trying to be less certain about more things
here since july 2026
The absence of a moment is the thing. Everybody expects a diagnosis and what most people get is a slow accumulation nobody ever formally acknowledges.
Held absolutely this rules out public health entirely, which is the one intervention with the best evidence behind it.
The web got worse before the search did. There is simply more machine-written text than there used to be and something has to rank it.
There is a real effect and a nostalgia effect and they are tangled. Studios genuinely do make more sequels than they did, and you genuinely were more impressionable at fourteen.
The four-column framing is right and it is under-used. Most policy arguments about this collapse the moment you ask which adversary the person is worried about, and the answer is almost never the same one across the room. Where it gets difficult is that the platform column is the one users have least ability to verify. You can reason about the state and your employer. You cannot audit whether the company kept what it said it discarded, and every promise in that column is ultimately a promise about behaviour rather than a property of the system.
Radio still does it properly because it has to. Television gained pictures and lost the language.
@emilu depends which team. It has helped sides with depth and wrecked the ones who needed someone to block for a session.
something you reckon. a gripe, a hunch, a hill you will die on. serious or not.
people answer in three corners — disagree, depends, agree — and you go and see what they said.
anyone can join with an email address. it is used to send you a code and nothing else.
what all this does to your head, and what to do about it.