Pluralistic: Boss preppers (22 Nov 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Pluralistic: O(N^2) nationalism (26 Nov 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Defending the Humanities - 3 Quarks Daily
by Mindy Clegg
Plato’s Defense of the Humanities - 3 Quarks Daily
by Scott SamuelsonI was a freshman in college when I first read Plato’s Apology, his version of the event that probably made the biggest mark on him: his
Watching the watchmen – RANGE Media
Editor's note: A deeply-reported series on the Flock cameras tracking your movements.
Explosive Return to Normal — Superversive
Confidence Game The Great Financial Crisis was a crisis of confidence. Due undisciplined lending and risk modeling disconnected from fundamentals, financial firms had lost trust in counterparties. They didn’t believe that partners in the ecosystem were “good for it”, resulting in margin calls and
Confusion wins
I left the election season and didn’t send this newsletter for a few weeks. Mostly because I was fiddling with the tool to send it with, was traveling and...
The termination shock: Where AI progress meets reality
To turn technical breakthroughs into real-world change, AI must overcome the friction of politics, policy, and human institutions.
How the shutdown broke America’s food chain — and what happens next
Cash-strapped farmers, gaps in the public safety net, and food inspection backlogs that could reshape who eats what in the weeks, months, and years to come.
AI and Voter Engagement - Schneier on Security
Social media has been a familiar, even mundane, part of life for nearly two decades. It can be easy to forget it was not always that way. In 2008, social media was just emerging into the mainstream. Facebook reached 100 million users that summer. And a singular candidate was integrating social media into his political campaign: Barack Obama. His campaign’s use of social media was so bracingly innovative, so impactful, that it was viewed by journalist David Talbot and others as the strategy that enabled the first term Senator to win the White House...
Forty Years Ago, the First-Ever US Women’s Soccer Team Sprang out of Seattle
As far as I could tell, women’s soccer started with the 99ers, and there was no looking back. But I was wrong.
Pluralistic: Disney lost Roger Rabbit (18 Nov 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
On Propaganda, Power, and the Fight for Reality
My conversation with Zev Shalev
Countering a Brutal Job Market with AI
How Top Grads Strategically Use AI to Improve Their Chances of Success
Pluralistic: The games industry’s self-induced traumatic brain injury (17 Nov 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
I Work For an Evil Company, but Outside Work, I’m Actually a Really Good Person
I love my job. I make a great salary, there’s a clear path to promotion, and a never-ending supply of cold brew in the office. And even though my j...
The Grift Bubble
A Political Theory of American Collapse
Personal Business | Are.na Editorial
“Whatever else anything is, it ought to begin by being personal.”
A Letter to America
From an American with Love
They’re Not Hiding It and It's Not Irony
The Trump administration just quietly removed a memorial to Black U.S.
If Morality Had Bankruptcy Lawyers: Michael Wolff, Mike Solana, and the Age of Ethical Insolvency
The Marketization of Conscience in an Age Without Shame
There is Only One Way Out
I’ve been re-watching Tony Gilroy’s masterpiece Andor. In the first season, the story reaches one of its most evocative moral crescendos when Andy Serkis’ character, Kino Loy, delivers one of the most stirring monologues in contemporary screenwriting.
On Comfortable Lies and the Pain of Knowing
Truth Costs More Than Most People Are Willing to Pay
Viking Properties, Inc. v. Holm
Viking Properties, Inc. v. Holm - 118 P.3d 322
You Can Shape Reality
Thoughts on the artist's role in cultural change.
45 Degrees North: Five Trees in the Big Picture | The Daily Yonder
My husband and I live on 2.5 rural acres that he bought before we were married. For less than the present price of most new vehicles, he got land that
Pluralistic: A tale of three customer service chatbots (12 Nov 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Pluralistic: For-profit healthcare is the problem, not (just) private equity (13 Nov 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Agricultural Drones Are Taking Off Globally, Saving Farmers Time and Money | The Daily Yonder
This article was originally published by The Conversation. Drones have become integrated into everyday life over the past decade – in sectors as diverse
Chuck Schumer Doesn’t Know What Time It Is
After forty days.