
The United States is drowning in noise. We cut through the static with clear, sharp Burnt Ground doesn’t soothe. It names. It cuts. It tells the truth even when the truth costs something. This is writing for people who can still feel the ground moving
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You know I write a lot. Burnt Ground. Books. More manuscripts than sense. All of it means copying and pasting the same things all day — boilerplate, addresses, passages I’m moving between drafts.
So I built a tool. I called it Drawer, beca...
Independence was voted on July second. John Adams bet the second would be the day we celebrated forever. He lost by two days.
My house in Florida sits on two acres that are an island, or almost. During the season Trump/Vance signs appear o...
Joe Zeigler
Put a hundred of the smartest people in a room and you do not get a hundred times the intelligence. You get a mob. Not a smarter mob than the usual kind. The same mob. The professor and the drunk arrive at the same stupidity by...
a coat of paint
Trump needs a distraction, so a historic monument gets one.
The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was never broken. Not the way he says. The joints leaked—an old, ordinary complaint, the kind a sealant crew handles in a wee...
kill what's excellent
The government switched off the AI model that refused to build autonomous weapons. It handed the kill list to the one that calls itself MechaHitler.
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Joe Zeigler, educated in economics and engineering and founder of FirePrograms Software, writes How to Fly, The Gorge, Connecting the Bots, Eliza, Quantum Apocalypse, and the Substack Burnt Ground.
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