★ favourites

--april

• the case for not being born , joshua rothman ,
• if we hope to build artifical souls, where should we start? , peter wolfendale
• why no one could beat google
• consciousness is a mystery , sean illing with micheal pollan
• unnatural and natural–a taoist perspective , michael cheng-tek tai
• beauty standards: a marxist analysis ★
• how you're killing your potential without realising it
• who cursed us with popcorn ceilings?
• why is everything boring now?
• why are people starting to sound like chatgpt? , adam aleksic
• sabrina carpenters glamorous world of hetero-pessimism
• "cruxification is the most feminine thing a man has ever done" , mattie mae motl ★

–-march

• what the war has done to iranians , cora engelbrecht
• how to start having original thoughts , feifei on substack
• a japanese glossary of chopsticks
• the music of trees , maria popova
• whaleocalypse , matt korostoff
• politics and the english language , george orwell ★
• in defence of rational criticism of islam ★
• psychedelic science and radical healing