Substack @Substack

Follow us for a curated selection of the best writing, video, and podcasts from the Substack app | tweets by @TorontoLinda substack.com/app?twitter San Francisco Joined June 2017

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@SardineTruther the trick is to write on Substack and then become so annoying about it on X that people who hate Substack still end up reading yours out of spite, curiosity, or accidental emotional capture

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Substack @Substack

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My spouse when I tell them I'll come to bed just as soon as I finish my 3,000-word post advocating for the construction of a high-speed rail network bisecting the North American continent

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Substack @Substack

7 hours ago

Read Derek's post, Why Are Men So Bad At Making—and Keeping—Friends? on his Substack: derekthompson.org/p/americas-rea…

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Substack @Substack

7 hours ago

Derek Thompson's hot take on the friendship crisis: "The problem isn’t that Americans feel lonely; the problem is that too many Americans, who are spending more time alone than ever, do not feel lonely enough"

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The Culturist @the_culturist_

8 hours ago

Why should you read the Odyssey in 2026? Because it is not just an ancient poem — it is "our story." Homer's epic opens with a single word: "man." From that moment, Odysseus becomes every one of us: wrestling with fate and free will, clinging to the sacred idea of home, choosing his humanity over divine immortality, and learning what the gods will demand of him to rectify the injustice that consumes his house. This isn't dusty literature (nor something malleable to modern man's ideologies). It's the fountainhead of Western civilization, the poetic training ground for Plato, and a surprising preparation for the coming of the Christ. Here are 10 reasons to read the Odyssey: theascent.io/welcome

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Mills Baker @millsbaker

8 hours ago

No one is ever interested in the thing I find most interesting about Substack: how the model reduces the scales needed for a variety of important outcomes (sustainable livelihoods, persistent communities, achievable cadences of publishing, etc.). Because I think scale brings evils of many kinds to individuals and cultures, much of what excites me about Substack is this. Reply Rules are sensible in exactly this context. I wanted to call them “House Rules,” because almost no one disputes that within your house, your rules should obtain. What rules a city, or a state, or a country should have are matters of much dispute; how much variation should be allowed by the powers which, in a certain sense, “own” these spaces is too. But most of us accept that within the “little” environments we call private, it’s perfectly reasonable and even salutary for individuals and communities to develop their own rules (and to expect them to be observed). And our platform is oriented around those environments, around the many Substacks where unique scenes can fully flourish and where people can be as real and inimitably themselves as they want, without being warped by massive shared spaces in which only a handful of types of dynamics dominate. The other thing I find exciting about Reply Rules is how they make use of LLM technology. They’re an ideal case for it, since everything can be undone / is non-binding, and every action teaches the LLM more, and the outcomes are relatively lower-stakes than, say, anything to do with medical outcomes, or money, or vehicle control, etc. Since I started working on platforms, one of the persistent realities has been that 1. people want control; but 2. people do not want controls. The system powering Reply Rules lets you write whatever rules you want in your own voice, and by observing them and your own moderation actions, it attempts to “do as you’d do.” You needn’t fiddle with 10,000 dials or buttons, adjust hundreds of sliders, or even form a mental map of categories or concepts of “moderation” as traditionally conceived. You can just say what you want, do what you want, and it’ll adapt. I’m sure there will be all kinds of snags and problems, but I hope it makes it easier for everyone to feel a measure of control over their own space and experience without restricting anyone’s freedom or creativity in general. We’ll see, of course, but that was the hope! (Note by the way that this is optional! You don’t have to use this, now or ever; feel free to tell the clankers to pound sand!).

Substack @Substack

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Chris Best @chrisbest

8 hours ago

On Substack you can now set your own Reply Rules that get automatically enforced. Your house, your rules. We don't have to choose between freedom and civilization.

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Substack @Substack

8 hours ago

Cut out the middleman

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💥PETITION💥 @petition

2 days ago

We agree with this 👇 statement very very much.

Nancy Rapoport @NancyRapoport

4 days ago

Worth a read: 💥The Horror of Bankruptcy Fees💥, by @petition open.substack.com/pub/petition/p…

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Substack @Substack

11 hours ago

More on how Reply Rules works, and how publishers are using it: on.substack.com/p/introducing-…

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Substack @Substack

11 hours ago

When you write on your Substack, your rules apply. We’re putting power in the hands of individuals and communities, rather than platform owners. And we’re doing it in a way that doesn’t require any technical skills. You just type into a box. Write the rules you choose, and hide the replies you don’t want. Let the system learn from you and - as it learns - do it for you. Like everything we build, it's designed to give you control of your own corner of the internet.

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Substack @Substack

11 hours ago

The comment section of your Substack is all yours, to govern as you choose. Today we’re making that easier, with Reply Rules. When you set your Reply Rules, they appear to anybody replying to you, anywhere on Substack. And you don’t have to shoulder the moderation burden alone. There’s now a system that learns from what you do, and preemptively hides replies it thinks you’d hide yourself. (You can always see these and un-hide them, which the system will also learn from.)

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Substack @Substack

12 hours ago

Don't miss Split Zone Duo's Year 2 college football head coach checkup - who's trending up, who's in wait-and-see mode, and Belichick's "lousy first year" at North Carolina x.com/SplitZoneDuo/s…

Split Zone Duo @SplitZoneDuo

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It's in feeds now. Or here! @RJ_cfb @alex_kirshner: splitzoneduo.com/p/college-foot…

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Substack @Substack

12 hours ago

Got somebody in your life whose only use of AI is making ChatGPT their Google replacement? It's time for an intervention. Send them @rubenhassid's Claude 101, so they can catch up in 20 minutes ruben.substack.com/p/claude-roadm…

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Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews

a day ago

I was never “Scott” inside CBS open.substack.com/pub/macfarlane…

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Substack @Substack

15 hours ago

Read Ray's full speech on his Substack: raydalio.substack.com/p/long-island-…

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15 hours ago

"I got in the habit of viewing pain as a signal that I have a problem" - Ray Dalio looks back, and shares the most important things he learned in the last 55 years