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Sam Matey-Coste
Personal blog · sammatey.substack.comculturescience
Sam Matey-Coste writes The Weekly Anthropocene, a personal blog at sammatey.substack.com about culture and science. Since 2024, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this Substack for a piece about a researcher trying to breed passenger pigeons back into existence. A second comment links other posts on cosmological natural selection, not this blog's writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Dispatches Against Despair, from the Wild, Weird World of Humanity and its Biosphere.
What Hacker News says?
This was an engaging read about a researcher trying to breed passenger pigeons back into existence. https://sammatey.substack.com/p/repost-the-weekly-anthropoce...
Comment linking /p/repost-the-weekly-anthropocene-interviews-3f5
on “A ‘double brood’ of periodical cicadas will emerge in 2024”Submitted Interview: Kim Stanley Robinson, Science Fiction Maestro and Utopian, in 2026 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAgain, I've written about the reproduction of universes at length here... The key implication of cosmological natural selection: https://theeggandtherock.com/p/the-key-implication-of-cosmol... And here... A history of cosmological natural selection: https://theeggandtherock.com/i/158515951/background-lee-smol... And if you prefer Youtube, I've talked about it here on the Infinite Loops podcast: https://www.youtube.c…
Comment linking /p/interview-julian-gough-on-cosmological
on “Earth's organisms developed via evolution. What if the cosmos did, too?”Submitted Interview: Kim Stanley Robinson, Science Fiction Maestro and Utopian (2024) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Weekly Anthropocene Interviews: Jason Pargin, Cosmic Satirist of Hope as a story · 1 points
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