A reposting, on the occasion of having been there

A modest contribution to the endless, and very entertaining, discourse 🏺

Uranium doesn't glow green, except when it does, except this has nothing to do with why you mistakenly think it does 🟢

And an interview with The New Books Network

When disliking something clashes with your identity

My first and only experience being president of anything 🎶

A naming attempt ⚪️

Quick review of a colorful year 🎨

On the occasion of having finally been to all of them

May–November 2025

In which I write about a musicology book out of friendship 🎼

Mapping utilitarianism, deontology, and virtue ethics to the ways of picking who I'll vote for, because why not

Progress studies must eventually expand to countries outside the Anglosphere

It's easy to underrate it, but I'm here to help!

Join me in trying to vet one particular extremely niche fact! 🚬

A history of blue 🦋

With credit to other tech macrohistory enthusiasts

Is it fully artificial, or related to the rare black raspberry? 🔵

Improving the climate is a better goal than trying to fight change.

An attempt at reducing the burden of tech complexity ⚙️

Recent writings by me and related materials; collections of interesting aesthetics

A modest proposal 🌎

Sorry I know I said that I wanted to write less about writing but here's a short post about writing 💪

Four years later, time to take a break! 4️⃣

What do you do when you grow up at the edge of a superpower? 🇺🇸

Not a rebranding 🎃

Natural selection as creative and purposeful problem-solving ☁️

Blogging battles, burning buildings, beautiful brutalism, and more

Imagining trees of culture to understand civilizations better 𓏞

Iterated thesis → antithesis → synthesis ⚖️