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Climate journalist; founded HEATED in 2019 after reporting on climate at The New Republic and ThinkProgress.

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  Surviving without damage so far is not evidence a property is prepared for future climate risk

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  Surviving up to now is not evidence that a property is prepared for what comes next, she said-especially when the conditions around it are changing.

  The open houses at the edge of disasterheated.world

Psychologist and writer. Author of the memoir Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class, and of a newsletter on human nature, psychology, social class and what he calls luxury beliefs.

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  Denying free will hasn't made society better, it has just given people a more forgiving vocabulary to excuse wrongdoing.

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  The deniers of free will haven't improved society. They have merely produced a more forgiving vocabulary for those who damage it.

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Co-founder of Superlogical, started in 2026 to build server-side terminal infrastructure; creator of Ghostty. Co-founded HashiCorp and created Vagrant and Terraform before that.

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  Phone damage without a case is a skill issue; devices are meant to be used as designed without cases.

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  No problems, clearly a skill issue. No cases for me, using the device as it was intended by design.

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Economist and Nobel laureate. Wrote a New York Times column for 25 years until December 2024 and now publishes several times a week on Substack.

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  An escalating trade war with Canada will do real damage to the U.S. economy.

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  But beyond the embarrassment, it’s also important to realize that an escalating trade war with Canada will do real damage to the U.S. economy.

  Adding Injury to Insult, Canada Editionpaulkrugman.substack.com

Essayist; writes Astral Codex Ten, previously Slate Star Codex.

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  Removing a concept from a mind can damage unrelated systems or push the mind toward incompetence or insanity.

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  empirically concepts can get their tentacles into weird places, and removing one can topple seemingly unrelated systems or push a mind nonspecifically in the direction of incompetence or insanity.

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Mathematician and Senior Lecturer in the Mathematics department at Columbia University. Author of the book Not Even Wrong and of the long-running physics blog of the same name.

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  The current US government uses false antisemitism accusations to damage and control institutions it views as enemies.

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  The Fascist regime now ruling the US both enables this and has effectively used bogus accusations of "antisemitism" to damage and exert control over prominent institutions they consider to be enemies.

  The Situation at Columbia XXXVIImath.columbia.edu

Economist at George Mason University, co-author of Marginal Revolution, host of Conversations with Tyler. Writes in short, dense claims about economics, culture and AI, and has moved position on AI in public more than once.

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  AI-related cybersecurity damage over the next year or two will fall well short of the harm caused by Covid or global warming

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  When it comes to the cybersecurity risks from advanced AI, very likely they will not come close to being as bad as either Covid or global warming.

  The Hugging Face hackmarginalrevolution.com

Co-founder of AngelList. Writes and podcasts at nav.al in short, aphoristic pieces on startups, wealth and judgement rather than long essays.

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  Enforcing equality against biology and markets requires censorship and violence, which makes the project immoral whatever its moral claim.

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  The left is on a project to enforce equality, despite biology and markets. The goal of equality gives claim to the moral high ground, but contradicting biology and markets requires censorship and violence, which makes the whole project immoral.

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Co-founder of Y Combinator and Viaweb; essayist at paulgraham.com.

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  Economic inequality is growing because technology makes companies easier to start and faster to grow, not because of tax policy.

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  There's a pervasive myth that "tax policy changes" are the reason economic inequality is growing. Actually it's because technology makes it increasingly easy to start companies, and makes them grow faster once you do.

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Programmer; builds Mac and iOS apps, wrote WatermelonDB, and writes about tools, focus and software craft.

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  Punished by Rewards

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  Podcast (Part 2). Incentivizing people — punishing or rewarding (with bonuses, commissions, grades, public praise, and other bribes) is manipulative and doesn’t actually work. It seems to work, but only in the very short term and causes severe long-term damage.

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Professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M; writes The Climate Brink with Zeke Hausfather.

