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Project Gingerbread

I made this eight years ago and it still brings me joy. Merry Christmas!
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Why I Shut Off Comments for Millions of People

Keeping comments up on our site was a guarantee of misinformation, because with an annual editorial budget as small as ours, one shrinking each quarter, we couldn’t afford the personnel required to patrol even one day’s articles for misleading comments,…
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Silicon Valley Heads to Mar-a-Lago

When Zuckerberg visited Mar-a-Lago on the evening before Thanksgiving, he and other guests reportedly stood with hands over hearts while listening to a recording of the national anthem sung by people accused of January 6–related crimes. Whether Zuckerberg knew who the singers…
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The Dangerous Ideas of “Longtermism” and “Existential Risk”

By reducing morality to an abstract numbers game, and by declaring that what’s most important is fulfilling “our potential” by becoming simulated posthumans among the stars, longtermists not only trivialize past atrocities like WWII (and the Holocaust) but give themselves a “moral excuse”…
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Standard Ebooks

Standard Ebooks is a volunteer-driven project that produces new editions of public domain ebooks that are lovingly formatted, open source, free of U.S. copyright restrictions, and free of cost. Ebook projects like Project Gutenberg transcribe ebooks and make them available for the…
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Why Billionaires Obey in Advance

The Trump administration is being actively taught right now that it can expect the full cooperation of the leaders of industry. Why are they offering themselves without being asked? Because that’s what they’re trained for. The myth of the moral…
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Project Gingerbread

Why I Shut Off Comments for Millions of People

Silicon Valley Heads to Mar-a-Lago

The Dangerous Ideas of “Longtermism” and “Existential Risk”

Standard Ebooks

Why Billionaires Obey in Advance

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