A big tech election
Before the spin starts, a reminder that last night's results were a rebuke of much more than just Trump
Gabriel Stein
Searching for meaning in the twilight of the neoliberal order
A personal journey in four acts.
Your local coffee shop probably has AI brain
We can't make meaning from everything in the universe
Messaging Reform
The emerging democratic reform agenda is great to see, and lacking the critical component that could make it the start of a new American politics
Welcome to the age of industrial code
An industry of artisans tries to brute force its way into running factories
Plugging back out
Reclaiming agency in our mediatized world requires giving some up
Monday: why we need a new "media theory" for open science
Join me Monday at 12:30pm Eastern for a virtual panel on how open academic publishing can help rebuild trust in research
Your phone or your freedom?
Logging off as resistance
Substack is probably not going to solve academic publishing
But there are other ways platforms committed to rationality can help, if they’re willing to work with open science activists
I am going to try to write more (and I need your help)
Plus: new threads on "vibe productivity," trust in open science, and updating our cognitive models of bureaucracy for authoritarian times