The destruction of the libraries
Is Amazon shredding rare books to feed AI?
Scriptorium Philosophia
Thoughts on philosophy, reasoning, knowledge, academia, and occasionally bookbinding.
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Toddler politics
If you stop loving things, they go away
The man who sold the Eiffel Tower
Arday, con artists, and knowledge
AI and the aesthetics of imperfection
Augmentation is not replacement
My dog would be a better president than Trump
Prove me wrong
Points of view and viewpoint diversity
Annealing, relativism, monocultures and more!
Gas-station croissants and Japanese toilets
Why can’t we have nice things?
We should all be patriots
Happy semiquincentennial, America
Metacompetence as a masculine virtue
LastBlueDog recently wrote a fine piece called “Progressives Don’t Understand Masculinity.” Mostly political issues repulse me on a deep, lizard-brain level, but it is hard to not notice that men struggle in America, progressives don’t know how to reach them, and maybe those things are worth thinking about.
Nietzsche on master and slave morality
An explainer
An objective rating of some surgeries I did not enjoy
A consumer’s guide to getting cut open