Quillette
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Quillette is a recurring publication in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between August 18, 2021 and May 07, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “Quillette has a kind of snarky autopsy of the ‘insect apocalypse’ idea”; “9: Quillette has a kind of snarky autopsy of the “insect apocalypse” idea”; “Recent Quillette review of Bobos”. It most often appears alongside California, China, facebook.
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- Category: Publications
- Mention count: 3
- Issue count: 3
- First seen: August 18, 2021
- Last seen: May 07, 2024
Appears In
- Links For August
- Book Review: First Sixth Of Bobos In Paradise
- Highlights From The Comments On “The Origin Of Woke”
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- California (2 shared issues)
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- China (2 shared issues)
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- facebook (2 shared issues)
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- Harvard (2 shared issues)
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- Yale (2 shared issues)
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- Aalto (1 shared issues)
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- affirmative action (1 shared issues)
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- Africa (1 shared issues)
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- African National Congress (1 shared issues)
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- African-Americans (1 shared issues)
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- AH (1 shared issues)
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- AI risk (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
9: Quillette has a kind of snarky autopsy of the “insect apocalypse” idea, ie the concern that insect populations had been dropping precipitously over the past few years for some kind of environmental reason and maybe portended some larger collapse. Some more recent surveys have found about the same number of insects as ever, and I think the current consensus is that we are not generally running out of bugs. The article makes a pretty predictable case about “alarmism” and the media treating this irresponsibly. I’m prejudiced against listening, because I believed this was worth worrying about when the first round of studies came in, but this is still a great into-the-weeds description of a scientific controversy and how it eventually got (mostly) resolved.
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Recent Quillette review of Bobos, I noticed it halfway through writing this but tried not to let it influence my thinking too much
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I’d also refer people to my piece that responded to some earlier reviews of the book here. Richard Hanania's Newsletter Against Ideaism Among the reviews of my book, I have noticed two main lines of criticism. First of all, there’s the argument that I didn’t explain everything. Oliver Traldi in Quillette asks “does the federal government require corporations to make rainbow-colored versions of their logos, or tweet in support of black trans women?” No, it certainly does not, although I … Read more 2 years ago · 81 likes · 39 comments · Richard Hanania
Oliver Traldi's review (https://quillette.com/2023/09/23/civil-rights-and-wrongs/) points some more misrepresented anecdotes . For example: