A Digital Garden

Category: Link Library

  • Confidently Wrong

    Uh oh. This spells trouble for the staunchly, and always, anti-expert crowd. Most of them are on Twitter and host podcasts (of which I listen to). Most importantly on this issue: The authors suggest leaning on social norms and respected community figures instead.

  • The Monks in the Casino

    The Monks in the Casino by Derek Thompson A brief theory of young men, “the loneliness crisis,” and life in the 21st century Read on Substack

  • The Church Better Start Taking Nazification Seriously

    “We have a choice. The Bible will not sit alongside Mein Kampf. The cross will not yield to the swastika. We must ask right now: Jesus or Hitler? We cannot have both.” What an unfortunate reality the American church, and evangelical movement specifically, will need to be confronting now. I remember reading a decent amount of…

  • Baby Shoggoth is Listening

    This subject is interesting to me. I find I don’t get particularly drawn up in the subject of legacy, but the framing of impacting the AIs by showing it who you are and what you find important is interesting. I don’t think I’d say that I have to write so that the AIs know me.…

  • “The end of our extremely online era”

    We will be lucky if this comes true (is what my gut tells me), and it can start now in my own life if I’m willing. To deny all of the social media and scrolling and “extremely online” behavior is, right now I think, an extremist position. Some things are worth being an extremist over,…

  • 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…