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Venkatesh Rao
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In practice, the real alternative to cancel culture is usually know-your-place culture for the masses. Civil-debate-culture is not an actual option. It’s what elites get to enjoy when the masses
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I’m watching Community for the first time and S2.9 could be straight out of Rick and Morty. The genealogical relationship is very clear in a few episodes like this. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_Theories_and_Interior_Design
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I’m in two minds about this Atlantic article urging a less urgent attitude on climate.https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/02/other-side-catastrophe/617865/ I get the sentiment. There is an annoying kind of climate activist wh
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Imagine a homeless person who's clearly not all there, sitting muttering on the sidewalk in the middle of what looks like a loose pile of trash and possessions -- soiled
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It's kinda interesting how stories that turn into cult classic landmarks (as opposed to critical darlings), they tend to hew to the most classical of story structures like Campbell. Star
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After Black Death, ungovernable state and depopulation lasted almost 200y. It is not a given that the world is necessarily governable simply because we prefer it. Governance escape is possible
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Scenario Z: Covid is never brought under control, mutates too much every season to be managed like the flu, and goes endemic with higher base fatality rate and is too
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Does anybody feel like they’re actually good at maintenance? As in, healthy attitude, motivation, good dopamine loops around stuff like paperwork, chores, boring repairs where you learn nothing new, doctor
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aesthetics seems to be the entry drug of conservatism everywhere in the world doesn’t matter what kind; any kind of primary concern with beauty seems to do the trickif
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following a discussion at @yak_collective this morning, I came up with this chart to capture a hypothesis I have that the difficulty of creating communities scales exponentially with the the
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I’m sure everybody’s motives (including mine) can be cast in a selfish light, but what makes people interesting to me is self-illegibility. A poet is not necessarily more or less
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The conclusion to draw from 4 years of post-truth is that the crackpots are occasionally right, people with axes to grind overstate the ‘occasionally’ into ‘almost always’ and people who
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