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Against TED
The New Inquiry
6 lessons about agency I learned working at an art gallery
Henrik Karlsson · Escaping Flatland
Stanford’s war on social life
Ginevra Davis · Palladium
Breaking Bread
Nicolaia Rips · Cabinet
Petrified Forest
Lewis H. Lapham · Lapham’s Quarterly
Weapons of mass decentralization
Patrick Fitzsimmons · Works in Progress
Were classical statues painted horribly?
Ralph S Weir · Works in Progress
How and why I stopped buying new laptops
Kris De Decker · Low-Tech Magazine
The hidden history of Tehran’s red-light district
Failed Architecture
Opposition to Galileo was scientific, not just religious
Christopher Graney · Aeon
Considerations on cost disease
Scott Alexander · Slate Star Codex
Why efficiency is dangerous and slowing down makes life better
Barry Schwartz · Psyche
There is no hard problem of consciousness
Carlo Rovelli · Noema
Why no Roman industrial revolution?
Bret Devereaux · A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
I don’t want to be an internet person
Ginevra Davis · Palladium
The Dark Forest and generative AI
Maggie Appleton
Who wants to play the status game?
Agnes Callard · The Point
Whitewood under siege
Jacob Hodes · Cabinet
Contra Wirecutter on the IKEA air purifier
Dynomight
Luxury beliefs are status symbols
Rob Henderson · Rob Henderson’s Newsletter
Why are there so many rationalist cults?
Ozy Brennan · Asterisk
The Internet of Beefs
Venkatesh Rao · Ribbonfarm
Same Old
Real Life
The disappearance of the public bench
Places Journal
An app can be a home-cooked meal
Robin Sloan
Why is everything so ugly?
The Editors · n+1
Teaching is a slow process of becoming everything you hate
Dynomight
Casual Viewing
Will Tavlin · n+1
Why aren’t smart people happier?
Adam Mastroianni · Experimental History
What if jobs are not the solution but the problem?
James Livingston · Aeon