Maia
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you will own everything and be unhappy
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New Substack post: what does our modern obsession with work say about us?
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This elitist view that only rich/Ivy/private school kids should study/have access the liberal arts is so deeply ingrained in so many highly educated Democrats’ views (including tons who majored in the lib arts themselves) that they don’t even realize they hold it, let alone how ugly & elitist it is
(3) But the Democrat view is also bad: while it's fine for people at Princeton and Harvard to study Latin and Sanskrit, public higher education is about job training and $ ROI. There is no room for the idea that curiosity-driven inquiry is a good that should be supported by the public.
February 13, 2026 at 3:54 PM
This elitist view that only rich/Ivy/private school kids should study/have access the liberal arts is so deeply ingrained in so many highly educated Democrats’ views (including tons who majored in the lib arts themselves) that they don’t even realize they hold it, let alone how ugly & elitist it is
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"At the core of both books is a portrait of Habermas as a philosopher whose traumatizing experiences forged a strange beast: an ultra bookish and still ultra worldly thinker. This remains true of him no matter how many volumes he produces on Christian scholasticism."
Also a Review of Habermas
Is Habermas a titan of recent philosophy or a stodgy academic lacking a burning political vision?
www.liberalcurrents.com
February 13, 2026 at 7:53 PM
"At the core of both books is a portrait of Habermas as a philosopher whose traumatizing experiences forged a strange beast: an ultra bookish and still ultra worldly thinker. This remains true of him no matter how many volumes he produces on Christian scholasticism."
i think post-literacy is sounding better and better
February 13, 2026 at 7:55 PM
i think post-literacy is sounding better and better
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I, too, owned a copy of Dorling Kindersley's 'Star Wars Incredible Cross-sections' showing you the inside of every ship, but *even then* I knew that the other kids who liked Star Wars did not want to hear about it.
Din Djarin acquires “the same model” of Razor Crest in THE MANDALORIAN AND GROGU as he had previously, confirms Jon Favreau.
“He's in a Razor Crest now, which is the ship that he originally had. He's in the same model of ship.”
(Source: www.polygon.com/mandalorian-...)
“He's in a Razor Crest now, which is the ship that he originally had. He's in the same model of ship.”
(Source: www.polygon.com/mandalorian-...)
February 13, 2026 at 7:07 PM
I, too, owned a copy of Dorling Kindersley's 'Star Wars Incredible Cross-sections' showing you the inside of every ship, but *even then* I knew that the other kids who liked Star Wars did not want to hear about it.
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he is a senior developer for candy crush
who is this person btw. does he work for the DOD or something? presumably?
February 12, 2026 at 5:01 AM
he is a senior developer for candy crush
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they fired the OpenAI product policy VP for "sexually discriminating against a male colleague" after she opposed reorienting the product towards porn. having seen precision/recall numbers for large production abuse systems you do not want to tune for precision.
February 12, 2026 at 7:40 AM
they fired the OpenAI product policy VP for "sexually discriminating against a male colleague" after she opposed reorienting the product towards porn. having seen precision/recall numbers for large production abuse systems you do not want to tune for precision.
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this website is a machine for surfacing extremely rarefied internecine beef from toxic friend groups and you need to be able to recognize when it's happening and avert your gaze
February 13, 2026 at 5:13 AM
this website is a machine for surfacing extremely rarefied internecine beef from toxic friend groups and you need to be able to recognize when it's happening and avert your gaze
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there's a lot of talk about how the US has permanently destroyed its position in the world and while I do think it's done some real damage I also think we underestimate how readily a lot of former allies will be willing to rekindle a relationship if we replace this regime
AOC: "I think we have to recognize that we are in a new day and in a new time. But that does not mean that the majority of Americans are ready to walk away from a rules-based order, and that we're ready to walk away from our commitment to democracy."
February 13, 2026 at 5:53 PM
there's a lot of talk about how the US has permanently destroyed its position in the world and while I do think it's done some real damage I also think we underestimate how readily a lot of former allies will be willing to rekindle a relationship if we replace this regime
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Well, @brankomilan.bsky.social’s insomnia has produced a positive externality for the rest of us (undoubtedly with net positive benefit!)—a taxonomy of economists working on inequality and redistribution, neatly captured in a diagram by @rszarfenberg.bsky.social:
buff.ly/BQVW7BF
buff.ly/BQVW7BF
February 13, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Well, @brankomilan.bsky.social’s insomnia has produced a positive externality for the rest of us (undoubtedly with net positive benefit!)—a taxonomy of economists working on inequality and redistribution, neatly captured in a diagram by @rszarfenberg.bsky.social:
buff.ly/BQVW7BF
buff.ly/BQVW7BF
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"i would like you to kill your best feature that people love because it is too good"
tiktok is apparently china doing tech capitalism so good that every western country renounces capitalism as a concept
tiktok is apparently china doing tech capitalism so good that every western country renounces capitalism as a concept
The EU told TikTok to “change several key features, including disabling infinite scrolling, setting strict screen time breaks and changing its recommender systems. The demand follows the Commission's declaration that TikTok’s design is addictive to users.”
Now do the same for the US services!
Now do the same for the US services!
The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling
Brussels is going head-to-head with social media platforms to change addictive design.
www.politico.eu
February 13, 2026 at 5:51 PM
"i would like you to kill your best feature that people love because it is too good"
tiktok is apparently china doing tech capitalism so good that every western country renounces capitalism as a concept
tiktok is apparently china doing tech capitalism so good that every western country renounces capitalism as a concept
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I feel this way about pretty much all vaccine-preventable infectious diseases. You shouldn't be allowed to dump cyanide into municipal drinking water and you shouldn't be allowed to recreationally spread viruses around shared public spaces.
