Saturday, 10 January 2026

Deepfake porn is not going away. Recognising that is the first step to dealing with it

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In a world in which anyone can create fake sexually explicit images of anyone else, we should not be surprised when it happens, and we shoul...
Saturday, 15 November 2025

Incentivising War Crimes: The High Cost of International Humanitarianism

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Wars have never been the concern only of their combatants. Other states pay close attention to the geo-political implications and opportunit...
Thursday, 9 October 2025

If Climate Change Is As Bad As Activists Say, Their Demand Should Be 'Geoengineering Now'!

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Some climate activists claim to believe that climate change is an existential threat to humanity, if not the entire biosphere. This is the j...
Tuesday, 7 October 2025

Israel’s Crimes Get Too Much Attention

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A great many people around the world believe that Israel’s government and military have committed and continue to commit crimes against huma...
Monday, 4 August 2025

Inheritance Tax Is Largely Irrelevant to the Problem of Economic Inequality

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Source Lots of people think that a few people controlling a very large share of a society's economic power is a bad thing. It is unfair ...
Tuesday, 8 July 2025

UPDATE: Now also on Substack

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Google seems to have lost interest in the Blogger app and it is showing its age.  I am trying out Substack, and if it works out will be migr...
Monday, 7 July 2025

Indigenous Knowledge Is Epistemically Inferior To Science

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The view that ‘indigenous knowledge’ counts as knowledge in a sense comparable to real (i.e. scientific) knowledge is absurd but widely held...