The benefits of learning in public(gilesthomas.com)

282 points by gpjt 1 year ago | 81 comments

Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons(johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)

25 points by chmaynard 1 year ago | 3 comments

The Triassic-Jurassic Extinction(johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)

42 points by chmaynard 3 years ago | 36 comments

From Pentagons to Pentagrams(johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)

25 points by surprisetalk 4 months ago | 4 comments

Notes on Tajikistan(mattlakeman.org)

275 points by petesivak 2 years ago | 264 comments

Dinner at a North Korean Restaurant in Shanghai (2016)(simplyfabulicious.wordpress.com)

80 points by herecomethefuzz 1 year ago | 52 comments

Doomscrolling ourselves to death(edwest.co.uk)

377 points by shubhamjain 1 month ago | 281 comments

Ed West's Substack essay on children's media diets and doomscrolling, discussing James Marriott's 'The New Dark Ages'.

I'm reluctant to verify my identity or age for any online services(neilzone.co.uk)

905 points by speckx 7 months ago | 554 comments

A personal blog post explaining why the author can think of few online services for which he would be willing to verify his identity or age, amid policy proposals for age checks.

It's insulting to read AI-generated blog posts(blog.pabloecortez.com)

1121 points by speckx 1 year ago | 500 comments

Personal blog post arguing that publishing AI-generated blog posts is rude to readers and urging people to write in their own words.

Big data is dead (2023)(motherduck.com)

548 points by armanke13 2 years ago | 428 comments

A 2023 MotherDuck blog post by Jordan Tigani arguing that the era of big data is over and most organizations' data workloads are small.

Why blog if nobody reads it?(andysblog.uk)

681 points by alexgiann 1 year ago | 307 comments

A personal blog post from February 2025 arguing for the value of blogging even when few or no people read it.

If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing(pluralistic.net)

1007 points by jay_kyburz 2 years ago | 473 comments

Cory Doctorow's Pluralistic blog post arguing that if buying digital media isn't owning it, then piracy isn't stealing.