New Catallaxy

  • Rabz’ Radio Show August 2023: Cars

    There has always been an intimate link between cars and contemporary music and car stereos (aka sound systems) enable the immediacy of that link. As the (almost) ultimate freedom machines, cars can enable a young man to impress an aesthetically pleasing young woman in more ways than might be immediately obvious. However – there is…

  • Guest Post – Muddy: Information Gatekeepers

    Imagine an individual you trust, and another individual you do NOT trust (the reasons being irrelevant). Both make a simple, observable, statement to you: ‘It’s a clear day outside.’ Without an ability to verify, who do you believe? Now imagine the same people make contrasting statements: Trust person says ‘It’s overcast outside,’ and No-Trust states…

  • Open Thread – Weekend 12 Aug 2023

  • The Racist Voice

    Lets be clear and talk about The Racist Voice Rebrand the product, it is racist so let’s rebrand, rename and rewrite press releases, articles, pamphlets and advertisements to refer to The Racist Voice. Change the brand, change the narrative, shift the vibe in the community to recruit the power of the anti-racism narrative to resist…

  • We have to talk about Net Zero

    It’s time to leave It has been said before Clexit, Climate Exit, let’s get on with it. Change the story, change the course of history. Recall the trajectory of significant new ideas. First they are dismissed as heretical, then they become controversial and next thing they are old hat. Or it goes: unthinkable, interesting and…

  • Open Thread – Thurs 10 Aug 2023

  • Yes? Australian electorate appears to say, No

    A recent survey of the Australian electorate appears to indicate a catastrophic defeat is in the sights of the Yes campaign (Newspoll on the weekend had Yes at 43%, No, 46%, and 11% undecided while Essential just today had Yes again at 43, No, 47, and 10 undecided). Here are the results by party, state…

  • Open Thread – Mon 7 Aug 2023

  • TERFs & TERMs share a common cause

    Everyone more or less knows what LGBTQ stands for. Anything after Q is a different matter. I put a plus sign generally. Also I don’t quite know what Q adds when you already have L and G. There it is, my insights into the sexual-revolutionary world in which we now live is limited. However, I am…

  • Rafe’s Roundup 5 August

    New True Arrow Events promoting freedom of speech, critical thinking and the exchange of ideas. Kel Richards Ozwords defending plain language and clear communication. Read his column on his Ozwords site today to see what he wrote about “truth telling” proposed by the Albanese Government. Scary stuff! The Great Misinformation Panic from Dara Macdonald. Reminder…

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