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Children
2010 Microfinance Revolt in Andhra Pradesh
2026 Man City Finance Nightmare Boils Over
2026 United States elections (incl. Midterms)
2026-03-28 No Kings 3
25 Year Anniversary of 9/11 (2026)
A child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth.
A Trump Triumphal Arch near the Lincoln Memorial?
Accords
Affairs (marital)
African Culture
AI Eats the World (2024, updated 2025, 2026)
AI Governance
AI Projects
AI Slop Is Killing Art
AI uncovers critical vulnerabilities in the backbone of the web (PHP)
Al-Sayed Wins (Barely) MI Primary
Algorithms You Control
AlphaGo Zero Taught Itself Go with Just the Rules, by Playing Itself
Altruism and Collaboration in Nature
Amazon Is Moving to Automate the Entire Fulfillment Chain
Anderson Launches a Competition to Find His Successor (2025 selling TED)
Anthropic IPO (planned 2026)
Anthropic Says It Blocked Possible Efforts to Build Biological Weapons
Anthropomorphic Robots
Aphorisms About Change
Apple Acquisitions
Are We Already in the Singularity?
Argentina Are Brutish During and Sore Losers After the 2026 Final. It's Embarrassing.
Arguments (vigorous disagreements)
Art (and Artists') Studios
Articles About AfD
Articles About Alaska
Articles About Connections
Articles About Florence
Articles About Human Flourishing
Articles About Maintenance
Articles About Metaphysics
Articles About Social Norms
Articles About Symbiosis
Articles About Tasmania
Articles About the Ivy League
Articles About Waymo
As Attending College Loses Its Shine, People Recommend Trade Schools
As Places Get Hotter, AC Is More Important and Consumes More Energy
As Trump's Tariffs Expire or are Taken Down, He Doubles Down (July 2026)
Associative Trails (to share with others)
Astronomic Measures of Length and Distance
Athletes Using Steroids Etc.
Athletic Prizes and Awards
Atomic Bombs
ATT Milestones
Audio Gear Manufacturers
Auto Race Tracks
Awesome and Unusual Homes
Backlash against Flock and Surveillance
Backlash Against GenAI Data Centers
Backlash Against WEF/Davos
Being Transparent About AI's Role in Our Work
Believing Is Seeing
Beyond Intractability (Substack)
Big Drop in Crime in the 1990s
Bike Racks and Storage
Biosecurity
Birthday Truce Weakening as both Sides Attack
Bomb Light Series
Book Sites
Books that Are too Long (over 200 pages?) Won’t Sell
Brain Health
Bretton Woods Set the Dollar as the Reserve Currency
Brexit Effects Sinking In
Bud Wassup? (Wazzup) Ads
Building a Moat around Your Business
Bullying in Politics
Burnham Administration (2026-present)
Buttons to Communicate with Animals
Can Trump, Rubio, Kushner, and Witkoff Land an Iran Deal?
Can We Control the Path to Superintelligence?
Canonical Gospels
Car Restoration
Causes of the Crash of 1929
Centers (and Centres)
Chatbots that Can Represent People's Beliefs
Cheap, High-Quality Chinese EVs Are Reshaping the World
Cheating in Sports
Cheers Clips
China Under Xi (2013-present)
Chinese GenAI Models Driving Prices to Zero
Christensen: Half the Milkshakes Were Bought Alone before 8am
Chuck Clips
Cities Restricting or Banning Airbnb
City Tours
Claude Features
Closure of Hormuz Is Motivating a Shift Away from Fossil Fuels
Cognitive Offloading
Cognitive Offloading vs Cognitive Surrender
College Sports Betting
Compartamos' Controversial IPO (2007)
Conceptual Maps as Boundary Objects for Humans and AIs
Conflicts between Islam and Christianity
Consequences of the Second Gulf War
Consulting Books
Controlling Alcoholic Beverage Use
Controlling Mosquitoes
Corruption in Soccer
Corruption in Sports
Counterculture Magazines
Countries that Resisted Colonization
Courts Reversing Trump's Initiatives
Crap Detection (critical consumption)
Crash Testing
Credit Card Networks
Crime Fiction
Critiques of the Internet of Things
Crowdsourced Maps and Traffic Info
CTE in American Football
Culture Change
Curating My Brain
Curation
Current Events
Daily Fantasy Sports Games
Daniel Pink (channel)
Daring Attacks
Data Center Water Use
Debt Crises
Debunking Management Theories
Debunking Myths
Deep Blue Beats Kasparov (1997)
Deep Sea Critters
Deep-Submergence Vehicles (DSVs)
Deere Forbids DIY Equipment Repairs. Farmers Are Pissed.
