Thanks to Ev Fedorenko, I published the first of (at least) 2 new essays.

https://philosophics.blog/2026/01/10/language-as-interface/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

In this one, I postulate that 20th-century accounts of language origins need to be revisited if her fMRI findings are correct that cognition is pre-verbal. This also means that moral language is post hoc rationalisation.

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@tk , j'ai kill mon abo aux amis y'a 2 mois après 2 ans. Dommage eliane. :)

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Buried towards the bottom of an update about the Breaking Smart newsletter, Venkatesh Rao includes this diagram and links to a post where he commits to longer-term work. In an associated Twitter thread, one tweet talks about one way of telling whether a project is a new TLP (‘Top Level Project’) or part of an existing one: does it require a new name or domain name? Interesting. I’m trying to rationalize all my activities to be simpler and easier to manage. An important first step for me was shutting down my other newsletter, Art of Gig, a month ago. Another was adopting 2 long-term rules across my projects — no new top-level projects, and minimum 10-year commitments. Source: Upcoming Changes | Breaking Smart

https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2021/06/10/rationalising-work-for-the-40-brigade/