The critique is somewhat misplaced. There have always been terrible, ignorant newspaper articles. There sometimes used to be good, informative ones, but this is getting scarcer and scarcer.
Epistemic Collapse at the WSJ
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It's almost like defunding the entire stack was a bad idea!
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News never reported well. Murray Gell Mann noticed long ago.
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The link doesn’t work for me, but based off your comment: I can accept that mainstream journalism is generally in decline in various ways. But it is curious they chose to single out WSJ, which is considered more balanced and less biased than NYT or whoever else (https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-chart). Or is it just to point out that even WSJ is subject to this issue?
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#26Huh, Firefox on Debian: An error occurred during a connection to www.math.columbia.edu. Peer’s Certificate has been revoked. Error code: SEC_ERROR_REVOKED_CERTIFICATE I apparently can't bypass it. EDIT: Chain: https://pastebin.com/raw/Mch2XTiQ
www.math. .edu SSL cert expired??? unfathomable!! As a former math sysadmin... I apologize on behalf of math sysadmins
Their reaction is probably "what do you mean, a number expired?!"
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#27Huh, Firefox on Debian: An error occurred during a connection to www.math.columbia.edu. Peer’s Certificate has been revoked. Error code: SEC_ERROR_REVOKED_CERTIFICATE I apparently can't bypass it. EDIT: Chain: https://pastebin.com/raw/Mch2XTiQ
www.math. .edu SSL cert expired??? unfathomable!! As a former math sysadmin... I apologize on behalf of math sysadmins
I don't think it's expired: https://pastebin.com/raw/Mch2XTiQ
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#28In the past it was the postmodernists attacking physics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair It's funny how this new generation of professional antiestablishers are using the same tactics (even though they would vehemently attach postmodernism) It's all a power play really, when politics is involved. That's not science
> this new generation of professional antiestablishers [...] would vehemently [attack] postmodernism
I can think of two ways to interpret this, and I'm not sure which one you intend:
1. They hold modernist views, that there is a distinct and meaningful direction/progression for how societies must change over time.
2. They don't know what postmodernism means, and consider it a generic bad-word to attach to things they don't like. (Comic example: [0])
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#29The WSJ and other outlets are also completely failing at understanding the "chronically online" messaging from recent mass shooters, and are unintentionally spreading the memes and attention that the perpetrators are seeking out, thus feeding the cycle.
They seem to be seriously lacking experts on anything these days... culture, physics and anything between.
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#30Hear hear. One of my red alarms the last 6 months has been saying anything about Sabine less than parise is verboten on HN is controversial, no matter how kind and couched and calm and cited.