Handwaving Freakoutery

Hot Takes on Modern Life from a Regular Human

An ongoing inquiry into the ideological fever that overtook the governing and chattering classes of America during the Trump years

Notorious for her undercover research and street activism, Erin Smith uses her hard-won experience to deliver timely and insightful analysis of the current political upheaval and civil unrest.

Turning the big details of complex ideas into a "smol" picture using surprisingly delightful autistic pedantry and nuance.

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The world's most famous whistleblower writes from exile on the intersection of technology, humanity, and power.

Notes on winning in the space between war and peace

Leading the debate and discussion on how business, finance, and technology industries drive prosperity and improve the human condition.

AI/ML, crypto, speech, power

A portal to the next regime

Society (progress & regress), technology (deep and light), and exploration.

Neo-Gonzo rhetoric and social dynamics

Black viewpoint diversity

A newsletter about science, social-justice-activism, why they sometimes fight, and how to help them get along better -- plus a good deal of other, more random stuff.

cool but rude

Why buildings are built the way they are.

Conversations questioning our current sanity level as a species.

Scottish independence. Economic left. Geopolitics. Technology.

P(A|B) = [P(A)*P(B|A)]/P(B), all the rest is commentary.

See the world as it is, not as you wish it to be. Everything else is application.

A free to use fantasy tabletop roleplaying game setting for Dungeons and Dragons, Pathfinder, and similar games.

mostly anti-Woke cultural commentary, plus some personal thoughts and fiction