Andy Ellis

Prayers for the victims and families of the terror attack in New Orleans. May they find comfort in their mourning, and healing be swift and complete for the injured.

You can spread your light even when you’re a bit different than those around you.

May our hostages be redeemed from darkness.

Why are Jews justifiably enraged at Hamas?

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A general rule for critical analysis of any research that purports to model human thinking: generate a random dataset. If the effect is stronger in the random dataset than in the research, the research is bunk.

The belief in D-K persists because expert humans - think Neil Degrasse Tyson - fail spectacularly when just outside their area of expertise, because they can’t see the infelicities in their models (or hubris). That’s not a general effect on all humanity.

Nope, worse than that. The refined analysis is that asked to score themselves on a *percentile* basis against an unknown cohort will substantially outperform against random weighting. Which is strong evidence that, even when the system is rigged, humans are really good at general self-assessment.

It's this year's Kindle candle table bundle

What is this? Wrong answers only.

Haven’t listened to the podcast, but you do know that the research that D-K relied on is sloppy, and, if anything, disproves the D-K effect? The study itself is the best argument for the effect … because many social science researches are incompetent at basic data analysis.

The Explosion of Jew-Hate in Trudeau’s Canada There has been a 670% increase in antisemitic incidents in the past year. ‘It was like a dam burst.’ What happened and why? The Free Press investigates.

Don’t worry, I hear antisemitism only exists on the right. www.thefp.com/p/explosion-...

San Francisco Hillel. Khaybar, if you didn’t know, is a reference to a Jewish community conquered by Mohammed, where the Jews were ethnically cleansed by Muhammad and his followers.

Melbourne.
Laguna Beach.
Toronto.
Amsterdam.

Represent.

If you don’t eat your pie this way, do you really love America?

This weekend, in Canada, you were more likely to be arrested or hassled by the cops for being a Jew than for openly calling for the murder of Jews.

(If you don’t know what I’m talking about, think about your news sources)

Welcome to Bluesky, where mocking the murder of Jews is … normal?

May his memory be for a blessing.

Za’atar Picanha. (Spice from Shuk Hacarmel, Tel Aviv, Israel)

Not sure how much longer one will be able to stumble across these memorials in Germany.

Salute to Service.

Sunset in Tel Aviv (last week).

Hassled by airport security in Paris for wearing this.

I did not say “as the war”, nice try. But there are prices - especially in the lives of future Hamas victims - that one does not pay.

But it sounds to me like you’re perfectly comfortable leaving Hamas in a place to keep killing Jews, so we’re done here.

Sounds like you’re projecting. “If you cared” is the rhetorical sound of someone with no empathy.

It has to be airdropped to get past areas Hamas controls. Many of the trucks are simply taken by Hamas; have you noticed how plump many of the Hamas terrorists are when captured and stripped to small clothes?

Hamas didn’t offer to free all of them. And some prices are too high to pay. I do actually care; but I’m suspecting you do not, except as a bludgeon to use rhetorically.

A) that was a month ago, not a week ago.
B) Hamas demanded, in exchange for 40 of 140 hostages (which might include some, but not all, women): ending the war, the release of pretty much all Palestinians convicted of terrorism, and Israel’s exit from half of Jerusalem.

But you do you.