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Anyone else worried about what Substack is turning into? My understanding was that it used to be a place for nerds like you and me to try our hand at writing. But it seems that within five minutes from now it’s going to be essentially another crowd funding hub for videos and audio which I fear will drown out the written word.

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Let’s talk trains and the social media discourse thereof right quick:

“There is the refusal to understand folks with driving and flying options will take both over rail that is more expensive, less reliable, has really weird schedule times, and is more time consuming. When rail is the cheaper, easier, faster option, rail will do just fin…

Of Amtrak, AI, and Arguing About Trains on the Interwebs

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Have the U.S. bishops united behind McElroy?

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If Trump Blows it on Speech, the World is Screwed

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Rubio nails it on the pro-Hamas Columbia student deportation: It's not about free speech: it's about people who don't have a right to be in America at all."