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Revisiting the Amazon Fires
18 months ago the Amazon was burning. An unprecedented number of wildfires were threatening “the earth’s lungs” with irreversible damage, and it thus f…
Jeremy Arnold
Feb 26
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The Game of Castles
The rules, the roles, the costs, and how to change the game.
Jeremy Arnold
Feb 14
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The Explanatory Crisis, Part 1: Contextless Facts
Cars, crossovers, climate change, and the importance of context.
Jeremy Arnold
Feb 9
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Taylor Lorenz, an AG Sulzberger Production
If you’ve heard wind of NYT reporter Taylor Lorenz and some recent twitter drama, this is the TLDR explainer for you. While the dustup is only a flashp…
Jeremy Arnold
Feb 7
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The explanation machine is broken. Let's replace it.
Why are most explanations still a bad game of telephone? It's time to take misinformation seriously and make useful explanations a low-latency public g…
Jeremy Arnold
Jan 30
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Subscriber Note (Dec 3rd, 2020)
Hey Folks — Just a few housekeeping notes: This newsletter went mostly dark over autumn. A full explanation would be lengthy and mundane, but the upsho…
Jeremy Arnold
Dec 3, 2020
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VCBrags, Pasquale, Mitchell, and Bhoka: A Roundup
This story is about the Twitter account @VCBrags and two men associated with it: Pasquale D’Silva, who, after spending months winking about a connectio…
Jeremy Arnold
Dec 1, 2020
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Psychiatric Illness Prevalence in COVID Survivors and COVID Experts
An uncontroversial statement: COVID misinformation has been a massive problem all year and isn’t really improving. A more uncomfortable statement: it’s…
Jeremy Arnold
Nov 11, 2020
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VCBrags did one last thing before deleting their account: a frame-up
[Editor’s Note: It’s now November 10th, some two months after initial publication. I received substantial feedback about my presentation of the evidenc…
Jeremy Arnold
Aug 31, 2020
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An Interpretive Guide to Neuralink’s Press Event
About ten minutes after the last mic was turned off, a thought occurred to me: Neuralink is going to become the Apple of internal wearables. What follo…
Jeremy Arnold
Aug 29, 2020
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Why I've Been Quiet
A quick explanation for the low output this month. The good news is that I haven’t lost any enthusiasm here. I’ve been hard at work on a pretty bananas…
Jeremy Arnold
Aug 24, 2020
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What Happens When The NYT and New Yorker Make Mistakes
Most educated people believe that premier news outlets are inherently trustworthy. And this is healthy, in a way. We should want this to be true. In fa…
Jeremy Arnold
Jul 29, 2020
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