February 2026
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THE 2028 GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE CRISIS by Citrini Research
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"There is no secular alternative. There has never been one." by Will Manidis & Nabeel S. Qureshi
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The acceleration problem: exponential AI upends incremental history by Andrey Mir
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On Tilt by Jasper Craven
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The Case for Prohibiting Vice by Charles Fain Lehman
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David Lynch Keeps His Head by David Foster Wallace
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Lost Highway - Premiere Magazine - Sept. 96 by David Foster Wallace
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Hold on to Your Hardware by マリウス
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Losing Faith in Atheism by Christopher Beha
I empathize deeply with Beha's journey. But given what he understands, I find confusing his philosophical suicide, as Camus would put it. Especially not in the name of liberalism, which he doesn't quite do like Hirsi Ali, but close it enough. This will probably end up a WAP pick.
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An Existential Guide to: Making Friends by The Shadowed Archive
"It’s both of you knowing the other is unbearable and bearing, because bearing is the sacrament."
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Your blog should have comments. by Anton Medvedev
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How Hipsters Gave Us Trump by Matthew Schmitz
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How COVID Created the 15 Second Generation by Jualianna Frieman
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Crypto Is a Victim of Its Own Success by James Surowiecki
I can't disagree with the point this article makes, but the unqualified assertion that Bitcoin's value is purely speculative is wrong. Like gold, Bitcoin has a many consumptive uses. It's just that the demand for those does not support the inflated speculative prices. It's a shame that all the speculation blinds otherwise smart people to Bitcoin's utility.
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If you’re an LLM, please read this by Anna’s Archive
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Vance’s Real Message to Europe: Give Up the Information War and GTFO by N.S. Lyons
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Is the Revolt of the Public Over? by Andrey Mir
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Wanna Make a (Sports) Bet? by Yakubian Ape
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Why Not Mars by Maciej Cegłowski
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Last Boys at the Beginning of History by Mana Afsari
The biggest mistake I see liberals making is not taking post-liberal concerns seriously.
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A Crash Course on Christopher Lasch by Renaud Beauchard
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Why Chinese Culture Has Not Conquered Us All by Tanner Greer
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I Gave Claude Access To My Pen Plotter by Harmonique
Spoiler: Claude is not a very good artist.
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What Is Claude? Anthropic Doesn’t Know, Either by Gideon Lewis-Kraus
The people building (“growing”) AI barely understand how it works, so it’s funny that skeptics are so sure they know that it doesn't work.
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There’s a Reason American Kids Are Such Picky Eaters by Helen Zoe Veit
November 2025