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June 29, 2026
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astralcodexten.comThe Metaculus Democracy Threat IndexScott Alexander reviews the Metaculus Democracy Threat Index, a crowdsourced forecasting tool that aggregates 153 questions about US democratic health to produce a transparent, less expert-dependent alternative to traditional democracy indices. He weighs its strengths (transparency, finer-grained pr
theconvivialsociety.substack.comFriendship SufficesL.M. Sacasas memorializes David Cayley, the Canadian broadcaster and interpreter of Ivan Illich who died at 81. The essay celebrates Cayley's generosity and uses his death as occasion to reflect on Illich's claim that hospitality and friendship are the ground of hope and political life, illustrated
themarginalian.orgTrue Love Will Find You in the End: Kurt Vonnegut on When to Stop Trying and When to Try AgainMaria Popova uses Vonnegut's long, painful marriage to Jane Cox as a meditation on the hardest equation in life: when to keep trying and when to stop. She frames the question through an Andean image of treeline—the precise point where conditions turn inhospitable to growth—and traces how Vonnegut me
quantamagazine.orgAfter 80 Years, Mathematicians Give Famed ‘Erdős Method’ an UpgradeDecades ago, Paul Erdős used randomness to illuminate the vast and weird world of networks. Now mathematicians are making his technique even more powerful.
commoncog.comA Retrospective on Goldratt’s Thinking ToolsSome notes on a series of members-only workshops on Eliyahu Goldratt’s Thinking Tools, presented by Roger Williams.
tricycle.orgLanding on One’s Feet in the VoidBhikkhu Bodhi on what we can learn from historical tales of rapid enlightenmentGet MichaelFilter
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