Who Speaks for a Culture?
It’s their culture” isn’t an argument. It’s a change of subject — from a practice to a people, and from a disagreement to a consensus that doesn’t exist
PhilosophyA collection of 17 posts
Lonely for the Wrong Reason
The manosphere is closer to right about the feeling than its critics admit, and much further from right about the cause than its followers ever check.
The Alpha Male Myth
The ‘alpha male’ is borrowed from a debunked wolf study its own author disowned — and it gets the cause of attraction backwards. Here’s why having genuine passions, not performing dominance, is what actually works.
A Billion Is Not Just a Big Million
Our intuitions quietly give up somewhere past a few thousand. Here is what a billion actually looks like.
AI is not foolproof either.
Nine years ago, I wrote that search engines look for relevance, not truth. The box answers you directly now, and the problem didn’t go away — it got quieter.
The Line We Can’t Draw: The Orphan and the Pig
We already refuse to farm our most vulnerable. Consistency asks us to mean it.
The Problems That Lose By Default
Water infrastructure has no news cycle. That is the whole problem.