Singal-Minded with Jesse Singal

Singal-Minded is a newsletter created by me, Jesse Singal, focusing on topics that interest me. The core theme revolves around the conflicts between science and social justice advocacy, aiming to find ways for these two fields to coexist peacefully. Additionally, you'll find a variety of content including commentary on current events, links to my work, and plenty of silly jokes sprinkled throughout.

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Last Month I Had My First Intimate Experience With AI

1 week ago | jessesingal.substack.com | Jesse Singal

Last month, I was back in suburban Boston for a few days, staying in the room where I’ve slept more than anywhere else. We moved into that house when I was four or so, and to say that the feel of the place has changed in recent years would be a massive understatement. When we moved there in the 1980s, my youngest brother didn’t exist yet.
‘Adolescence’ Works Because It Avoids Being Trapped By The Present

3 weeks ago | jessesingal.substack.com | Jesse Singal

I’d probably have to watch the limited Netflix series Adolescence all the way through a second time before I could tell you how much I liked it. Instead I’ll just say that I’m glad I watched it and offer you some scattered adjectives: hectic, claustrophobic, original, and often riveting. (This article will include one very basic plot spoiler that is revealed at the end of the first episode.
This Is Sickening

3 weeks ago | jessesingal.substack.com | Jesse Singal

Two quick housekeeping things:—I had a column in The New York Times yesterday that may be of interest to some of you. —I have a bunch of events, listed here, coming up in Cambridge, New York, London, and hopefully even Amsterdam (you’ll see a form to fill out on the events page if you live in that neck of the woods and might be interested in attending).
An Announcement, A Bunch Of Events, And Elon Musk

1 month ago | jessesingal.substack.com | Jesse Singal

I’m now a contributing writer at The Dispatch. I’m very excited about this. First, I have a lot of respect for the publication and am flattered to have an affiliation with it. Second, one of the only things I miss about having a Real Job in media is access to editing, and The Dispatch has very talented, comprehensive, careful editors. My first piece ran yesterday and at least three editors laid eyes on it and offered suggestions, all of which improved the final piece.
Two Unsurprising Updates On The Ongoing Self-Immolation Of Expert Authority

1 month ago | jessesingal.substack.com | Jesse Singal

This article is about expert authority. Perfect timing for me to announce that on April 28 at 6:00 p.m., I’ll be interviewing Dave Zweig at the Village Underground in Manhattan about his upcoming book, An Abundance of Caution: American Schools, the Virus, and a Story of Bad Decisions. You can buy tickets here, and what’s cool is that if you do, you basically get the book for free. Its list price is $40, but tickets are just under $33.
How White People Decide What’s Racist Or Sexist

1 month ago | jessesingal.substack.com | Jesse Singal

Remember that Jeff Maurer and I are doing our comedy/politics show $oyboyz this weekend — Saturday in New York City at 4:00 p.m. and Sunday in Washington, D.C. at 7:00 p.m. There will be A Gathering following the D.C. show (unfortunately I need to rush to a train right after the NYC show because a friend is, coincidentally, having a birthday party that night). In January, Stanford University Press published Is It Racist? Is It Sexist?
If The New England Journal Of Medicine Doesn’t Correct This Error, You Cannot Trust Anything It Publishes

1 month ago | jessesingal.substack.com | Jesse Singal

I’m going to be a bit blunter, brusquer, and briefer than usual here. I recently wrote about how hard it is to know who to trust in our increasingly fractured epistemic landscape, and I argued that there are some simple rules that can help. While I didn’t use the word humility in that post, that’s what my recommendations really came down to: asking whether the person whose trustworthiness is in question exhibits humility.
Why I (Think I) Didn’t Go Crazy

1 month ago | jessesingal.substack.com | Jesse Singal

I’ve made the mistake of engaging in a bunch of nonproductive Twitter interactions with folks who are quite far to my right in the last few months, and one common refrain I hear is that it’s ridiculous I still “side with” the left given that “they” were mean to me, “canceled” me, occasionally threatened to kill me, etc. (I’m going to use the term canceled throughout this post to reference high-profile instances of public shamings over someone’s behavior or views.
Introducing Singal-Minded Chat (Plus A Time-Sensitive Coupon For You To Send To A Friend Or Three)

1 month ago | jessesingal.substack.com | Jesse Singal

Yesterday I emailed tens of thousands of Singal-Minded’s free subscribers offering them a discounted subscription to the paid version of the newsletter, and I got a satisfying surge of new subscribers. Welcome! The vast majority of the posts I send out won’t be housekeeping, I promise. (Please don’t leave.) This one is, but I’m working …Keep reading with a 7-day free trialSubscribe to Singal-Minded to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.
Michael Shellenberger’s Latest Viral Conspiracy Theory Is As Idiotic As It Is Irresponsible

1 month ago | jessesingal.substack.com | Jesse Singal

Shellenberger's recent testimony before the Committee on Homeland Security was similarly idiotic. See: https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/Testimony-Shellenberger-2025-02-13.pdfHis argument is that the defunding of USAID is reasonable, because it has been, "spending so much money on information control and information operations, both in the form of demanding censorship by social media platforms, and financing supposedly “independent” journalism.." ?