Notes from the Circus

Notes from the Circus

The Believers
How Bitcoin culture mistook a monetary protocol for a moral order
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Mark Carney Gave a Perfectly Good Speech
Why competent leadership now feels like a historical event
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The Tech Right Is Over
On the end of exit
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The Pageant and the Program
How the right buys a majority it does not have
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How to Argue with Reactionaries
A field guide to declining the simulation
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The Vibecession Was Real
On the difference between measuring an economy and living in one
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On Categories
Most intellectual confusion is category confusion, and the AI situation is not what we have been told
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Depth, Not Kind
What the AI agents were actually conspiring to do
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What Beliefs Don't Do
This is, after all, a philosophy blog, and belief is not moral license.
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The Agora Remains Open
A note to my subscribers.
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The Special Beast
The world should check us
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Another Night in Any Town
The young wait for the dawn in this dark age.
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