitter.com/DVfvViRQ5B
25 December 2020: Yikes I did not realize this was an AOC quote! Not deal from a politician https://twitter.com/BrandonWarmke/status/1342199248889196549
25 December 2020: oh wow https://www.soundjay.com/censor-beep-sound-effect.html
25 December 2020 (live): What's your favorite MP3 of a bleep? I need to bleep some stuff in the episode I'm editing. Don't all answer at once!
22 December 2020: Substack has laid down some very liberal views on free speech and moderation that are likely to get in in trouble with many progresive journalists, but which are (in my view) broadly popular across the political spectrum and very pro-writer https://blog.substack.com/p/substacks-view-of-content-moderation
22 December 2020 (live): 3/ Downside of repeating something like this is that it causes trans people, who already have sound historical reasons not to trust the healthcare system, to be even more suspicious: "They thought I was mentally ill until 2013!" But it's just straight-up false if you read.
22 December 2020: 2/ This from @jack_turban is particularly bad. As a professional psychiatrist, he knows the DSM IV did not consider "gender diversity" or "being transgender" a mental illness. He is repeating a well-worn piece of misinformation that only exacerbates already strained tensions. pic.twitter.com/akFGpsfP6i
22 December 2020 (live): Another unlocked post. If you liked the one I did last week about Foreign Policy, you might like this one. It highlights (still uncorrected) errors from last year on youth GD stuff in Rolling Stone, Psychology Today, and Vox: https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/three-more-gender-dysphoria-stories-8a1
22 December 2020: White people have such wild and increasingly cartoonish ideas about (most) nonwhite Americans' political and policy preferences pic.twitter.com/GhVt6ow5iC
20 December 2020: send me email
20 December 2020 (live): I am letting my Singal-Minded paid subscribers vote on an exceptionally important question about the future of the newsletter (and our great nation), because I believe in democracy when it suits me. https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/do-you-care-if-i-make-some-old-posts
20 December 2020: Has anyone seen the actual offending photo here? In the video linked to by Eater I'm she describes the dish as a mix of bibimpap and a Japanese dish. Would be useful to see the original offending post, which Eater doesn't embed or link to. https://chicago.eater.com/2020/12/18/22188843/chicago-chef-stephanie-izard-bibimbap-recipe-cultural-appropriation-instagram
20 December 2020: This is one of the strangest examples of techno-credulity I've seen in a minute. Polygon is just totally cool with a device that monitors everything minors say and sends at least some snippets to adult eavesdroppers. Not a even a whiff of skepticism. https://www.polygon.com/2020/12/19/22189619/xbox-online-chat-monitor-kidas-startup-ron-kerbs
14 December 2020: NVIDIA's director of AI research is publicly sharing hundreds of names from her enemies list, which appears to include early-career researchers and students. This could permanently damage their prospects, and it isn't clear what her methodology is for adding names to the list. https://twitter.com/AnimaAnandkumar/status/1338282250614411264
12 December 2020: we shoul not have "male" and "female" categories for sports -- that is regressive and bigoted the categories should be "gamers" and "normals"
11 December 2020: 2/ It is hard to express how astoundingly the journalist misunderstood the paper. I know nothing about AI and am not even particularly good at stats but even I am flabbergasted.
11 December 2020 (live): Left is what a paper on programming and bias and AI said Right is how VentureBeat sums it up (h/t @jonst0kes ) what literally is journalism anyway https://venturebeat.com/2020/12/09/columbia-researchers-find-white-men-are-the-worst-at-reducing-ai-bias/amp/ pic.twitter.com/Lk9zCaCg25
10 December 2020: Trying to find a tweet from a tech journalist at a big outlet that may have been deleted but which said something like "Imagine thinking 'more speech' is a good response to what's going on." Ring any bells? Searches aren't helping but I'm 99% sure I saw it and it would be helpful
9 December 2020: Sorry, I know corrupt policing is a genuine blight and America has some horrifically bad cops but I also feel genuinely bad for residents and business owners in place where the cops have pulled back completely because inevitably things get worse. https://twitter.com/ShelbyTalcott/status/1336408700995690505
8 December 2020: Ahh yes... one of those radical feminists who believes gender to be a fixed concept pic.twitter.com/xUbxIkUzfS
8 December 2020: For some reason Apple Podcast hasreverted back to the old Blocked and Reported logo. Anyone know how to fix? Google is bringing me some very confusing forum posts and remember: I am not a smart man.
7 December 2020: Oh so white nationalism is good. Interesting,,,,,, https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1336047189290840067
5 December 2020: I'm prepping our BARpod episode on the latest YA gate but the tweet I was relying on for the full "sit on a tack" tweetstorm is gone. Anyone have a copy?
3 December 2020 (live): I've read and enjoyed a lot of Robinson's stuff but there are few people whose work has gotten worse and sloppier during the present culture wars.
3 December 2020: Not enough for Nathan Robinson to just make up a scenario where Andrew Sullivan resigned -- in this fabricated event, he also did so in a 'huff.' https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/dec/02/jordan-peterson-opinions-publishers-book-contract pic.twitter.com/CtYqJXhz6N
30 November 2020: I can't be the only miserable prick who found the Sarah Fuller thing slightly condescending and cynical.... right?
28 November 2020: So the reason we had to temporarily shut down the BARpod merch shop is people are inexplicably being charged much lower prices than what's listed. This, for example, is for a $12.50 mug. We do have a discount code for patrons but not for nearly this much. Anyone have ideas? pic.twitter.com/cMzfHdtlIu
24 November 2020: On the plus side all those tears will make it harder to burn the book cuz the flames will instantly douse it
24 November 2020: not sure you should post this -- this seems like a mentally ill person, perhaps schizophrenia
23 November 2020 (live): yes, if you care about democracy
23 November 2020: Identirianism robs people of their ability to intelligently make sense of the world (for paid subscribers) https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/identitarianism-isnt-just-immoral
23 November 2020: i dunno about readership but in a union setting getting regular raises every year (when things are going well) is not at all surprising, so if someone has 15-20 years more experience they're def gonna make more money. what am i missing?
19 November 2020: lol Deni Avdija learned English in part by playing CoD "How do you feel to be going to to the Hawks?" "I just hope those *** ****** don't *** my *****!!!!!"
17 November 2020: Just a sitting US senator trying to throw an election to his political ally, totally normal stuff https://twitter.com/politvidchannel/status/1328764657650200576
15 November 2020: In Boston it's very common to see them in close-in suburbs and the more suburb-y parts of Boston itself (Boston has so-called 'villages' that sprawl out a bit and get pretty leafy, while downtown itself is small and too urban for these assholes I think) https://twitter.com/AngryFoodie2015/status/1328095807417925632
14 November 2020: Trump:winning these lawsuits :: me:talking to girls at parties in college https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/13/us/politics/trump-loses-election-lawsuits.html
13 November 2020: His colleague reported him to his boss for signing the Harper's letter. pic.twitter.com/0bHlUDoSRG
13 November 2020: Will someone please ask Target to ban my book once it's out so that I can do a long tirade about how unfair it is and juke sales??
12 November 2020: Thread. Dude who casually called a video game character a 'tr*nny' is now celebrating people having their careers ruined for a respectful difference of opinion about self-ID. A huge number of these sorts online morality police have problematic shit in their own backgrounds. https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1326993794886201344
12 November 2020: I think we should acknowledge the catastrophic fuckup that was people-health authorities 180ing completely on outdoor gatherings/protests based solely on the political valence of the gathering/protest in question. Not as big an issue as GOP denialism, but not small!
10 November 2020: whoops! https://twitter.com/DanPurdy322/status/1326283962503794689
9 November 2020: I do think some of these takes just reflect a lack of faith in how messy our system is and how many shock absorbers there are in our dumb goofy sysem https://twitter.com/AWeissmann_/status/1325878081949757446
9 November 2020: I just want these guys to be honest about their preferred direction for media. Kyle Chayka preemptively, publicly banned me from joining Study Hall (not that I asked to!). You can't then turn around and say, "What, me? Support people being blanned from platforms?" Be honest! pic.twitter.com/YzPgrUGx5m
9 November 2020: uhhhhhhhhh no I say several smart takes explaining that actually it is Whiteness https://twitter.com/PeterHamby/status/1325597339587801088
9 November 2020: Last week was the week America proved it truly is Horny For Democracy
8 November 2020: I am fascinated by this subgenre of reply gal pic.twitter.com/5NcC6k1FxV
6 November 2020: 2/ This is literally about using math and states -- supposedly their strong suits! -- to make falsifiable predictions. The only way you get from this to "2+2=5" is if the internet has broken your brain.
6 November 2020 (live): Trying to give these guys the benefit of the doubt but this is nuts. This has nothing to do with "2+2=5." This has to do with using what we know about different counties, and the votes that have been returned so far, to make predictions about the votes that have yet to come in. pic.twitter.com/1efGNo4cpY
5 November 2020: Dumb question about how PredictIt/other election markets worked since I know little about them. Had I had the werewithalll, could I have literally just created an account and gobbled up a bunch of Biden $0.36 shares, or does the movement happen so quickly that wouldn't work?
