velcro city tourist board
a blog by Paul Graham Raven
science fiction / social theory / climate futures / infrastructure / utopian narratology / sometimes cats
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the inevitability of subspam
As I and many others predicted it would, Substack at some point moved to a model where you can no longer simply add your email to the list of a given publication; now (of course!) you have to make an account on the platform to subscribe to anything. But you also have to make an…
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it seems to me ill-mannered
I have said before that the accusation of bad faith argument is itself a bad faith argument. I’m increasingly taken with an extension to that claim.
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listen to the science!!1
For the avoidance of confusion (and hatemail): the point is not at all “lol, science whut”.
Who is Paul Graham Raven?
“… who, with raving lips uttering things mirthless, unbedizened, and unperfumed, reaches over a thousand years with [his] voice, thanks to the god in [him].”