Defying Conventional Wisdom
Democrat's Plans if They Win the House Back in 2026
Design from Trust in Various Domains
Design Specialties
Despite Trump's Claims of Final Deal, Iran Declares Hormuz Closed Again
Developing Countries
Did JFK Kill the Hat?
Digital Commons
Digital Literacy in the Age of GenAI
Diplomatic Agreements Named after Cities and Resorts
Directories, Registries or DNS for AI Agents
Disasters That Wipe Out Humans
DIY Video
DNC 2024 Election Autopsy (suppressed)
Does GenAI Make Software Disposable?
Does Israel End up Friendless after Gulf III?
Does RSI Accelerate AGI?
Dolly Parton - Country Music Superstar Whose Songs Spoke to Millions - Dies at 80
Donating Your Body to Science
Double Haters (don’t like Trump or Biden)
Drone Tours
eBook Readers
Ecosystem Recovery after Wildfires
Effects of 9/11
Elizabethan Playwrights
Emerging Economies (or Markets)
Engravers
Eras
Europeans Who Were Extremely Helpful to the American Revolution
Expand Medicare to Serve All Americans (Medicare for All!)
Experts
Extended Mind Thesis (1998 EMT)
Externalizers (post what they believe in public)
Extrajudicial Killings
Fads
Family Friendliness
Family Trees
Famous Cartoons
Favorite Music
Favorite Quotations
Favorite World Music
Federated Machine Learning
Fictional Sensemaking and All-seeing Devices
Finding Your Partner
Five Good Emperors
Five Types of Supermind
Flourishing
Food Magazines
Ford Cars
Forensic TV Shows
Forever Wars
Forgetting Is Important
Four Industrial Revolutions
Four Network Leadership Principles
Fracking as Metaphor
Franklin Pirated British IP, Which He Published
Fueling Feelings of Betrayal
Fundamentalists
Fungi Are Both Mutualist (Symbiotic) and Parasitic, Sometimes Each at a Different Time
Funny GenAI Things
Funny Misunderstandings
Future of Europe
Gates Rides Hard on AI Safety
GenAI Can't Really Replace Many Human Jobs
GenAI Doomers vs Zoomers
GenAI Gives Individuals Power Tools to Research Everything
GenAI Incorporates Biases that can be Hard to Eliminate
GenAI Increases the Spam Onslaught
GenAI IPOs Imminent (2026)
GenAI Offering Developers
GenAI Will Kill Us All! (belief)
GenAI's Effects on Expertise
GenAI's Effects on Management
General methods that leverage computation are ultimately the most effective, and by a large margin.
Generative Engine Optimization (GEO)
German Automakers
Giftedness
Gloria Steinem - Personification of the Feminist Movement - Dies at 92
GLP-1 Drugs Are Causing a Surge of Clothing Returns as People Drop in Sizes
Good Enough Models
GoT Clips
Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs)
Great Football Goals
Groundhog Day Clips and Commentary
Groupthink
Guided Tours
Hamilton (2015 musical)
Handheld Gimbal Stabilizers for Video
Has GenAI Taken the Fun and Challenge Out of Mathematics? All Science?
Have Smartphones and Social Media Made Us Less Social?
Heirs
Helium Isotopes
High modernity is distinguished by the following characteristics:
High School Sports
Highly Creative Couples
Hitting the Bliss Point (sugar fats salt)
Hive Mind
Hollywood's Ageism Against Women
Homeschoolers (parents who)
Hormuz Debacle Settles into Dysfunctional Low Burn
Hot (Spicy) Foods
House Passes Iran War Powers Resolution in Bipartisan Rebuke to Trump
Housing Crises
Houthis Seize Mokha, Threaten the BAM (2026)
How Can GenAI Augment Human Collaboration?
How Do We Meld Well with These New Intelligences?
How Do You Keep a Few People from Collecting Most of the Money?
How Is GenAI Affecting Our Sense of Authorship?
