Ludic

He is right. Even all the liberals chanting “Death to America” who firmly side with Hamas terrorists will miss Pax Americana and the liberal global order that rode on its back when that stability and peace is gone.

It’s going to be a wild few decades. That said, all orders collapse eventually. All systems have built-in frailties and weaknesses. The post-WWII arrangement is no different. It lasted longer than it likely should have after the end of the Cold War.

Rarely, though, has a system imploded in such a preventable and ludicrously tragicomic manner.

Lean Incel

I could never be an incel, but I definitely understand how you could get that way; most of what most men — especially average men — experience from women is coldness and casual cruelty.

I know the “reasons” women have for being this way, of course. But it doesn’t make it less psychologically damaging to experience.

With the decline of third spaces where women and men could hang out with no expectations and pressure, this was nearly destined to occur.

Waiting for Liberal Democracy in the American South. Our country’s constitutional order is withering before us. In the states of the former Confederacy, democracy never fully flourished.

In math and computer science, researchers have long understood that some questions are fundamentally unanswerable. Now physicists are exploring how even ordinary physical systems put hard limits on what we can predict, even in principle. All y’all motherfuckers need to read Nancy Cartwright, damn.

No, Phil Spencer, Having AI Mock Up An Old Game Is Not The Same As Preserving It. What a dumbass.

The Uberization Of Nursing Sees The Usual Problems For Gig Workers, But Here Comes ‘Uber For Armed Guards’ Anyway.

Kill your Feeds – Stop letting algorithms dictate how you think.

22,000-Year-Old Footprints Reveal the Earliest Evidence of Human Transport Technology.

How a son spent a year trying to save his father from conspiracy theories.