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🔒 Grokipedia: The Farce Awakens

Last week I talked about Elon Musk’s AI-generated Wikipedia knockoff, which I didn’t actually expect we’d see for some months, if at all, given the too-great likelihood that he’d be too mercurial to follow through. I thought it would be like the political party he said

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You Cannot Create an "Unbiased" Wikipedia

How would you write a completely unbiased encyclopedia article about the violence currently occurring in Gaza?  I mean completely unbiased. I want you to bracket off and ignore every opinion you have about it whatsoever. Not taking anyone’s side. Nobody is wrong or right. Just the sterile facts. What

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How Free Speech Internet Culture Cooked Our Brains

As our technology has vastly overshot what resources we’re able to acquire with our meaty fingers alone, we’ve put stresses on our bodies that the slow pace of evolution hasn’t prepared us for. Or, in building our bodies for scarcity, we have been granted traits that make

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🔒 You Cannot Create an "Unbiased" Wikipedia

How would you write a completely unbiased encyclopedia article about the violence currently occurring in Gaza?  I mean completely unbiased. I want you to bracket off and ignore every opinion you have about it whatsoever. Not taking anyone’s side. Nobody is wrong or right. Just the sterile facts. What

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Lawrence Krauss' Race Science Problem

So I’m going to talk about this book again.  I wasn’t going to, because my whole thing was that I could review it accurately without ever reading it. But more has come to light since it was actually released, and that is that somebody did read it. Namely,

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🔒 How Free Speech Internet Culture Cooked Our Brains

As our technology has vastly overshot what resources we’re able to acquire with our meaty fingers alone, we’ve put stresses on our bodies that the slow pace of evolution hasn’t prepared us for. Or, in building our bodies for scarcity, we have been granted traits that make

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The Party of Emotion

Of all the slogans that were thrown about during the 2024 US election I think the one that frightened the Republicans the most was Kamala Harris’ threat that “we’re not going back.” What the right wants more than anything is to go back. That’s what it is, at

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🔒 Lawrence Krauss' Race Science Problem

So I’m going to talk about this book again.  I wasn’t going to, because my whole thing was that I could review it accurately without ever reading it. But more has come to light since it was actually released, and that is that somebody did read it. Namely,

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Boy, Do I Wish Centrist Substack Writers Would Shut Up About Cancel Culture Right Now

As the Trump administration continues its full and unapologetic assault on the First Amendment the usual suspects are forced to admit through gritted teeth that maybe Trump and his people aren’t the free speech absolutists they pinky-promised that they were. This has triggered so many Substack essays as the

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🔒 The Party of Emotion

Of all the slogans that were thrown about during the 2024 US election I think the one that frightened the Republicans the most was Kamala Harris’ threat that “we’re not going back.” What the right wants more than anything is to go back. That’s what it is, at

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What Does White Identity Even Mean?

I’ve developed a sense of unease whenever I see a young white man with a shaved head. I know that’s not fair. Some guys look great bald. I have friends who do it. It’s not an unusual style. It’s not a square moustache or a sonnenrad

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You Can't Kill Woke Because You Still Can't Define It

Month nine (year 30? 50? 100?) of the Trump presidency, and already a number of books are coming out about how woke is over now thanks to the good work Trump has done to stamp it out, and given the timeline of publishing, any book that’s coming out now