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What I already knew about social media, explained better

In 2014, Nate Silver had one million followers on Twitter and every link he published drove real traffic to his site. In 2025, he has three million, but the traffic social media brings to his Substack has become irrelevant. Those two numbers alone …

Island hopping with ashes, bones, and words

Malta is located at about 90 kilometres from Sicily. You can’t see it from the horizon unless you reach higher ground. Getting there by canoe takes over twenty-four hours, which means navigating through the night, steering by the stars.

An article by …

Is this war a pretext?

“One of the pleasures of talking with a colleague is that we can indulge ourselves a little bit by talking about the past. There’s a long history of this kind of alchemical transfiguration of democracy by way of war.”

Timothy Snyder says this to Ruth …