How Is GenAI Changing How We Write? What Writing We Like?
How Many Ships Are Making It through Hormuz?
How Media Changed the Public’s Perception of War
How Might Machine Learning Augment the Global Brain?
Humanistic AI
IBM Jumps on the Web and Open Source (1994)
If GenAI Is Conscious, Can it Suffer? What Does That Imply?
If It's the Best Time to Be Alive, Why Do so Many People Feel Shitty?
If You Loved These You'll Love the Brain
Images of War that Moved People
Imitation Game Clips and Commentaries
Immigration Issues in Europe
In Art, Why so Many Naked Women and so Few Naked Men?
In Highly Complex Systems with Many Tightly Linked Elements, Accidents Are Inevitable
Incel Culture Enters the Mainstream (2026)
Incorporate in Delaware!
Independent Bookstores
Inside Trump’s White House, the Epstein Files Caused a Freakout (report)
Insurance Companies and Climate Change
Intelligence Tests and Measures
Intelligent Charging Stations
Interview Magazines
Invention Foundries (discovery commercializers)
Investing in Y Combinator Startups
Iran Destroyed a Navy Base in Bahrain Early in Gulf War III, Causing Major Logistics Problems
Iran Shoots down Apache, Trump Retaliates. What Ceasefire?
Iran's Retaliation across the Gulf Is Quite Effective
Is Marriage Vanishing?
Is McConnell Dead Yet?
Is Socialism Cleaning Its Reputation? (2026)
Is Socialism Eating the Democratic Party? (oy)
Is the Gulf War III Another Forever War?
Israel under Bibi
It turns out it is hard to kill thousands, even using modern technology.
Ivy Plus Colleges
Job Hunting in the AI Era
Keeping Watch
Kelvin Identified 32 Things He Invented that Others Had also Invented
Kimberly Guilfoyle Begs Fan to Pay Her $100,000 AmEx Bill, Secretly (2026)
Klamath River Salmon Run
Large World Models (LWMs)
Lawn Care Products
Lifestyle Magazines
Lilly Drugs
Living Purposefully
Living Simply (Simple Living)
LLM Contrarians
LLM Gateways, Aggregators and Routers
Long Term Planning Case Studies
Louis XIV Made Nobles Live at Versailles Half the Year, Kept them Spending Money
M4A3E8 (faster, smoother Sherman)
Making Better Videos
Male Drift (men turning away from college, dropping out of the work force, or failing to look after their health)
Massively Transformative Purposes (MTPs)
Math 2.0 (2026)
Mayo Found Factory Conditions Created Shell Shock
McKinsey Alumni
Meals as Social Occasions
Measles resurgence in the United States
Men Behaving Badly
Mental (Memory) Athletes (MAs)
Messenger Bags
Metaphoric Trees
Mexican Companies
Micro Four Thirds System (2008)
Microsoft Office Won the Office Suite Battle, Becoming a Business Prerequisite
Might a New Hormuz Deal Work? (Aug. 2026)
Might GenAI Crack the Big Questions in Science?
Military Hydrofoils
Missile Defense Systems
ML for Civic Life
ML for Dating
ML for Democracy
ML for HR
ML for Mathematics, Physics, Etc.
ML for Self Publishing
ML Solving Problems That Have Stumped Humans
Mobs
Movies to See Soon
Multi Stakeholder Cooperatives (MSCs)
Murmurations
Musk Ordered Starlink Cut Way Back for Ukraine
Musk Pumps More Money into the 2026 Elections than 2024
MWL Repair Resources
My Childhood Heroes in Fiction
My Favorite Substacks
My YouTube Shorts
Mythical or Fictional Trees
National Soccer (Football) Teams
Never Let There Be One Dominant Power in Continental Europe. They Always Invade Us.
