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Fix the root, not the fruit
The Internet has destroyed our ability to seek truth. "Abundance" won't save us. Being honest about the role of media might.
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TV Review: Thoughts on "Andor"
The best Star Wars has ever been
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Tech Things: xAI screws up its system prompts, again
Once is coincidence, twice is enemy action. Also, you really should not be using LLMs as fact checkers.
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Colleges have an education problem
Reflections on a broken system
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The latest Trump Executive Order Creates a Police State
Weak men create hard times.
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Contra Scott (and Rux) on Who's to Blame for Populism
It's such an extremely adversarial environment for credentialing, it's a miracle the expert class is able to function at all.
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Notes from the SF Party Scene
On billionaire party houses, tech billboards, SaaS couches, and magic cars
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The tariffs aren't even INTERNALLY coherent
A quick one, just cause I'm so angry about the state of everything right now.
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Why We Can't Have Conversations Anymore and My Problems with Right Wing Epistemology
Thoughts on epistemic helplessness, how smart people end up in the MAGA pit, and the modern right's war on expertise
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The Five Year Old Test
Fine, I guess we’re writing more about politics.
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Societal Defaults
i. The Mac line of computers, and Apple products more broadly, are beloved for their simplicity and elegance...
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Musings on Healthcare
This is a bit more of a personal article than the ones I usually write.
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