JA Westenberg

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Everyone’s email list stopped growing at the same time. It’s not you. It’s entropy, saturation, and Gmail’s promotions tab.

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Curiosity has a natural predator. It’s called optimization. https://www.joanwestenberg.com/how-convenience-kills-curiosity/

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It’s not just that Trump officials don’t know how government works. It’s that they think you are the fool for expecting them to. https://www.theindex.media/the-unlearning-of-america/

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“Great question!” is what people say when they need a second to recover from the psychic damage of hearing the most nonsensical shit uttered by humankind

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Trump doesn’t want to stop antisemitism. He wants to monopolize it. So only he and his allies get to define what counts. https://www.theindex.media/trumps-selective-antisemitism/

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The best thing about Truth Social is they called retweets "ReTruths" I have no further comment

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Trump uses antisemitism the way he uses religion, patriotism, and the law: To silence his critics and empower his base. Nothing more. https://www.theindex.media/trumps-selective-antisemitism/

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The Bible, the periodic table, and the three-act structure all succeed for the same reason: optimized compression architecture. https://paragraph.com/@signalvs/architecture-vs-content

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Google Search is the next Craigslist: a neglected giant vulnerable to disruption.

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Identify which problems are actually just status competitions in disguise. Then stop playing. Watch your happiness skyrocket.

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Loneliness, we’re told, is a problem of screen time. Blame the phone. Blame the algorithm. Blame the For You Page. But that’s a shallow diagnosis; because this kind of loneliness isn’t about disconnection from others. It’s about disconnection from ourselves. https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-age-of-the-fractured-soul/

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The GOP didn’t get Trumped. It got everything it ever asked for: loud, cruel, and allergic to accountability. https://www.theindex.media/the-inevitability-of-donald-trump/

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We were promised freedom. And we got it. The freedom to scroll endlessly. To share anything. To curate, to filter, to block, to ghost. The freedom to express ourselves in high definition, 4K, live, all the time. The modern soul is on display—but no longer rooted. https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-age-of-the-fractured-soul/

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Even if we believe that it wasn’t Elon himself or someone following his orders who tampered with Grok to make it obsessed with white genocide, we’re left with the explanation that a single rogue employee has the ability and access to completely taint the model and redirect its responses. If you’re an xAi investor and that doesn’t give you pause, you’re an idiot.

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Look, I’m not normally in favour of regulatory overreach but this should be illegal

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Timeo Qatarenses et dona ferentes.

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where i wanna be casting from

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University is the biggest scam of our generation. Dooming kids to debt to learn from outdated syllabi is absurd.

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A bizarre piece of trivia: taxation plans were being debated in Germany as late as March 1945, roughly one month before Hitler shot himself. The show - in this case, bureaucracy and economics - must go on.

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