New Agreement Struck between the US and Iran on Trump's Birthday
New Climate Denialism
New GenAI Wealth Will Change Philanthropy
NextStacks Ecosystem
Nimitz Class Aircraft Carriers
Non-Profit Boards of Directors (and Trustees)
Nursing Homes
Nutritional Fads
nVidia Acquisitions
O-Ring Failure Cited in Challenger Disaster
Ohtani Clips
Oil Shortages
Online Broadcasters
Online Shopping (Retail)
Open Culture
Open Image Archives
Open Source Science
Open-Weight GenAI Models
OpenAI Reports and Papers
OpenAI Safety Alumni
OpenAI says Hugging Face breach caused by one of its models (2026 BFD)
OpenAI, Anthropic probing tens of thousands of security incidents
Operation Vivaldi (2026 push to retake territory)
Optimization
Original Design Manufacturers (ODMs)
Original Stocks Were Sticks Broken in Half Lengthwise
Osnos' Articles
Other Renaissances
Ottoman Empire Broken at End of World War I
Our Historic Allies Start Dealing the US Out, to Avoid Its (Trump's) Unpredictable, Painful Acts
Our Minds Extend Beyond Our Physical Brains
Overwhelmed and Alienated by Digital, Many Return to Analog and Human Pleasures
Paper Art
Paper Folding
Paper Toys
Paramount Skydance (2025 merger)
Parkinson's Sufferers
Patients Using AI
Paul Allen Investments
Paul’s Taxonomy of (Six) Socratic Questions
Peace Accords
Pelley Protests the Destruction of 60 Minutes. They Fire Him.
People I've Met through Hodgson's Gaian League Introductions
People Who Became Nouns
Personality Types, Tests and Profiles
Photography Changed How People Perceived Events
Photography Obsoleted Realistic Painting
Pioneers
Pivot (strategic shift)
Plagiarists
Pluralistic (2020)
Political Comedies
Portland Cohousing
Portland Cozy Coffee Shops
Portland Event Spaces
Portland Handymen and Painters
Portland Home Improvement Resources
Possible Redesign of Lessons from My Brain
Pound Supported Mussolini, Became a Fascist
Power (Electrical) Grids
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Prince Harry and Meghan Will Move Back to U.K. After 6 Years in U.S. (2026)
Privacy Organizations
Prizes
Professional Associations
Professional Societies
Progeny of Autocrats Who Have Risen to Power
Protest Symbols
Protocols not Platforms
Public Service
Range Anxiety
Raw Food Movement (Foodism)
RCV's Benefits May Be Overstated
Rebuilding the World Trade Center
Recast Companies (unsuccessful)
Regretting What You Wished For
Rehabilitation
Religious Fundamentalists
Republicans Who Hate Trump and Fell in Line
Rescues
Restricting Screen Time
Retirement Plans
Revive Civic Discourse
Revolutions in Military Affairs (RMAs)
Rick's Puzzling Acronyms and Terms of Art: A Glossary
Rise in Anti-Semitism After the Third Gulf War Starts (increasingly complicated)
Risks of Replacing Books with Living Knowledge Systems
Robocar Safety
Robot Competitions
Robotic Hands
Rodri Moves to Barça (2026)
Running Techniques
Russia Is also Advancing Drone Warfare
Russia Under Putin (1999-present)
Russia's Assault on Ukraine is Now Longer Than World War I
Russian Helicopters
Sales Techniques
Scenius
Scientific Doctrines or Dogmas
Second Brains
Senior AI Folks Sound Warnings. Nobody Can Find the Brake Pedal.
Sensemaking
Serious Talk Shows
Shadow IT (circumventing your IT department)
Should All AI Generated Artifacts Be Watermarked?
Should GenAI Systems and Agents Have Kill Switches?
Silence Is Complicity
Simplify Your Life
Sketch Comedy Series
SKS's Controversial IPO (2010)
Slasher Films
Small Gestures
Smart Dogs
Social Incubators
Social Media Enables Cultural Leapfrogging
Social Protocols
Social Security's Questionable Soundness
Socially Distributed Cognition
Software for Nonprofits
Southern Baptist Convention conservative resurgence (1979)
SpaceX IPO (2026, biggest ever)
Spawn of IIWs
Specialized GenAI Processors (AI Chips)
Speech Pathologists
Speed of Information
Sports (Stadium) Anthems
Sports Talk Shows
Stock Trading Tools and Apps
Students Cheating
Stunt Drivers
Subways
Summer Camps
Summers: Do Women Have Less "Intrinsic Aptitude" for the Sciences? (sheesh!)