My most authoritarian opinion is that the MMR vaccine should be mandatory, with only medical (not religious or floofy) exemptions allowed. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
This Is How a Child Dies of Measles
When your family becomes a data point in an outbreak
www.theatlantic.com
February 13, 2026 at 5:09 PM
I feel this way about pretty much all vaccine-preventable infectious diseases. You shouldn't be allowed to dump cyanide into municipal drinking water and you shouldn't be allowed to recreationally spread viruses around shared public spaces.
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it's not the worst thing AI is doing but: i love cat videos so much and it's so annoying that people are posting ai cat videos now
February 13, 2026 at 5:44 PM
it's not the worst thing AI is doing but: i love cat videos so much and it's so annoying that people are posting ai cat videos now
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Eliminating gender studies courses helps to ensure that universities and other institutions will continue to protect men who benefit from the abuse of women and girls, either directly or through their connections to those who exploit girls and women for profit.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why | Joan Wallach Scott
Texas A&M University is the latest school to end women’s and gender studies programs and teaching race. We know why
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Eliminating gender studies courses helps to ensure that universities and other institutions will continue to protect men who benefit from the abuse of women and girls, either directly or through their connections to those who exploit girls and women for profit.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
he's both
"Any assessment of Habermas’s legacy is going to be complex. To some, Habermas is the greatest philosopher of our time. (. . .)For others, Habermas is the court philosopher of the German center-left SPD, or perhaps at most the EU." www.liberalcurrents.com/also-a-revie...
Also a Review of Habermas
Is Habermas a titan of recent philosophy or a stodgy academic lacking a burning political vision?
www.liberalcurrents.com
February 13, 2026 at 7:06 PM
he's both
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I keep forgetting that Habermas is still alive
"Any assessment of Habermas’s legacy is going to be complex. To some, Habermas is the greatest philosopher of our time. (. . .)For others, Habermas is the court philosopher of the German center-left SPD, or perhaps at most the EU." www.liberalcurrents.com/also-a-revie...
Also a Review of Habermas
Is Habermas a titan of recent philosophy or a stodgy academic lacking a burning political vision?
www.liberalcurrents.com
February 13, 2026 at 4:10 PM
I keep forgetting that Habermas is still alive
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just remembered that recently out of the blue my 7-year-old asked “dad, what was the collapse of the soviet union?”
February 13, 2026 at 4:19 PM
just remembered that recently out of the blue my 7-year-old asked “dad, what was the collapse of the soviet union?”
#1 is taylor swift the fate of ophelia salsa picante version
‘DéBI TíRAR MáS FOToS’ by Bad Bunny reaches a new peak of #2 on the UK Albums Chart.
It becomes his first top 10 album.
It becomes his first top 10 album.
February 13, 2026 at 7:03 PM
#1 is taylor swift the fate of ophelia salsa picante version
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An essential part of the term “blood libel” is that it was an accusation made against Jews with no proof or evidence. Those accusing the state of Israel of committing genocide have marshaled extensive evidence. It demeans the term “blood libel” to compare them.
February 13, 2026 at 6:44 PM
An essential part of the term “blood libel” is that it was an accusation made against Jews with no proof or evidence. Those accusing the state of Israel of committing genocide have marshaled extensive evidence. It demeans the term “blood libel” to compare them.
the great depression originally refered to the global crisis of 1873!
Under appreciated factor is the Panic of 1873. If the Republicans had had a more successful domestic economy they might have been able to maintain reconstruction
We killed a quarter of the South’s male population and reduced it to the brink of famine.
It wasn’t a lack of ruthless violence that caused us to fail at Reconstruction later on (we crushed the Klan). It was just plain old exhaustion from war and an economic depression.
It wasn’t a lack of ruthless violence that caused us to fail at Reconstruction later on (we crushed the Klan). It was just plain old exhaustion from war and an economic depression.
February 13, 2026 at 5:36 PM
the great depression originally refered to the global crisis of 1873!
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Central bankers aren’t getting along
R-Star Wars: Age of Rebellion
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February 13, 2026 at 1:20 PM
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Where do parents find the time to parent? Less sleep, work and screens.
Amazing chart feat. in @alphaville.ft.com Further Reading.
homeeconomics.substack.com/p/where-do-p...
Amazing chart feat. in @alphaville.ft.com Further Reading.
homeeconomics.substack.com/p/where-do-p...
February 13, 2026 at 8:11 AM
Where do parents find the time to parent? Less sleep, work and screens.
Amazing chart feat. in @alphaville.ft.com Further Reading.
homeeconomics.substack.com/p/where-do-p...
Amazing chart feat. in @alphaville.ft.com Further Reading.
homeeconomics.substack.com/p/where-do-p...
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In the Dune universe, only the Butlerian Jihad was able to eliminate infinite scrolling
The EU told TikTok to “change several key features, including disabling infinite scrolling, setting strict screen time breaks and changing its recommender systems. The demand follows the Commission's declaration that TikTok’s design is addictive to users.”
Now do the same for the US services!
Now do the same for the US services!
The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling
Brussels is going head-to-head with social media platforms to change addictive design.
www.politico.eu
February 13, 2026 at 8:38 AM
In the Dune universe, only the Butlerian Jihad was able to eliminate infinite scrolling