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You shouldn't trust Wikipedia

I previously wrote what turned out to be a very popular piece about Reddit’s descent into madness, how a platform that once hosted genuinely diverse, chaotic, interesting discourse was slowly captured by a small class of ideologically-motiv...

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The surprisingly poor accuracy of human worry

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Many people have anxiety issues in modern times, it’s understandable, although solvable once you understand what’s actually happening. If you’re someone who suffers from this, let’s share some brief research with yo...

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The Atlantic is just left wing ZeroHedge now

Choose your own adventure, anon

We’ve written before about how doomerism is a mental illness, a hardened state of despair no amount of good news can penetrate. We’ve also written about permabears, those constitutionally committed to the da...

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The sin of noticing reality

Previously I wrote about the “stick to sports” phenomenon, the impulse some have to tell someone else their observations are off limits because they said something outside a supposedly approved lane. Today I want to talk about a similar pat...

15 days ago
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The data center panic is dumb

The anti-nuclear panic was incredibly misguided, we could all have widespread, near-free, 0 carbon-emission electricity right now if we didn’t do this. We’re repeating this mistake.

There’s a series of events that happens in America every...

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    Marketing executive, music composer, author of a Substack called Hot Takes and blogger since 2007

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    Advocate for Human-First Intelligent Experiences. Recovering executive. Logic+Emotion refugee. GenX Philosopher. Keeping it real in an artificial world…

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