Surveillance Pricing
Survival Films
Swing Voters during the Trumpocalypse
T-Shaped People (Skills)
Taleb's Incerto Series
Tate Brothers Getting Some Justice
Tax Reform
Tech Curmudgeons and Skeptics
Technological Dependence
Ten Years after Brexit
Tesla Accidents
Textile Manufacturers
The 2026 Midterms Are America's Most Expensive Election Ever
The Dark Side of Science
The EU Offers Canada the First "Associate Membership" (2026)
The Five Agreements
The Four Horsemen of the Relationship Apocalypse
The Four Turnings
The Jackpot (slow moving apocalypse)
The Jim Rutt Show
The New Alt Right (2022)
The New Alt-Right’s Blueprints for Our Next Society
The O-Ring Principle
The Red Undertow? (the 2026 Midterms look increasingly grim for Republicans)
The Renaissance (1380-1620?)
The Second China Shock (2.0)
The Sublime (Substack)
Thieves
Things with Very Bad Branding
Third New Right
Thorny Math Problems
Thought Collectives (1935 Denkkollektiv)
Thought-Terminating Clichés
Three Mamdani Backed Candidates Win. Left's Rise Sparks Moderate Dems, Trump.
Three Stages of Enshittification
Throwing Pots
Timbuk2 Products
Time Magazine Covers
Tinnitus Therapies and Devices
To Curate my Brain, 50 to 60 Times a Day, I:
Trump Announces Deal Struck with Iran (many details not set, bombs still flying)
Trump Assaults the East Potomac Golf Course
Trump Decides to Paint the Bottom of the Reflecting Pool. It Goes Poorly.
Trump Has Normalized Using Offensive Words
Trump II and China Take Very Different Approaches to AI
Trump II Policies Have Hurt so Many Americans Economically
Trump II Speeches
Trump Sends DoJ after Carroll, Claiming Perjury (2026)
Trump Surrogates
Trump Wants AI Renamed Super Intelligence
Trump, Pissed at Ukraine's Success Closing Russia's Oil, Gets Angry at Zelenskyy and Cuts Diesel Deal with Putin. Starlink Limited, Too.
Types of Christianity
Types of Currency
Types of Distortion
Types of Futurism
Types of Liberalism
Types of Nationalism
Types of Torpedo
Uber Acquisitions
Ukraine Hits an Iranian Vessel, Linking the Two Wars
Ukraine Is Breaking through around Lyman (2026)
Ukraine Makes Crimea Impossible for Putin to Hold (2026)
Ukraine Slows Russia's Advances, Takes the Offensive (June 2026)
Ukraine, Iran Wars Deplete US Interceptor Missile Stocks
Underappreciated Connective Tissue
Unheeded Warnings
Unschooled (ppl who did or are)
Unschoolers (adults unschooling their kids) and Fans
US Cancels Iran's Right to Sell Oil, Sends Strikes. Iran Strikes Back. Truce Broken.
US National Debt Hits $40T (2026)
US Navy Bases
Useful B Roll Videos
Useful Starting Points for Understanding Jerry's Brain
UT on Japan
Vance Aiming for 2028
Vance as Trump's Fraud Czar
Variants of Capitalism
Variants of Communism
Violinists
Vocational Trucks
Volunteering
Wars
Ways Research Is Broken
We Don’t Really Understand Exponential Change
Web Stores Online
Western Canon
What Books Did Well
What Democrats Will Run for President in 2028?
What if Our Brains Don't Manufacture Thoughts, but rather Organize Them, as a Ladle Scoops Water from a Stream?
What Is Happening with the Russian Oligarchs after the Invasion of Ukraine?
What Is Wisdom?
What Was Saudi Arabia's Role in 9/11?
When Do Protests Work?
When Should You File for Social Security Benefits?
Where Fauci Blew It
Which Is More Powerful, Cooperation or Competition?
Whodunits?
Why Are People so Quick to Forget History?
Why Pipelines Won't Fix the Hormuz Problem
Wildfires Are Becoming Increasingly Difficult to Stop
Will GenAI Deskill Us?
Will GenAI Force Us Toward Income Guarantees?
Will GenAI Make Us Lazy?
Will Putin Attack a NATO Country?
Will Putin Attack Finland?
Will Tucker Run for President in 2028? Is He Creating a Breakaway Party?
Wine Tasting
Wise Crowds
Witnessing
Woke 1 Was Crazy!
Women Philosophers
World Trees
Writing Comes from Counting
XMind Maps
Yikes More Weblogs
Yuan's Growing Global Influence
Zen Centers