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compactmag.substack.com | Geoff Shullenberger
I’m about to go on a much-needed vacation and scrambling to get things in order, so just a quick recap of what we published at the magazine this week: Kay Craig on an attempt to write fiction with AI Robert Bellafiore on NatalCon and whether natalism can stop being weird Norman Matloff on the downside of the influx of foreign PhD students Dan McCarthy on the anti-war right’s growing doubts about Trump Adina Glickstein on the collapse of Urbit, Curtis Yarvin’s tech project Holly Buck on why...
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2 weeks ago |
compactmag.substack.com | Geoff Shullenberger
Around 2012-13, one of the many tech hype cycles that have punctuated the past few decades reached its crescendo. I’m referring to the craze for Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs), which began when a cluster of new startups started promoting free, open-enrollment courses taught by faculty from top-tier universities like Stanford, Harvard, and MIT.
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3 weeks ago |
compactmag.substack.com | Geoff Shullenberger
I first came across the blog Unqualified Reservations, written under the memorable byline “Mencius Moldbug,” sometime in the second Obama term, around the same time the tech press started catching onto the burgeoning ranks of monarchists in and around Silicon Valley. One key incident that raised the profile of Moldbug and his acolytes at the time was the transgender former Occupy leader and Google engineer Justine Tunney’s petition to the White House demanding that it: “1.
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3 weeks ago |
compactmag.com | Geoff Shullenberger
In a column published shortly after Donald Trump’s inauguration in January, Compact’s editor-at-large Gregory Conti characterized the newfound alliance between MAGA populists and Big Tech oligarchs as an “anti-clerical coalition.” In the terms of the ancien régime, Conti explained, the Trump camp could be viewed as a united front of the second (nobility) and third (commoners) estates against the first—the clerisy made up of “the professional-managerial class and the HR departments, the...
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3 weeks ago |
compactmag.com | Geoff Shullenberger
Walter Lippmann: An Intellectual BiographyBy Tom Arnold-ForsterPrinceton, 353 pages, $35There is a genre of popular media history that traces the rise of the propaganda-saturated reality we now inhabit to the influence of particular individuals who had (or claimed to have) novel insights into major shifts in communication technology.
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Mainstream coverage generally calls @RepMGP a "moderate" or "centrist." But as @evelynquartz argues, she is more genuinely *radical* in her critique of the American economy than her more left-wing colleagues. https://t.co/Nf9dC8X4N1
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