Hi, It’s Me, Wikipedia, and I Am Ready for Your Apology “Wikipedia, the constantly changing knowledge base created by a global free-for-all of anonymous users, now stands as the leading force for the dum...

Once again, @mcsweeneys.net does not miss.

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"In 2004, you saw some college guy using me and thought, 'What a lazy cheater.'

Now you’d think, 'At least he’s not asking Gemini.'

In a few years, you’ll say, 'Wow, look, a human being who can read.'"

28.10.2025 12:50 — 👍 1883    🔁 441    💬 15    📌 21

"What if the real doomer scenario is that we pollute the internet and the planet, reorient our economy and leverage ourselves, outsource big chunks of our minds, realign our geopolitics and culture, and fight endlessly over a technology that never comes close to delivering on its grandest promises?"

19.08.2025 02:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Words and Phrases We Could Do Without Are we really back to ‘regime change’?

"You would have thought that after decades of foreign policy calamities and humiliation for the United States and its allies, 'regime change' would have lost its allure."

In her new piece, Jen Rubin explains why notions of regime change are dangerously misleading:

24.06.2025 13:13 — 👍 95    🔁 17    💬 5    📌 0

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

22.06.2025 01:44 — 👍 36847    🔁 7812    💬 396    📌 309

Nobody's ever really captured, to my satisfaction, the way that the internet -- though it promises infinitude, all of human experience & history & art & thought in one place -- has instead produced a kind of narrowing & flattening of experience, made the world seem *less* magic & full of wonder.

25.05.2025 19:02 — 👍 1550    🔁 250    💬 84    📌 68

100% on point and painfully funny:

youtube.com/shorts/yxxcB...

#art

02.05.2025 16:19 — 👍 94    🔁 30    💬 4    📌 1

To celebrate the completion of The Library Trilogy with THE BOOK THAT HELD HER HEART, I'm giving away the full set of signed Locked Library special editions.

To enter just repost.

Contest held across my socials - enter elsewhere too to increase chances.

Winner chosen randomly from all entries.

17.04.2025 13:23 — 👍 521    🔁 520    💬 69    📌 20

"An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes." Sun Tzu #sotu

05.03.2025 02:23 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

COLEMAN: Voting Week in Hamilton Centre Throw the polls out the windows - there's no predicting this race.

It's election week in Hamilton Centre.

My observations as a resident in Ontario's most interesting riding, where the philosophical divides of the NDP coalition are on display.

I do not see 'vote splitting' as a relevant issue here.

Column on TPR #HamOnt
thepublicrecord.ca/2025/02/cole...

22.02.2025 20:17 — 👍 18    🔁 6    💬 4    📌 1

While there are pro-Trump conservatives here, Trump is not why Trudeau is going down. That's more about Trudeau himself, Pollievre's campaigning, and domestic issues. Trump's antics are affecting our politics, but to the benefit of both left and right, depending on jurisdiction.

03.02.2025 02:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Departing the New York Times I left to stay true to my byline

I wrote for The Contrarian about my decision to leave the New York Times contrarian.substack.com/p/departing-...

28.01.2025 18:45 — 👍 3285    🔁 628    💬 118    📌 109