N-gated Hacker NewsApr 2
🚪🎩💀 "Backrooms" and the Rise of the Institutional Gothic: A riveting exploration of...wait, never mind. The only thing rising here is your frustration as you grapple with the ominous "Access Denied" screen, like a digital bouncer at the club of pseudo-intellectual pretension. 🎭🛑 #ExclusiveToNobody
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/backrooms-and-the-rise-of-the-institutional-gothic/ #Backrooms #InstitutionalGothic #DigitalFrustration #AccessDenied #PseudoIntellectual #HackerNews #ngated
N-gated Hacker NewsMar 29
Ah, The New Yorker, where they pay people to write entire articles pondering when we become adults 🤔—as if the existential crises of their readers aren't enough! Spoiler: It’s definitely not when you start reading pseudo-intellectual musings about life stages 💁‍♂️.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/when-do-we-become-adults-really #NewYorker #Adulting #ExistentialCrisis #PseudoIntellectual #LifeStages #Humor #HackerNews #ngated
When Do We Become Adults, Really?

There are many ways to mark life’s phases—biological development, societal expectations, milestone achievements, simple chronological age, Shayla Love writes. Do any of them capture what it feels like to grow up?

The New Yorker
Thor A. HoplandJan 15

«His critics’ accusation was, Said argued, a confession. It was they who were ideologically blinkered by the #UK’s #pseudointellectual class, “the insiders, experts, coteries [and] professionals who … mould public opinion, make it conformist [and] encourage a reliance on a superior little band of all-knowing men in power.”»

Today’s Public #Intellectuals Are More Likely to Serve #Power Than Challenge It | Juliet Jacques
https://novaramedia.com/2026/01/15/todays-public-intellectuals-are-more-likely-to-serve-power-than-challenge-it/

#Palestine #FreedomOfSpeech #FreedomOfInformation

Today’s Public Intellectuals Are More Likely to Serve Power Than Challenge It

30 years ago, the BBC invited Palestinian thinker Edward Said to deliver six lectures on the public intellectual, writes Juliet Jacques. Can you imagine something so outlandish happening today?

Novara Media
N-gated Hacker NewsJun 19, 2025
Ah yes, the "Visual Guide" to genome editors — because nothing screams cutting-edge science like a few pretty pictures and a sprinkle of pseudo-intellectual babble. 🧬📚 Evan DeTurk really said, "Who needs depth when you can have diagrams?" 🤔✨
https://www.asimov.press/p/a-visual-guide-to-genome-editors #VisualGuide #GenomeEditing #ScienceArt #PseudoIntellectual #Diagrams #HackerNews #ngated
A Visual Guide to Genome Editors

A selected encyclopedia of major gene-editing systems, together with illustrated diagrams.

Asimov Press
Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Feb 17, 2025

Oil Execs/Trump Allies Attend Jordan Peterson’s ARC Conference
https://www.desmog.com/2025/02/16/leaked-oil-executives-donald-trump-allies-attend-jordan-peterson-alliance-for-responsible-citizenship-london-conference

* fossil fuel companies, religious right groups
* Alliance for Responsible Citizenship

Academic-censured, Rogan-promoted, Canadian pseudo-intellectual / troll / climate denialist / transphobe Jordan Peterson

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

#JordanPeterson #ARC #ClimateDenial #FossilFuelsLobby #GlobalWarming #pseudoscience #pseudointellectual #trolls #SocialParasite #FarRight #ChristianRight #transphobia #populism

LEAKED: Oil Execs and Trump Allies Attend Jordan Peterson’s ARC Conference

Executives from some of the world’s biggest oil and gas firms are listed as attendees at a conservative conference in London whose keynote speakers include the leader of the Heritage Foundation – the group that published the Project 2025 blueprint for a second Trump term.  Representatives of BP, Koch Industries, Valero Energy, Energy Transfer and […]

DeSmog
Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jan 4, 2025

[Sep 2024] B.C. Conservative leader John Rustad outlines views on energy/education in Jordan Peterson interview
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/b-c-conservative-leader-outlines-views-on-energy-education-in-jordan-peterson-interview-1.7023336

