An Interview with Lola De La Mata about tinnitus(thequietus.com)

95 points by Afforess 2 years ago | 86 comments

Under Attila's Gaze(quillette.com)

52 points by doat 2 years ago | 14 comments

Mutual Friends: The Adventures of Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins(quillette.com)

32 points by samclemens 2 years ago | 9 comments

Laws of Pessimism(quillette.com)

7 points by evilsimon 2 years ago | 0 comments

Hallelujah, Leonard Cohen, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer's suicide(subtledigressions.substack.com)

151 points by Curiositry 2 years ago | 92 comments

The man who invented the modern cop novel(quillette.com)

64 points by background 3 years ago | 24 comments

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.

Child's Play: Tech's new generation and the end of thinking(harpers.org)

339 points by ramimac 8 months ago | 211 comments

Harper's Magazine essay by Sam Kriss, a letter from San Francisco about tech's new generation of AI startup founders and 'the end of thinking'.

The upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis is the loss of community(afterbabel.com)

684 points by throwup238 2 years ago | 627 comments

An After Babel Substack essay by Seth Kaplan arguing that the loss of community is the upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis.

I don't want to read what you didn't write(blog.colinbreck.com)

952 points by mooreds 1 month ago | 394 comments

Colin Breck's blog essay arguing against reading AI-generated writing such as design documents and summaries, and describing where he finds AI useful.

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.

Do your own writing(alexhwoods.com)

690 points by karimf 7 months ago | 222 comments

Blog post by Alex Woods arguing against using LLMs to write documents and essays, since writing is a way to think and build trust.