5 November 2020: White leftist furious at Democratic candidate for "throwing [black people] to the wolves" for defending a position (police defunding) that polling suggests is significantly more popular among WHITE than BLACK Democrats Some signs of a serious epistemic closure problem pic.twitter.com/cGQdp3FtPZ
5 November 2020: National Geographic cautions us not to make assumptions about the gender identity of a prehistoric hunter-gatherer, completely mangling the definition of "gender identity" in the process pic.twitter.com/pZ6oEaE45Y
5 November 2020: Shadowy Dem Operative 1: So you rigged it all, right? Shadowy Dem Operative 2: Yup, POTUS is ours SDO1: Nice. With that and the Senate, we'll be set to install neo-Marxism SDO2: ... SDO1: You did remembered to rig the Senate vote, right? SDO2:... SDO1: Jesus Christ, Carl...
4 November 2020: Guys there is a difference between "polling can't correctly tell us who will win Ohio" and "a 97-3 vote against a term doesn't tell us anything about that term's unpopularity" https://twitter.com/afessasanoy/status/1324120445608747014
4 November 2020: NOPE NO LESSONS HERE https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1324021761940332544
4 November 2020: One thing last night taught us was that in the heat of the moment, it's very easy to forget what you know about incoming blue shifts etc. That stuff just doesn't process intuitively in the way OMG LOOK AT THOSE BIG NUMBERS LOOK HOW FAR AHEAD THAT GUY IS is. https://twitter.com/Nate_Cohn/status/1323959890637918208
4 November 2020: mortgage your last tiny little scrap of dignity, pence, you profound fraud
4 November 2020: Unless I am missing something there's no sign of an 8-point polling error anywhere? But I guess we won't have final pop votes for awhile. I love doom as much as anyone but we knew going in the MI and WI leads were much, much larger than GA/FL/NC https://twitter.com/JesseDrucker/status/1323853787606454274
4 November 2020: Unless I am seriously misreading the map, Biden is now a solid favorite. Arizona changes the whole map because it makes it so Pennsyvania is not 100% necessary. Trump needs gargantuan polling misses in MI and WI or he is in trouble. https://twitter.com/NicholasA1715/status/1323852799977889792
3 November 2020: also if he wins the first time Biden uses the word 'malarkey' in a speech there will be at three-day conservative media event about how he is spitting in the face of the dignity of the office with his obscenity https://twitter.com/STabcdef/status/1323466548468613121
2 November 2020: having weird trouble googlign that 538 article about how biden could appear down 15 points in pa. tomorrow night and then win -- can anyone link?
1 November 2020: I meant like widespread violence, fwiw. Some small-scale rioting or clashing or whatever wouldn't surprise me https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1322709236858671104
1 November 2020: Screenshot as many respected thinkers confidently and publicly predicting postelection violence as possible
31 October 2020: 3/ "Well this OTHER thing happened." It's not good and the misinformation between now and when the election gets resolved (in 2056) is gonna be through the roof. People just shouldn't share stuff until there is very clear evidence.
31 October 2020: 2/ Baffling to me protesters were allowed to get that close to the vehicle at all. That alone warrants an investigation. Just saying -- and this is a point I've been making for years -- that people spread the scariest versions of unclear stories w/o evidence, then fall back on
31 October 2020: I agree! But there's a difference between that storyline and "They literally tried to run the bus off the road." If the latter were true, and the police wouldn't investigate, that's several orders of magnitude worse. These details matter. https://twitter.com/TakesAuditor/status/1322579998126022656
31 October 2020: 2/ The only video I saw of outright vehicular aggression was a Biden vehicle encroaching on a Trump vehicle's lane, albeit in a situation where the Trump vehicle was tailgating the Biden/Harris bus in a manner that may have been dangerous. Writing about this for newsletter.
31 October 2020: 1/ This is a really good example of the sort of viral but ambiguous stuff we're gonna see between here and Tuesday. Can anyone point me to actual video of the MAGA yahoos -- who are in fact following the bus around and tailgating it -- trying to run the bus off the road? https://twitter.com/ericcervini/status/1322336226792321025
30 October 2020: so good pic.twitter.com/nipPzVOoGK
29 October 2020: A lot of people have a lot of interest in pushing the narrative that the race is 'tightening' in these final days but there's just no evidence of that. Doesn't mean Biden will definitely win but I don't know how many times we gotta repeat: This ain't 2016 https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2020-election-forecast/iowa/
28 October 2020: fuck https://twitter.com/PhillyPolice/status/1321252254884745223
20 October 2020: I keep buying electric razors for cheap without putting any forethought into the purchase and then wondering why they are so cheap and bad. Anyone have one they're really happy with and have been using for awhile? As a chinless goon, I need consistent stubble.
20 October 2020: We (very slightly) broke our first-day downloads record with this one: https://barpodcast.fireside.fm/admin/metrics/episodes/3645d635-1d96-4faa-baa2-f4e8d57fbf52
14 October 2020: ^^^ tweeted immediately after attending a lunchtime Zoom thing on the subject of intellectual humility
14 October 2020: EVERYONE is being full of shit about "sexual preference." It has been considered problematic by progressives for a long time -- people aren't just making it up out of thin air. But it isn't a 'slut' (Jezebel) and the dictionary thing is weird Ok now you have the correct opinions
13 October 2020: Whenever I take a minute nad really sit with how much I miss normalcy, it just stings so much. And for various reasons (no kids, no major money issues) I'm well-equipped to handle it. I can't imagine how shitty it is for others. It just sucks so much. Goddamn nightmare year.
12 October 2020: How the fuck is this happening? This should seriously be a years-in-jail type of thing. https://twitter.com/mjs_DC/status/1315493712932343808
12 October 2020: Children. https://twitter.com/benyt/status/1315451891338313728
12 October 2020: The complete lack of transparancy here is nuts. What does "in error" mean? What kind of error? This is a strange organization. https://twitter.com/NYTimesGuild/status/1315447604029861888
9 October 2020: In certain ways America is awesome https://twitter.com/wesyang/status/1314662472238927878
9 October 2020: 2/ I have no idea why Vice did this but I want the backstory. Most logical answer is the kid's dad knows a Vice investor. To publish this w/o providing any context on who he is is just.... this is like the dictionary definition of BS woke slacktivism. Not the kid's faul but jeez.
9 October 2020 (live): "Through starting Redefy, I found myself in rooms I could have never imagined. I found myself meeting with politicians, industry leaders, and journalists..." - kid who went to $40k/yr private school whose dad was a quant genius at Citibank/Morgan Stanley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Luh_LRanlFk&feature=emb_logo&ab_channel=VICENews
9 October 2020: subtly revealing tweet https://twitter.com/WisdomKitten/status/1314040183000641541
5 October 2020 (live): 4/said, a few of the claims do appear to have been exaggerated, so I tried to separate fact from fiction in the article. It's a strange story and I hope it sheds some light on a controversy that generated a lot of under-informed opinions from those without direct knowledge of it.
5 October 2020 (live): 3/ There were in fact many legitimate complaints about da Col, most of them centered on his treatment of former workers (including many threats to sue them) and over-the-top attempts to extract so-called article processing charges (APCs) from individuals and institutions. That
5 October 2020: 2/ Quillette described this controversy as having been manufactured by David Graeber, the legendary anthropologist, who had beef with da Col and who died, unexpectedly, well after I finished this article. My reporting suggests this account is mostly false. https://quillette.com/2019/09/09/the-anarchist-and-the-anthropology-journal/
5 October 2020 (live): 1/ I've been working on this story for approximately 50 years, if I have the math right. It's about the downfall of HAU, one of the most exciting and respected new journals in anthropology, and its editor, Giovanni da Col https://www.chronicle.com/article/how-one-prominent-journal-went-very-wrong
15 September 2020: That's interesting that Scientific American didn't view the Iraq war as "literally a matter of life and death" https://twitter.com/sciam/status/1305854127721910275
3 September 2020: The Nation ran a Q&A on the looting book today that is worse than the NPR one https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/vicky-osterweil-interview-defense-looting/
3 September 2020: This sort of public humiliation, in which an author can't answer the most basic questions about her own thesis, should serve as a wakeup call. There have always been silly radicals but they haven't always been rewarded the way they are being now. https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/vicky-osterweils-case-for-looting
2 September 2020: Jesus fucking Christ pic.twitter.com/5rDKgTbsVk
2 September 2020: This is some sick shit, and if I'm a progressive or leftist who wants to be taken seriously as a public intellectual in the future, I'm going out of my way to distance myself from it pic.twitter.com/GjXPWD42L6
1 September 2020: Note that for the record this is not a True Opinion, but what is known in the content bizz as Trölling
1 September 2020: Just messing around with this no-replies thing...... So anyway, the best hip-hop song of all time is "My Name Is" by Eminem
1 September 2020: Isn't that just... false though? The state lines thing? Not trying to quibble on the rest but people just keep saying this when there is no evidence and his lawyers have explicitly stated it's not true (for what tha'ts worth). I just don't get where this claim is coming from.
