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
Topic
democracy
A collection of 18 posts
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
Big tech and Trumpism share the same ideology
It's time for tech workers to opt out and build a new industry
Soft(ware) power
A coup looks different in a world where software is power.
The Metamodern Miasma
The decline of cultural postmodernism explains the rise of global far-right populism better than any pundit.
Polling
A scientific case for being cautiously optimistic about 2024 (and yes, we still need to work hard af)
Shock and awe
The same absurd Big Promise is driving AI and crypto to the same corrupt ends
No
Hell no.
Roe
For my disaffected friends: facing this moment requires embracing conflicting paradigms.
Hyperobjects, cynicism, and the post-left
Is a new kind of politics possible?