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…
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.…
Weirding Diary: 1
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: 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…
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…
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Weirding Diary: 4
The Things Fall Apart series on Epsilon Theory is an excellent exploration of the Great Weirding, particularly the "As Above, So Below" principle: “As Above,…
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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
Why are rich people so weird?
From Business Insider lady to money diarists, the strangest humans on the planet keep telling us about their days.
The Telegraph school for junior contrarians
Listen carefully and you'll hear a new set of controversialist columnists starting to hatch.
UNLOCKED: A Bad History of What Happened Five Years Ago
Faulty reporting, overdetermined analysis, and foregone conclusions mark the latest plea for liberality in American politics and public discourse.
Lost civilisations make good TV, but archaeology’s real stories hold far more wonder | Flint Dibble
I took on a pseudoscientist because misinformation about history too often goes unchallenged
