I did a little poll asking people the extent to which they are treating the current zeitgeist as a temporary weirding (TW) versus a permanent new normal (NN).…
Weirding Diary: 10
It is now clear that the intellectual class has been caught entirely flat-footed on the wrong side of the Great Weirding in the US. Almost all discourses at…
Weirding Diary: 3
A sense of weirdness in the environment can be understood as unfactored reality. A blooming, buzzing confusion of sensory input that impinges on awareness…
ZEIT is now Vercel
Today, we have some very special news regarding the evolution of our company.
Weirding Diary: 6
Weirding is related to uncanniness, as in uncanny valley: a near-subconscious sense of map-territory misregistration. I think there are two varieties, A and B.…
Editor's Notes: Reactionaries Are Not Fun Weirdos
One wonders why Richard Hanania has gotten so much attention.
Weirding Diary: 11
We're barely seven weeks into 2020, and it's already the weirdest year in my living memory. We've been through: Australia on fire, a near-war between the US…
Progressive Enhancement: Zed’s Dead, Baby
I've got bad news: Progressive enhancement is dead, baby. It's dead. At least for the majority of web developers.
If you want to debate the Googler’s Manifesto and you’re also a good person
Of course you should be able to share your doubts and concerns. When something seems weird it’s important to talk about it and
Weirding Diary: 7
The lament that the United States is turning into a third-world country is at once too pessimistic and too optimistic. What is actually happening is that a…
Ravid Shwartz Ziv on Twitter / X
The problem with Anthropic's consciousness paperMy last post got more attention than I expected, and the question I keep getting is some version of "okay, so what is actually wrong with the paper?". Let me try to explain.First, the core result is fine. Reading out…— Ravid Shwartz Ziv (@ziv_ravid) July 7, 2026
Daily(ish) | Blogging is back?
In today's episode of Dailyish, I share how a family conversation about social media led me to rediscover my late father-in-law's travel blog and a link to my sister-in-law's old blog, reminding me...
What Made Blogging Different?
Whether I like it or not, the first line of my obituary...
