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Measuring authoritarianism; 1950's Ireland was what Project 2025 wants the USA to be
bonus: growing up in a semi-authoritarian, very conformist society
Aug 29
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How Great Storytelling Lingers in the Mind
Shirley Jackson's ominous foreboding; thought stickiness; living rent-free in your head; Amanita phalloides, the death-cup mushroom; introspection…
Aug 23
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Our all-too-human metabolism; Hunger and the weight-loss drugs; Riots, violence, aggression; Movement is medicine
some bundles of previous interesting pieces
Aug 19
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Interesting reads, August 2024 edition
August books, Hans Eysenck & scientific fraud; More LLM Scepticism; Useless tech; ‘Life histories are not just fast or slow’; William Calley; Galway…
Aug 12
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Authoritarians and authoritarianism (part 1)
There's a lot of it about
Aug 5
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July 2024
Patrick MacGill, the 'navvy poet'
Summer schools can be amazing things
Jul 26
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Elections allow national conversation resets
demon hordes and election denialism
Jul 8
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Cognitive strain
Floridly, but badly, written instructions and laws (and the impossibility of originalism); cognitive load theory; Steve Jobs and functional…
Jul 2
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June 2024
Interesting reads, June 2024 edition
Scientific ethics; Brilliantly dispiriting Rory Stewart; Brilliant Simenon; Trust in institutions; Talking Heads and Institutions; New York Times fail
Jun 26
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The pope and the tooth fairy
Two types of conversation
Jun 12
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May 2024
'Let's have three meetings at the same time to discuss it...' ('No, let's not, thanks')
Cognitive shredding courtesy of our tech overlords
May 30
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Conversations and protest #3
Overton window is a model not a mechanism; Deep canvassing; Leveraging the science of conversation to create more effective protest messaging; and much…
May 29
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