31 August 2020: Billion-dollar companies that don't care about you or social justice understand that you are easily-manipulated marks because you broadcast it! (I disagree that this 'matters.') pic.twitter.com/kn1pdEX7gm
28 August 2020: Okay so apparently there is some debate over whether Rittenhouse was open-carrying illegally but people being vague on the details. What is the specific WI statute suggesting it was kosher? The hunting exception doesn't make sense.
27 August 2020: 2/ The one potential piece of evidence that I guess could change something is video from before he's initially being chased, but overall there's just no there there on the premeditated murder front.
27 August 2020: This is VERY useful. Also, unless there is something big the Times missed, there is no way the evidence will sustain a first-degree murder charge, so people should be prepared on that front. https://twitter.com/trbrtc/status/1298839097923063809
26 August 2020: I think this is the second time this question has been looked at and the answer has been the same both times? Unless I'm confused and what I saw last time was a preprint of this one https://twitter.com/diegoareinero/status/1297918042199019521
25 August 2020: clearly we graduated the same high school with the same strong Comedic Arts program
25 August 2020 (live): he eventually accidentally schedules dates with two readers on the same night, each from one of the blogs
25 August 2020 (live): yes. got similar schemes going with abortion and evolution. i'm cultivating two completely different audiences with 180 degree different politics. these are lean times for journalism so important to maximize revenue
24 August 2020 (live): For paid subscribers, I argued that coverage of a recent Trump press conference where he seemed to support QAnon is likely to spread and amplify the conspiracy theory without much benefit https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/is-decontextualized-media-coverage
22 August 2020: There's basically no situation in which I am comfortable punishing an adult for something they did at 12 and 13, and that's doubly true for people who come from traumatized backgrounds. https://theintercept.com/2020/08/21/aaron-coleman-the-19-year-old-progressive-who-won-his-kansas-primary-speaks-about-his-troubled-past-and-promising-present/
21 August 2020: What am I missing? I have no doubt Trump would do any dirty trick imaginable, but how can this be carried out in a way that would reliably hurt Dems, especially in light of the amount of coordination that would be required to kneecap the USPS in some places but not others? pic.twitter.com/pKVcknKPnB
20 August 2020: It's mostly privileged people who, upon coming across an instance of injustice, say, "I bet a bureaucrat, or an office of bureaucrats, would serve as a good first step to fixing this"
17 August 2020: ORRRRR if someoen wanted to send me an OCR-friendly version of this I would appreciate it https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.541599/gov.uscourts.nysd.541599.1.0.pdf
17 August 2020: Opened up a PDF in Adobe and it didn't auto-OCR it -- is there any easy way to flip that on? Long legal document that I really need to be able to search.
14 August 2020: 2/ Background if you need it, and recommended reading before the episode drops: https://theintercept.com/2020/08/12/alex-morse-college-democrats-chats/
12 August 2020: Okay so does anyone have access to a PDF of the final paginated version of this article that starts on page 492, not the online advance copy that starts on 1? (Aren't all these panicky requests super interesting???) https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2016-29674-001
10 August 2020: Maaaaaaaan finding some of these page numbers for my references is killing me. Anyone with a copy of "Lean In" who can help me out with a couple queries?
8 August 2020: If you have a copy of Malcolm Gladwell's 'Blink,' mind hitting me up? Very quick citations question and I'll give you a month of newsletter (if you want it) if you help me out.
8 August 2020: 2/ If the choice is "Either spend $X of taxpayer money to develop this, or risk the possibility of a president dying because s/he chouldn't achieve Mach 5," the latter is obviously, obviously the better choice. I mean jfc guys just the sheer level of corruption on display here.
8 August 2020: Every single dollar spent on this wasteful idiocy should go to Americans affected by the pandemic instead. This is insane. https://taskandpurpose.com/military-tech/air-force-one-hermeus
5 August 2020: This guy is such a creep he even assaulted women who don't exist!!! He must be stopped pic.twitter.com/8kdNLQeb9B
5 August 2020: Can anyone with a copy of Blink by Gladwell on hand tell me what page this quote about the IAT is on? Google Books doesn't list and I need it for citation purposes. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Blink/VKGbb1hg8JAC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22certain+kinds+of+spontaneous+situations%22&pg=PT53&printsec=frontcover
2 August 2020: People should screencap as many instances as possible of high-profile people with platforms taking @Sciencing_Bi 's claims at face value. It is really important to expose what the endless, credulous spreading of rumors on here -- always without any fact-checking whatsoever -- does
2 August 2020: Turns out it did not, in fact, have to be this way pic.twitter.com/I1r2NHBJEh
1 August 2020: This is why it can get lonely trying to be principled about this stuff. Every American with a brain knows that if students were arrested for chalking pro-choice stuff, it would be a five-day outrage story, but for reasons of tribalism a lot of people won't admit this out loud. https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1289577015008473089
1 August 2020: This phrase has gotten worn out lately but we're really fucked https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/1289516593374875650
31 July 2020: Long shot but does anyone have, or have access to, a copy of the 1975 book "Helplessness: On Depression, Development, and Death (A Series of Books in Psychology)" by Marty Seligman? Got a very quick fact-checking question. https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1992-98227-000
30 July 2020: Looks like I finally, at long last, need to get myself a copy of Microsoft Word. Is there any way to avoid paying $140 for one? I am morally offended at that price point.
26 July 2020: Could someone email me a PDF of this excellent chapter that I only have in book form so I can send it to my fact-checker? Usual method no work. Thanks muchly. I'll delete this tweet as soon as I have it, so refresh pre-email. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319632304_The_Bullet_Point_Bias_How_Diluted_Science_Communications_Can_Impede_Social_Progress
24 July 2020: 'Lately' is a little misleading here imo but jfc just the lack of any sense of a need to fact-check or apply common sense before spouting off on Twitter... professional journalist! https://twitter.com/Ecclesiasticu12/status/1286472641293975552
24 July 2020: What I find so weird about this stuff is the shallowness of the outrage. If this happened, it would mean the Comedy Cellar violated NYC's Covid-19 restrictions. Wouldn't that be interesting? Shouldn't Scocca pick up a phone and look into it? I mean jfc the lack of curiosity... pic.twitter.com/RIelaSJNs8
21 July 2020: I'm already in contact with the executive producer and asked for a correction or chance to respond. The extent to which even MSM outlets are passing along all-out fabrications without any fact-checking whatsoever is disappointing. But nothing more from me until I hear back. https://twitter.com/kittypurrzog/status/1285417182130659329
20 July 2020: 2/ Racial psychotheorizing is so in right now and so bad, and sometimes dangerous.
20 July 2020: Okay I deleted this -- upon closer inspection I am quite skeptical because of the just-so theorizing in the abstract. My bad. Even just the fact that Sun Belt whites are (I think?) more conservative than whites in many other places would seem to offer a counter-explanation. pic.twitter.com/q3Sxrfn4Vi
18 July 2020: RT @ThatShawGuy: “If we create a button that, when pressed, magically requires everyone else to agree with your ideas and demands, people w…
15 July 2020: RT @MCTuthill: @jessesingal Would loved to have been in the meeting where this was created. "Oh! And I hate their food! Get something in th…
14 July 2020: New patrons-only episode now available: Introducing Cancellation Island, And Also Two Jerks Who Should Be Fired Discuss When It's Okay To Fire People https://www.patreon.com/posts/39309922 pic.twitter.com/GI0D6GLoYC
14 July 2020: New patrons-only episode is now live: Introducing Cancellation Island, And Also Two Jerks Who Should Be Fired Discuss When It's Okay To Fire People https://www.patreon.com/posts/39309922 pic.twitter.com/sgzwonhmRc
14 July 2020: It is not good to have journalists who can't stop lying, over and over and over and over and over. pic.twitter.com/ZV9S5fcl7T
11 July 2020: This charge leveled by the science writer @RafiLetzter -- that the cover photo used for my Atlantic article was taken under false pretenses and outed someone to their family -- is EXCEPTIONALLY serious and @TheAtlantic needs to investigate it immediately and publish what it finds pic.twitter.com/oXxX00fcMs
10 July 2020: I can't really put into words how bad and harmful this is. There are almost no resources for detransitioners, in part because people are constantly trying to deplatform them. Reddit should be fucking ashamed of itself. Absolute cowards running that site. https://twitter.com/ZaneEmma/status/1281661496561291264
9 July 2020: lol holy shit https://twitter.com/jgrantaddison/status/1281035768887226369
7 July 2020: Ah yes, here it is -- the first official apology for signing a statement condemning the climate of conformity, fear, and mutual surveillance that has descended upon public intellectual life: pic.twitter.com/Pc5HJFvv70
7 July 2020: Matt Yglesias has been reported to his employer by a colleague for signing an open letter which argues that a climate of conformity, fear, and mutual surveillance has descended upon public intellectual life. pic.twitter.com/1ybwS68T7u
5 July 2020: I know what most of these mean. Time..... to die https://twitter.com/pomo_sapiens/status/1279566701378654213
5 July 2020: RT @mattyglesias: I completely agree that this is not like the number one problem in American society, but we recently had a two-byline Was…
4 July 2020: RT @boodleoops: This right here pretty sums up the state of the entire gender debate https://t.co/8oho6y1oQd
3 July 2020: I had no idea these two were brothers! https://twitter.com/sentientist/status/1278426811022655488
29 June 2020: For the cost of these two hours of a training that has zero evidence behind it, and which likely makes race relations worse (if you have read DiAngelo's book you will see why), UK could have just given one of Kentucky's many poor kids a free year of college tuition. pic.twitter.com/fNeE1Ddux5
29 June 2020: Why in the name of God's holy green earth does this have to fall on the Daily Caller to report? "DiAngelo... charged the University of Kentucky $12,000" plus expenses for a two-hour training (backed by zero evidence). This doesn't matter to people? https://tennesseestar.com/2019/07/31/lecturers-earn-6000-per-hour-pushing-white-privilege-to-students/
29 June 2020: 2/ This isn't even close to a sophisticated understanding of how this stuff works. Why do people turn their brains off on such important subjects?
