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Epistemic closure and 1/6

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Roughly 3/4 of Republican voters claim to believe that 1/6 was a false flag operation for which Antifa deserves more blame than Donald Trump: Yet a full 73 percent of Republicans pin “some” or “a great deal” of responsibility on “left-wing protesters trying to make Trump...
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El Mago

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In 50 years of watching baseball this is the most creative bit of base running I've ever seen. https://twitter.com/Cubs/status/1397965478027530246
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Over at Lawfare, Nicholas Weaver makes the case that the ransomware problem is basically at Bitcoin problem: Even the cryptocurrency community has noted that ransomware is a Bitcoin problem. Multimillion-dollar ransoms, paid in Bitcoin, now seem to be commonplace.This strongly suggests that the best way to...

The crack up

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Movie poster advertises 'The Birth of a Nation,' directed by D.W. Griffith and illustrating a Ku Klux Klan member on horseback, 1915. Based on the novel 'The Clansman' by Thomas.

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Today in carrots and sticks

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Free lottery tickets for vaccine recipients are a great idea and the initial results seem promising: After the state of Ohio announced with great fanfare that residents who got at least one shot of a coronavirus vaccine would be eligible to win a hefty $1 million,...
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