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"People like free markets significantly more than capitalism." Substack link and graph showing the age and ideological spread of people and their opinions on Free Market Economy, Capitalism, Social Democracy, Socialism, and Communism.
"AI compass" showing an overhyped–transformative axis and a good–bad axis. This score is firmly in the "overhyped, bad" quadrant.
art002e009298 (April 6, 2026) – A close-up view from the Orion spacecraft during the Artemis II crew’s lunar flyby on April 6, 2026, captures a total solar eclipse, with only part of the Moon visible in the frame as it fully obscures the Sun. Although the full lunar disk extends beyond the image, the Sun’s faint corona remains visible as a soft halo of light around the Moon’s edge. From this deep-space vantage point, the Moon appeared large enough to sustain nearly 54 minutes of totality, far longer than total solar eclipses typically seen from Earth. This cropped perspective emphasizes the scale of the alignment and reveals subtle structure in the corona during the rare, extended eclipse observed by the crew. The bright silver glint on the left edge of the image is the planet Venus. The round, dark gray feature visible along the Moon’s horizon between the 9 and 10 o’clock positions is Mare Crisium, a feature visible from Earth. We see faint lunar features because light reflected off of Earth provides a source of illumination. Image Credit: NASA
Did The Science Wars Take Place? The Political and Ethical Stakes of Radical Realism by William Gillis Today, one faction of reactionaries denounce leftists as enemies of science, while another faction of reactionaries happily embrace that same role, attacking science as totalitarian. Words like “postmodernism” and “relativism” get thrown about with fervor but little clarity, echoes of a conflict from decades ago.
Did The Science Wars Take Place? The Political and Ethical Stakes of Radical Realism by William Gillis Today, one faction of reactionaries denounce leftists as enemies of science, while another faction of reactionaries happily embrace that same role, attacking science as totalitarian. Words like “postmodernism” and “relativism” get thrown about with fervor but little clarity, echoes of a conflict from decades ago.
excerpt from Did the Science Wars Take Place? by William Gillis
The only real fight left is the fight between freedom-to (anarchism, transhumanism, etc) and freedom-from (nationalism, reaction, etc).
Today, one faction of reactionaries denounce leftists as enemies of science, while another faction of reactionaries happily embrace that same role, attacking science as totalitarian. Words like “postmodernism” and “relativism” get thrown about with fervor but little clarity, echoes of a conflict from decades ago. Is there actually a physical world and can we know anything about it? Did academics on the left influence “post-truth” politics on the right? How could supposed defenders of “science” get lost in a mire of transphobia?
Did The Science Wars Take Place? The Political & Ethical Stakes of Radical Realism William Gillis Foreword by Matilde Marcolli
The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute