M R. X. Dentith
@mrxdentith.com
Philosopher (BNU-ZH): works on conspiracy theory theory, fake news, etc. Associate editor for "Social Epistemology."
Pronouns: they/them
Website: https://www.mrxdentith.com
Podcast: https://zencastr.com/The-Podcaster-s-Guide-to-the-Conspiracy
Pronouns: they/them
Website: https://www.mrxdentith.com
Podcast: https://zencastr.com/The-Podcaster-s-Guide-to-the-Conspiracy
The problem with the fourth #ParamormalActivity film is that it’s just a sequence of footage. Ostensibly it’s found footage, but there’s no hook this time, no contrivance to explain how it comes from a single source. It’s just events that have been filmed
November 11, 2025 at 12:48 PM
The problem with the fourth #ParamormalActivity film is that it’s just a sequence of footage. Ostensibly it’s found footage, but there’s no hook this time, no contrivance to explain how it comes from a single source. It’s just events that have been filmed
I always need a day to relax after a conference or workshop, and most unfortunately that couldn’t be yesterday as I had to teach. And it can’t really be today as I have a reading group to run (and maybe another to attend). Maybe tomorrow?
November 11, 2025 at 2:20 AM
I always need a day to relax after a conference or workshop, and most unfortunately that couldn’t be yesterday as I had to teach. And it can’t really be today as I have a reading group to run (and maybe another to attend). Maybe tomorrow?
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Just your regular reminder of the profound conflict of interest at the heart of the Luxon fast track: Chris Bishop is both chair of the National Party Campaign Committee, dependent on business donations, and as Infrastructure Minister decides which businesses get access to the fast track.
November 7, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Just your regular reminder of the profound conflict of interest at the heart of the Luxon fast track: Chris Bishop is both chair of the National Party Campaign Committee, dependent on business donations, and as Infrastructure Minister decides which businesses get access to the fast track.
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In case anyone is wondering if Watson was really THAT bad, @lpachter.bsky.social compiled a list of quotes that are absolutely not for the faint of heart.
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
November 7, 2025 at 10:18 PM
In case anyone is wondering if Watson was really THAT bad, @lpachter.bsky.social compiled a list of quotes that are absolutely not for the faint of heart.
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
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I still remember my anthropology professor’s favorite joke from college:
“What did Watson and Crick discover?”
“Rosalind Franklin’s notes.”
“What did Watson and Crick discover?”
“Rosalind Franklin’s notes.”
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I still remember my anthropology professor’s favorite joke from college:
“What did Watson and Crick discover?”
“Rosalind Franklin’s notes.”
“What did Watson and Crick discover?”
“Rosalind Franklin’s notes.”
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Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
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Block and move on. The Rude label is a nanny.
November 5, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Block and move on. The Rude label is a nanny.
After eight hours stuck at Baiyun International Airport and a three plus hour flight, I’m finally in Beijing. Can’t tell if I’m tired or wired after that ordeal
November 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
After eight hours stuck at Baiyun International Airport and a three plus hour flight, I’m finally in Beijing. Can’t tell if I’m tired or wired after that ordeal
It turns out that even the most prestigious university in China (not mine; mine is in the top three or four) has an administration prone to making epic mistakes. Namely, the flight to Beijing they arranged was never actually booked or paid for…
November 6, 2025 at 5:05 AM
It turns out that even the most prestigious university in China (not mine; mine is in the top three or four) has an administration prone to making epic mistakes. Namely, the flight to Beijing they arranged was never actually booked or paid for…
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Old Trump banging on about nuking the filibuster about a year before the mid terms is something GOP congressional strategy types are probly freaking about
November 5, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Old Trump banging on about nuking the filibuster about a year before the mid terms is something GOP congressional strategy types are probly freaking about
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i'm still appalled people were making fun of her for this instead of being thoroughly charmed by what it says about the insanely cool and lengthy career wallace shawn has had
November 5, 2025 at 1:02 PM
i'm still appalled people were making fun of her for this instead of being thoroughly charmed by what it says about the insanely cool and lengthy career wallace shawn has had
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Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.
November 5, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.
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Well, now, look what arrived in the post...
Delighted to share that my new book on psychology and the culture wars has now been published.
Writing it was a long, at times depressing, but ultimately satisfying journey for me. I hope you like it
Deets here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Delighted to share that my new book on psychology and the culture wars has now been published.
Writing it was a long, at times depressing, but ultimately satisfying journey for me. I hope you like it
Deets here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
November 5, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Well, now, look what arrived in the post...
Delighted to share that my new book on psychology and the culture wars has now been published.
Writing it was a long, at times depressing, but ultimately satisfying journey for me. I hope you like it
Deets here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Delighted to share that my new book on psychology and the culture wars has now been published.
Writing it was a long, at times depressing, but ultimately satisfying journey for me. I hope you like it
Deets here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Every few years I go "What happened to one album wonder #DoMeBadThings?" and it seems between then and now, someone decided to update the Wikipedia page...
It might interest @hewligan.bsky.social, who first introduced me to "Do Me Bad Things" that they released new songs back in 2015! domebadthings.bandcamp.com/album/jailbr...
Jailbreak Getaway / Power Of Love, by Do Me Bad Things
2 track album
domebadthings.bandcamp.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Every few years I go "What happened to one album wonder #DoMeBadThings?" and it seems between then and now, someone decided to update the Wikipedia page...
It might interest @hewligan.bsky.social, who first introduced me to "Do Me Bad Things" that they released new songs back in 2015! domebadthings.bandcamp.com/album/jailbr...