29 June 2020: This is a highly regarded scientist! She is completely ignoring the fact that (of course) structural inequality gives some groups advantages in building up the skills and credential employers look for. That's a REALLY big part of the problem and it's silly to ignore it. pic.twitter.com/L7ge6vOuJ1
29 June 2020: Man this makes me so happy. Dude is so good whe nhe's healthy. https://twitter.com/espn/status/1277393159341965318
28 June 2020: RT @theshrillest: I agree. I don't see how "let's pretend this didn't happen" serves anyone. Put a disclaimer in front of it if you're worr…
27 June 2020: Short notice, and therefore short-notice rate ($25/hr, guaranteed 10 hrs), but I'm looking for someone w/research experience and Chicago-Style familiarity to help me out w/book citations stuff this weekend, deadline late tmw night. Shoot me an email if that might be you. Thanks!
26 June 2020: 3/ Next paid newsletter, up pretty soon, is about this http://jessesingal.substack.com/
26 June 2020 (live): 2/ I am not aware of any historical instance in which whiteness has been taken seriously as a concept -- as in, yes, whites share some important essence -- and in which Jews have not suffered as a result. This is all alarming to me. It's an exceptionally dangerous game.
26 June 2020 (live): As a Jewish person I'm concerned that wildly popular people like Robin DiAngelo are ACTIVELY ENCOURAGING whites to view themselves as a unified collective without a moment's thought as to how reviving this scientifically asinine and historically disastrous idea could backfire.
24 June 2020: Wait Twitter put this BACK UP? I thought it was down...? https://twitter.com/wypipo_h8/status/1275228765941977089
24 June 2020: WHAT IS THIS -- A NOOSE FOR ANTS???
24 June 2020 (live): So I had not looked into the NASCAR story but if I had just intuited the truth from my feed I would have thought that yes, it was a noose, but no, it wasn't directed at Bubba Wallace, and had been left earlier. Is this not true? They are SURE it was just a pull rope?
22 June 2020: I dunno, Occam's razor suggests a government effort to destroy inner-city neighborhoods that seems to also be going on in suburban neighborhoods https://twitter.com/WilliamHogeland/status/1274853590985781248
20 June 2020: RT @tweetertation: It must be exhausting to be someone with an elaborate fantasy of being a Good One
19 June 2020: RT @FakenameJoseph: @jessesingal @politicalmath @vboykis @kittypurrzog @sonyasupposedly @quinnnorton Haha. Pretty much.
18 June 2020: *intentions of putting up a rope swing https://twitter.com/LibbySchaaf/status/1273418902953811968
18 June 2020: RT @mattyglesias: This is super long because I wanted to be thorough and careful. Policing needs big change not superficial reform. But q…
17 June 2020: Using the invaluable WaPo database and including the full day of Floyd's death, I'm counting 58 police shootings since May 25th. There are probably a handful of non-shooting deaths too but that doesn't get us close to 120. Way too many, but don't spread stuff without checking. pic.twitter.com/eq7vexK1In
15 June 2020: Part of what's so annoying about this is he wrote really good, usefully contrarian articles on, for example, the fall of the SPLC and how in certain ways it was overhyping certain threats. Now he's just falling in line, probably due to fear. https://twitter.com/RichardYannow/status/1272599696712712192
13 June 2020: There's a good paper on this by @Chrismartin76 -- I like the idea of "neglected tradeoffs." Comes up EVERYWHERE once the concept has been highlihgted for you! https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317176188_Neglected_Tradeoffs_in_Social_Justice_Research
13 June 2020: The concept creep of 'colorblindness' has been interesting. It's gone from Michele Alexander's vital insight that institutions can be racist without being explicitly so to a much stranger and more radical and questionable"It is never good to suggest race isn't important" thing
13 June 2020: 2/ Nonononononononono. No. I picture a world in which my parents remain safe in Newton thanks to the private security service that gets funded overnight, but down the road in Dorchester it's complete luck of the draw. This is in such bad faith. Don't run columns like this. pic.twitter.com/KnxwVjZ4O6
13 June 2020 (live): The idea that only right-wing NYT columns get the light, credulous editorial treatment is laughable. "What about rape?" Nothing that follows comes close to actually answering the question -- just hand-waving and misdirection, which is par for the course for prison abolitionists. pic.twitter.com/5XT5tOCXgy
12 June 2020 (live): That you are mad I made a joke when you are clearly in favor of domestic violence, under the right circumstances, pisses me off
12 June 2020: No, I'm against pounching Nazis https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/08/the-careful-pragmatic-case-against-punching-nazis.html
12 June 2020 (live): If I'm misinterpreting you let me know -- but you seem to think TERFs are equivalent to Nazis, and I imagine you are in favor of punching Nazis.
12 June 2020: Okay, so I am putting you down as in favor of punching TERFs but unable to explain why it was wrong JK Rowling was slapped.
12 June 2020: My point is that if you are in favor of punching TERFs, you can't really complain when someone punches (or slaps) a TERF. What's your stance on this Allison -- do you think "punch TERFs" is a justifiable position?
12 June 2020 (live): 2/ One resolution would be to propose a "Schrödinger's Domestic Abuse" situation where an act of a man striking a woman both is and isn't justifiable, and then when we find out whether she is a TERF, we can make that designation.
12 June 2020 (live): I'm genuinely confused by this. If "punch TERFs" or "kill TERFs" is a morally right position to hold, and JK Rowling is (as I am told) a TERF, is the proper interpretation here that had he slapped her for a different reason, it would have been justified? HELP ME TO UNDERSTAND pic.twitter.com/DnHcl8a5Zf
11 June 2020 (live): 2/ Segment starts at 47:50, fwiw, if you want a quick summary. But I'd rather have people read expert advice on this than hear my summary. https://barpodcast.fireside.fm/14?t=0
11 June 2020: Because @kittypurrzog and I JUST discussed this... It is genuinely dangerous to spread this sort of rhetoric. If you are a media figure, please familiarize yourself with expert guidelines on how to reduce the probability of suicide contagion/ https://reportingonsuicide.org/ pic.twitter.com/GQqChMCOLk
8 June 2020: RT @bitemxrk: @jessesingal Conservatives will frame the left as extremists no matter what position they take nor how extreme their own posi…
6 June 2020: I am sure you are framing "scholars of prisons" in a way that renders what you're saying technically true. The people who actually deal with cities and crime and criminal justice reform on the ground, with traidtional social-scientific tools, do not view this as a viable option
6 June 2020: That's insane
6 June 2020 (live): is that what educated white left-of-center people want is going to get the most attention these days. There are complicated Great Awokening dynamics. Then there are subjects that end up having different rules applied to them for various reasons
6 June 2020 (live): gender nonconforming kids." This varies HUGELY from issue to issue. I could just as easily say it's insane how much focus has been trained on police abolition, in recent days, given how unpopular a position that is. Same for things like Abolishing ICE. The general heuristic
6 June 2020 (live): the process by which newsrooms determine which opinions to air has a huge amount with the sentiment of staffers and their social networks. on trans issues, for example, the times has aired a tiny fraction of american public opinion, and no i am not talking about, like, "torture
6 June 2020 (live): Jason, this is such a collapsing and misunderstanding of the sociology of newsrooms, I don't even know where to start...
4 June 2020: I literally just said this to someone in a DM
4 June 2020: Ominous! I disagree w/Berenson on this stuff, a lot, but when the question is if someone even gets to use a platform as big as Amazon's, you NEED to take a liberal stance. That's especially true here, given that health authorities haven't exactly showered themselves in glory. https://twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1268529570480824320
3 June 2020: This phrases it better than I did. In a situation like this, public health experts should be willing to take a politically unpopular stance, not get swept along w/political tides. Saying "protesting = fighting white supremacy = better health" elides the possibility of tradeoffs. https://twitter.com/HotlineJosh/status/1267982919034982402
31 May 2020: 2/ It's always the lawyers
30 May 2020: There is a certain sort of predominately white, predominately privileged person who believes the act of posting a "Pyramid of white Supremacy" meme, if repeated enough by enough eager white people, will fix problems that have nothing to do with a lack of 'awareness.' Do better!
