Slopstack™ and the illusion of explanatory depth

What are we doing here?

Sep 11 • Rarely Certain

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August 2026

On swallowing the hot-takes bait on Slopstack™ Notes

I hate that I've been becoming That Guy who has Very Strong Opinions which he is compelled to share because he mistakes his personal sensibilities for…

Aug 27 • Rarely Certain

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With 'friends' like this, Jason Arday doesn't need enemies

How Jolyon Maugham's Good Law Project instrumentalises Jason Arday's plight, thus exposing him to even greater public ire.

Aug 10 • Rarely Certain

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Notes from my socio-politically homogenous holiday

What you’re missing behind the paywall:

Aug 3 • Rarely Certain

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June 2026

This article was produced first by running some ideas past ChatGPT and then by ignoring most of what it suggested I write

Amazingly, there is a middle way

Jun 20 • Rarely Certain

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May 2026

The intellectual and moral failing of anti-AI ̶i̶n̶f̶l̶u̶e̶n̶c̶e̶r̶s̶ ̶ performers

Prelude:

May 29 • Rarely Certain

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On the pernicious nature of 'content culture'

Never visit the Substack subreddit

May 24 • Rarely Certain

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Who needs socialism now there's Joplin* 🤷🏻‍♂️

Celebrating my lived reality

May 12 • Rarely Certain

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April 2026

Let's not forget there are nice things

Resistance to doom and gloom

Apr 17 • Rarely Certain

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March 2026

No Kings? How about less performative rhetorical smugness?

Despairing of the way leftishists behave, even when they have a point

Mar 30 • Rarely Certain

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'But why do you care?'

A bit of philosophy around moral framing, status assertion and social policing

Mar 25 • Rarely Certain

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February 2026

A stochastic parrot goes into a bar ...

My backlash to the AI backlash

Feb 18 • Rarely Certain

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