The Unbearable Loudness of Chewing(asteriskmag.com)

61 points by k2enemy 1 year ago | 39 comments

Is the Internet Making Culture Worse?(asteriskmag.com)

30 points by Luc 11 months ago | 40 comments

Yes in My Bamako Yard(asteriskmag.com)

52 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 8 comments

Sins of the Children(asteriskmag.com)

159 points by maxall4 9 months ago | 72 comments

Ideas aren't getting harder to find(asteriskmag.com)

100 points by mitchbob 10 months ago | 46 comments

Language birth(asteriskmag.com)

24 points by mitchbob 7 months ago | 3 comments

Why is every rationalist blog post way too long?(alexwennerberg.com)

384 points by epestr 12 days ago | 362 comments

Blog post by Alex Wennerberg arguing that rationalist community blog posts are excessively long and that verbosity substitutes for thoroughness.

There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy(experimental-history.com)

59 points by luu 1 month ago | 31 comments

An Experimental History Substack essay by Adam Mastroianni arguing there is no loneliness epidemic but there is an epidemic of scurvy.

Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop(resobscura.substack.com)

463 points by benbreen 3 months ago | 222 comments

Benjamin Breen's Res Obscura essay arguing quality non-fiction books counter AI slop, introducing a vibe-coded tool indexing prize-winning books.

The Other Epidemic: Trying to get off benzodiazepines(thebeliever.net)

265 points by gaplong 5 days ago | 247 comments

A Believer magazine essay about the difficulty of tapering off and withdrawing from benzodiazepine medications.

Private equity is devouring the U.S. economy(theatlantic.com)

359 points by fortran77 3 years ago | 401 comments

An Atlantic Ideas essay by Rogé Karma arguing private equity now controls about one-fifth of the U.S. market, largely invisible to investors, media, and regulators.

Encrypting private data and private communications is now an ethical duty(blog.tripu.info)

416 points by gasull 3 years ago | 200 comments

A personal blog essay arguing that end-to-end encrypting private data and communications has become an ethical duty, using a glass-walls analogy.