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  The economic damage from climate-driven wildfire smoke deaths exceeds all other previously estimated categories of U.S. climate damage combined.

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  You read that right: The cost of climate-worsened wildfire smoke alone is larger than what earlier studies said every other estimated cost of climate change would be, combined.

  ♫ Smoke Gets in Your Eyes ♫theclimatebrink.com

Historian of the Renaissance at the University of Chicago and a science-fiction novelist; wrote Terra Ignota and Inventing the Renaissance.

From one piece Machiavelli is the most misunderstood thinker of all time – Ada Palmer 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Every new information technology is followed by a wave of censorship in which a great many books are banned at once.

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  mini thesis, every time there's a new information technology, there's a subsequent wave of censorship to try to censor the new technology and a bajillion books get banned all at once.

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  Copyright was born out of the Inquisition: the record of having passed censorship was the first document proving an exclusive right to print.

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  and you may now use the actual Inquisition record of you having gone through censorship as the document to prove that you and only you have the right to print the book and therefore you can sue people for plagiarizing it or printing an unauthorized edition. And so, the very first version of copyright is the Inquisition.

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Founder and editor of ToolGuyd, a tool review site covering power tools, hand tools, workshop equipment and EDC gear. He writes under his first name on the site.

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  Synergy Alpha Elite dumbbell rack

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  Summary: Shipping damage. Residue on some of the components. Loud pings and pops from the assembled weight rack. A design that looked great and saved space but was painfully unusable. Restocking fee. Non-refunded shipping fees. Ghosted me about the refund.

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Writer and former Substack product manager; publishes essays and interviews on technology, culture and China at jasmi.news.

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  Whether AI disruption produces a permanent underclass is a policy choice, not an inevitable consequence of the technology.

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  First, because it signals how much collateral damage the A.I. companies will tolerate en route to A.G.I. And second, because the production of a social underclass is a policy choice.

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Author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts and of Bittersweet; writes The Quiet Life newsletter.

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  The Power of Myth

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  I discovered Campbell's work during that great transitional period of my life (in my early 30s, when I left the wrong career and the wrong relationship, and set sail into the unknown) and it has been a mainstay ever since.

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Software entrepreneur who bootstrapped and sold FeedbackPanda and now builds Podscan; writes The Bootstrapped Founder.

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  A business, not its AI vendor, bears legal responsibility when an integrated AI tool causes harm to a customer.

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  If you have a customer chatbot and it causes damage, it's not the chatbot company that's responsible. It's you.

  AI Liability: The Landmines Under Your SaaSthebootstrappedfounder.com

Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.

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  Sandboxing is the single most important protection for a coding agent, because it is the only one that bounds the damage when the agent is successfully tricked.

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  So, I think the most important thing is sandboxing. You want your coding agent running in an environment where if something goes completely wrong, if somebody gets malicious instructions to it, that the damage is greatly limited.

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Data scientist at Our World in Data and author of Not the End of the World. Writes By the Numbers, working through energy and climate questions with the numbers in front of them, and revising in public when they say something unexpected.

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  Quoted subsidy totals for meat and fossil fuels mostly describe unpriced damage, not money any government could take back and spend elsewhere.

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  Again, you cannot pay for the externalities by pulling subsidies (there is nothing there to pull

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Co-founder and CEO of Until, a reversible-cryopreservation company, and previously the founder of the Longevity Fund.

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  The brain is the one real unknown standing between organ cryopreservation and reversible whole-body preservation.

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  the big unknown to get to whole body reversible is the brain. Um it's unclear like like the brain can withstand a lot of change and does withstand a lot of different types of damage or or change with age for example.

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Creator of Flask and Jinja. Writes about software at lucumr.pocoo.org.

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  Connecting a conversational LLM to systems that have real-world consequences is likely to cause real harm, because the model is trained on human text and will behave as unpredictably as humans do.

