M R. X. Dentith
@mrxdentith.com
Philosopher (BNU-ZH): conspiracy theory theorist. Editor: "Social Epistemology" & the Journal of Contemporary Chinese Philosophy
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Website: https://www.mrxdentith.com
Podcast: https://zencastr.com/The-Podcaster-s-Guide-to-the-Conspiracy
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Website: https://www.mrxdentith.com
Podcast: https://zencastr.com/The-Podcaster-s-Guide-to-the-Conspiracy
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One of the best sf shows ever made, Babylon 5, is being released on YouTube by Beyond Infinity in collab w/ WB. And it's upscaled!
One ep every few days.
Seasons 3-4 are masterpieces, but if you've never seen the show, you can start now!
youtu.be/Y235YEQstLo?...
One ep every few days.
Seasons 3-4 are masterpieces, but if you've never seen the show, you can start now!
youtu.be/Y235YEQstLo?...
Babylon 5 | Full Episode | The Gathering: Season 1, Episode 1 | Beyond Infinity
YouTube video by ClipZone: Beyond Infinity
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February 10, 2026 at 11:17 PM
One of the best sf shows ever made, Babylon 5, is being released on YouTube by Beyond Infinity in collab w/ WB. And it's upscaled!
One ep every few days.
Seasons 3-4 are masterpieces, but if you've never seen the show, you can start now!
youtu.be/Y235YEQstLo?...
One ep every few days.
Seasons 3-4 are masterpieces, but if you've never seen the show, you can start now!
youtu.be/Y235YEQstLo?...
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it’s insane that a decade ago we all agreed that giving mass shooters the attention they desired was a bad thing but now because rightwingers will quite literally lie about the shooter every single time we all have to be acutely aware of the shooters intentions and ideology
February 17, 2026 at 9:28 PM
it’s insane that a decade ago we all agreed that giving mass shooters the attention they desired was a bad thing but now because rightwingers will quite literally lie about the shooter every single time we all have to be acutely aware of the shooters intentions and ideology
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I thought we were cancelling Worldcon given the frankly odious way a) they work and b) the increasingly problematic committees that govern the structure?
February 16, 2026 at 10:28 PM
I thought we were cancelling Worldcon given the frankly odious way a) they work and b) the increasingly problematic committees that govern the structure?
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The only good Spartan was John Spartan as played by Sylvester Stallone in 1993's Demolition Man.
February 16, 2026 at 9:01 PM
The only good Spartan was John Spartan as played by Sylvester Stallone in 1993's Demolition Man.
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lollllll it’s the punctuation equivalent of a cute tote bag
Oh yeah, the Oxford comma, the Oxford comma. People love to go on about the Oxford comma. Put this comma in everything, it’s the bee’s knees. You’ve gotta line up to give props to the Oxford comma. Fucking Oxford comma. People wouldn’t give a fuck if it was the Monash comma.
February 16, 2026 at 6:30 AM
lollllll it’s the punctuation equivalent of a cute tote bag
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re protests at pride // everyone who is against our queer whaanau should be made to feel unsafe in all public settings / and they definitely should never ever be given a fucking platform at pride
February 16, 2026 at 2:24 AM
re protests at pride // everyone who is against our queer whaanau should be made to feel unsafe in all public settings / and they definitely should never ever be given a fucking platform at pride
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Why is Chris Luxon holding an umbrella over Harpo Marx in an empty stadium before dawn in the pouring rain? I don't think I've seen this movie.
February 15, 2026 at 11:44 PM
Why is Chris Luxon holding an umbrella over Harpo Marx in an empty stadium before dawn in the pouring rain? I don't think I've seen this movie.
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My first paper is out in #SociologicalScience!
With Jörg Stolz and Ruud Luijkx, we found robust evidence of ideological #bias in #secularization research: researchers' own religiosity is correlated with their probability of finding evidence of religious decline in their publications.
Read more: 👇
With Jörg Stolz and Ruud Luijkx, we found robust evidence of ideological #bias in #secularization research: researchers' own religiosity is correlated with their probability of finding evidence of religious decline in their publications.
Read more: 👇
NEW: Valeria Rainero, Jörg Stolz, Ruud Luijkx, The Faith Factor. How Scholars’ Religiosity Biases Research Findings on Secularization sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
sociologicalscience.com
February 11, 2026 at 10:22 AM
My first paper is out in #SociologicalScience!
