Michael Glawson

This week's newsletter:
- How I'd dominate the whole world if I ran a major AI company (and if I were evil)
- An interesting kind of mushroom
- A Tibetan Buddhist prophecy to lift your heart

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How Not to Defeat Authoritarianism Moderation used to help Democrats win, but its advantages now have been greatly exaggerated.

One of the best analyses and recommendations I've read concerning the strategic demands facing the Democratic party right now. Absolutely worth your time.
www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...

This week's newsletter:
- How I'd dominate the whole world if I ran a major AI company (and if I were evil)
- An interesting kind of mushroom
- A Tibetan Buddhist prophecy to lift your heart

Subscribe if you dig it.

slashframe.substack.com

'This job sucks,' overwhelmed DHS lawyer says in court hearing over ICE's response to judicial orders “A court order is not advisory, and it is not conditional,” U.S. District Court Judge Jerry Blackwell said.

“…sometimes I wish you would just hold me in contempt, Your Honor, so that I can have a full 24 hours of sleep. I work day and night just because people are still in there," Le said.

abcnews.go.com/US/job-sucks...

A strange side-effect of believing in reincarnation is that, whenever I see a baby smiling at me, I imagine they're thinking "Oh you look just like my grandson."

National Review was the one conservative outlet that still had a functioning moral and intellectual compass, until Trump 1.0 destroyed it. Perhaps this is a sign that they're finding their bearings once again. Liberal societies need real, respectable conservative voices. archive.is/202601262020...

He seemed to genuinely love Zohran Mamdani for a moment.

Totally predictable

I know what it feels like to be cruel to others. It doesn’t feel anything like it looks from the outside. It feels like gleeful, righteous delight at the suffering of those who deserve it. The path out of cruelty is realizing that delighting at the suffering of others is fundamentally evil.

There’s More to Greg Bovino’s Coat Than You Think The head of Border Patrol isn’t referencing the Nazis — but he is sending a message.

Insightful analysis of the role uniform design plays in the character of the institutions that wear them. In this case, ICE.

www.politico.com/news/magazin...

It's almost like they're hiring all the people that normal police and military wouldn't, and telling them to go wild.

I started a newsletter for people who need intellectual stimulation and moral encouragement in these droll and confusing times.

First post is about why morally trustworthy AI is an impossible fantasy akin to the dream of perpetual motion.

Would ❤️ your thoughts.

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One year and one day between the first and second photo.
The best lesson I learned in the process: No effort is ever wasted.

Strange Gods: Charles Fort’s Book of the Damned (1919) Rains of blood and frogs, mysterious disappearances, baffling objects in the sky: these were the anomalies that fascinated Charles Fort in his Book of the Damned. “For every five people who read this ...

Charles Fort's "Book of the Damned" is one of the best things I read in the last year. This article is a good first taste of what Fort is about.
publicdomainreview.org/essay/charle...

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