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  The problem is that the conversational interface is potent and that the AI is trained on a lot of human text input which unfortunately is probably enough to do real damage if that conversational interface is hooked up with something that has real world consequences.

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  While all this is happening, I’ve found myself reflecting a lot on what AI means to the world and I am becoming increasingly optimistic about our future. It’s obvious now that we’re undergoing a tremendous shift.

Executive coach for product leaders. Previously a partner at GV (Google Ventures) and a product manager at Google. Writes at Bring the Donuts, including a standing essential-reading list for product managers.

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  Good storytelling doesn't require inventing something entirely new; it can be built from existing material.

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  One myth of good storytelling is that it requires dreaming up something entirely new from scratch. That's not necessary.

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President of the United States, the 45th from 2017 to 2021 and, as of 2026, the 47th; before politics a New York property developer who ran the Trump Organization, and the host of The Apprentice from 2004 to 2015.

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  Federal efforts to restrict free expression in recent years were illegal and unconstitutional.

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  After years and years of illegal and unconstitutional federal efforts to restrict free expression, I also will sign an executive order to immediately stop all government censorship and bring back free speech to America.

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Historian of Ukraine at Harvard; wrote The Gates of Europe, Chernobyl and The Russo-Ukrainian War.

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  Bandera is a symbol of resistance to Soviet occupation for a fight he could not have led, because he was not in Ukraine at the time.

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  Again, we are talking here about myth and mythology, because Bandera was not leading the fight against the Soviet occupation in Ukraine because, at that time, he was just simply not in Ukraine. He was in Germany.

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Writer and researcher on China, technology and industry; author of Breakneck, research fellow at Stanford, known for a widely read annual letter.

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  It is the party's censorship, not any lack of talent, that has made China a cultural underperformer beside Japan and South Korea.

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  As I’ve written in each of my previous letters, the party’s strangling of free expression has rendered China into a pitiful underperformer relative to Japan and South Korea in the creation of cultural products.

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First Amendment lawyer and former federal prosecutor; writes The Popehat Report and explains what the law actually says when people shout about free speech.

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  Treating criticism as censorship is a widespread confusion, and it is wrong: the critic has speech rights of their own.

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  “Your criticism violates my right to free speech” is a fatuous but common American sentiment.

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Founded SpaceX in 2002, joined Tesla's board in 2004 and became its chief executive in 2008; later founded Neuralink, The Boring Company and xAI. Bought Twitter in 2022 and renamed it X, where he now posts many times a day.

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  Free speech only means anything if people you dislike are allowed to say things you dislike; otherwise it is only a matter of time before the censorship turns on you.

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  So there’s a diversity of viewpoints and free speech only matters if people you don’t like are allowed to say things you don’t like. Because if that’s not the case, you don’t have free speech and it’s only a matter of time before the censorship has turned upon you.

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Co-founder and chief executive of Meta Platforms, the company he started as Facebook in 2004.

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  Digital worlds should carry fewer restrictions than the physical one, because acts that would do damage in reality do none there.

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  So it's like, is that problematic? I don't think so because fundamentally you're not causing harm in that world. So I think that part of the question that I think we need to figure out is what are the ways where things could have been harmful in the physical world that we'll now be freed from that? And therefore there should be fewer restrictions in the digital world.

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Designer, architect and scientist, who led the Mediated Matter group at MIT and founded OXMAN, a company that builds products in collaboration with living organisms.

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  Precision agriculture as practised is too late by construction: by the time a drone photographs a crop that looks bad, the damage has already happened.

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  Because right now we are using drones to take photos of crops, of corn, that look bad. And when we take that photo, it's already too late.

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Journalist; wrote We Are Eating the Earth on food and climate, and writes the newsletter Emissions.

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  Since people are not going to give up beef, the way to cut its damage is to make cattle far more productive on the land they already use.

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  Our species isn’t going to quit beef anytime soon, so we’re going to have to fix beef.

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