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I have over 20 years of rich experience in leading editorial teams and shaping content strategies, with a knack for steering through digital transformations. I'm skilled in both B2B and consumer publishing sectors. I'm not just good at brainstorming ideas with editorial teams but also excel

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Frumentatio!
Frumentatio!

I still don’t agree that men can’t stop thinking about Rome, but I’m definitely thinking about it today. When Roman emperors distributed grain for free to the urban poor, they weren't being charitable, and it certainly wasn’t an egalitarian desire to spread the fruits

Ten blue links, "fork you" edition
Ten blue links, "fork you" edition

1 The knowledge class and its enemies Writing for The Nation, Elizabeth Spiers reaches for Richard Hofstadter's Anti-Intellectualism in American Life to frame something that should have been nagging at the edges of tech criticism for quite some time. Hofstadter's great insight was that anti-intellectualism in

The worst of us
The worst of us

Credit where it's due. Anthropic's system card for Claude Mythos Preview is a genuinely interesting and thoughtful document. Most AI companies publish safety evaluations the way governments publish freedom of information responses. They're technically compliant but strategically uninformative. And that's usually deliberate,

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