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"... the case was thrown out because Musk filed his lawsuit after a statute of limitations to bring such claims had expired." Seems like important info some of the other news sourc…

The incentives are perverse. It's not just about selling razors, but about getting attention. From Enlightenment 2.0: "You can blame the media, but obviously the media is just a pa…

Very true

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"Liberty is a California investor-owned utility." Well, that was probably not a good idea.

Making newsrooms beholden to donors is not ideal, but it's better than being beholden to advertisers.

"Back in the day, and I mean way back in the day, barely anyone could read or write. Nowadays, you can't find a single person who believes reading and writing is a useless skill." …

"The divide is not between smart and stupid people, but between people who can inspect the systems around them and people who are forced to accept those systems on the basis of tru…

I loved Pocket too. RIP.

I bet another reason women suffer less cognitive decline from early retirement than men is that women are less lonely and more integrated into their extended families and communiti…

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This is very interesting. Any other good reads on AI agents using cryptocurrency?

They need to legalize psychedelics https://psychedelicspotlight.com/can-psychedelics-help-veter...

I enjoyed this. But one mention of "farm bills" in 45 minutes??? "the political playing field is often tilted toward agribusiness. For example, the overwhelming majority of farm su…

“When populists get into power, the rhetorical discourse frames tend to be used to implement successive autocratic measures, such as limiting opposition through electoral manipulat…

This is my blog: https://cathyreisenwitz.substack.com/ It’s got a recommendations list on the right rail. But I can also maybe offer recs based on your interests.

I'm still blogging. I'm still reading blogs. A lot of us are. Good points against social media. But that's still how people find bloggers these days.

I don't hate this. But I'm pretty knee-jerk opposed to licensure https://cathyreisenwitz.substack.com/p/fuck-and-i-do-mean-fu...

No one asked me, but I think a cause that is important, neglected, and (less-so, probably) tractable is loneliness/atomization/lack of meaning among Westerners in the bottom-half o…

Well, if the demand for people who can and do read full books stays steady and the supply decreases, then the value (or at least the price) will increase. Seems plausible to me.

Vegs should be at the top, meat & animal products under. Still an improvement. #1 health tip for poor autists w IBS: Half a bag of frozen vegs in a bowl + splash of water. Microwav…

Did I miss something, or are none of the examples both Straussian and memetic/memes? I feel like if this were a real thing, one could imagine one example. Also, that's not how chur…

"Blogging starts conversations with people I have never met. Blog posts become invitations that never expire. They wait patiently for the right moment to be found. Someone reads an…