Which Button Would You Press?Apr 29
what a viral internet debate tells us about ourselves, society, and how fun it is to call your friends evil/a dumbass
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It's Time to Talk About America's Disorder Problem
violent crime is down, but our cities still feel lawless. here’s what we can do about it.
Charles Fain Lehman
Mar 7, 2025
Charles Fain Lehman is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and senior editor of City Journal. Today in Pirate Wires, he examines the causes of American disorder — retail theft, unsheltered homelessness, and visible disarray across U.S. cities. Disorder is more insidious than violent crime, harder to track, and possibly more taboo to discuss. Solutions exist. We just need to implement them.
This piece was originally published in Charles' Substack, The Causal Fallacy.
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The AI Filmmaker Outrunning HollywoodApr 27
charlie curran is making ai-generated movies about iran and the rizzler, among other things, entertaining millions and building an ai film studio while hollywood panics
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Assassination CultureApr 21
pirate wires #159 // the attempts on sam altman’s life were not a one (or two)-off phenomena, but a new cultural norm, and every one of us is now at risk
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