A Digital Garden

Category: Link Library

  • Living without a phone for 30 days

    Well, now I want to try this:

  • Anomie

    Back in the days of yore, if you did not manage to get a job at Google in 2005 you could still buy its stock. You had at least the option of gaining from its appreciation assuming you thought it inevitable. Over the last decade and a half there have been multiple generations who succeeded…

  • When do you know if it’s over?

    Trump threatens withholding federal funding if Zohran Mamdani wins the NYC mayoral election. Truly insane, though very normal, behavior at this point. I just don’t see how this sort of Central Planning and authoritarianism doesn’t stop now that it’s started. When I say over, I do think that this experiment, or this chapter of the…

  • Good news out of Mississippi!

    “And everybody knows about Mississippi goddam”– Nina Simone A massive surge in children’s literacy in my home state! Perhaps more noticeable than how exciting that is is how grim the numbers look in other states: 41% of public school 4th graders in California cannot read at a basic level. Not good. This good news doesn’t travel far and…

  • The dawn of the post literate society

    This blog had me agreeing on the surface throughout but after finishing it I was skeptical of a theory this grand. The data is all there and again, very agreeable as you read it. But, you check in with yourself after and you go, ‘who do I know that is like this?’ and the answer…

  • Welcome to The Continental. We Do Hope You Enjoy Your Stay.

    But there is a way to live. We live as humans with an autonomy of mind. We step back in order to see the semantic system as puppeteer. And from that vantage point of critical distance, we reapply our disbelief to ALL constructed worlds of declared reality, no matter how appealing to our internal dialogs,…

  • An instagram account that makes me laugh

    This account really makes me laugh. It’s also brilliantly creative. It’s sort of unfortunate that you can’t *just* write music and share it with the world if you want attention. You have to get creative and this is a particularly special piece of creativity. Just want more stuff that makes me laugh.

  • This is the Great Ravine

    You are forced to respond in kind if the other side escalates the nar​rative attacks, like using mustard gas in World War I, until eventually the entire game breaks because the anger you’ve created can’t be contained by the rules of the game. And that’s when you are well and truly in the Great Ravine.…

  • Trump Seizes the Means of Production at Intel

    From Tyler Cowen in The Free Press. If you are a major CEO, the message could not be clearer: Tread very, very carefully. Think again before you criticize this president or this White House. And The sad reality is that we are marching down a very dangerous road, the discourse surrounding the issue is an…

  • AI and the Detection of Gravity Waves

    “It takes a lot to think this far outside of the accepted solution,” Adhikari said. “We really needed the AI.” From a Wired article via an Alex Tabarrok summary. Really incredible stuff. Move 37 by AlphaGO might still be the most impressive thing to me in AI and this is now there with it. Not…