Handwaving Freakoutery

Let me help you break the shackles of ill health and dependency. Become a raw egg nationalist!

Every innovation is an act of subversion.

Ideas about a wide variety of subjects

A newsletter for all things controversial and interesting.

I write about crime, data, and crime data. Come join, it'll be fun!

Using moral psychology to explain why so much is going wrong

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

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.

I'm a regular human trying to make sense of this crazy clownworld. Let's compare notes and share strategies!

Perspectives from Earth's older, better-looking sister world

Caplan and Candor

Extremist in Extremis

A guide to navigating the Digital Age

Conversations questioning our current sanity level as a species.

No filter science

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

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

Fostering civil discourse and cognitive liberty through Spectrum Street Epistemology

A player's guide to the Apocalypse

Black viewpoint diversity

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

Underexplored Research Topics

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

Bridging the two cultures of science and the humanities

Exploring the shared upheavals of our era, including technological and cultural change, the ideological revolution consuming the West, the rise of China, and the crisis of liberalism.

cool but rude

...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.

Notes from the frontiers of hyper landscapes

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

Examining fundamental change during tumultuous times.

A new media company built on the ideals that were once the bedrock of American journalism.

Do not be conformed to this world

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

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

AI/ML, crypto, speech, power

sex, psychedelics, and social analysis

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.

Essays about buildings, infrastructure, and industrial technology.

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

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

Scottish independence. Economic left. Geopolitics. Technology.

Harnessing the forces of Creative Destruction. How business, finance, and technology industries drive prosperity and improve the human condition.

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

A portal to the next regime

Wisdom becoming more common.

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

Why innovation happens, and how it fits into history. Mostly applied to climate technologies, though sometimes I get chippy.

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.

News and features by best-selling author and reporter Matt Taibbi, in an independent package molded after I.F. Stone's Weekly. The site contains investigative journalism, satirical commentary, and the America This Week podcast with novelist Walter Kirn.