30 May 2020 (live): Julian's great (hi Julian!) but I'm thinking of a guy who was posting maps earlier this week and studies stuff from a different angle
30 May 2020: Someone remind me the Princeton prof who was posting that really interesting stuff about riots in the 1960s?
26 May 2020: oh i think aurelius was suggesting she was pretending to call the cops, in which case she's an awful person but didn't commit a crime. was just saying i guess technically we don't know for sure she did but someone should find out
26 May 2020 (live): I'm against internet mob justice in this or any case. At the very least it should be investigated because if she did call the cops she's on tape committing a serious crime
26 May 2020 (live): yeah I also don't like internet vigilante justice but a woman's fucking caught on tape making a VERY dangerous false claim to cops --- 100% acceptable for her to be arrested for that. it's a crime!
26 May 2020: uh oh so I looked at the choked dogs instagram posts from 2015 and uhhhhhh lotsa white genocide stuff, complicated story
26 May 2020 (live): it actually reminded me of the shocking frequency with which cops arrest people for 'resisting' or 'assaulting' them under bs pretenses. not the same but just what jumped to mind, the brazenness
26 May 2020 (live): I'm not gonna spread it because that awful woman is fucked as it is but maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan is that a crazy video
24 May 2020: What confuses me about UC's plan on building an SAT replacement that is somehow more relevant is how they possibly expect the same old disparities not to show up on that one. https://twitter.com/NoamJStein/status/1263857458474299392
14 May 2020: RT @helaineolen: Kudos to the kids @AnnenbergMedia, who had a nice scoop this morning revealing that not only is USC increasing tuition for…
28 April 2020: RT @Little_Fiery_1: @jessesingal You say that until these True Patriots put a tomahawk missile directly between the eyes of COVID-19.
21 April 2020: RT @mattyglesias: This is going to crush Trump with his base, which on both the elite media level and the grassroots mass politics level, i…
13 April 2020: very depressing tense change I gotta make in my book pic.twitter.com/pbhWDTZ7kM
7 April 2020: If the Times is going to claim one in four girls is sexually abused -- a truly astonishing-seeming statistic -- it really needs to provide evidence. If the claim is (as I suspect) exaggerated, such claims have a history of doing harm. https://twitter.com/robbysoave/status/1247553242101436416
7 April 2020 (live): Try Ka'en
7 April 2020: It's okay to call white women 'Ka*en' just not with hard R
30 March 2020: RT @TheBARPod: Episode 2: "You Essentially Stole My Podcast" now live here or in your feed: https://t.co/fG0HEsU3nM https://t.co/zOjM7wkn…
30 March 2020 (live): Many good actors were!
30 March 2020: I know a lot of you are saying, "Jesse, isn't there more important stuff going on at the moment than your reaction to a three-year-old film everyone has seen already"? Absolutely not -- this is a complete outrage. This film caused the pandemic.
30 March 2020: I have something important to say. I have NO idea how so many people thought Okja was good. That was the biggest trainwreck of a film I've watched in a very long time. It wasn't even close to good. I loved Parasite but oh my God, what is up with the reaction to Okja? EXPLAIN.
18 March 2020 (live): just raw number. shoulda added that the reason I find it foreboding is what the curve looks like even despite how little testing we've done
18 March 2020: This is foreboding pic.twitter.com/Sjj1aTi1G9
16 March 2020: Me: No nation could fuck up its coronavirus worse than we did U.K.: Hold my [a dry, hacking cough renders the rest of the sentence unintelligible] https://t.co/uRGBo3amOX via @alexwickham
6 March 2020: 2/ White liberal who never read How To Talk About Race Stuff: [basically decent, occasionally says something off-color or mildly offensive or ignorant] White liberal who has read all that stuff: Do not tone-police angry black womxn bodies with your discursive erasure!
6 March 2020: 1/ Increasingly convinced that if you are a white liberal concerned you don't know how to talk about race -- and this is a legit concern for various reasons -- the last thing you want to do is dip into professional-progressive discourse on this. It will lead you weird places. pic.twitter.com/E53SITMwuy
21 February 2020: Several BernieBros conspired to cause my finances to become disorganized, causing me to miss a credit card payment. Will they ever stop with their harassment? I think not.
29 January 2020: RT @AvinashSamarth: The max sentence in New York for these slaps is 15 days in jail. In the federal system, it’s 10 years. Federal crim…
23 January 2020: 2/ If these were randos on Twitter it wouldn't be worth mentioning, but a it's increasingly the case that on social-justice issues, major progressive outlets are only publishing for the most avant-garde 5% of readers. This is bad for a MILLION reasons!
23 January 2020: The movement to stop talking about biological sex is getting weirder and weirder. Here's BuzzFeed UK's LGBT editor saying you shouldn't say "same-sex attraction" -- that is, the dictionary definition of being gay -- because some people will... have PTSD reactions to it??? pic.twitter.com/XQvKvX1qnE
23 January 2020: 4/ It's worrisome what is going on in philosophy. The Tuvel situation was a pretty big canary in the coal mine.
23 January 2020 (live): 3/they either think, or claim to think, that there's such urgency to their moral crusade that their enemies need to be destroyed. It is scary to come into contact with these people. It is, as Kaufman says, a very adolescent mindset most people grow out of. https://theelectricagora.com/2020/01/23/two-bad-ideas-of-the-morally-self-righteous/
23 January 2020 (live): 2/ They are at a certain advantage because they really do want their enemies destroyed. I don't want them destroyed -- I really don't have it in me to want anyone to lose their jobs or be cut off from their social networks or whatever. I just want them to, well, do better? But
23 January 2020 (live): 1/This @ElectricAgora piece about philosophy's culture wars and the very damaged- and dysfunctional-seeming people leading the seemingly daily crusades is sad and gets at a certain asymmetry I've noticed during my own run-ins with these types (mostly not philosophers in my case): pic.twitter.com/cV6cP5Htju
25 December 2019 (live): MLK really could turn a phrase
25 December 2019: "my side is 1619's side, not his side, in a world in which there are only those two sides" is quite a quote
25 December 2019 (live): So uh, newsletter subscribers, remember when I laid out that general model of accuracy norms versus rightside norms and worried lotsa smart people are drifting more and more toward rightside norms...? pic.twitter.com/ptHeZyCePP
19 December 2019 (live): 3/ mean "Too Online people yelling at trillionaire JK Rowling" with that last bit -- I mean people getting banned from major platforms or, in the incident that precipitated this, getting fired from their job. People should take a deep breath and ask if this is the way forward.
19 December 2019 (live): 2/I just pretty earnestly believe that this biological sex denialism stuff a) doesn't actually help the people it's designed to help, b) is politically disastrous for the LGBT movement, and c) is starting to get enforced (in some places) in a way I find rather coercive -- I don't
19 December 2019: I uh, think JK Rowling will be okay. But if you watch how Online is responding to her expressing the belief that people shouldn't be fired for believing that biological sex is a real thing -- an opinion without a whiff of transphobia to it -- that can help explain where we're at.
17 December 2019: RT @ZaidJilani: If you trust Morning Consult, this is a pretty good result for Bernie Sanders https://t.co/JhveAKW9w2 https://t.co/whmg9m8v…
16 December 2019: If anyone's in NYC and wants a second-generation Google Nest Mini for $30 ($5 under retail looks like), I'm trying to sell the one Google gave me for free as a Fi subscriber to subsidize the purchase of another Echo Dot. It's new/sealed/etc. SO MANY FINANCIAL MACHINATIONS.
12 December 2019: Students are trying to get a comp sci professor fired because he wrote stuff they found offensive for Quillette. Seems to be a dearth of real-life examples of bad behavior: One is he used a Star Trek example in class, and of course girls don't watch that! https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RwiHY_4yo6eEdzxMiAPERwHCc-dWo8Dd/view
5 December 2019: These are the same cowards who talk shit and spread rumors online and then scream HELP I'M BEING HARASSED PLEASE HEEEEELLLLLP ME when they are called on it. https://twitter.com/kittypurrzog/status/1202657106597269504
3 December 2019: I'm on a sex research listserv and someone asked if 'MSN' (men who have sex with men) had gone out of style and I was like hmmm that seems unlikely and then I realized he meant the term itself
1 December 2019 (live): 3/ And archive of the cache http://archive.is/0yFYg
1 December 2019 (live): 2/ Here's a cached copy: Remember that when you take an article down, you aren't actually taking it down. https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:mePavXEVz2IJ:https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/doctors-are-not-gods/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
1 December 2019 (live): https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:mePavXEVz2IJ:https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/doctors-are-not-gods/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
1 December 2019: It's pretty crazy that Scientific American took this article down. I'm seeing more and more of this -- editors yanking stuff, in a rather cowardly manner, because of Twitter bullshit -- and it's very bad for journalism. https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1200102178003836929
19 November 2019: I made no comment about ROGD. My comment is in reference to the ridiculous claim that it is easy to study cohorts of kids with gender dysphoria over time, when it's notoriously difficult for a half dozen reasons. https://twitter.com/e_urq/status/1196646776305905664
19 November 2019 (live): 4/ Anyway, here's my thing on accuracy vs rightside norms. I do think this general model explains a lot of what's going on in journalism, though I'm sure someone has said it better somewhere else. https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/rightside-norms-accuracy-norms-and?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=twitter
19 November 2019: 3/ It's also kinda crazy to say "Why don't they just study supposedly ROGD kids directly?" when a very provisional study based on surveying parents of some of them launched a protracted politicized shitstorm. Not really good faith. In conclusion, :( :( :( :(
19 November 2019: 2/ Because this is an area where rightside norms have completely trounced accuracy norms, you can get stuff wrong over and over and over, while never doing the journalistic legwork of devleoping sources, reading, etc., and still get treated as a journalistic authority. It's bad.
