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A new coffee shop just opened around the corner from me.

To my surprise and delight, the Supreme Court's disastrous Callais decision seems to stiffened the spines of Democrats when it comes to getting on board for real (lowercase-d) democratic reforms.

Over the last 10 years, I've baked somewhere between 500 and 1,000 loaves of sourdough bread.

I (re-re-)started this newsletter/blog on November 11, 2024, a few days after Trump was elected for a second term, and a year to the day before my son was born, with a post examining how poorly leftist cultural practice performs in what I called the "meta…

On Monday at 12:30pm Eastern, I'm moderating a virtual panel with the Journalist's Resource on what I'm roughly calling the "media theory" of open science as part of my Shorenstein Center Fellowship at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Lately, I've been trying to spend more time doing nothing.

Buried in a Brad DeLong readout of a recent Substack party in San Francisco (thanks to my dad for sending it my way) are the following three bullet points which may be of interest to academic publishing folks: Workers for SubStack are very curious about a…

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Fellow tech workers, let’s be honest with ourselves: our labor has been used to destroy society for the benefit of a few very rich men.

In my experience, the most effective criticism comes from a place of practical understanding of the subject matter.

I know the last few weeks have been full of news, but I cannot for the life of me figure out why this scandal hasn’t broken through.

There’s a longer analysis to do here, but I’ve been looking into the gap between the breathless coverage of studies purporting to show huge productivity gains from adopting generative AI in the workplace and the increasing number of reports showing busine…

The ongoing trade war is objectively hilarious.

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