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Free Speech, Costly Silence

Much of what we hear, and which sets the terms for the debates that matter to us, comes from a few select voices. News channels, opinion columnists, prolific and well-followed social media commentators — these are the voices which dominate. There’s an obvious problem with this: the loudest voices, plausibly…

Philosophy

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Free Speech, Costly Silence
Free Speech, Costly Silence

May 1

David Foster Wallace’s Something To Do With Paying Attention

I saw that there was a new book by DFW, to use the excessively chummy but concise abbreviation I’ll hereafter gravitate towards, last week. Having formerly been a big fan, I bought it without really looking much, only to learn it was in fact an excerpt from his posthumously published…

Literature

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David Foster Wallace’s Something To Do With Paying Attention
David Foster Wallace’s Something To Do With Paying Attention

Apr 30

Getting more fine-grained medium.com readership stats

One of the advantages of medium for the casual or not-so-casual blogger is cleanness and simplicity. This is reflected in part in the stats page, which lets you see your daily views across all articles, monthly views across all articles, as well as more granular stats for each article, all…

Medium

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Getting more fine-grained medium.com readership stats
Getting more fine-grained medium.com readership stats

Apr 23

Review of The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is

The book mentioned above is by Justin E. H. Smith, a professor of philosophy in Paris. In addition to a large body of scholarly work mainly on early modern philosophy he’s been branching out into ‘pop’ or ‘public philosophy’, and this, in addition to blogs and podcasts and other such…

Philosophy

14 min read

Review of The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is
Review of The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is

Apr 17

“Fake News”: A (short) Genealogy

“Concepts and practices moved from east to west. An example is the word “fake,” as in “fake news”. …

Fake News

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“Fake News”: A (short) Genealogy
“Fake News”: A (short) Genealogy

Apr 10

Stanislav Aseyev’s view of occupied Donbas

A couple of years before he was captured and tortured, Ukrainian writer Stanislav Aseyev went from his home region of eastern Ukraine to the capital Kyiv. …

Ukraine

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Stanislav Aseyev’s view of occupied Donbas
Stanislav Aseyev’s view of occupied Donbas

Mar 11

The Russian claim of US-backed biological/chemical weapons facilities in Ukraine: some links

Today in the late morning GMT time Sergei Lavrov spoke some about a story that’s heating up in the Russian language news agencies and sites, the supposed existence of biological weapons facilities, or biology facilities that could be used in the development of bioweapons, located in Ukraine and funded by…

War In Ukraine

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The Russian claim of US-backed biological/chemical weapons facilities in Ukraine: some links
The Russian claim of US-backed biological/chemical weapons facilities in Ukraine: some links

Feb 27

Ukraine 2022 and Georgia 2008, similarities and differences

(Update: I made a quick site to post clippings from the media on the war here) What the fuck’s he thinking?? So asked a notoriously combative Russian politician after one of seemingly many recent unforced errors on Putin’s part (I’ve added profanity). It’s a good question. Many commentators put it…

Ukraine

10 min read

Ukraine 2022 and Georgia 2008, similarities and differences
Ukraine 2022 and Georgia 2008, similarities and differences

Published in Language Hub

·Feb 20

You Can Learn a Decent Amount of Mandarin in Three Months

How much Mandarin can you learn in 3 months, and how? — I always assumed Mandarin was impossible to learn. Obviously not entirely impossible since people learn it. But I thought that a casual learner, without classes and by themselves, couldn’t really do much. This was only confirmed when I started looking at some Chinese introductory books. An introduction to Chinese characters…

Language Learning

6 min read

You Can Learn a Decent Amount of Mandarin in Three Months
You Can Learn a Decent Amount of Mandarin in Three Months

Published in Coinmonks

·Feb 13

Bitcoin from the bottom up

Notes for a map, part 1, v0.1 The aim of these notes, as the title suggests, is to explain Bitcoin from the bottom up. In successive chapters, I will discuss electricity, computers, macroeconomics, the history and philosophy of money, financial markets, political philosophy, and the architecture of the bitcoin network. …

Bitcoin

43 min read

Bitcoin from the bottom up
Bitcoin from the bottom up
Matthew McKeever

Matthew McKeever

Novella "Coming From Nothing" at @zer0books (bitly.com/cfnextract). Academic philosophy at: http://mipmckeever.weebly.com/

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