Zoe

I think the first person to grasp the unavoidability of political bias fully is the American journalist Walter Lippmann. In my vote for the most insightful paragraph ever written on the epistemological challenges confronted by citizens in large, complex, modern societies, he wrote,

“There is a bias in all opinion, even in opinion purged of desire,

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blorpington

7h

Just like anything else, heavy users of Catholicism sometimes need to up their dosage to stay level. And since Vatican 2, the amount of Catholicism in a single service is simply not enough to meet the needs of those who are most profoundly effected.

Testing123Testing123 21h100%. The resistance needs more "the emperor has no clothes" and less "the emperor is going to invade Poland".

The United States is the capital of review mania. The need for feedback and affirmation is “a very American thing,” said Gerd Leonhard, a Zurich-based self-described futurist, book author and corporate consultant. “Europeans don’t do this; we’re not gung-ho to write reviews, and many people will refuse.”

Michael Sullivan

6h

Economic thought -- and traditional sort of center-right thought in general -- generally is grounded in an ethos of, "The world is deeply imperfect. Some people are going to get shitty deals."

And a lot of people just really deeply want to reject that. They want a world in which either nobody gets shitty deals, or only people that ... See more

Bistromathtician

Bistromathtician’s Substack

5h

Horseshoe Theory between New Urbanism and Anarcho-Capitalism is that the extremes of both will endorse building the Killdozer.

Marc Robbins

Marc Robbins

5h

"but to be an annoying pedant"

C-man, I'm happy to give you some tips on how to become the pleasant, charming type of pedant that people fall over themselves to invite to their parties and hold forth on the most exciting topics of pedantry that have captured the public's imagination.

The vibe is Chili's is a genuinely affordable restaurant that got lumped together with other chains like Applebee's (which is not good, fight me) when millennials irony poisoned their brains in the 2000s to mid 2010s. Our parents in 1998 took us to Chili's because it was good and they loved it unironically and we could color in the placemats and ge... See more

The other day I started wondering whether there is a future in “ads” of the sort that lure bots to click through, rather than luring humans.