It’s ok. I won’t be around to see the outcome of any of it.

For real

What is the point of fucking anything

While there isn’t really a straightforward understanding of the process of deradicalization, I don’t think a single person who is serious about preventing hate and violent extremism believes that debating people plays a role in it

I don’t want anything to do with the world

I don’t really feel good about any of the various projects that look like, “Try to fix something horrible that somebody else caused.” That is not giving me life or joy!

It’s the book cover equivalent of a Target Live Laugh Love decorative wall hanging

I think they would have all folded on Jan 7 in that case and we'd be in a much worse situation by now

So it's more like an unholy relic kind of situation

The last thing we need is a parasocial cult forming around the idea of trying to murder a random person for not accidentally dying a decade ago

Y’all…it’s really very important to make sure you don’t believe that the humans you don’t like, or don’t know, deserve fewer human rights. I know you THINK you don’t believe that, but I’d check in and make sure. Sometimes, we surprise ourselves.

Tired: Flocking behavior as model of collective intelligence

Wired: Flouncing behavior as model of collective intelligence

I do not think that libraries are artificially intelligent. I was poking fun at the idea that “doing large scale computation over giant corpora of information resources is equivalent to cognition” is considered to be a serious position