David AuerbachThe Bloodsport of the Hive Mind: Common Knowledge in the Age of Many-to-Many Broadcast NetworksCommon knowledge is that which I know and that which I know everyone else knows. That, at least, is the easiest way to put it for my…5 min read·Jan 13, 2021----
David AuerbachinOneZeroHow Facebook Has Flattened Human CommunicationOnline services demand easily classified content. Users have obliged.·9 min read·Aug 28, 2018--18--18
David AuerbachEverybody Hates TrumpIt’s safe to say the pseudonormalization of Trump has stopped, at least for a while. The moment Trump fired Comey, DC immediately returned…7 min read·May 21, 2017----
David AuerbachBlack Blocs and U-locksIn the previous diary I wrote about the pseudonormalization of Trump over the last month. What I gave was only half of the story. I didn’t…16 min read·May 7, 2017--4--4
David AuerbachThe Pseudonormalization of TrumpHow far we are from a month ago. I look back at the early Trump Diaries and they read like missives from a different world. The seething…9 min read·Apr 24, 2017----
David AuerbachTrump Diary 6: February 21, 2017Milo Yiannopoulos’ fatal flaw was being English. I’ll explain.7 min read·Feb 22, 2017----
David AuerbachTrump Diary 5: Trump and the MediaMichael Flynn (office 9 in the above pic) resigned under pressure yesterday. The supposed reason being given is that he repeatedly lied to…10 min read·Feb 16, 2017----
David AuerbachTrump Diary 4: February 2, 2017The White House backed off. That, at least, is the major takeaway from the chaos that followed the incompetently-drafted, ambiguous, and…8 min read·Feb 4, 2017----
David AuerbachinIndivisible MovementTrial Balloon for Paranoia: A markup of Yonatan Zunger’s “Trial Balloon for a Coup”On Twitter, Zunger has conceded many of the below points and admitted that he would add caveats had he known his article was going to be…12 min read·Jan 30, 2017--30--30
David AuerbachHans Blumenberg and His Myth Science ArkestraPhilosophical Anthropology and Absolute Metaphors10 min read·Apr 26, 2014----