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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Extremely Powerful Men Who Can’t Be Arsed

5 days ago | jessesingal.substack.com | Jesse Singal

The British have a great bit of slang, “can’t be arsed,” which basically means “can’t be bothered to try.”I thought about that phrase after reading about the “Make America Healthy Again” Commission report led by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.
It Doesn’t Matter if AI Is Just “Faking It”

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

I will move on from AI after this, at least for a while, I promise — I have a fairly long piece in the works on a different subject that will hopefully be ready early next week. But some of the responses to my last piece were interesting and I’d like to, well, respond to them.
What Happened When I Asked ChatGPT To Pretend To Be Conscious

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

Last month I wrote about my “first intimate encounter with AI.” I had composed a short, personal essay about certain adolescent experiences, fed it into Google’s NotebookLM research synthesizer, and listened to two “podcast hosts” talk about my youthful struggles in a very human, empathetic way. It ended up being a surprisingly moving and therapeutic experience, despite the fact that the hosts in question didn’t actually exist. As I wrote at the time:Is this the greatest podcast ever?
Should Joe Biden ‘Rot In Hell’ And ‘Rest In Piss’? A Brief Investigation

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

Former president Joe Biden has an aggressive form of prostate cancer, which is obviously terrible news for him and his family. Because the internet is a dark place, a lot of people have responded to the news by getting angry at Biden or making jokes about it.
Of Course Liberal Institutions Are Engaging In Illegal Hiring Practices On The Basis Of Race

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

Harvard University initially received plaudits for its resistance to the Trump administration. After all, the list of demands the administration sent Harvard — apparently accidentally — was insanely onerous. They weren’t the sort of demands Harvard, or any university, could actually accede to while remaining a center of learning in any real sense.
Last Call For Events In London And Amsterdam

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

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What If Vulnerable People Actually Just Disagree With Your Leftist Beliefs?

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

In my previous post I critiqued these claims by Michael Hobbes:In that post I focused on some of the specifics of “defund the police” and “abolish ICE,” but I want to dig in to the more general style of argument being promoted by Hobbes.
“People Don’t Believe In This Lefty Slogan Because They Have Been Manipulated By Elites” Is A Dumb Conspiracy Theory, Part 1

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

These Bluesky posts from Michael Hobbes jumped out at me:Hobbes is. . . let’s just go with annoying for now. But he’s expressing a pretty common view on the online left: that those damn squishy mainstream outlets, particularly your Atlantics and New York Timesesand the hacks who write for them, are constantly tricking people into falling for centrist and right-wing framings, steering them away from the truth.
Bari Weiss Let Marco Rubio Off The Hook

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

Last week Bari Weiss interviewed Secretary of State Marco Rubio and whiffed on a rare opportunity to press him on some exceptionally dark decisions he has made or willingly gone along with — decisions that run directly contrary to what The Free Press itself stands for. I’ll try not to succumb to unnecessary throat-clearing here. I like The Free Press, am glad it exists, have written for it and would gladly do so again, et cetera.
Win A Copy Of The New Book "An Abundance of Caution: American Schools, the Virus, and a Story of Bad Decisions"

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

I’m really excited about this one. I’ve already mentioned David Zweig’s book (out today!) once or twice, in part because I’m interviewing him about it at the Village Underground on Monday (tickets here), but I think it is going to make a very big splash:An Abundance of Caution is a devastating account of the decision-making process behind one of the worst American policy failures in a century—the extended closures of public schools during the pandemic.