"People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character" - Ralph Waldo Emerson— Patricia Mou (@patriciamou_) October 30, 2026
2026 Competitive and Complementary Tools — DAVID C. KRAKAUER
Everything in public life has already ceased to be narrative and no longer follows a thread, but instead spreads out as an infinitely interwoven surface. —Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities, Chap. 122, “Going Home”
The Retweeting Class
I have often found myself confounded by the behaviour of some people who seem impervious to reality — like the people still on X today. Here, I try to understand what grounds their epistemology and its consequences, and what that means for the rest of us. Being committed to a better future is where genuine seriousness is, and that seriousness can only be approached in a spirit of embodied, determined, relentless hope.
A Wild chat with Sarah Stein Lubrano on getting people to change
How do we change people’s minds about what’s happening to the world...before it's too late?
Laura Matsue on Twitter / X
The most radical thing you can do to rebel against this emerging post-literate, brain-slop-world we are entering is read long, complicated books on a daily basis. The ability to pay attention for long periods will be one of the most valuable and rare skills of the future.— Laura Matsue (@lauramatsue) October 18, 2026
QC on Twitter / X
sol (i think) on shakespeare, from another tweet, casually tosses off this line:> most writers, even gigantic ones, eventually reveal what they need the world to be like pic.twitter.com/LNbmHXZ14d— QC (@QiaochuYuan) August 12, 2026
Science rightly impinges on Virtue Ethics
Iris Murdoch, C. P. Snow, Alasdair MacIntyre, and the role of Truth
Annick de Witt on Worldview Theory in a Time Between Worlds
Join us for the Life Itself Research Community Call#33. Annick de Witt discusses how her research on worldviews helps us respond to our current period of global societal transition.
Sayaka Murata’s Alien Eye
The author of “Convenience Store Woman” has gained a cult following by seeing the ordinary world as science fiction.
Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about this 2015 observatio...
Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about this 2015 observation on Tumblr about the dangerous conflation of respect of personhood and the respect of authority.
A Solarpunk Manifesto
William Joseph Gillam A Solarpunk Manifesto Turning Imaginary into Reality 10 August 2023
Nellie Bowles’s Failed Provocations
In “Morning After the Revolution,” the former New York Times reporter sets out to uncover a not-so-forbidden truth—that the left can be somewhat goofy.
Elena Rossini 🌈 (@_elena@mastodon.social)
🚨 New post alert 📝 A deep dive into #WSocial with some fascinating findings: candid statements about their motives, a Greta Thunberg connection, potential AI plans (!!!) Why write about it again? I still had so many questions after publishing my first article. I spent 3 weeks watching every interview I could find and connecting the dots. I hope you'll enjoy this piece: 🔗 : https://blog.elenarossini.com/the-untold-story-about-w-social-unconventional-beginnings-strategic-pitches-conflicting-signals/ #blog #longread #privacy #DataMining #Europe
Iain McGilchrist – Rediscovering Wisdom in a World Gone Mad
Helena Norberg-Hodge talks to Iain McGilchrist, a one-of-a-kind thinker, Oxford literary scholar, and doctor in psychiatry and neuroscience.
Andy Matuschak on Twitter / X
We might become grey goo, but before that, what about our spirits? "The world it envisions for all of us is small, flat, grey, leveled of all exception… a world without heroes or glory… without myths, without men who rise above the rest…"That quote is from a Marco Rubio…— Andy Matuschak (@andy_matuschak) September 9, 2026