19 November 2019: Old article, but a professional writer at Slate, treated as an authority on this issue, wants commenters there to know that "It's just not that hard" to study cohorts of gender dysphoric youth over time. This couldn't be wronger. Consistently at a loss for words on this subject. pic.twitter.com/B0TWB0sjPM
13 November 2019: 3/ This is not about Burns herself -- I have mentioned many other journalists on this beat doing the exact same thing: Not being at all familiar with the ideas/clinicians they are projecting expertise about.
13 November 2019: 2/ Obviously the Dutch clinic isn't gonna, like, sue Vox, but this is how you get sued as an outlet! You can't describe a clinical protocol that EXPLICITLY calls for X as explicitly calling for not-X? Does anyone actually read the papers they write about? Anyway, frustrating.
13 November 2019 (live): Vox: Under the Dutch approach, natal males are forced to wear "boy clothes" and gender nonconforming behavior strictly prohibited The Dutch clinic: It's fine to let natal males wear dresses; just keep them safe How does this not warrant a correction? How does it get published? pic.twitter.com/WejVAY9HqE
12 November 2019: "We did a journalism. We're sorry. It won't happen again." https://dailynorthwestern.com/2019/11/10/lateststories/addressing-the-dailys-coverage-of-sessions-protests/ pic.twitter.com/KZKFaDGwFJ
12 November 2019: You kids can always just quit journalism https://twitter.com/kittypurrzog/status/1194061829770629120
3 November 2019 (live): Will I ever actually buy a game rather than tweet questions about them? Only time will tell but it doesn't look good.
3 November 2019: Death Stranding as good as everyone says? Just me or are there a bunch of amazing releases lately?
30 October 2019: RT @MattsIdeaShop: I CANT TELL WHATS REAL ANYMORE https://t.co/0DtPrPssFg
27 October 2019: 100000000000000000000% https://twitter.com/sameoldstory/status/1188537545451114496
25 October 2019 (live): it is tricky, but sending me your book when it's out is a first step! but ballantyne's is toward the less academic part of the spectrum, so even someone like me could understand it
25 October 2019: On Monday or Tuesday, I'll be doing a free newsletter about Nathan Ballantyne's "Knowing Our Limits" and why I loved it. And giving away a few copies! https://www.amazon.com/Knowing-Our-Limits-Nathan-Ballantyne/dp/019084728X Susbcribe: http://jessesingal.substack.com
24 October 2019: I believe there is zero data on this, but that's because there's zero good contemporary data on detransitioning at all. For desistance (GD going away in time), if memory serves the older a kid is when the GD first manifests, the more likely it'll desist. https://twitter.com/very_stupid_man/status/1187459974672326659
17 October 2019 (live): been wanting to look more into this for awhile now so might follow up with some questions down the road
17 October 2019: Some people have gone truly all-in on this. Here's a philosophy paper I've seen cited positively stating that it's IMMORAL to ask for evidence if the accuser is marginalized (cuz we can always neatly cleave the world into marginalized/non-marginalized) https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/p/pod/dod-idx/epistemic-exploitation.pdf?c=ergo;idno=12405314.0003.022;format=pdf https://twitter.com/ThreeEyedRat/status/1184864154986921990
15 October 2019 (live): What's kinda amazing is the woke dude making a legitimately good point that just because someone has a particular ID doesn't mean they know much, and then misapplying it completely
15 October 2019: Nothing captures the present online moment on the left like a very woke 23-year-old white dude explaining to a woman what a woman is pic.twitter.com/RbyMOjHbgm
14 October 2019: so tired so very, very, very tired pic.twitter.com/Bh0tsvywGY
10 October 2019: This is a great question, but one that's much better for Silver or for my more stats-midned followers than for me https://twitter.com/AlanLevinovitz/status/1182130548023742464
21 September 2019: *vote to impeach
12 September 2019: RT @NickClairmont1: They sell Andrew Yang campaign stickers down at my local deli https://t.co/sJjqXOHWzy
27 August 2019: RT @_Jon_Green: https://t.co/iZunWYsGVK
17 August 2019: First 20 hrs back stateside: -Landed to belows scene at JFK cuz customs system imploded -Had to abort Long Island errand cuz ALL LIRR trains outta Barclays cancelled Traveling in Baltics was so easy! Hopefully in time America can achieve Latvia/Lithuania infrastructure levels https://t.co/0YaC9OZykX
8 August 2019: RT @WingsScotland: "Comrade Foxonov? No, there was never any Comrade Foxonov. You must be mistaken. Here, see the picture." https://t.co/m3…
10 July 2019: RT @ConditorMalorum: @jessesingal that journalist was the woodward and bernstein of finding out who farted in a convenience store but no th…
8 July 2019: 2/ What I've found is that wokescold types living in comfortable circumstances constantly deploy this tactic to derail actual, substantive conversations, but then seem perfectly fine with (for example) Palestinians, well, defending their right to exist. It's very disingenuous.
8 July 2019: Why are there no articles by Americans scolding Palestinians for defending, in writing and activism and advocacy, their humanity and right to exist? Aren't marginalized people supposed to refuse to do so? This has long confused me and I've never gotten an answer.
4 July 2019: RT @Yair_Rosenberg: This is why, despite everything, Twitter is still worth it: https://t.co/851EsTAHYI
1 July 2019: RT @AkashShetye: @jessesingal TFW the parody becomes real. https://t.co/MChKpkakCV
22 April 2019: @kittypurrzog i mean i already dress like a thirtysomething lesbian so we're most of the way there
13 April 2019 (live): Kessler is a marginal figure though -- I'm saying in situation where the humanity-denying person already has power or influence
13 April 2019 (live): I feel like whenever I bring this up people deploy examples where common sense would clearly intervene. I would not ask someone to risk inslavement for The Dicourse! Making a more general point about what feels like a burgeoning phobia of any sort of discussion with 'enemies'
13 April 2019 (live): I'm responding to the endlessly repeated claim that, in 2019, people shouldn't "Debate people who refuse to acknowledge [their] right to exist." I'm saying that if slaves could debate people who wanted them enslaved, it's unclear to me when this argument would apply today
13 April 2019: I mean this literally happened! People who started out their lives as slaves became leading advocates for abolition. Imagine if they had said "I refuse to debate with people who don't see me as human." https://twitter.com/joero3/status/1117078760690524161
15 March 2019: RT @Bernstein: I would encourage my colleagues to be extraordinarily cautious in tying the Christchurch shooter to a narrative of online ra…
5 March 2019: RT @jpalmiotti: Uber driver hands these out when you get into his car. https://t.co/UYKDiUL6CL
4 March 2019: RT @F73: Firefighters in reverse are just plain evil https://t.co/FEmr9KCg6b
14 January 2019: Thread about the social-media dumpster-fire I (again) got sucked into over the weekend, and a proposal for a way to calm things down. Please read. https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1084833529605906432
14 January 2019: Fucking professional literary agents threatening to fight me on Twitter. For the love of Christ. This is the stupidest fucking platform and it attracts the dumbest idiots.
14 January 2019: I am not fighting you, @dreamoforgonon -- what are you, 15? Use your words you galoot.
14 January 2019: Me from future: Hello, child. I'm you in 20 years Me from past: Oh my God! What are things like in 2019? Am I famous? MfF: Uhhh not really but an agent at a prestigious literary agency... MfP [perking up]: ...yes? MfP: ...wants to physically assault you. And he benches a lot! pic.twitter.com/3PxsoJmkjO
13 December 2018 (live): I wish people would stop viewing this politically. At the end of the day, it is BAD FOR SOCIETY to have a situation where a study finds no statistically significant support for X (as SS is genuinely understood), but then yells X!!!! to the world, which people then echo.
13 December 2018 (live): 3/ much about effect size. IAT research, along with various other types of sexy behavioral-science findings, are simply held to a much lower level of evidence than they should be. Experts should be careful in how they communicate this sort of finding.
