PinnedAnn Isabelle·May 22, 2025All the Worlds We Could Be: Quantum Mechanics and Asimov’s The End of EternityQuantum mechanics is famously weird and difficult to wrap your head around. It tells us that particles can be in many places at once, that…A response icon1A response icon1
Ann Isabelle·Aug 1Always a Stranger in a Strange LandThe buildings are still where I left them, and that is the whole trick of going back.A response icon3A response icon3
Ann Isabelle·Jun 15Why Dumas Still WinsWhy some books earn our respect, while others quietly move into our lives and never leave.A response icon3A response icon3
Ann Isabelle·Jun 14“I’m Delighted to Be Wrong”On May 26, 2026, Sam Altman stood before an audience at a Commonwealth Bank of Australia conference in Sydney and admitted he had been…A response icon2A response icon2
InRuachbyAnn Isabelle·Jun 13When the Architecture is the IdeologyDifferent societies build different worlds, and if you want to understand what a society actually believed and not what it said it believed…A response icon4A response icon4
InRuachbyAnn Isabelle·Jun 9We Built the World’s Fastest Antisemitism Machine and Named It a ChatbotThere is an old propaganda principle: you don’t need people to believe a lie completely. You just need to repeat it often enough that…A response icon5A response icon5
Ann Isabelle·Jun 7When AI Pulls the TriggerUkraine and the End of the Human in the LoopA response icon2A response icon2
InRuachbyAnn Isabelle·Jun 1Cows for McDonald’s or The Stunning Logic of “Queers for Palestine”There is a special kind of mental gymnastics needed to march through a Western city waving a rainbow flag in solidarity with a government…A response icon4A response icon4
InRuachbyAnn Isabelle·May 14When the Blood Libel Gets a DogI am 5 foot nothing Jewish woman and I own a German Shepherd. And I say this with the full authority of someone who has been herded around…A response icon8A response icon8
InRuachbyAnn Isabelle·May 13I Want to Be Free, Not a Character in Someone Else’s TheologyIn a reasonable world, I would probably be somewhere right of center.A response icon7A response icon7
