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Danger-zone Psychopathy Lobaczewski and Chris Langan on intelligent psychopaths Harrison Koehli Gary Cole as “Bill Lumbergh” in  Office Space  (1999). If you could go ahead and read this article, that’d be great. Oh, and I’m also gonna need you to subscribe, kay. Are psychopaths smart? Contrary to the impression some may have of the psychopath as evil genius, the reality is not so romantic. According to Lobaczewski, they are less intelligent on average, and you won’t find many, if any, super geniuses among their ranks. Of course, that’s not to say that there aren’t  smart  psychopaths. Their bell curve is just shifted down a bit to the left (if Lobaczewski is correct). Which means you’re probably just as likely to encounter a relatively smart psychopath as you are a slightly-more-than-relatively smart normal person. Here’s how he put it: The average intelligence of essential psychopaths, especially if measured via commonly used tests, is  somewhat lower than tha...

What Is CISA and Why Does It Matter? BY  JEFFREY A. TUCKER   On October 27, 2022, Elon Musk fired Vijaya Gadde from her job at Twitter where she was general counsel and the head of legal, policy, and trust. It became quickly obvious to him and others on his team that it was she who drove the censorship policy within the company, including that which blocked all information about Hunter Biden’s laptop before the 2020 election and otherwise shut down critics of government Covid policy.  Her termination from Twitter did not leave her unemployed and homeless. A year earlier, she had already been tapped as an advisor to CISA, which is the government’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency headed by Jen Easterly, who was chosen to head the new agency (created in 2018) out of her tenure at the National Security Agency. As Freddy Gray puts it in the  UK Spectator , “That seems fishy, to put it mildly.” Easterly was called to give a deposition in the case brought b...