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But the centrist's fallacy has convinced many political pundits they are.

Liberals should stop pretending liberalism is value-free, and instead argue that liberal values are better than the alternatives.

Threads has significantly more active users than Bluesky, but feels a lot smaller. Why?

Is it wrong to have a social media feed primarily of people you agree with?

A simple method using automatic email forwards and Zapier.

The worst happened, and America will be ruled, for four years at least, by fascism.

Chatbots can help students understand concepts when their teachers can't.

It's not "political" when a game or movie isn't a bunch of straight white guys.

Change and diversity are inevitable and good—and our politics should reflect that.

When echo chambers masquerade as open inquiry.

Republican talent has largely been replaced by amateurs and grifters. That's a hole the right will have difficulty recovering from.

Even if your vote is purely expressive, you should express opposition to fascism.

On men who convince themselves they are the only true meritocrats because women somehow don‘t understand or don‘t appreciate the idea of merit.

The simple process by which very intelligent people can end up doubling down on very bad arguments.

We cannot make permanent what is inevitably impermanent, and insisting otherwise brings distress. Better to embrace dynamism and social diversity.

Social media convinces us our small communities are representative of the whole and tells us we’re more right than we really are.

It is all too easy to abandon liberty when its practice inconveniences us.