Recent Posts by austin:
- A Year After His Passing, We Still Sugrue Posting Out Here.
A year ago today the world lost a great teacher with a great mind. It’s been a year since the death of Dr Michael Sugrue. Sugrue was an exceptional thinker and teacher, who experienced an unexpected celebrity in his final years, while undergoing treatment for the prostate cancer that would, on this day one year […]
- Zuckerberg is Right to Ditch the Fact Checkers.
Attempts at top down information control are counterproductive. After eight years (perhaps better counted as two US electoral cycles) of partnering with fact checkers, Meta is making major changes to the way it handles misinformation and other harmful content on its platforms, Facebook, Instagram and Threads. Meta will, according to CEO Mark Zuckerberg: A lot […]
- Metamodernism as the Higher Naivety.
The emerging ideology is more than just an oscillation between credulity and cynicism. Introduction Our universe seems to be neither maximally simple, nor maximally complicated. There’ s some regularity, but it’s not completely logically trivial. It’s not like every little particle follows its own set of laws, but it’s also not like we can reduce […]