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This morning, President Trump threatened to commit massive genocide in Iran. A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brou...

the widespread assumption that only Democrats have any agency or causal influence over American politics You’ve Probably Never Heard o...

For now this is just a disorganized stub index. I keep needing resources about housing policy, so I’m going to start racking them up here...

I have an unwholesome interest in scams. A call from a boiler room One day back in the 20 th century I got a cold call from...

Rescuing a classic from linkrot: Republic Dogs By Nathaniel Daw Copyright 1994 and all that. [ Thrasymachus is ti...

I am generally skeptical of breathless “AI” boosterism. LLMs have given us some astonishing surprises in the last few years, and we can e...

I have lately been seized by a mania to track down interesting re-edits of films, either done by the original creators or by fans. ...

Capturing a Bluesky thread from Matthew Sheffield. ‪Kai Ryssdal‬ asks : Fight and help win a world war. Establish a glo...

A long excerpt of the perennial points from a longer post Against Campism by a wise leftist I recommend following, Alley Valkyrie. ...

Looking at covid, flu, et cetera, my sweetheart & I are trying to live a virus-cautious life, so that compels us to have a protocol f...

I am an esotericist who takes divination seriously as a thinking process, neither more nor less different from electrical engineering tha...

I’m overdue to keep a link to this great telling of one of my favorite stories: the RMS Carpathia rescuing surivors of the wreck of the...

Social justice is not my primary political project, so I don’t want to claim profound expertise. But having rolled with people who are...