housekeeping

A reflight of a SpaceX Falcon 9. Welcome back, readers! It’s been six months since the last post, and for the past three months the site has been down. I wasn’t happy with Wordpress, so I rebuilt the site in Hugo (thanks Gavin for introducing me!). And thanks to Shannon I now have a great logo too. All five (count ‘em) previous posts are back up, and you can expect more shortly.

Dear Sebastian, In response to your letter, I’m starting this blog. I didn’t actually coin the term California Rationalists; I found it in Alexi Sargeant’s 2018 writeup of the community in Plough, which I ran across in the wake of the NYT-SlateStarCodex affair. But I agree with all the conclusions you draw from my use of the term. Communities are best grounded in a physical place, and the Internet should contribute positively to our local relationships as well as our virtual ones.