Fair enough. But I do think all major metro areas should have good rail transport.

Thanks for the thorough response: ) You're right about the Asch experiments. And I like the idea of opportunity in dissent.

Thanks! The Substack piece could maybe work in a note, but I'm not sure it's up to WTK standards for feature presentation. There's probably at least one mainstream story on the subject buried somewhere.

Our bodies do have minds of their own. Sounds like you've found some clarity around your asthma. I've definitely put myself through the wringer with overwork before. Beautiful dancing and snazzy glasses:

When I was talking to someone at the coffee shop about it today, the guy didn't know what the Fourth Amendment was. And I feel like that sums up a key part of the problem.

Food for thought. An letter introducing the series seems like a good place to start.

That's great, thanks! Is there a link?

We'll see how it all shakes out. You're right that someone may step up to offer exchange services eventually.

True enough! And yet, I am here.

Thanks for opening up about your process. I am in awe of many things. Love and art and the way things work. Sometimes I absorb myself in imagining the world at nano scale. This definitely helps to adjust

For any implant/BCI, I think requiring health impact studies and transparent disclosure of risks would be great. And I think some kind of data sovereignty rule giving individuals control of the data they

I just re-read some of Fred's essay. It's a fine story but I don't think it reflects how things actually are. I think things are probably much weirder than a Galactic Federation and extraterrestrials secretly

Changing it up with the black and white. And Rosie! Sounds like a rough day. Be gentle with yourself.

I could totally see it adapted for a WTK newsletter.

Yeah it's hard stuff. I agree that social justice warriors could benefit from having more of these conversations.

Beautiful. Jade is indeed amazing: )

Thanks for sharing your experience. Stories are how we make sense of the world, and the world doesn't always make sense, so some of our stories naturally veer into fantasy. The first question I ask when

Right. If we know about the armed dolphins, what don't we know about?

Yeah no one expects the dolphins to be armed. We do need more media that connects people instead of driving them apart.

AI can read media reports and detect biases/misleading information, with the potential to make propaganda more transparent. AI could serve policy by reading a million little environmental signals for a