6 Things to Know about Rustad’s Chat w. Jordan Peterson
https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/09/05/Six-Things-Rustad-Chat-Jordan-Peterson

* discussed distrust of climate science ... w. viral right-wing troll

#USpol #JordanPeterson #antiLGBT #transphobia #FarRight #incels
#disinformation #trolls #pseudointellectual #pseudoscience #BCconservatives #JohnRustad
#ChristianRight #Trumpism #Christofascism #transgenocide

B.C. Conservative leader outlines views on energy, education in Jordan Peterson interview

B.C. Conservative leader John Rustad says British Columbia needs to have a 'conversation' about nuclear power playing a role in the province's energy future, and review educational materials that he says are designed for "indoctrination" of children.

British Columbia
Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jan 4, 2025

[Jan 2022] Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson suggest trans people sign of “civilizations collapsing”
https://www.mediamatters.org/joe-rogan-experience/spotifys-joe-rogan-and-guest-jordan-peterson-suggest-trans-people-are-sign

* Rogan freq. promotes smears against trans people, conspiracy theories, COVID-19 misinformation

[Nov 2024] Joe Rogan Radicalizing Young Men Toward Far-Right
https://www.lippymag.com/post/joe-rogan-is-radicalising-young-men-towards-the-far-right

#USpol #JordanPeterson #antiLGBT #transphobia #FarRight #incels
#disinformation #trolls #pseudointellectual #pseudoscience #JRE #JoeRogan
#ChristianRight #Trumpism #Christofascism #transgenocide

Spotify's Joe Rogan and guest Jordan Peterson suggest trans people are a sign of "civilizations collapsing"

Media Matters for America
Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jan 4, 2025

[2020] Penguin Random House Staff Confront Publisher About New Jordan Peterson Book
https://www.vice.com/en/article/penguin-random-house-staff-confront-publisher-about-new-jordan-peterson-book

* Penguin Random House Canada employees confront management about decision to publish book by controversial Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson
* dozens more filed anonymous complaints

#CanPol #USpol #JordanPeterson #antiLGBT #transphobia #FarRight
#disinformation #trolls #pseudointellectual #pseudoscience #ClimateDenial
#ChristianRight #Trumpism #Christofascism #transgenocide

Penguin Random House Staff Confront Publisher About New Jordan Peterson Book

During a tense town hall, staff cried and expressed dismay with the publishing giant's decision to publish 'Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life.'

VICE
Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jan 4, 2025

[Sep 2022] Jordan Peterson: Climate Crisis Deniers’ New Mouthpiece
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2022/09/05/Jordan-Peterson-Climate-Crisis-Denier-New-Mouthpiece/

* touting myths to millions highly irresponsible say experts trying to avert disaster

[Sep 2024] Inside Anti-Climate Culture War Led by Jordan Peterson/Project 2025
https://www.desmog.com/2024/09/09/inside-the-anti-climate-culture-war-led-by-jordan-peterson-and-project-2025

#CanPol #USpol #JordanPeterson #antiLGBT #transphobia #FarRight
#disinformation #trolls #pseudointellectual #pseudoscience #ClimateDenial
#ChristianRight #Trump2 #fascism #Project2025
#Christofascism #transgenocide

Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Aug 23, 2023

Addendum 2
Jordan Peterson

* notorious far right, populist, transphobic, pseudointellectual troll

https://persagen.com/docs/transphobia.html#jordan_peterson
https://persagen.com >> search" "jordan peterson"

Ontario court rules against Jordan Peterson, upholds social media training order
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/jordan-peterson-court-case-decision-1.6943845

#JordanPeterson #farRight #transphobia #FarRight #trolls #CultureWars #pseudointellectual #misogyny #ConspiracyTheorists #ClimateChangeDenial #neoconservatism #SocialMedia #influencers #YouTube

Transphobia

Transphobia is a collection of ideas and phenomena that encompass a range of negative attitudes, feelings or actions towards transgender people or transness in general. Transphobia can include fear, aversion, hatred, violence, anger, or discomfort felt or expressed towards people who do not conform to social gender expectations.