13 December 2018: 2/ And that's not even getting into the question of effect size, which is of course crucial, and which @alex_etal brought up. But if you can't even prove significance at 5% -- which some people think is already too loose a standard -- then on paper you shouldn't even be talking pic.twitter.com/1m5OY0wxA4
13 December 2018: 1/ I'm a fan of @Noahpinion but I couldn't come up with a more elegant real-world example of why some people get frustrated at how IAT results are communicated to the public. NONE of the findings in this key chart is statistically significant at the traditionally accepted level! pic.twitter.com/RhlcSSLsyp
15 November 2018: RT @allisonkilkenny: A horror movie short about a woman who is trying to work in a cafe and she slowly realizes the staff is setting up the…
31 October 2018: RT @GMPaiella: Mmmm yeah, it's weird that the people who run factory farms that are hellish for both animals and laborers also support poli…
26 October 2018: RT @drarcox: @jessesingal This comment from someone at the Daily Mail was funny. https://t.co/Sdyqvj5LQx
28 September 2018: RT @mattyglesias: “What did you mean when you said I was so full of shots I could not stand up?” “I have a weak stomach so I like to sit d…
27 September 2018: RT @PereGrimmer: @jessesingal Devastating as it turns out Mao-Hitler's license is suspended.
17 September 2018: RT @lindy2350: @hardsci @jessesingal Also this, by Fields medalist Tim Gowers: https://t.co/ELhuhzYE6H
17 September 2018: RT @Bernstein: But Botham Jean had some weed in his apartment https://t.co/rMFCkf615g
17 September 2018: RT @zamartin: @jessesingal "I'm a Democrat and think Bill Clinton blows. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk"
4 September 2018: RT @SopanDeb: just cut the starfleet logo off my uniform after hearing that the federation is going to increase support to the traitorous m…
1 September 2018: RT @B_Ehrenreich: What’s so great about full employment? In my ideal society, people would work because they want to or when there’s someth…
21 August 2018: RT @Redistrict: A long-term problem for Democrats: a majority of the Senate now represents 18% of the country’s population.
16 July 2018: RT @OsitaNwanevu: 🤔 https://t.co/4ZIAUbK2NO
16 July 2018: RT @sunraysunray: maybe Communism was good? https://t.co/ReY2yFfamS
4 June 2018: RT @AbiWilks: There are four women at my Dupont Circle gym class who look extremely like Melania Trump so statistically one of them is prob…
8 May 2018: This whole thing where you conflate gender dysphoria (which entails distress, often severe, by definition) with being transgender (an identity designation for which GD is neither necessary nor sufficient) has been going on since 2012 and is very harmful https://t.co/f2fb1LhWTp
5 May 2018: RT @tolntran: this ancient sculpture of a man fighting to not be kicked in the nuts by a centaur represents man's eternal struggle to not b…
23 April 2018: RT @KevinWGlass: @jessesingal https://t.co/YoentQjcZg
8 April 2018: RT @zexraxg: https://t.co/kHDsWeYSNH
28 March 2018: heh, *wildfire
28 March 2018: RT @DataBase_LDB: excuse me but what the actual fuck https://t.co/f5MTtAHA2A
13 March 2018: RT @ebruenig: rex tillerson, ,welcome to the resistance
9 March 2018: RT @smallnartless: Let's meet the most famous cat in Vietnam atm. His name is Chó (meaning "Dog" in Vietnamese) and he's a fish vendor. He…
26 February 2018: RT @TomNamako: "I really believe I'd run in there even if I didn't have a weapon.” —Trump https://t.co/NWZ2ZPOx9h
19 February 2018: RT @mekosoff: this remains one of the best @ replies on this whole website https://t.co/QGzuJtPprG
12 February 2018: RT @reallyhoffman: Y'all are stuck in 2018 watching the Olympics in 2D while I'm in the future watching it in 3D https://t.co/CsKHpbZQki
3 February 2018: This person's feed collects the allegations against the woman who confronted McGowan. Two things: 1) Just allegations at this point 2) This shouldn't change anyone's view of RM's behavior. Either she handled the incident well or she didn't; more a/b Diet getting platform https://t.co/6xrz439vCU
24 December 2017: RT @DOGGEAUX: husband: what's going on with my wife!!!!!!! wife: the railroad should be nationalized. post too. and energy. for the many no…
1 December 2017: RT @jbarro: You know who has foreign relations experience and is on the job market? https://t.co/r5F1mET4kw
28 November 2017: The Expert Negitiator has logged on https://t.co/sVAmdQMBIK
25 November 2017: RT @aedison: every tech bro in silicon valley thinks he’s gonna change the world with the power of billion-dollar algorithms but…
9 November 2017: RT @alexsingal: #RoyMoore https://t.co/403kOolFaV
26 October 2017: RT @dylanmatt: One of the most exciting bills I've ever seen in my time covering Congress https://t.co/eTWsCe2QIN
17 August 2017: I do think the Trump presidency is gonna seriously bring together Jewish and Palestinian Americans. Like, this week -- holy shit.
2 August 2017: RT @SonneMondWasser: @jessesingal @politico yeah but editor does come off looking like he's been bought and paid for by Trump so there's th…
12 July 2017: RT @nicoleperlroth: +1 This is standard protocol, per IC sources, precursor to a backchannel. Meeting is nonsense but indicates broker…
11 July 2017: RT @libbycwatson: it's too perfect i cant process it
21 June 2017: RT @scoejarborough: to be fair to the officer, castile didn't bring this up in the .02 seconds he had before he was shot https://t.co/Unp0d…
27 May 2017: RT @fivefifths: This is honestly just a remarkable law.
25 May 2017: benny johnson on that libel tip https://t.co/Nskg45u6wn
19 May 2017: 11,000 retweets. Eventually, once we have sufficiently scrubbed and policed the language, justice will bloom like a flower. https://t.co/eTPmnMrBHC
19 May 2017: RT @NCBlake: 🚨 "Donald Trump’s attorneys originally wanted him to submit an updated financial disclosure without certifying the…
18 May 2017: RT @GabrielRossman: My colleague Rogers Brubaker on the Hypatia fracas & his own related research on transracialism & social categories htt…
17 May 2017: RT @owillis: The Obama scandals were way worse than Trump https://t.co/lpNtQ67Ofp
15 February 2017 (live): @wehpudicabok I block anyone who pops into my feed just to be a dick. Not personal.
14 February 2017: @EllenKilloran @ryanWneal @AlexMLeo American Conservative article "Womanhood Redefined"
2 February 2017 (live): @jiveassbaloney @PineyMcknuckle can't win 'em all
2 February 2017: I'm sorry but people are becoming fucking unhinged. Whatever current situation we're in, it isn't this. pic.twitter.com/982hAcMdy1
1 February 2017: 77/ a state of confusion about why she wasn't allowed to enter a country that was, by now, her own.
1 February 2017: 6/ don't, and whatever it is I can only assume it's explosive enough for it to be worth it for this old lady to have died, presumably in
1 February 2017: 5/ sent any immigrant-terrorists here! Steve Bannon must know something the rest of us, including a bunch of natsec and diplomacy folks,
1 February 2017: 4/ he share it with the intel community? It must be pretty hot and interesting given that none of the countries covered by the ban have
1 February 2017: 3/ who have lived in the U.S. since 1995 and just wanted to enter the country -- their country, effectively -- for medical treatment? Can
1 February 2017: 2/ Given that the entire natsec and diplomatic communities were against the EO, what info did Steve Bannon have about old Muslim ladies
1 February 2017: 1/ Someone should ask Sean Spicer why that Detroit businessman's mom had to die. Did her death make us safer? http://www.fox2detroit.com/news/local-news/232856168-story
31 January 2017: cc @ByYourLogic
30 January 2017: Now the president is using British slang! This is super real you guys. https://twitter.com/RoguePOTUSStaff/status/826131477519880192
30 January 2017: We're fucked Rasmussen: More than half back Trump’s refugee ban http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/316914-poll-over-half-back-trumps-refugee-ban#.WI-xIVvGaRo.twitter
30 January 2017: Don't make fun of me but I'm returning to The Witness after months and helpless -- what dumb thing am I messing up here? It no work. pic.twitter.com/y364M9ehVS
21 January 2017: CNN folks reporting Trump lackeys there were cheering https://twitter.com/RonaldKlain/status/822904544438996998
17 January 2017: The swamp-draining will commence after the sexual assault lawsuit(s) have been completed. One thing at a time.
17 January 2017: I'm calling shenanigans. Dr. Good Spine -- if that is his real name -- hasn't tweeted at all and was created in... January of 2017. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/821177307708661761
17 January 2017: Guns can't bit people https://twitter.com/dbag75/status/821157901784018944
3 January 2017: Worth keeping in mind as this shitstorm unfolds that the Tea Party agenda was never broadly. It just worked as perpetual defense.