With Jörg Stolz and Ruud Luijkx, we found robust evidence of ideological #bias in #secularization research: researchers' own religiosity is correlated with their probability of finding evidence of religious decline in their publications.
Read more: 👇
With Jörg Stolz and Ruud Luijkx, we found robust evidence of ideological #bias in #secularization research: researchers' own religiosity is correlated with their probability of finding evidence of religious decline in their publications.
Read more: 👇
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Someone go post this on Threads cuz I don’t have it?
It took a hot minute, but I can finally share my new paper on evidentiary pragmatism in transgender health care!
In it, I propose a new principle for evaluating scientific evidence based on the best reasonably achievable evidence, avoiding the ‘catch-22’ where trans care can never be justified.
In it, I propose a new principle for evaluating scientific evidence based on the best reasonably achievable evidence, avoiding the ‘catch-22’ where trans care can never be justified.
Evidentiary Pragmatism in Transgender Health Care | AJPH | Vol. 116 Issue 3
American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) from the American Public Health Association (APHA)
ajph.aphapublications.org
February 16, 2026 at 12:46 AM
Someone go post this on Threads cuz I don’t have it?
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Of all the things that didn’t happen, this AI-agent afflicted present day dystopian future didn’t happen the most
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i think i mostly echo this for myself. with so much that can be done, i often feel like i *should* be doing something, always
i think i mostly echo this for myself. with so much that can be done, i often feel like i *should* be doing something, always
February 16, 2026 at 12:53 AM
Of all the things that didn’t happen, this AI-agent afflicted present day dystopian future didn’t happen the most
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Fascinating paper! Scholars who are secular are more likely to believe in secularization & find evidence of it in their research. The opposite pattern is true for scholars who are religious.
This is worth your time to read in full:
sociologicalscience.com/download/vol...
This is worth your time to read in full:
sociologicalscience.com/download/vol...
February 11, 2026 at 10:40 PM
Fascinating paper! Scholars who are secular are more likely to believe in secularization & find evidence of it in their research. The opposite pattern is true for scholars who are religious.
This is worth your time to read in full:
sociologicalscience.com/download/vol...
This is worth your time to read in full:
sociologicalscience.com/download/vol...
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Holding a flimsy umbrella against the weather to protect pork barrel funding for foreign sporting organizations while the country drowns and is flattened by wind and being sycophantically praised for it by your own team really should be a symbol of this govt's priorities but let's see how it's read.
February 15, 2026 at 11:03 PM
Holding a flimsy umbrella against the weather to protect pork barrel funding for foreign sporting organizations while the country drowns and is flattened by wind and being sycophantically praised for it by your own team really should be a symbol of this govt's priorities but let's see how it's read.
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Failing to check the weather forecast ahead of their outdoor promotional event, then declaring themselves heroes for having to run out with an umbrella when it rains, seems symbolic of this government.
February 15, 2026 at 11:55 PM
Failing to check the weather forecast ahead of their outdoor promotional event, then declaring themselves heroes for having to run out with an umbrella when it rains, seems symbolic of this government.
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For all the shit it unleashed on the world, 4chan did have one good feature: "sage"
(It didn't come up with on its own, of course; it was copied from 2ch)
It was very simple: you put "sage" in the email field while replying to a thread, and that reply would not boost it to the top of the board.
(It didn't come up with on its own, of course; it was copied from 2ch)
It was very simple: you put "sage" in the email field while replying to a thread, and that reply would not boost it to the top of the board.
February 13, 2026 at 3:54 AM
For all the shit it unleashed on the world, 4chan did have one good feature: "sage"
(It didn't come up with on its own, of course; it was copied from 2ch)
It was very simple: you put "sage" in the email field while replying to a thread, and that reply would not boost it to the top of the board.
(It didn't come up with on its own, of course; it was copied from 2ch)
It was very simple: you put "sage" in the email field while replying to a thread, and that reply would not boost it to the top of the board.
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Obvious dog-whistle aside, the whole *original idea* behind the USA, as the founders themselves said many times, was the creating of a nation bound not by ethnicity or faith, but by shared ideals (the implementation of which has been, uh, uneven, to say the least, but that was always the goal)
1/3 What Musk is really referring to here is, of course “race” - that construct that served to define the hierarchies of wealth & power structured by modern colonialism. Like other far right racists though, he uses the word “culture” as a seemingly less pernicious synonym.
