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Welcome to the post-tribal struggle. Being 'right' is overrated anyway. It's not what you think, it's why you think it. Some posts about personal subjective wellbeing (not self-help shit).
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Slopstack™ and the illusion of explanatory depth
What are we doing here?
It’s the 25th anniversary of 9/11 and I expect to see lots of pieces about it. I’m sure some will be about the 9/11 flashbulb-memory study that tracked the changing recollections of subjects over time. Briefly, what...
On swallowing the hot-takes bait on Slopstack™ Notes
Tl;dr - If you aren’t more discerning, Substack is Slopstack™, driven by hyper-social primate behaviour in the form of industrialised busybodying and you will be sucked in.
A subscriber recently observed that I was drifting into hot...
With 'friends' like this, Jason Arday doesn't need enemies
Good Law Project’s “Stand in solidarity with Jason Arday” petition, still accepting signatures on August 9 2026. Screenshot: Good Law Project.
Jason Arday’s life is in tatters, now that his professional and personal credibility is toast. S...
Notes from my socio-politically homogenous holiday
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This article was produced first by running some ideas past ChatGPT and then by ignoring most of what it suggested I write
Where most of the people droning on about AI being bad belong. Pic credit: mine.
Note: ChatGPT keeps trying to encourage me to write much more sensibly than I do, but I ignore it for the most part. Where’s the fun in writing in a more resp...
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