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Inside: The actual epistemic crisis; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/20/epistemic-void/
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Before photoshopped images, we had Playboy magazine. You cannot imagine how much foundation was used on those girls.
The actual epistemic crisis: AI's assault on reality is an opportunistic infection.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/117130483897538524
https://bsky.app/profile/did:web:pluralistic.net/post/3mtkguvwlkk2l
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Hey look at this
* The $1 Trillion Black Box https://www.propublica.org/article/military-defense-spending-budget-series
* The Right Word is Wrongness https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/the-right-word-is-wrongness/
* Yes Obviously the Senate Should Be Abolished https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/yes-obviously-the-senate-should-be
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#20yrsago Goth day at Disneyland photos https://flickr.com/photos/doctorow/tags/batsday/
#20yrsago HOWTO run a successful sf convention room party https://www.nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/how_to_throw_a_1/
#20yrsago Yahoo: Go ahead and remix our brand https://web.archive.org/web/20061111175912/http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000348.html
#10yrsago The Equation Group’s sourcecode is totally fugly https://web.archive.org/web/20160818012451/https://www.cs.uic.edu/~s/musings/equation-group/
#5yrsago Bubble https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/21/podcasting-as-a-visual-medium/#huntr
#1yrago Melissa Mendes's "The Weight" https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/21/weighty/#edie-is-a-badass
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Yesterday's threads: The ordinariness of evil; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/117121090724073316
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