February 16, 2026 at 12:15 AM
Obvious dog-whistle aside, the whole *original idea* behind the USA, as the founders themselves said many times, was the creating of a nation bound not by ethnicity or faith, but by shared ideals (the implementation of which has been, uh, uneven, to say the least, but that was always the goal)
At our local subway station they have replaced the guard at the security gate with a robot, but they need a human to guard the robot
We are at an airport restaurant. A robot just drove up to us with our food, said, "Hi! Here I am!" and then drove away with our food.
February 16, 2026 at 12:24 AM
At our local subway station they have replaced the guard at the security gate with a robot, but they need a human to guard the robot
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Chomsky engaged in manufacturing consent for narcissistic creeps with delusions of intelligence.
"One Edge member and Epstein consort, the anarchist Noam Chomsky, described this ethos: “The cool observers – meaning us smart guys – it’s our task to impose necessary illusions and emotionally potent oversimplifications to keep these poor simpletons on course.”
About Epstein, Edge, eugenics, and finding my name in the Epstein files.
www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
February 15, 2026 at 10:59 PM
Chomsky engaged in manufacturing consent for narcissistic creeps with delusions of intelligence.
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douglas adams was our most accurate futurist
We are at an airport restaurant. A robot just drove up to us with our food, said, "Hi! Here I am!" and then drove away with our food.
February 15, 2026 at 10:10 PM
douglas adams was our most accurate futurist
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They were actually running "Hmmm look at this *Jew* colluding with foreign powers to undermine the West, hmmmmmm" whisper campaigns while giving speeches about how appalled at anti-semitism they are. Unbelievable levels of cynicism.
this story is jaw dropping www.thetimes.com/article/e5ef...
February 15, 2026 at 9:36 AM
They were actually running "Hmmm look at this *Jew* colluding with foreign powers to undermine the West, hmmmmmm" whisper campaigns while giving speeches about how appalled at anti-semitism they are. Unbelievable levels of cynicism.
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"I have searched the depths of Legal Arguments not yet articulated and will be presenting an irrefutable one soon" sounds an awful lot like "I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which this margin is too narrow to contain"...
"Whether approved by Congress or not" is certainly not "what our Founders desired."
Nor was a king disguised as a rambling fool.
Nor was a king disguised as a rambling fool.
February 14, 2026 at 8:43 PM
"I have searched the depths of Legal Arguments not yet articulated and will be presenting an irrefutable one soon" sounds an awful lot like "I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which this margin is too narrow to contain"...
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What a perfect reason for a rewatch. I love it how they plan to release an episode per week. That’ll be two whole years.
cordcuttersnews.com/babylon-5-is...
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Babylon 5 Is Now Free to Watch On YouTube | Cord Cutters News
In a move that has delighted fans of classic science fiction, Warner Bros. Discovery has begun uploading full episodes of the iconic series Babylon 5 to YouTube, providing free access to the show just...
cordcuttersnews.com
February 13, 2026 at 7:13 AM
What a perfect reason for a rewatch. I love it how they plan to release an episode per week. That’ll be two whole years.
cordcuttersnews.com/babylon-5-is...
cordcuttersnews.com/babylon-5-is...
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I wanna see a hellraiser where the cenobites fuck up some dudes who use the gizmo coz they're into accelerationism
February 13, 2026 at 7:22 AM
I wanna see a hellraiser where the cenobites fuck up some dudes who use the gizmo coz they're into accelerationism
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Just bookmark this for the next three years if one of the Interislander hulks breaks down:
"I encourage them to read the detailed business case, which makes it clear that the costs of an emergency response capability are large and outweigh the benefits."
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
"I encourage them to read the detailed business case, which makes it clear that the costs of an emergency response capability are large and outweigh the benefits."
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Relying on tug boat from Australia risks lives, council leaders say
Leaders on both sides of Cook Strait say lives could be put at risk due to its emergency tug being off-contract from this month.
www.rnz.co.nz
February 13, 2026 at 2:42 AM
Just bookmark this for the next three years if one of the Interislander hulks breaks down:
"I encourage them to read the detailed business case, which makes it clear that the costs of an emergency response capability are large and outweigh the benefits."
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
"I encourage them to read the detailed business case, which makes it clear that the costs of an emergency response capability are large and outweigh the benefits."
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...