The last time I shared a reading roundup was in March this year. It has been nine months since then. As I didn’t get time to sit down and pen my thoughts this week, I thought I would share some select pieces of “Reads of the Week” from the last nine months.

I shared 12 of the 43 readings during the last nine months. Ideally, I would have wanted to share all 43 of them, but let’s stick to a dozen. There is nothing special about this selection; it is just random reading/watching.

TracingWoodgrains

@tracewoodgrains

In conversations about intelligence, people often take the @charlesmurray approach of emphasizing that intelligence doesn’t determine a person’s worth. I find myself a bit dissatisfied when I chew on this. It’s true, but I suspect it’s a bit too easy.
Specifically: while I… https://x.com/i/web/status/1772359837881446433

1:58 AM • Mar 26, 2024

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Athan Koutsiouroumbas

@Athan_K

A lot happened in July.
But, one event went quietly unnoticed.
The result of largest American controlled experiment in Universal Basic Income (UBI) was released.
You haven’t heard about it because the findings are terrifyingly bad. (1/12)

10:53 PM • Aug 2, 2024

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Devon Eriksen

@Devon_Eriksen_

The immediate cause of the obesity epidemic is feminism.
It’s unimportant whether this was a deliberate effort to stick a fork in the voting population, as MartianWyrdLord suggests, or whether companies that sold poison simply saw feminism as an opportunity.
The effect is the… https://x.com/i/web/status/1827513966186160565 https://twitter.com/martianwyrdlord/status/1827243687253791197

John Carter

@martianwyrdlord

RFK’s promise to stop subsidizing seed oils, drive ultraprocessed foods from the market, and attempt to reverse America’s chronic disease epidemic, is a mortal threat to the regime.
Over several decades, they patiently introduced addictive poisons into the American food supply… https://x.com/i/web/status/1827243687253791197

6:40 AM • Aug 25, 2024

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