C. Henry

buttondown.com/perfectsente... this week in sentences: Ozymandian, uncomplicated, Fish Falls, dust mote, Esperanto, historical buffet, least terror

the USA built a system of higher education so good that smart/rich people from across the world came here, spending billions to learn here, subsidizing education for Americans while spending money to live in our cities and towns. our government arbitrarily decided we should stop doing that

so the right's solution to male loneliness is that you can't travel, date, make friends, or enjoy recreation of any kind bc those are all "woman-coded"

The US could see a 30-40% decline in new international student enrollment, resulting in nearly $7 billion in lost revenue and more than 60,000 fewer American jobs. https://www.nafsa.org/fall-2025-international-student-enrollment-outlook-and-economic-impact

Yascha Mounk is an accused rapist and below replacement level political scientist, which is probably why he thinks anti-anti-AI is an attractive grift.

that’s a $50,000 email

I hope that the backlash to AI goes beyond the misuse of LLMs to concentrate social & political power and takes on the inhuman datafication of people and the reduction of a human life into a mutable vector

it should cost corporations $25,000 to send an email

Communalytic Introduces Civility Analyzer Module - Social Media Lab A New Research Module for Identifying Both Toxic and Prosocial Interactions in Online Discourse Toronto, Ontario – [06/17/2025] – We are pleased to announce the launch of the new Civility Analyzer mod...

Calling all researchers, we are pleased to announce the launch of the new Civility Analyzer module in @Communalytic.org. This no-code tool can automatically identify both toxic and prosocial interactions in online discourse. socialmedialab.ca/2025/06/17/c... #ComKky #PolSky #AcademicSky #CSS

Missouri Senate leader says special session is ‘likely’ to redraw congressional map  • Missouri Independent Momentum is building for the Missouri Legislature to redraw the state’s congressional districts with the aim of gaining a Republican seat.

It's funny. I've been warning about U.S. de-democratization for a decade, and yet I'm still, at a gut level, surprised by how fast it's happening.

I've been writing about Paul Ingrassia, Trump's pick to be Lead Counsel, for over a year. Here's a thread of my work, starting with Ingrassia's fondness for Nick Fuentes.

How to Get a Girlfriend, Boyfriend, or Themfriend Discover effective strategies for finding a girlfriend, boyfriend, or themfriend. Learn why common advice may not work and how societal inequalities can affect dating.

Just leaving this here www.bishuk.com/relationship...

as an id accelerator, proprietary LLMs make thoughtless users even more thoughtless

nothing goes viral anymore. it’s manufactured inside of community network boiler rooms, and then chosen by a new set of influencer-type gatekeepers to become Discourse.

legacy media is run by people who are stuck in the 2016-era internet

Bruce Hornsby is the Steve Miller of the left

wonkism basically refers to how a niche interest in better policy from a handful of technocratic bloggers turned into a dogmatic disinterest in politics outside of specific kinds of data and policy. it’s like technocracy but too dull to claim a utopia.

100%. you can barely get people who do empirics for a living to change their minds with empirical evidence

“Democratic Stephen Miller” “left Joe Rogan” what people want is a pro-liberal democracy moral vision of a good & just society that we can strive for. wonkism has stolen this from us.

OpenAI removes ChatGPT feature after private conversations leak to Google search OpenAI abruptly removed a ChatGPT feature that made conversations searchable on Google, sparking privacy concerns and industry-wide scrutiny of AI data handling.

🤖 Example of how “informed consent” can go wrong — and what it means to be “informed”: users inadvertently agreed to share details that could be used against them. The friction for sharing private info should be greater than a checkbox or else shouldn’t be an option.
venturebeat.com/ai/openai-re...

guys I’ve found the male loneliness epidemic

nothing goes viral anymore. it’s manufactured inside of community network boiler rooms, and then chosen by a new set of influencer-type gatekeepers to become Discourse.

legacy media is run by people who are stuck in the 2016-era internet

Rigging the Information Game Trump's killing government statistics. Don't expect big business to care

Expect *some* firms to care more than others: size, age, & sector all matter in how much a firm (1) relies directly on government information and (2) relies heavily on private sources that aggregate various sources of government information as their product

musgrave.substack.com/p/rigging-th...

literally bringing the war in Afghanistan back home

Canadians' health data at risk of being handed over to U.S. authorities, experts warn | CBC News Canadians' electronic health records need more protections to prevent foreign entities from accessing patient data, according to commentary in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

It's apparently a problem if Canadians have TikTok because the Chinese government might see their dance moves, but no one bats an eye when Canadians' health data is stored on US-owned servers and subject to American laws. www.cbc.ca/news/health/...

looks like a video game on a mini-CD I got out of a cereal box in 2002

In political science, there has been a long and frustrating debate over what about democracy, precisely, leads to growth. Of course, it’s multi-causal. But I always emphasize the information environment. Markets can’t work when info is bad. Info is likely to be bad in authoritarian circumstances.

Kamala Harris on Colbert: "Recently I decided, I don't want to go back into the system. I think it's broken."

"I always believed our systems would be strong enough to defend our most fundamental principles. Right now, I don't think they're as strong as they need to be.

Nuclear War end of the world about to steal a 30 yr lead from Climate Collapse end of the world