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• [article] BDSM as a lazy ideology — 17 Jan 2025
  BDSM is an ideology stack—a collection of behaviours borne of a culture that surrounds some core set of human needs. But is it lazy? Hard to tell. It seems easy to explain away parts of it as hormone hijacking and socialisation, but there is something deeper there.
• [marginalium] On Fables and Nuanced Charts — 10 Jan 2025
• [article] Everyone's Suggestible — 10 Jan 2025
  Everyone is suggestible, not just children or the easily hypnotised; our memories and behaviours are heavily influenced by external suggestions, more than we like to acknowledge.
• [marginalium] Tools for Thinking About Censorship — 9 Jan 2025
• [marginalium] The Woman Who Spent Five Hundred Days in a Cave — 8 Jan 2025
• [marginalium] People living underwater — 8 Jan 2025
• [marginalium] The World’s Most Expensive Eating Disorder — 8 Jan 2025
• [marginalium] Thermodynamics as a metaphor — 8 Jan 2025
• [marginalium] News suffering under advertising boycotts — 8 Jan 2025
• [marginalium] Why did humanity take so long to get started — 3 Jan 2025
• [marginalium] Technological innovations have made complaining easier — 3 Jan 2025
• [marginalium] Predictions on the subscription economy — 3 Jan 2025
• [article] When groups go bad — 3 Jan 2025
  Without more tasteful social behaviours to sample from, we’re liable to attach very strongly to the behaviours of our group. Add a hostile environment, normalised physical and emotional violence, and a lack of mental and physical resources, and you have the ingredients for atrocity.
• [marginalium] How to like everything more — 3 Jan 2025
• [marginalium] Encyclopaedia Brittania is a profitable AI company — 3 Jan 2025