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A collection of 171 issues

Resist Tech Zeus!

Technological Progress is the Zeus of our culture. One moment, William Blake was warning that Francis Bacon’s essays are for Satan’s kingdom. The next moment, your cell phone is buzzing against your genitals while you’re trying to get laid. (Essay)

Mal- Dis- Mis- I'll Take It All

I'll play with the bots and kneel before my algolords. In the big picture, they provide the clearest picture.

The Silicon Valley Overlords are Jumping the Rationalist Shark

They're invoking other forms of intelligence and praying more ardently than a peasant woman who's just seen a ghost. We need a wit like Rabelais to strike them down . . . and quickly.

Give Me Waymo or Give Me . . .

Nah, just gimme Waymo

Silicon Valley and the Nazi

These rump rangers of the left hemisphere are riding rough over the right hemisphere. So did the Nazis. Cooperation with AI is gnostic complicity.

Why I Don't Stay Informed

I'm glad the Establishment didn't succeed in destroying JRE during COVID. It’s pretty much the only way I stay informed to the extent I want to be informed. I agree with Nassim Taleb’s observation that there’s no reason to read the daily news,

Is the Netflix Documentary a Paean to Catholic Convert and Daily Communicant Marshall McLuhan?

The Social Dilemma uses the intellectual framework built by McLuhan, but the similarities stop there The Social Dilemma documentary has broken records. According to its main star, Tristan Harris, 38 million households in the first 28 days saw it on Netflix. That’s incredible. What’s even more incredible? The

Did Video Bring Us BLM, Riots, and COVID Hysteria?

A new essay about the Marshall McLuhan disciple, Neil Postman You like dead white guys? How about a dead white guy who was the disciple of a dead white guy? I do. I also like DWG Marshall McLuhan and his disciple, DWG Neil Postman, whose Amusing Ourselves to Death is