Alejandro Giacometti

British Politics' Midlife Crisis Why British Parties Can't Make Peace with Their Actual Voters

On the morning of Keir Starmer's conference speech here's a new post on an odd psychopathology in British politics - our main parties don't like the people who vote for them - the dreaded Professional Managerial Class. And so they are acting out like a divorced dad seeking cooler voters. 1/n

Tito and Sam Altman are selling the same shit. So why’d they only arrest Tito?

How the New Atheists Joined the MAHA War on Science A new anthology showcases the intellectual failures of a diminishing brand.

Fully entered a state of madness by the time I finished this essay, on the remarkable intellectual (and political) failures of New Atheism, and a new anthology edited by Lawrence Krauss nymag.com/intelligence...

Glasseye Issue 9: January 2025

> in all the discussion about AI rising to approach human intelligence, not much is said about the possibility that, numbed by its output, we might meet it halfway.

- glasseye.substack.com/p/glasseye-844