reporting from the outskirts of the Empire
Easy Answers, from Real Life mag: “(…) doctors’ ability to easily look up medical information causes overconfidence that leads to misdiagnoses. “Self-questioning,” the authors write, “morphs from ‘What do I … Continue reading Linkstorm XI
Thought-provoking article by Counter-engineer, Starships of future past: “(…) Here’s the thing: we couldn’t get this starship in the air and then figure out how to make it run well, … Continue reading Linkstorm X
Fantastic article by Geoff Shullenberger at “Outside Theory”: “(…) Metamodernism, as it was originally defined, embodied a search for earnest, even naïve, conviction amidst the fragmented cultural sphere of mediatized … Continue reading Linkstorm IX
A new public post by Moldbug: (…) Protocol transparency means banning secret Internet protocols, at least for monopolies. Governments can tame the platform dragons—tame, not slay, though they will squeal … Continue reading Linkstorm VIII
From J. Simpkin’s new installment of his Necro-Ethics series on drone warfare: “(…) with the advent of the drone the temptations of a technological fix raised its head once more. … Continue reading Linkstorm VII
Some funny mathematical jokes on Big Game Hunting: “(…) We place a spherical cage in the desert, enter it, and lock it. We perform an inversion with respect to the … Continue reading Linkstorm VI
Geoff Shullenberger’s new article for The New Atlantis, on predictions for the election: “(…) When reality and a model of that reality appear to be mismatched, in other words, we … Continue reading Linkstorm V
How Big Tech seduced the Left, by Geoff Shullenberger: “(…) Information technology does not enable either freedom or control: it facilitates both at once. Because they did not recognise this … Continue reading Linkstorm IV
On Internet Topology: “(…) The internet as territory is more similar to multidimensional foam than it is to the plane. This has profound implications for those institutions that transfer or … Continue reading Linkstorm III
