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Understanding media bias
And why it's not worth stressing about
Aug 21, 2023
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Mike Hind
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Do I have a right to sex?
Rarely Certain is back to normal
Oct 27, 2023
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Mike Hind
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That feeling when you get phasic bursting of dopamine neurons in the Ventral Tegmental Area
Speculations about feelings of well-being and how to more reliably have them
Oct 26, 2022
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Mike Hind
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Stop making your mind up!
Radical Uncertainty - an antidote to anger, narcissism and intellectual frustration
Jul 14, 2021
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Mike Hind
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'But why do you care?'
A bit of philosophy around moral framing, status assertion and social policing
Mar 25
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Mike Hind
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When everything is artifice, what is real?
Apr 14, 2023
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Mike Hind
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Let's not turn Substack into the next OnlyFans
Dec 18, 2023
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Confessional
Mar 30, 2025
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Mike Hind
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Rachel's tears cost me £000s but objecting to a chancellor's emotional dysregulation is 'misogynistic'
Jul 7, 2025
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Mike Hind
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A stochastic parrot goes into a bar ...
My backlash to the AI backlash
Feb 18
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The Ecstasy of Sensemaking
Good on awareness and feels but light on operational measures
Jan 9
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Mike Hind
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Crises? What crises?
An unfashionably positive review of 2025 and optimism for the coming year
Dec 31, 2025
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Mike Hind
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Merry Christmas. Unironically
'Tis the season, after all
Dec 24, 2025
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Mike Hind
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Reflections on the Twitter Files
Twitter almost drove me insane
Nov 27, 2025
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Mike Hind
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Things just aren't that bad and probably won't be
This is no way to encourage more paying subscribers
Oct 19, 2025
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Mike Hind
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“Kill the pig! Cut her throat! Spill her blood!”
Joining in with rituals and succumbing to emotional dysregulation are choices
Oct 3, 2025
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Mike Hind
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Thoughts on intellectual authoritarianism without philosophical reflection
Those who lean into Trump and Farage aren't the only offenders
Sep 18, 2025
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Mike Hind
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An unexpected realisation 😳
Simple conservatism looks, to me, like healthy scepticism
Sep 3, 2025
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Welcome to the post-tribal struggle. Being 'right' is overrated anyway. It's not what you think, it's why you think it. Some posts about personal subjective wellbeing (not self-help shit).
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