Professor Ivy Leek PhD

Totally Fermat's fault. He should have gone to Joe Rogan's Podcast and waved his hands.

@LarrySabato For some it's not going to get to four years.

It’s going to be the longest four years of our lives.

@martin_caparros Martin, come to BlueSky. People have conversations there!

Qué bueno será poder por fin dejar "X" y alejarse de tanto necio innecesario.

@Schickrateez @jessesingal What authority do I cite? Data? I'm proudly guilty of that. Btw, you keep providing more data points of your capacities by claiming it was a "massive Trump win". The data, however, says it was 72vs75 million, and a couple 100,000 votes would have flipped the electoral college.

@professorLeek @jessesingal Finally, you cite to authority as a way to bolster your claim, while at the same time acknowledging that said experts weren't even close. Very, very conspiracy theorists of you.

Are there normal people on Bluesky now or is it mostly still the freaks?

@Schickrateez @jessesingal If you rest your case on a single data point (let alone a wrong one, since experts said it was 50/50), there’s nothing more for you to say to inform others about your intelligence.

@professorLeek @jessesingal Hmm...the PHDs all predicted a Harris win. The "conspiracy theorists", as you call them, all predicted a Trump win. Based on that, which group would you consider intelligent? And, which group is more likely to believe in self-deluding fairy tales? I rest my case.

@TerryCarlsonII @RichardHanania They have never been the same, but they almost always coincide.

@RichardHanania Isn't this just a long winded appeal to authority? Truth has never been the same as expert consensus.

Sam Harris on why critique of the media and the establishment must not turn into nihilism. I know what it's like to read an article in the New York Times and to spot obvious lies. But the alternative to the failure of journalism simply isn't the firehose of lies, half-truths, and conspiracy theories that you find on X. Nor is it the calculated and ever-present distortion you find on right-wing news channels, which never had any journalistic standards to violate in the first place.  There's simply no alternative to healthy institutions that maintain their credibility, even when they make mistakes, by reliably correcting their errors. And when they fall short of this standard, they can be pressured to do better, because they have intellectual and moral scruples. It's an imperfect process, but it's the best we've got... I understand how satisfying it is to find a new bully to beat up the other bullies who've been making you miserable. But the problem is, this new bully is worse. This new bully has no principles. This new bully has no journalistic, academic, or scientific conscience to appeal to. Whatever might be wrong with a person like Anthony Fauci, or Francis Collins, or any of the other doctors who have been demonized right-of-center for their approach to setting COVID policy—at least they are real doctors and scientists who have some professional scruples and reputations to protect among those who actually know something about medical science. RFK Jr. has none of that. He's just a cowboy taking shots at the establishment. The Joe Rogan podcast is not a substitute for the Wall Street Journal or the Kennedy School at Harvard. It is not progress to have a comedian like Dave Smith, who's apparently done his own research, interviewed about the history of the Middle East or the war in Ukraine like he's the next Henry Kissinger. All of this free access to information is making us dumber. I agree with this. For all the problems with the media, they look like saints compared to many of their critics.

@michaelshermer Your capacity for skepticism is outstanding.

Election postmortem. What happened? And what's going to happen? My analysis.

@DrEliDavid @JMilei @realDonaldTrump @elonmusk I agree. They are going to do the same: bbc.com/news/articles/…

🚨 Breaking: @JMilei will be the first foreign leader to meet @realDonaldTrump following his victory. This is not surprising as Trump's Department of Government Efficiency led by @elonmusk plans to do what Milei is successfully doing in Argentina 🇦🇷

After seeing the appointments, it looks as though Elon and Trump want to eradicate the 'woke mind virus' in America by destroying the host.

@aziz0nomics That looks like an incentive to keep hitting!

I love America, but America is sometimes batshit insane. A cyclist got ran over by an ambulance and INCURRED AN $1800 BILL FOR THE RIDE when the ambulance that hit him took him to hospital 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

@crehage Happy Birthday, Chris. WTF, you are birthday twin of one of my favorite people ever👇 x.com/carlsagandotco…

the first time i'm spending my birthday with my family in... years

@davidfrum The word "pogrom" should not be used lightly. Same thing with "genocide".

The pogrom always has an excuse ("the Jews didn't remove their hats when the Host paraded by")- but the excuse for the pogrom is never the reason for the pogrom.

@WKCosmo Indeed, although it was never going to happen.

You have to admit, a tax on unrealized capital gains was a really stupid idea.

@C_Kavanagh Peter would like to copy the Hungarian model but couldn't even keep Orbán's money coming for more than a couple of months. The only freebies he can hope to get now are BJJ classes.

Every single random grifter / culture war pundit making their play. 😂

@mattyglesias Do they specify whether the goal is to win or to lose?

@jessesingal Not an expert, but to me the figure seems batshit crazy.

it isn't nearly enough

@robertwrighter Ethnic cleansing—or, in Sam Harris's words, "just moving."

I think there's a name for this.

@michaelshermer @peterboghossian Peter will copy the Hungarian model. We have seen how it works 👇 bpr.studentorg.berkeley.edu/2023/05/04/orb…

Add school choice and a voucher system @peterboghossian and you’d have a winning agenda for reform, which our educational system is long in need of…

@LuchoXBolivia A ver cuando le dice a su amigo Putin que debe "apoyar el fin de los conflictos bélicos".

Fieles a nuestro firme e inquebrantable compromiso con la democracia, desde el Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia saludamos al pueblo estadounidense por la participación en las elecciones presidenciales que dio como resultado el triunfo de Donald Trump, a quien felicitamos por su victoria. El nuevo gobierno de Estados Unidos tiene el desafío de apoyar el fin de los conflictos bélicos que causan luto en la humanidad, sobre todo en Medio Oriente, y escuchar la voz de los pueblos del mundo que piden terminar con los injustos y unilaterales bloqueos. El respeto a la democracia es el pilar de cualquier sociedad libre, digna y justa.

@BlackHC @martinmbauer @DavidDeutschOxf but not given his history.

@martinmbauer @DavidDeutschOxf David Deutsch behaves surprisingly erratic given his background 😅

You did misrepresent why Pence rejects Trump, @DavidDeutschOxf . Disappointing you'd block for pointing that out Pence disavowed trump at high personal cost, as did most of his former cabinet. But maybe you can make yourself believe they all fell for an "irrational fad"