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Essay
The case for gatekeeping, or: why medieval guilds had it figured out
Every open source maintainer I've talked to in the last six months has the same complaint: the absolute flood of mass-produced, AI-generated, mass-submitted slop requests have turned their
Essay
The empire always falls
A citizen of Rome in 117 AD, under Emperor Trajan, would've found it difficult to imagine the empire not existing. The roads, the aqueducts, the legal system, the
Essay
The Discourse is a Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack
In September 2016, the security journalist Brian Krebs had his website knocked offline by a botnet called Mirai. Hundreds of thousands of compromised devices, mostly cheap webcams and DVRs manufactured
Philosophy
How to Stay Sane in a World That Rewards Insanity
Is There Still a Return on Being Reasonable?
Economics
Cheap Certainty Is Eating the World
Westenberg Pro
Writing
The Illusion of Independent Thought
Everyone’s a Philosopher Until the Algorithm Chooses the Tribe
Philosophy
The Danger of Stoic Sadism
When Resilience Turns into Cruelty
Politics
Plaguenomics: The Social Recession We Can’t Escape
How COVID Rewired Civilization