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Emily F. Gorcenski
Personal blog · emilygorcenski.com/postculturepoliticsprogramming
Emily F. Gorcenski writes The Personal Blog of Emily Gorcenski, a personal blog at emilygorcenski.com about culture, politics and programming. Since 2016, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Making God”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-08, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers cite Emily Gorcenski's posts on Wikipedia and truth, and her reporting on Andy Ngo and Atomwaffen, as sources in discussions of journalism and media.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The personal site of Emily Gorcenski
Most-linked posts?
- Making God2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-11-26
- Owning my own data, part 1: Integrating a self-hosted calendar solution2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-04-09
What Hacker News says?
Haven't read the article in full yet, but it reminded me of this nice excerpt on Wikipedia and truth and the best of what we know: https://emilygorcenski.com/post/on-truth/ ""But one of the most significant differences critical for moving from polarization to productivity, is that the Wikipedians who write these articles aren’t actually focused on finding the truth. They’re working for something that’s a little more…
Comment linking /post/on-truth/
on “Wikipedia’s nonprofit status questioned by D.C. U.S. attorney”Submitted Owning my own data, part 1: Integrating a self-hosted calendar solution as a story · 383 points
HN discussion"Journalist Andy Ngo" That's a good one, you mean the man who constantly steals the work of other journalists and pass it off as his own? The same 'journalist' who passed on kill lists of protesters' names to neo-nazi groups [0]? You need better sources. [0] https://emilygorcenski.com/post/andy-ngo-and-the-atomwaffen-...
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on “Record Breaking Number of Journalists Arrested in the U.S. This Year”Submitted To forget is an ethical act as a story · 127 points
HN discussionBack in 2016 he wrote an article in The Cut titled "What's Missing From the Conversation About Transgender Kids."[1] (which, incidentally, has since been silently corrected by The Cut's editors). It draws some pretty major conclusions from a single study [2] where he seems to overlook some pretty glaring issues that contradict his conclusion. [3] Signal, to his credit, admits the error, although he goes on to argue…
Comment linking /post/jesse-singal-still-got-more-wrong-than-he-thinks/
on “Scientific American's departing editor and the politicization of science”Submitted The Myth of Decentralization and Lies about Web 2.0 as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Read 40 Books and Extinguished the World on Fire as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Owning my own data, part 1: Integrating a self-hosted calendar solution as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making God as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted When Open Science Isn't: The OkCupid Data Breach as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making God: millenarianism and manifest destiny of AI and techno-futurism as a story · 1 points
HN discussion