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Hasan Piker is bad for the Democrats
Republicans embraced extremist ideology and it backfired on them. Democrats shouldn't follow suit.
The Monthly Salon: April
Talk about anything you like
What I learned this week - Pretraining parallelisms, Can distillation be stopped, Mythos and the cybersecurity equilibrium, Pipeline RL, On why pretraining runs fails
April 15, 2025
It’s not “bad marketing” from A.I. companies
Plus progressive mayors, Vice President Henry Clay, and how Trump could be impeached
MAGA Maoism
The Cultural Revolution and The Culture War
20 Ideas to Grow New Communities
Urbanism, art, sex, dating, religion, incentives, monuments, influencers, and more
🍿 Netflix: Life After Warner
The growth story shifts to ads and pricing power
Don’t Let Big Tech Hide Behind a Rainbow Flag
Lennon Torres on why social media regulation is a prerequisite for LGBTQ safety.
The profoundly weird race for Rookie of the Year
Dramatic late twists, stats versus vibes — and another test of what prediction markets really measure.
Wawer: How Polish Punks Sabotaged Nazi Occupiers
History has so much to teach us.
Lies, Damned Lies and Economic Vibes
The continuing mystery of feel-bad economics
Moonshot
Boldly going farther
My AI thinks Civics is Black Studies
Is there really a civics-sized hole in university curricula?
The Cathedral & the Ceiling: Coordination Technologies & Conservative Art
Applied Biofoundationalism: creative temperaments, fascist aesthetics, selective redpills, and the Blank Slate
The Republicans Seem Frantic
A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.
Morning Briefing (A Bone Angel Extra)
Meanwhile, back at the Directorate . . .
Point of View (3)
Concluding the manifesto exercise with a bold visual.
Fascist Aesthetics: Recruit. Extract. Discard. A History.
Research for The Cathedral & the Ceiling. Order can rent chaos but never owns it.
Should Pope Leo speak into politics?
Pope Leo’s tête-à-tête with President Donald Trump
Getting students help for dyslexia is far from solved
New laws, public awareness, teacher training—how much has really changed for students with dyslexia?
Podcast for April 17, 2026: Albemarle Supervisors find an additional $2 million for housing fund in FY2027 and four other stories
Listen now | Another sonic edition of the newsletter
The Moon Road Monthly (March 2026)
Your monthly roundup of happenings on Black Moon Journal.
Playing baseball like it’s 1864
No gloves, no steroids, no optimization
The Moon Road Monthly (February 2026)
A monthly roundup of what's happening on Black Moon Journal.
Dario Amodei — Machines of Loving Grace
How AI Could Transform the World for the Better
The Hunt for Lilywhite (Episode 33)
In which Lilywhite's moment comes round at last.
The Hunt for Lilywhite (Episode 34)
In which our heroes hit the road.
The Hunt for Lilywhite (Episode 35)
In which truths emerge about magic, love and the job of killing.
The Hunt for Lilywhite (Episode 36)
In which we learn that more is not always better.
The Hunt for Lilywhite (Episode 37)
In which we encounter gods, gore and magic.
The Hunt for Lilywhite (Episode 38)
In which we reach the end of the hunt.
And Augustine Wept
The Pope rightly calls out the objective moral evil of this indefensible, immoral war.
No Free Lunch (A Bone Angel Extra)
Starring Special Directorate Agent Claudia Merrin.
The 2026 Feed Me Bridal Survey.
"Answering these questions made me grateful I got married before social media took over our lives."
Silverwood Stories
A new home for historical dark fantasy fiction.
It's not Arne Slot's fault. He still has to go.
He's not the manager Liverpool need right now
Why Claude Cowork breaks before the work even starts
The repair kit for workspace failures, VM issues, network conflicts, and other problems most users still mistake for bad prompting.
請坐: Big Red Stool
take a seat
The Wall
by Emmett Rensin
A brief history of techno-negativity
From the techne pessimists of Ancient Greece to the computer firebombers of the Information Age, here's a look at the long—and fruitful—legacy of refusing the machine.
Permanence is an undervalued asset
How a Great House was built through debt, continuity, and compounding social capital
Disappointed of Our Appointments
Avoiding the false expectations that frustrate us
#110. “Extended Childhood Disorder”: An Alternative Way of Understanding Teen Suffering
The problem is not in teens, but in the social constraints on teens.
Democrats File 25th Amendment Bill to Finally Get Rid of Trump
For years, Donald Trump’s clearly declining mental state was only something that the most Anti-Trump Democrats on Twitter would be willing to talk about.
Today on Lawfare: April 17, 2026
From Lawfare's Editorial Team.
Claude Routines and Managed Agents + Opus-4.7 = Magic
I'm breaking down the latest game-changing Anthropic releases, plus getting you caught up on what mattered in AI this week
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew me a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7
Plus join us at PyCon US 2026 in Long Beach - we have new AI and security tracks this year
Shipping on accuracy alone is how AI products silently fail.
False positives and false negatives are hiding inside your 90% score. Here's how to find them.
Magic on the Moon Road
Plus, notes on building magical systems.
Jensen's Puzzling Logic
In an interview this week, the Nvidia CEO couldn’t directly articulate his company’s position on two core issues. What happened?