Archive - Freddie deBoer

My Dog Died During Lockdown

I’m tempted to say that Brooklyn was an odd place to ride out Covid, but I guess it was an odd experience everywhere.

11 hrs ago • Freddie deBoer

Neuromancer Book Club: Before We Jack In

Welcome to the Neuromancer book club, and thanks for being here.

Aug 11 • Freddie deBoer

Disability is the Current Meta

one more time: human behavior is the product of incentives

Aug 10 • Freddie deBoer

"I'm Not the Kind of Person Who Criticizes That Sort of Thing"

avoidance as the inescapable political meta

Aug 5 • Freddie deBoer

How to Produce a Pangram 4 False Positive

they're impossible to 100% eliminate, but that's OK if we're chill and have integrity

Aug 3 • Freddie deBoer

July 2026

All In Your Head Excerpt: Psychiatry and The Isolated Demand for Rigor

disorders without objective tests and medicines that work despite a lack of understanding of their physiological mechanism are perfectly common

Jul 31 • Freddie deBoer

The Project of Software is Complete

what is progress, when there are no more unique arrangements of 0s and 1s?

Jul 29 • Freddie deBoer

Please, Don't Screw Up Neuromancer (Which Will Be the Subject of Our Next Book Club!)

I ask for so little, God

Jul 27 • Freddie deBoer

Imposing Modern Progressive Morality On The Odyssey... and On Christopher Nolan

Nolan's film portrays Odysseus as a figure of conventional contemporary morals in much the same way cinephiles erase the conservatism from Nolan's work

Jul 22 • Freddie deBoer

I Wouldn't Say Pangram is Broken, But I Would Say That It's Brittle

it seems way too easy to provoke Pangram into contradicting its own results

Jul 19 • Freddie deBoer

Yes, David Ellison's Merger is Bad, But a Netflix Takeover of Warner Bros Isn't Much Better

The future of Warner Bros is again up in the air.

Jul 16 • Freddie deBoer

The Bear Fell a Little Too Deeply In Love with Itself

The lasting image of the now-completed FX series The Bear, for me, will always be the fourth season spectacle of the entire cast sitting under the…

Jul 13 • Freddie deBoer

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