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by Jo Freeman
A women's-liberation organiser's 1970 warning to her own movement: groups that refuse formal structure don't abolish hierarchy, they hide it, handing power to informal cliques of friends who answer to no one and can't be removed. Every flat startup, volunteer collective and leaderless protest movement since has rediscovered this the hard way.
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Sean Carroll's Mindscape episode on surveillance, Gwern's writing process revealed, and Martha Nussbaum on why fear is toxic to democracy.
April 13, 2026
Experimental History on overlooked paths to impact, Dario Amodei's five-hour conversation with Lex Fridman, and Ethan Mollick on what just happened in AI.
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Dwarkesh Patel's second Zuckerberg interview, an AI Snake Oil post on whether progress is slowing, and Holden Karnofsky's framework for AI risk triggers.
