It would be super easy to create your own feeds without AI

Using "technology is neither good nor bad nor neutral" to justify an AI feature is a bit like quoting "the road to hell is paved with good intentions" to support your intentions.

Curiosity leading to actual skill acquisition is fundamentally different from prompting an AI to build something you don't understand and can't maintain.

The view-source era was exciting precisely because it motivated us to learn. You saw something cool, looked at the source, started to understand what the markup was doing, went down a rabbit hole.

I think every member of congress should be replaced with people like her who were fired by DOGE

100%

Ghost also uses Stripe. There doesn't seem to be an easy way around it, unfortunately

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Founders Fund (Peter Thiel) both profit from Substack via their shares in Stripe, Substack's payment processor. So everyone on Substack is enriching those who are currently dismantling our democracy.

For real. I can't determine who is in charge of deciding which comments get hidden but I always look at them and they're usually spot on

They're all campaign financed by private interests. Every one of them needs to be replaced with representatives who won't accept "legal" bribery or nothing is going to change.