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You're Doing It Wrong: Notes on Criticism and Technology Hype
https://peoples-things.ghost.io/youre-doing-it-wrong-notes-on-criticism-and-technology-hype/

By Lee Vinsel

I'm reposting this essay I wrote in 2021 because the online blogging platform Medium has apparently changed its policies and people are having trouble accessing the original. Hopefully, I'll find a better, more durable solution soon. I'm reposting it unaltered, even though I would unsurprisingly do some

 
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The Ruiners, by Ellena Savage
https://www.simonandschuster.com.au/books/The-Ruiners/Ellena-Savage/9781761638817
 
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rsync and outrage
https://medium.com/@tridge60/rsync-and-outrage-d9849599e5a0
 
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I’m a Eurovision superfan, but this year’s contest brings only sadness. I won’t be tuning in | Dave Keating | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/16/im-a-eurovision-superfan-but-this-years-contest-brings-only-sadness-i-wont-be-tuning-in

Mismanagement and political campaigning have sucked the joy out of an event meant to bring people together

 
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How effective are vaccines at stopping deadly bird flu from spreading? - ABC News
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2026-06-25/avian-influenza-h5n1-vaccine-effectiveness/106831626
 
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My Ordinary Life: Improvements Since the 1990s · Gwern.net
https://gwern.net/improvement

A list of unheralded improvements to ordinary quality-of-life since the 1990s going beyond computers.

 
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Why is gynecology still using a Civil War-era tool?
https://19thnews.org/2026/07/revolutionizing-gynecology-iud-pain/
 
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Life at the end of the metaverse
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/technology/73949/life-at-the-end-of-the-metaverse

Mark Zuckerberg built a future that nobody wanted. Tech bosses are repeating his mistake

 
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Brainstorm, by Richard Scolyer with Garry Maddox
https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/Richard-Scolyer-Brainstorm-9781761471490

Brainstorm - Richard Scolyer

 
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A Philosopher’s One-Word Theory to Explain Why the World Feels So Weird
https://www.derekthompson.org/p/a-philosophers-one-word-theory-to
 
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Types of Fun
https://www.thechatner.com/p/types-of-fun
 
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The Age of Extremophiles
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/the-age-of-extremophiles-331674257/
 
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The Kaiser and a "Mediocre Man" Theory of History
https://www.deadcarl.com/p/the-kaiser-and-a-mediocre-man-theory
 
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Seeing Other People, by Diana Reid
https://publishing.hardiegrant.com/en-au/books/seeing-other-people-by-diana-reid/9781761151705
 
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New Acquisitions: Tolkien and Éowyn Between Two Wars (PPP Moot Keynote) – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
https://acoup.blog/2026/01/03/new-acquisitions-tolkien-and-eowyn-between-two-wars-ppp-moot-keynote/

Hey folks! I am working on finishing up some things this week, so I thought I would post the text of the keynote I gave at the Prancing Pony Podcast Moot earlier this December. I've made some minor edits to conform a bit more to the form of a blog post, but this remains very…

 
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The Operational Trap
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-operational-trap/

Like Imperial Japan before us, the United States has substituted tactical and operational planning for strategic thinking.

 
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The NDIS’s original sin
https://insidestory.org.au/the-ndiss-original-sin/
 
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Part One: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science - Behind the Bastards | iHeart
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-robert-maxwell-how-ghislaine-274165028/
 
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Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir
https://andyweirauthor.com/#project-hail-mary

Andy Weir is the New York Times bestselling author of The Martian, Artemis, Project Hail Mary, and Cheshire Crossing.

 
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I was afraid to make a submission to the antisemitism royal commission. But silence has consequences too | George Newhouse | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/06/australia-antisemitism-royal-commission-submissions-racism-human-rights-ntwnfb

I work in a sector that speaks out on racism and human rights, yet on this issue I have felt the boundaries of acceptable speech narrow around me

 
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Know Your Enemy: Joan Didion, Conservative, with Sam Tanenhaus - Dissent Magazine
https://dissentmagazine.org/blog/know-your-enemy-joan-didion/

Why did Joan Didion love Barry Goldwater but hate Ronald Reagan? Historian Sam Tanenhaus helps make sense of Didion's conservatism.

 
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Introducing — Autistic AF With Grace Tame
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/ladies-we-need-to-talk/introducing-autistic-af-with-grace-tame/106723584
 
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Elon Musk alone isn’t responsible for Belfast's racist pogrom
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/elon-musk-belfast-pogrom-lee-hurley

The violent response to an attempted murder would have happened regardless of Musk, Lee Hurley writes.

 
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Half the truth: defending public education requires more honesty, not less | Pearls and Irritations
https://johnmenadue.com/post/2026/03/half-the-truth-defending-public-education-requires-more-honesty-not-less/

Criticism of public schools is not entirely wrong – but by ignoring unequal conditions, it misdiagnoses the problem and misplaces responsibility.

 
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