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Razib Khan reviews Charles Murray's Facing Reality.

For instance, to understand “white flight” in the 1960s and 1970s, all you need is to know that American culture and history has always been bathed in systematic racism and white supremacy. Never mind the massive crime wave of the late 1960s and 1970s that might have driven white residents out of dangerous neighborhoods in search of safety. Reality has been a subtext of American culture, even if it has become progressively more taboo to speak about it as openly as Murray does. Washington, DC is an overwhelmingly liberal city—92 percent of its residents voted for Joe Biden in the 2020 election. It is also starkly segregated by race. The white residents may not face reality openly, but it is obvious from where they choose to live that they make consistent judgements about patterns of violent crime.

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An interview with the developer of Dwarf Fortress, a game in development by one man over 20 years.

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NBC employee Olympic hot mic incident.

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Briar is a decentralized, government interference-resistant messaging platform. Here's a decent writeup about it in medium.

This is the key to Briar’s appeal among activists and dissidents: it can’t be shut down by the government as the app is decentralized. Although even centralized but distributed apps seem to be dealing with that issue quite well. Just look at Telegram thriving in Russia and Iran despite the bans from local governments. For Briar, decentralization is more like the creators showing off that you can trust them. No servers to hold information means no chance of the company itself spying on you.

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Thanks to Augustus Benlé for the Briar recommendation.