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Adam Aleksic

Personal blog · etymology.substack.comculturewriting

Adam Aleksic writes The Etymology Nerd, a personal blog at etymology.substack.com about culture and writing. Since 2025, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.

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ruminations on modern communication.

What Hacker News says?

  1. Submitted How scrolling becomes a religious act as a story · 79 points

    HN discussion
  2. Submitted Lolcow Theory of the Internet as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Your phone is a fake house as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Field notes from a phone-free future as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Slop Realism as a story · 1 points

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