Jailbreak Getaway / Power Of Love, by Do Me Bad Things
2 track album
domebadthings.bandcamp.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:44 AM
It might interest @hewligan.bsky.social, who first introduced me to "Do Me Bad Things" that they released new songs back in 2015! domebadthings.bandcamp.com/album/jailbr...
Dick Cheney hasn’t died. He’s descended to hell to be Satan’s VP
November 5, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Dick Cheney hasn’t died. He’s descended to hell to be Satan’s VP
The capitalists who think the market is more important than the environment will be surprised when the collapse of environment renders the existence of the market null and void
November 5, 2025 at 12:55 AM
The capitalists who think the market is more important than the environment will be surprised when the collapse of environment renders the existence of the market null and void
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This is appalling and unfortunately, unsurprising. They're willing to burn it all down if it puts a few extra dollars in the pockets of their cronies.
Capitalism is all about the shortest of short term gains with no thought for the future.
#nzpol
Capitalism is all about the shortest of short term gains with no thought for the future.
#nzpol
The Govt quietly announced a loosening of climate rules at 8pm last night:
- Decoupling the ETS from Paris
- Shifting ETS resets to every 2 years
- Delaying the public sector target by 25 years
- Removing CCC advice from *before* emission reductions plans:
www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
- Decoupling the ETS from Paris
- Shifting ETS resets to every 2 years
- Delaying the public sector target by 25 years
- Removing CCC advice from *before* emission reductions plans:
www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
Government quietly loosens climate rules
An announcement at 8pm on Tuesday saw the Government delinking the ETS from the Paris Agreement and extending another emissions deadline by 25 years.
www.thepost.co.nz
November 5, 2025 at 12:14 AM
This is appalling and unfortunately, unsurprising. They're willing to burn it all down if it puts a few extra dollars in the pockets of their cronies.
Capitalism is all about the shortest of short term gains with no thought for the future.
#nzpol
Capitalism is all about the shortest of short term gains with no thought for the future.
#nzpol
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someone on reddit found the facebook group richard bunce is a part of and they're just nazis. and the reporter who did this story failed to mention that because i guess research is hard.
November 4, 2025 at 12:16 AM
someone on reddit found the facebook group richard bunce is a part of and they're just nazis. and the reporter who did this story failed to mention that because i guess research is hard.
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What in the actual fuck? Googles AI basically hallucinated that I somehow accused my podcast host & close friend of toxic behavior & harassment - killing her channel. Keep in my, Vera and I host a podcast together regularly and are good friends and her channel is amazing. This is absolutely fucked.
Council of Geeks is over.
I only just learned myself thanks to Google’s AI summary. Thanks Google for letting me know my channel is dead. Some digging, using Google’s AI mode, revealed it’s because of the toxic feud between me and @jessiegender.bsky.social
I wouldn’t have known otherwise.
I only just learned myself thanks to Google’s AI summary. Thanks Google for letting me know my channel is dead. Some digging, using Google’s AI mode, revealed it’s because of the toxic feud between me and @jessiegender.bsky.social
I wouldn’t have known otherwise.
October 26, 2025 at 9:09 PM
What in the actual fuck? Googles AI basically hallucinated that I somehow accused my podcast host & close friend of toxic behavior & harassment - killing her channel. Keep in my, Vera and I host a podcast together regularly and are good friends and her channel is amazing. This is absolutely fucked.
There is no need to reenact famous battles, and even if there were, you don’t need to do it in uniform. Going and collecting Nazi uniforms is a choice
November 4, 2025 at 12:47 AM
There is no need to reenact famous battles, and even if there were, you don’t need to do it in uniform. Going and collecting Nazi uniforms is a choice
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A new episode and I'm barely in it! Great news for all the perverts who hate me but also follow me on Bluesky for reasons that should not be looked into. @mrxdentith.com says plenty, though, which is also great news for perverts.
A Chat with Melina (Tsapos) and Pat(rick Brooks) by @Em Dentith
M chats with Melina Tsapos and Patrick Brooks, two newly minted PhD holders whose works are on or at least touch on the philosophy of conspiracy theory theory.
zencastr.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:38 PM
A new episode and I'm barely in it! Great news for all the perverts who hate me but also follow me on Bluesky for reasons that should not be looked into. @mrxdentith.com says plenty, though, which is also great news for perverts.
As a researcher of conspiracy theories this article rubs me up the wrong way. There’s a lot of to unpack about why AGI proponents seem to be acting less than rationally, but the conspiracy theory frame in this piece is almost as bad 1/3
I had a long conversation with MIT Tech Review’s @willdouglasheaven.bsky.social about AGI; it fed into this very good read on the rise of AGI orthodoxy
How AGI became the most consequential conspiracy theory of our time
The idea that machines will be as smart as—or smarter than—humans has hijacked an entire industry. But look closely and you’ll see it’s a myth that persists for many of the same reasons conspiracies d...
www.technologyreview.com
November 2, 2025 at 5:00 AM
As a researcher of conspiracy theories this article rubs me up the wrong way. There’s a lot of to unpack about why AGI proponents seem to be acting less than rationally, but the conspiracy theory frame in this piece is almost as bad 1/3
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We finally created the Great Gatsby from the classic book, Do Not Emulate the Great Gatsby.
November 1, 2025 at 2:59 AM
We finally created the Great Gatsby from the classic book, Do Not Emulate the Great Gatsby.