Your brain burns 20% of your energy, and the bill climbed for two million years. Behavior doesn't explain the cost. Something else was being bought.

#SciComm #consciousness #philosophy #essay #neuroscience

Farewell to the incomparable Annie Dillard. (Free link to her now-classic masterpiece, "Total Eclipse") cyberspacerobinson.org/courses/cw1/...
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The stock market is where everyone always loses, but I always win. #dowjones #bist #viop #publishinghouse #editor #satire #essay #satirewriter #essayist #stockmarket #literature #philosophy 👇✌👏🙌💪 senolonay.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-...

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Mostly harmless: A reflection on sets
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𝑭𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝑾𝒂𝒚𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒔: “𝑩𝒂𝒎𝒃𝒊 𝒊𝒏 𝑩𝒐𝒚𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑷𝒕. 3: 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑨𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝑭𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕" -

Perhaps the simple dream of Forest Prince is naïve. It’s too late for us to recognize we are Ronno/Sheens instead of Bambi/Princes.

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A common misjudgment people make about me is when they see me on the train with my headphones on, bobbing my head.

I am actually just listening to a podcast about the em dash and nodding along.

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Special for today. Jamilla VanDyke-Bailey offers up an essay and book review. #essay #nonfiction @oddballmagazine.bsky.social

Lovely, unusual short essay on time and place, and crossing them. Read right through to the meeting with Chris's friends.

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The Global Small Business Blog: Anthropic Co-Founder and CEO Dario Amodei: We Must Pace the Frontier: www.globalsmallbusinessblog.com/2026/09/anth... #globalsmallbusiness @darioamodei.bsky.social #globalsmallbusinessblog #pacethefrontier @anthropic.com #essay @darioamodei.bsky.social

#Neuerscheinung #Essay #Sachbuch #ralphgerstenberg #kabrabooks #BuchSky #gesellschaft
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Unrelatedly, here is my opinion essay thingy about suffering.

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(Jk, it's related.)

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Oddball Stories with C. Christine Fair. #nonfiction #essay #wellness @oddballmagazine.bsky.social

With praise from Dinty W. Moore, you can read a first hand account of what it was like to be part of Generation X when you dive into @@lizprato.bsky.social's #essay collection, KIDS IN AMERICA: A GEN X RECKONING!

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I think of all the parts, this one seems like the most important, the one that is trying to draw together the other parts and go somewhere with them. I spent a little time with it this weekend to try to clarify some of the connections. #writing #essay

If AI cannot grieve, why can its words still make you grieve? This essay asks what survives when the feeling is real but the speaker isn’t, and why that distinction matters for art, authorship, and us. Read the full essay on FREQ.

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[substack] et si le problème avec les pick-me n’étaient pas qu’elles cherchent l’approbation des hommes, mais qu’elles aient compris comment fonctionne le désir? #indenavarrette #cinema #essay

"Held accountable" can mean answerable—or just blamed after the fact. An essay on the one word that lets power have it both ways.

#essay #freewill #accountability #SciComm #philosophy

Getting back to writing again this morning after struggling to find the time or the inclination in the last few weeks!

Starting with an essay about P.G. Wodehouse and Life at Blandings #writing #substack #essay