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John Carter
Personal blog · barsoom.substack.comculturescience
John Carter writes Postcards From Barsoom, a personal blog at barsoom.substack.com about culture and science. Since 2024, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in an HN thread on hypercapitalism and AI talent wars, quoting its "neo-monks at cognitive gyms" line. The only comment objects to the post and asks for it to be flagged.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Perspectives from Earth's older, better-looking sister world.
What Hacker News says?
> Neo-monks at cognitive gyms, https://barsoom.substack.com/p/the-class-of-2026 What in the white supremacy? Not on my HN. Flagged, emailed to mods, named and shamed on my bio.
Comment linking /p/the-class-of-2026
on “Hypercapitalism and the AI talent wars”Submitted Partial explainer of Zoomer girl derangement, from a Zoomer girl as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted A one-kilometre Monster Telescope as a story · 3 points
HN discussion