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The Terminal Telephone Game: How AI is Distorting Our Reality

So, I’m running into an increasingly concerning research problem.  Last week, I wrote a piece that took considerably more research than usual, because it’s a topic I’m not great at: Hard science. It’s about why human beings are never going to colonize other planets. I understood

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🔒 Unstoppable Farce Meets Immovable Object

I haven’t written about the Iran War before now because the whole thing just infuriates me, but now I stew in bafflement at its pointless, brutal, stupidity. The most concise way that it can be summed up for future historians is this classic tweet from 2014: But the topic

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Confronting the Popular Delusion of Colonizing Space

The Artemis II mission to the moon that was launched a few days ago is a legitimately exciting space adventure that suffered unfortunately little press in the face of Donald Trump’s stupid and pointless resurrection of the Middle East Forever Wars. But what little press it has gotten is

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🔒 The Terminal Telephone Game: How AI is Distorting Our Reality

So, I’m running into an increasingly concerning research problem.  Last week, I wrote a piece that took considerably more research than usual, because it’s a topic I’m not great at: Hard science. It’s about why human beings are never going to colonize other planets. I understood

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Parasocial Media: How We Became a World of Influencers

On the now quite rare occasion that I scroll through my Facebook feed, I see a hell of a lot of this one guy: That’s Jason Pargin, my old boss, who is now a prominent TikTok/Reels influencer. We haven’t spoken in nearly a decade, but Facebook spams

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🔒 Confronting the Popular Delusion of Colonizing Space

At the beginning of February, Elon Musk did another internal merger of his companies, putting to rest the notion that these are different companies in any meaningful sense. Earlier, he merged X with his AI company, XAI, and now he has merged X/XAI with his rocketry company, SpaceX. Then

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I Sure Hate This Annoying Pandemic of Online Age Restriction Laws

With everyone all focused on Donald Trump and Benny Netanyahu starting World War III out of a mutual desire to stay out of prison, another major war recently began that hasn’t earned the same headlines: Australia’s war on the internet.  Now I know I don’t talk about

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🔒 Parasocial Media: How We Became a World of Influencers

On the now quite rare occasion that I scroll through my Facebook feed, I see a hell of a lot of this one guy: That’s Jason Pargin, my old boss, who is now a prominent TikTok/Reels influencer. We haven’t spoken in nearly a decade, but Facebook spams

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🔒 How Geeks Ate the World: The Masculinity Medicine Show

Pickup Artistry and its roots in quack psychotherapy, pop philosophy, and marketing.

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Why the Right Will Never Dominate Entertainment

It’s plain to see that the carnival of horror clowns squatting in the United States government are attempting some kind of top-down cultural revolution by force, to replace the dominant western culture with nebulous “anti-woke” and thinly veiled white supremacist sensibilities.  And they’ve actually had a pretty good

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🔒 I Sure Hate This Annoying Pandemic of Online Age Restriction Laws

With everyone all focused on Donald Trump and Benny Netanyahu starting World War III out of a mutual desire to stay out of prison, another major war recently began that hasn’t earned the same headlines: Australia’s war on the internet.  Now I know I don’t talk about

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Substack is at the Gambling Stage of Desperation

Some men are probably coming to break Chris Best’s legs.  That’s the best explanation for why Substack is entering an exclusive partnership with Polymarket as announced in a comments-disabled post from Substack’s Official Substack, a newsletter that has nearly 6 million subscribers. The post got fewer than