Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it.”
Alexander C. Karp • The Technological Republic: The Sunday Times bestseller from the great minds behind Palantir
kyla scanlon • Trump, Mamdani, and Cluely
the political scientist Cas Mudde has described as an “ideology that considers society to be ultimately separated into two homogeneous and antagonistic groups, ‘the pure people’ versus ‘the corrupt elite.’ ”
Yuval Noah Harari • Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
Anti-Charlatanism
Critiques of techno-optimism, authoritarian tactics and propaganda, and other snake-oil assaults against humanity
JD Goulet • 7 cards
The two writers must have known one another, and indeed, they were to die accused of conspiracy in the same plot against Nero; but there is no record of a friendship, and the chances are that there was no love lost between the senatorial arbiter elegantarium (“judge of tasteful things”), with his mocking, distanced attitude to the absurdities of co
... See moreEmily Wilson • The Greatest Empire: A Life of Seneca
I want to insist on an amateur internet; a garage internet; a public library internet; a kitchen table internet. At last, in 2023, I want to tell the tech CEOs and venture capitalists: pipe down. Buzz off. Go fave each other’s tweets.
