Handwaving Freakoutery

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

AI/ML, crypto, speech, power

Scottish independence. Economic left. Geopolitics. Technology.

Neo-Gonzo rhetoric and social dynamics

No filter science

Using moral psychology to explain why so much is going wrong

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

I write about censorship, media manipulation, and honest insight for people curious about how the world works.

Black viewpoint diversity

...where you can learn about the people, tools, and ideas that already exist to solve the crisis of our democracy and heal our political divisions, so that together we can co-create a future where everyone wins.

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

A player's guide to the Apocalypse

The writings and experiments of Peter Limberg and friends.

Do not be conformed to this world

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.

An increasing proportion of the industrial surplus is being absorbed by the task of masking bio-social deterioration

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

Moving beyond woke to thoughtful, informed discourse

Lukewarm Takes on Modern Life from a Regular Human in a World Gone Mad

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

Ideas about a wide variety of subjects

A portal to the next regime

cool but rude

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

A newsletter for all things controversial and interesting.

Underexplored Research Topics

Conversations questioning our current sanity level as a species.

sex, psychedelics, and social analysis

Salient posts on the "Green Leap Forward" - the social and economic drive to rapidly change the world's energy consumption with analysis into the potential unintended consequences and negative downstream effects of such rapid changes.

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.

A place for research notes on civil wars, low intensity conflicts, collapsing empires, and how populations have navigated conflicts between war and peace.

Regular news and features by award-winning author and investigative reporter.

Turning the big details of complex ideas into a "smol" picture.

A guide to navigating the Digital Age

a mix of anti-Woke cultural commentary, personal reflections, and a regular creative writing feature

Creator of The Martyr Made Podcast, and The Unraveling w/Jocko Willink

Every innovation is an act of subversion.

Why buildings are built the way they are.

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