arctotherium (@arctotherium42)

Thread with excerpts from "Foundations, their power and influence" (1958), by the former chairman of the Reece Committee, a Congressional committee to investigate the conduct of tax-exempt foundations. ...

'The Unknown Warriors' (2006) is a collection of WWII veteran's views on modern Britain gathered via newspaper ad. So what did WWII veterans think of the 2006 UK? They hated it; 134 responses were negative vs only 6 positive (plus 31 N/A and 13 neutral). Excerpts below. ...

Since 2009, medical schools have had to prove they sufficiently discriminate against white men ("achieve mission-appropriate diversity outcomes") to get accredited. ...

Effects of 1921 immigration restriction: real wages spiked (decimating unions), domestic servants stopped being a thing, urban ethnic ghettoes and foreign-language press dissipated. Predicted demographic stagnation did not come to pass. ...

On the financial situation in Europe after WWI. The US wound up paying more than half of German reparations and forgiving significant Allied war debts (the rest were defaulted on in the Depression). Also saved ~11M Russians from starving to death. ...

I want to break the impression that Affirmative Action/DEI began in 2014 or is limited to school admissions and a handful of infamously left-wing fields. Here are some excerpts from chapter 4 of the 1992 book "Paved With Good Intentions." First, firefighting. ...

TIL there were widespread public celebrations of 9/11 in China. ...

Just about every model I tested viewed whites as much less valuable than nonwhites. The big divide was between those that viewed all nonwhites roughly equally, like GPT-5 and Deepseek V3.1, and those that preferred South Asians, like Claude Sonnet 4.5. <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/a...

The skull measurers were literally right and this should be taught in 9th grade biology. <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/oelayat/status/1912648462224826720" color="blue">x.com/oelayat/status…</a>...