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Twilight of the Godless, Part One (opens the original)
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In this series, I will ask for readers’ patience as I tie together several ongoing Tom File themes with an attempted speculative history of the future.In my review of Tomorrow’s People, I cited evolutionary psychologist Geoffrey Miller’s remarkably prescient 2006 essay. He explained the Fermi paradox — the lack of observable intelligent extraterrestrial life in the univers
America's Most Republican Counties: An Update (opens the original)
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A few years ago, I published an analysis of 2020 election data seeking to identify the size-adjusted most Republican counties in America. Today I update that post with 2024 data and provide some AI-assisted number crunching to better visualize and understand it.“Size-adjusted” is very important when looking at election data. The most conservative voting parts of the United States are the most rural and depopulated. That is interesting trivia, but for most people impractical as a decision-making
The Section 230 Theory of Everything (opens the original)
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For a couple of years, I have followed the insightful Gen Z writer Freya India, a young British woman writing under a pen name. She strikes me as a younger person with an old soul and sensitive disposition who narrates the struggles of her generation from the inside: nihilist secular culture, broken families, deracinated from any vestige of heritage and tradition, brains and bodies entirely commodified, liquified, and rendered for profit online. Her first book, GIRLS®, is an exhaustive catalog o
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