W.a.s.t.e. Not: John Scanlan looks for the future in the dustbins of history(thebaffler.com)

6 points by Thevet 1 year ago | 2 comments

The Darkness from the Darkness(thebaffler.com)

5 points by lermontov 7 months ago | 0 comments

Brains on Drugs: How tinkering with consciousness became a societal sin(thebaffler.com)

168 points by apollinaire 3 years ago | 287 comments

Belittled Magazine: Thirty years after the Sokal affair(thebaffler.com)

44 points by Hooke 1 year ago | 33 comments

Mouthbreathing Machiavellis Dream of a Silicon Reich (2014)(thebaffler.com)

9 points by lbrito 8 months ago | 1 comments

Bad Manors: The McMansion as Harbinger(thebaffler.com)

51 points by samclemens 3 years ago | 134 comments

I'm Tired of Being on the Network(matduggan.com)

97 points by sagacity 1 month ago | 93 comments

A personal blog essay by Mat Duggan about growing weary of smartphones and the always-online, constantly connected life.

I miss thinking hard(jernesto.com)

1166 points by jernestomg 8 months ago | 633 comments

A personal blog post venting that the author rarely spends days thinking hard about difficult problems anymore, tagged as an opinion piece on AI.

The Moat of Low Status(usefulfictions.substack.com)

338 points by jger15 1 year ago | 141 comments

Cate Hall's Useful Fictions essay arguing that people should accept the embarrassment of being a beginner (the 'moat of low status') to learn new skills.

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.

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.

We need scientific dissidents(chronicle.com)

355 points by Georgelemental 3 years ago | 848 comments

Chronicle of Higher Education opinion essay arguing that the early artificial consensus on Covid's origins shows the need for scientific dissidents.