Justin Smith-Ruiu’s Hinternet

Notes on the history of technology, medicine, science, art, drugs, and empire from UC Santa Cruz history professor Benjamin Breen. Also: using AI in research and teaching.

My personal Substack

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My personal Substack. Personal views only. Actually, not even personal views. I don't even know what my personal views are anymore. It doesn't matter. Read anyway!

Wandering around an infinitely complex, ever changing world.

A central hub for the work of the Internet's "King of Content"

These heavy sands are language tide and wind have silted here

Football, anthropology, music, poetry and all else.

Nine Circles +

In France, there are six sides to every story...

Your guide to great writing happening on Substack, plus the home of “The Active Voice,” a podcast by Hamish McKenzie.

Explorations in Faith

Criticism, essays, etc.

observations, mostly philosophical, mostly small

Head of Writer Relations @Substack

Exclusive fiction too out-there for prime time, by the author of Fight Club. Writing lessons. Lurid back story.

An ocean of stories from Salman Rushdie: I'll be talking about stories I’ve read or seen, true stories, tall stories, stories about me, and some I just made up.

What computers will do for, or to, mathematics and mathematicians

Lawrence Weschler's Fortnightly Compendium of the Miscellaneous Diverse.

Exploring the Christian moral life with cold takes and nuance. The moral life of the Christian community, and those things which sustain and damage it.

Frames is a monthly newsletter that sheds light on the most important issues concerning business and technology.

The best literary and arts writing on the internet

A magazine about human machine relations, AI and tech, entertainment, arts and culture, and the psychology of social media.

Stories, poems, thoughts & more stories: the Alphabet Soup in my mind just keeps simmering.

explorations at the intersections of deep time, theology, the human past, and the fraught present "The adaptations, the fusions / the transmogrifications / but always / the inward continuities / of the site / of place"

cool but rude

Do not be conformed to this world

Essays and notes, philosophizing and attempting to write.

A newsletter about reading.

rantings and ravings about b00ks i like and dislike, articles i write and read, and whatever else i feel like, at totally irregular intervals

A deviant Substack. From the writer behind @AliceFromQueens.

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Conversations on genetics, history, politics, books, culture and evolution

P(A|B) = [P(A)*P(B|A)]/P(B), all the rest is commentary.

Sharing events, programs and threads open to participating Substack writers. Currently on the Substack category tour. Join us!

An ongoing inquiry into the ideological fever that overtook the governing and chattering classes of America during the Trump years

News and Updates

You'll never think of Foucault the same way again

Movieshows

An emotional scrapbook of the Internet.

notes, letters, commentary

Essays by Heather Havrilesky, Ask Polly columnist and author of Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage (2022), What If This Were Enough? (2018), How to Be a Person in the World (2016), and Disaster Preparedness (2011)

Bird photos, notes about reading, and the odd essay from the novelist Caleb Crain

A newsletter about science, social-justice-activism, why they sometimes fight, and how to help them get along better -- plus a good deal of other, more random stuff.

Weekly essays on how technology reshapes how we create and consume culture, plus updates on my book and writing.

Regular news and features by award-winning author and investigative reporter, Matt Taibbi.