The Unz Review

A.J. Smuskiewicz • March 13, 2023 • 169 Comments • Reply

Consider the humble doughnut, generally a ring or flattened sphere of fried dough topped or filled with sugary or fruity flavoring. These sweet, satisfying bakery products have been created and enjoyed for centuries in various forms. Then in the mid-1900s, a big U.S. corporation called Dunkin’ Donuts became very successful by selling what can best...

Ek says:

March 16, 2023 at 11:10 am GMT

Krispy Kreme still here!

Sexbots, Robots, Neural Networks, Weird Oriental Games, and the Spores of Skynet

Fred Reed • January 25, 2020 • 100 Comments • Reply

oday we will have Profound Thought. Actually it’s the only kind we ever have in this corner of the internet. Thunderous insight. Volcanic perceptiveness. That sort of thing. Anyway, some slightly addled questions about robots, and sexbots and their relations with people and how smart they are or aren’t. For example, can you love a...

EK says:

January 27, 2020 at 11:09 pm GMT

RE bots: It’s stuff like this from IBM that will make movies like HER a reality: https://www.ibm.com/watson/services/personality-insights/
https://www.ibm.com/us-en/marketplace/watson-candidate-assistant

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Her_(film)

Ric Ocasek, RIP

Steve Sailer • September 15, 2019 • 450 Comments

The leader of The Cars, the benchmark New Wave rock band of the late 1970s, Ric Ocasek, has died at age 75, which is a pretty good lifespan for a rock star. You'll note from his age that Ocasek didn't hit it big until his mid-30s with The Cars debut album in 1978, which featured...

EK says:

September 16, 2019 at 1:48 am GMT

Czech, not Polish.

• Replies: @inertial

@EK

If you want to ruin a Czech's day tell them that they are from Eastern Europe.

Replies: @black sea

, @ken

@EK

Yeah, unless she anglicized her name the v is a dead giveaway.

, @Diversity Heretic

@EK

Yes, she was Czech, but raised in Sweden, IIRC, due to a parental split. "The thinking man's Supermodel," she wrote books, had children, and stayed married to Ric.

Baltimore Is Back in the News

Steve Sailer • July 27, 2019 • 362 Comments

From the Baltimore Sun in 2018: Baltimore's current Carnival of Murder can be timed precisely to Black Lives Matter's Freddie Gray memorial riot in downtown Baltimore on April 27, 2015. There were 342 homicides in Baltimore last year, 56 per 100,000 people who live in the city. That’s the highest per capita in the city’s...

EK says:

July 28, 2019 at 4:44 am GMT

Lots of information about Baltimore and Cummings’ district: https://twitter.com/LechMazur/status/1155314777608114176

I'll be posting information about Baltimore, such as crime and poverty from our website, https://t.co/v2vGpW0cpg and other sources. First, here is an overall crime index up to 2017 (the latest year in FBI's UCR) pic.twitter.com/rsbN8MAo9o

— Lech Mazur (@LechMazur) July 28, 2019

Birthright Citizenship, the Constitution, and the Subterfuge of the Left

Boyd D. Cathey • October 31, 2018 • 128 Comments • Reply

The Leftist hyenas howled…the wimpish, scaredy-cat Republicans wailed…the television pundits, both on the Mainstream channels and on Fox (and, yes, even locally) seemed ready to shed tears of anguish punctuating their uncontrolled outrage: what had Donald Trump done this time to cause such extreme perturbation? What had he done this time to increase their unleashed...

EK says:

November 1, 2018 at 2:05 pm GMT • 100 Words

You speak as if the Constitution still matters. There are few solutions.

First, continuation and escalation of the current civil war we are in, with the Normals winning and suppressing the Communists. Which will include incarceration and execution of traitors. And do not think this would occur if the Communists were to win.

Second, secession of several states so that the U.S. becomes three or more independent sovereign nations with their individual common interests.

Third, a dictatorship taking control before the first two options occur. This is essentially our current state and at least 75% of the U. S. population will not realize or resist until it is far too late.

The Grandmothers Effect, Paternal or Maternal Matters (?)

Razib Khan • October 30, 2009 • 3 Comments

I've discussed menopause as an adaptation and the grandmother effect before. I was also pleased to see the responses of Larry Moran's readers when he presented his standard anti-adaptationist line of argument. I don't want to retread familiar ground here, I'm not sure if menopause is an adaptation, but let's assume so for the purposes...

EK says:

October 30, 2009 at 6:15 pm GMT • 100 Words

Interesting post, but I’m not entirely getting that 31% figure for PGM-granddaughter relatedness. The granddaughter inherited 92/4 = 23% of her genes from the PGM’s autosomes. That leaves about 8% of the granddaughter’s genes on X chromosomes. But only half of those X-chromosome genes are paternal. So why isn’t the total 92/4 + 8/2 = 27% instead of 92/4 + 8 = 31%?

All the Children in Merry Old England Are Above Average

Razib Khan • September 29, 2003 • 4 Comments

Quotes from this article:The guidelines, for marking key national curriculum exams, recommend that the current F grade, for 'fail', should be replaced with an N grade, for 'nearly'. ...They include instructions that maths exam answers should be marked as either 'creditworthy' or 'not creditworthy', rather than correct or incorrect.Via Fox News.

EK says:

September 29, 2003 at 3:45 am GMT

anyone know if Elia Kazan was jewish.. the papers are being terribly mum about this…