2 January 2017: 3/ ideas on the left, etc. etc. I'm not saying any of that. I'm saying you cannot compare (for example) Cass Sunstein to Paul Ryan
2 January 2017: 2/People opportunistically conflate this arguments with other arguments: That lefties never believe dumb things, that there aren't zombie
2 January 2017: It is a very hard point to make on Twitter but I am standing by it: Zombie ideas guide conservative POLICY way more on right than left
2 January 2017: LOL these thieving chucklefucks https://twitter.com/funder/status/815928086680182784
31 December 2016: Crazy how fucking racist the pundits are over there. This stuff is pretty wow. https://twitter.com/Shteyngart/status/815253280716627968
31 December 2016: Breitbart https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/814989172498894848
27 December 2016: An alt-right appears to have broken out
26 December 2016: Incredible. Baked Alaska was a woke BlackLIvesMatter-tweeting liberal until fairly recently. These people are such fucking phonies https://twitter.com/neilkli/status/813519516651188226
22 December 2016: Interesting article on the difficulty of prosecuting a twitter libel case against someone like Mike Cernovich https://theoutline.com/post/723/it-s-hard-to-prove-libel-when-everything-s-a-joke
8 December 2016: Prosecutors quietly drop charges against white firefighter who threatened black couple with a gun http://www.rawstory.com/2016/12/prosecutors-quietly-drop-charges-against-white-firefighter-who-threatened-black-couple-with-gun/#.WEl9J3w85U8.twitter
21 November 2016: When the president of Argentina called to congratulate Trump, Trump asked him for permitting help. Beyond belief. http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/cashing-in-bigly-in-argentina pic.twitter.com/ZKydbd7Ziz
21 November 2016: Holy shit holy shit holy shit http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/cashing-in-bigly-in-argentina Any other president, can you imagine the reaction?
9 November 2016: 1/ A few minutes before whenever Trump went on, I had turned off CNN. But I got the NY Times alert and was like, Fuck, this is history or
28 September 2016: Quote-RT w/ musical act who gets tiny fraction of deserved love, plus link to good song Amusement Parks on Fire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW68MFAT8KY
27 September 2016: "Let's give people a phone powerful enough to open up a world of news and entertainment, but no SD card and not enough storage"
27 September 2016: Gonna be on Sirius XM tonight discussingt the debate. My key talking points: 1. HRC shoulda smiled more 2. HRC didn't smile enough
23 September 2016: Can see confusion given wording in this article https://twitter.com/dearsarah/status/779367868127260674 But blockers/hormons won't be given to 8 y/os https://twitter.com/lindsaycohen/status/779366830729224192
2 September 2016: The One Appropriate Way To Interpret This Lena Dunham/Odell Beckham Jr. Thing: A Play-Take In Five Acts Starring Starring Denzel Washingt
31 July 2016: Yes we are just can't come up to cogent rebuttals to intelligent points like "feminism is cancer" https://twitter.com/NMEChachi/status/759845753779056640
27 July 2016: Looks like WikiLeaks maybe set up a (poorly programmed) bot to auto-respond to critics. Smart for 3.3M account? pic.twitter.com/0KocOziRyo
25 July 2016: 2/ folks put in that category were closer to what we'd call effeminate/tomboyish than gender dysphoric.
25 July 2016: 1/ Real interesting question. Partial answer is some societies have a third gender, BUT in some cases I think the pic.twitter.com/eX7gewCk47
22 July 2016: not very FLOTUSy https://twitter.com/IvankaTrump/status/756492146484580352
27 April 2016: 2/ populate with letters/other characters, leaving messages for friends, pictograms, etc.?
27 April 2016: 1/ For a thing I wanna write: Does anyone remember that website from ~7-10 years ago that was just an infinite grid that you could
26 April 2016: Does anyone know what happened to the SA Twitter account?
25 April 2016: @NinjaEconomics I checked into this and there's just no record of me contacting her like that. It's false. Please send me an email.
25 April 2016: Going to grad-school alma-mater on Tuesday to talk to an my former prof's class a/b journalism. Tentative outline pic.twitter.com/KozPPHl5nY
25 April 2016: I consumed lotsa substances at a bachelor weekend and now need to work for a couple hours AMA
24 April 2016: @NinjaEconomics @wetsprocket for you to tweet that to 90k followers... even I am listed as a signatory on that fake petition
24 April 2016 (live): @wetsprocket @NinjaEconomics a lie. contacted her once to ask for comment, and here's all our twitter interax: https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=site:twitter.com+jesse+singal+jamie+walton
22 April 2016: oy vey https://twitter.com/real_peerreview/status/723492729976664064
21 April 2016 (live): @DJCPI @NinjaEconomics She has no idea what she's doing. Not engaging.
18 April 2016: Are you guys gonna correct this, @thedailybeast @NathPlac ? This is not what the study itself says it found. pic.twitter.com/IvmPxwmYrQ
12 April 2016: 2/ a principle stance on free speech, rather than that they use the term as a cudgel only when it suits them. People are dumb.
12 April 2016 (live): The dumbest shit GamerGate did, and I'm drawing from a long, long list, is buy into the idea that the Milos/Breitbarts of the worlds have
31 March 2016: Will keep repeating: Odd of Milo to act like anti-Semitism isn't a thing given photos of him wearing Iron Coross http://archive.is/cTgqq
10 February 2016: I have never seen something like this. I am being accused of inciting harassment that is literally not occurring pic.twitter.com/EuI2mxLjp4
10 February 2016: Absolutely 100% identical to #GamerGate tactics. Screengrab and send to employer. Classy stuff. https://twitter.com/Vivien_JustJ/status/697259244412870656
8 October 2015: Almost forgot that the developer gave me an extra PS4 code for Soma, which is a spectacular game. First person to request it gets it.
11 September 2015: Millions arrested for low-level drug offenses, and yet the people selling $350 hobo bindles in Williamsburg continue to walk free. smdh
11 September 2015: I have changed my stance on the death penalty. Hobo Chic From the Bindle Bros. of Brooklyn http://nyti.ms/1MgGIka
11 February 2015: Dear lord are the takes out in force today http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view6/3094793/locust-swarm-o.gif
11 February 2015: CONDE NAST, A MAJOR MEDIA MOGUL WITH LOTS OF PUBLICATIONS, IS PAYING PEOPLE TO SECRETLY MODERATE SUBREDDITS! -idiots
28 January 2015: t
26 January 2015: Went to the http://weather.com page for NYC and it was just this animated GIF pic.twitter.com/xgx1NSG7pE
18 January 2015: This, but with GRONKGRONKGRONKGRONKGRONKGRONKGRONK GRONK GRONK GRONKGRONKGRONKGRONKGRONKGRONKGRONK... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2W1Wi2U9sQ #GoPats
17 January 2015: Here guys just watch this YouTube video of 2014 Gronk highlights on loop for the next 31 hours https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWLe7QBw4H0 #Gronk
14 January 2015: WHOA indeed. Via @Deadspin , there will be 3-on-3 hoops at the next Olympics http://deadspin.com/whoa-the-2016-olympics-will-have-3-on-3-basketball-1679490551
12 January 2015: https://espngrantland.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/gronk-gronk-e1421001337981.jpg?w=694
9 January 2015: Wrote about jealousy + the limits of evolutionary psychology and it's less boring than it sounds http://nymag.com/scienceofus/20 … @thescienceofus
9 January 2015: Wrote about + jealousy + the limits of evolutionary psychology and it's less boring than it sounds http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2015/01/why-do-men-and-women-get-jealous-differently.html @thescienceofus
16 December 2014: Guys, guys -- #Steam and #GamerGate can BOTH be stupid!
16 December 2014: Apparently my cholesterol is 153 but is supposed to be 150. How many Cholesterol Points are in a slice of pizza?
15 December 2014: http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/12-13-2014-2-19-48-PM.jpg
15 December 2014: Awww man the Cleveland police are offended that's too bad :( :( :( http://gawker.com/ohio-detective-berated-girlfriend-of-black-man-shot-and-1670978314
5 December 2014: Me on the psychological reason #serialpodcast drives some people crazy http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2014/12/why-serial-drives-some-people-crazy.html http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2014/12/why-serial-drives-some-people-crazy.html @thescienceofus
24 November 2014: It's almost as though having a diffuse anonymous movement based mostly on Twitter makes it easy for people to annoy you, #GamerGate
20 November 2014: This, from @KissMeSuzy , is a better plug for our zoophilia interview than I could ever hope to write http://kissingsuzykolber.uproxx.com/2014/11/ksk-mailbag-please-dont-date-horses.html
12 November 2014: I'll never forget where I was when they had to smash that window 10/11 never forget
7 November 2014: I'm going to start a podcast called Cereal in which each season I eat and talk about a single type of Cereal. Cereal, Season 1: Cheerios
7 November 2014: New theory: the storylines for @serial and @HearStartup will intersect. Does @abexlumberg have an alibi for that day in 1999?
3 November 2014: Oh my God look at this list of who supports and opposes #GamerGate http://www.reddit.com/r/GamerGhazi/comments/2kvoi3/gg_whos_supporting_it_and_whos_come_out_against/
31 October 2014: Have you guys seen Ruth Baby Ginsburg? https://slack-files.com/files-tmb/T02CQC8RG-F02SUK98C-bbd53f/pasted_image_at_2014_10_31_10_26_am_360.png
27 October 2014: Does anyone remember good journalism on how pro-family folks inflated number of complaints over nipplegate?

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