653 words about Substack's new moderation tools

The platform is trapped in a prison created by its own awful policies.

770 words about All the President's Men

It’s Robert Redford’s fault.

Journalistic losers

To succeed in this industry, first delete your higher cortical functions.

Unimportant Bird: Year One

Some lessons learned.

Wikipedia is a lifeboat in a sea of garbage

I’m happy it survives. But its existence increasingly feels like anomaly.

A quick note about this site's RSS feed

It’s been updated.

Monday links

Letter from an ICE jail. Inside DHS. Awash in images of violence.

Saturday links

Let’s not emulate Charlie Kirk, thanks.

Friday links

AI as a failed technology. The right’s war on wikipedia. Corn.

Hey let's review a comic about a bird getting existential

bird comic by Ruby Carter is quite good.

Wednesday links

Ta-Nehisi Coates. Odessa. AI slop podcasts.

Tuesday links

Far-right moral panics. New Age fantasies.

Tuesday links

The political emptiness of abundance. Delayed disaster aid. The kids can’t read.

Monday links

A must-read interview with Mahmoud Khalil.

'A man for whom historical truth had all his life run at twenty-four frames a second'

More notes on Joan Didion’s Political Fictions (2001)

Thursday links

Buc-ee’s. Bari Weiss. Google’s monopoly.

Wednesday links

Hotel workers strike. Proud AI haters. No zines in museums please.

I love to hate on Ross Douthat

He’s a conservative intellectual trapped in an enemies-to-lovers arc with liberalism.

Tuesday links

Gilding the White House. Wishcasting Trump’s death.

The critic is dead

But criticism is alive? Maybe?