* It's pretty depressing reading about the wild success of Covid anti-vax misinformation swirling around the internet. This thread on Twitter, for example.
* James Hansen and his research buddies think that climate sensitivity is worse (higher) than 3 degrees, and aerosols are giving a false sense of security (that's my paraphrase). The paper is currently only a pre-print, and I haven't noticed much commentary on it yet, but it sounds a worry. (If he is correct, it really makes it sounds like geo-engineering by putting more aerosols high in the atmosphere might be unavoidable, in the long run.)
* Joe Rogan continues to be a force for misinformation.
* I can't help it - even I'm getting a tad interested in the Harry melodrama. This latest bit, about a visit to a California medium, is interesting because it sounds like what has happened to quite a few people - amongst a lot of generic comfort messaging, there is one detail given which sounds convincing because of its peculiar specificity. Unless, of course, the woman had been fed that story beforehand.
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That visit to the psychic is quite a story; it's not like the death of his mother was a painful new fact he was struggling to reconcile himself with. It indeed sounds like something his mother would have done, too. It's not that it makes him sound unhinged... but it almost does.
The snippets from his biography coming out sound pretty tasteless. He also shares details about the loss of his virginity, apparently - in a field, outside a pub. Do we really need to know this?
"He also shares details about the loss of his virginity, apparently - in a field, outside a pub."
You forgot to mention, "with a older woman into macho horses" - which seems a bit of a brag...
Look, I should say that I still feel sorry for him - because it seems there is no doubt at all that he was traumatised by his childhood, and the media can be convincingly blamed for making his life a misery, pretty much for his entire life.
That he has chosen to deal with this all by the (typically American) belief that you have to keep talking about the experience, either with a therapist or to the public, is regrettable, but not so much as to make stop feeling some sympathy.
I think that's true - a tendency he has inherited from both parents, in different ways. And (as the psychic story demonstrates) encouraged by his wife.
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