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Grounded
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Grounded is a personal blog at jessicawildfire.substack.com about politics and culture. Since 2022, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
News, analysis, survival. Click to read Grounded, by Jessica, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
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on “The war on remote work has nothing to do with productivity”Submitted Girls in Yoga Pants Explain the Higher Education Apocalypse as a story · 91 points
HN discussionThis pandemic a few hundreds of thousands have died in the USA alone because a few, very few people decided to pander anti scientific views. Which found a very fertile ground thanks to the relentless work of conservative pundits in the last few decades destroying the credibility of media. Check Charlie Stykes' How the Right Lost Its Mind -- and note he blames himself as well, rightfully so. The next pandemic when th…
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on “OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 per Hour to Make ChatGPT Less Toxic”Submitted We're Living Through the End of Civilization, and We Should Be Acting Like It as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThis reminds me of one article I read today. https://jessicawildfire.substack.com/p/what-the-hell-is-goin... "Meanwhile, “liberal” mayors around the country are dismantling homeless camps and removing them from public view. They say they’re moving them to shelters, but we know this is bullshit. Experts have called them on this, and they’ve also pointed out the damage it does. Dismantling the camps doesn’t help the h…
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on “NYC cleared 239 homeless camps. Only 5 people moved to shelters”Submitted Long Term Consequences of Covid as a story · 4 points
HN discussionLike many folks, I suppose, I thought I had a reasonable layman's grasp of globalization. Turns out it was mostly superficial. I'm currently reading "The End of the World is Just the Beginning" by Peter Zeihan [1] and it is enlightening. Highly recommended in helping to add (especially historical) perspective to understanding the death throes of globalization. Paired with "normalcy bias" [2], which I was vaguely awa…
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on “Globalization Is Dead and No One Is Listening”Submitted You're Not a Fearmonger. You Have Sentinel Intelligence as a story · 2 points
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