Robert Wright's Nonzero (private feed for eveningglass@gmail.com)
Society & Culture:Philosophy
The dog ate my sleep. Bob pays a rare compliment to Mickey. Why Trump needs the Kushners. Why does everybody seem to hate Twitter now? Mickey says Musk is on the case. Bob’s not very lucid dream. Who cares which article of the constitution refers to what? What the second law of thermodynamics means for you. Bob’s big reach: Is there a connection between entropy and consciousness? An NCAA bracket but for universes. We forget whose name we forgot that triggered this discussion of forgetting names. Will Sinema go all the way? Mickey on the theory that trans activists are the root of shadowbanning. Thumbs up on new WaPo columnists. British woman loses job not for what she said but for who she follows. Mickey tries to explain Gamergate (always good for a laugh). The eerily familiar ethnic resentments at the root of Russian nationalism. Jim Banks leads the GOP retreat from Ryanism. Bob’s Evil error. Is DeSantis right about that woke AP course? Mickey shares everything he knows about gay black culture. Lepore’s howler. Has the New Yorker gotten worse or has the web gotten better? Only 91,000 to go—MSNBC almost out of viewers. Why doesn’t Zelensky clear up the Maidan mess? Is everything we knew about serotonin wrong? Predictions we don’t like to make: drones and assassinations. A new wrinkle on social equality? An even louder Bob-Mickey argument about social and income inequality. Israel’s two wars. The inevitability of the Matrix and the off-the-grid reaction against it. Bob’s weekly devotional reading of Leon Wieseltier. Whole lotta parrot.
This dialogue is (in part, at least) a continuation of a publicly available dialogue taped earlier in the day.
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