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You Can and Should Blame Young People When They Act Like Lazy Cheaters, Actually
fear of "old man yells at cloud" has become a culture-devouring virus
Jun 3
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LLMs Were Mostly (But Not Entirely) Useless at Extra-Textual Tasks Involved in the Composition of My Next Novel
"Claude, get me a contract with a healthy advance but not one so large that the book will surely fail to earn out, causing deep emotional pain and…
Jun 1
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May 2026
Why Pose Thought Experiments About Fake Versions of History?
it's true: if you misrepresent people's behavior, it's easier to defend that behavior
May 29
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Raj Chetty's Just-So Stories
don't ever say I don't take reader requests
May 26
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LLMs and the Library Card Fallacy
the LLM tutor story is the Khan Academy story is the MOOCs story
May 21
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One More Time: The Average American K-12 Student is Doing Fine Relative to the International Baseline
and problems relative to the historical baseline are happening around the world
May 19
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You Can't Defend a Policy By Getting Angry at the Suggestion That It's Benefitted People
progressive diversity programs are caught in a hellish hall of mirrors
May 18
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Subscriber Writing, May 2026
Hello folks!
May 13
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The Vicious, Potentially Fatal Anti-Public School Propaganda Cycle
The New York Times discusses the enrollment crisis that’s hitting American public schools.
May 11
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It's Time For Some People to Let Me Go
set it free, guys, set it free
May 7
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Call for Subscriber Writing, May 2026
NEW SUBMISSION FORM AND NEW LINK, PLEASE READ
May 6
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Please Stop Making Reductive Claims About Economic Hardship and Mental Health
it doesn't help poor people and it doesn't help the mentally ill
May 4
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