Sin2x

If you are talking about being ignored as a social repercussion, you are wrong -- nobody is entitled to force opinions onto others. If they don't like you, they can ignore you as much as they want, that's freedom. What you propose is fascism.

The broad picture you painted is that society nowadays is somehow more free because less people disagree with your views. That's absolutely incorrect and has nothing to do with the concept of academic freedom to boot. I'm getting tired of reiterating.

Once again -- this has nothing to do with academic freedom. Are you trying to derail the topic on purpose?

Science should be performed in a vacuum, that's the whole point. Its applications, on the other hand, are not to be performed in a vacuum.

That's academic fraud, a different thing.

Since I'm myself Russian and residing in Russia, I'd be glad to verify your statements as you weren't kind enough to provide prooflinks.

> They jailed many thousands of protesters for the same thing.

The same thing being "being anti-war". Well, this one is veritably incorrect, in fact, the opposite is true -- I haven't heard of a single person being jailed for being anti-war. There was a woman who showed an anti-war banner on national television during prime-time, she was fined about $500, Marina Ovsyannikova. So, what's your source?

> In Russia, they jailed a lawmaker for being anti-war.

Care to share the source here as well? What's his name?

The original commenter did not mention being banned from any academic discussions -- his freedom was not infringed. It is the other people's freedom to ignore him that he wanted to infringe. He wanted to force other people to engage with him. That's the opposite of freedom.

And now for a case of real infringement of academic freedom:

https://quillette.com/2018/09/07/academic-activists-send-a-p...

Say what? People should be allowed to disagree with you and even ignore you, that's what freedom of speech is about, be it in academia or wherever. What you imply should be the norm is a "safe space" -- which is the opposite of freedom of speech, because in a "safe space" you are only allowed to say "nice" things, "nicety" being evaluated by an authority. That's kindergarten, not academia.

What am I insulated from? Academic freedom? Vacuum? Social derision? Mayhap I am indeed dumb, but I don't follow your line of reasoning. What your original comment distills to is that you were socially shunned for holding certain opinions -- and yes, this has nothing to do with academic freedom. You were not censored or cancelled -- that's what's important. And you can't just force others to accept your views. Trying to is fascist.

There is no academic context here in the parent comment, only social context. This example would fit the topic if it were about writing a thesis on reparations that was rejected or if the author was actively dissuaded from writing it.

Well, Wikipedia article on the concept is titled "Unity of opposites". Anyway, I just don't understand how dialectics has anything to do with what is being discussed. Division is opposite of both unity and synthesis.

Your example has nothing to do with academic freedom whatsoever.

To put it differently, we feel rather than think.

Dialectics teaches about unity of opposites so I don't see how it fits here.

Groupthink has (or should I say had) an evolutionary advantage. And the modern world seems to be bent on exploiting those atavisms rather than helping abolish them. Knowledge is power, that's why I believe that applied psychology should be a mandatory subject in schools.

Obligatory link to FIRE: https://rankings.thefire.org/

Dog owners probably %)

And why would I believe what MSM says on the matter concerning the "enemy" state?

A quick google shows that this particular propagandist item was planted quite a few years ago:

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1ospuo/til_i...

If there are any Iranians on HN, I would be glad if they could share some light on the recent developments, of course.

UPD: More Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/iran/comments/snigug/comment/hw5oqw...

Of course it's true -- it states that something could happen. Therefore, it's true whether or not that happens, that's basic discrete mathematics. But the thought was planted and that is what counts in the end. That's how propaganda works -- I highly recommend the seminal book on the subject: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_(book)

More Cold War propaganda. Sadly, we are going to see much more of it in the coming years. China, Iran, Russia and whoever supports them are going to be routinely smeared from head to toe by the MSM, of which BBC is one of the most egregiously biased.

They definitely should add Tamagochi functionality to that!

Everything by Nassim Taleb.

Haruna is a nice front-end of it for Qt

Weird that Wiki says Exelsior OS is single-user, it's multi-user actually: http://kronos.ru/sites/default/files/kronos_demo.gif

A couple of awesome ones:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setun

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kronos_(computer)

Cambalache is the current RAD tool for GTK: https://blogs.gnome.org/xjuan/2022/06/15/cambalache-0-10-0-i...

Well, this video has Dr. Wily's stage music from Megaman II, so it fits into the nostalgia vibe, though only as a single piece of a big puzzle/rug =)

I hope Drew opens his own Google some day

It's like in "The Mother of All Bombs"