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About Asterisk is the little magazine of the San Francisco Bay Area — which is to say, we're the little magazine of the world, a few years in advance. We put our scenes and subcultures in conversation with themselves, and with everyone else.

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Blog 2 months ago
Why We Like Things
What Silicon Valley gets wrong about taste.
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Blog 2 months ago
How Diplomats See the World
Inside the boring-by-design U.S. fact-checking machine.
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Blog 3 months ago
Beware the Permanent Periphery
Most countries will never have frontier AI. They're the ones who should be worrying.
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Blog 3 months ago
Rust and Boll
Anthropic should learn from those cotton-picking socialists.
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Blog 3 months ago
All Work and No Play
Welcome to Issue 15.
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Blog 4 months ago
In Praise of Observational Evidence
Everyone knows RCTs are the gold standard of evidence. ….Right?
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Blog 4 months ago
The Doomers Are All Right
What is it like to live in a world you believe is about to end?
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Blog 4 months ago
Engineering Peace
The development community treats war as inevitable. We're learning how to pay to prevent it.
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Blog 4 months ago
We're All One Crisis Away From Taking Unlicensed Research Peptides
For health hackers, the risk is not experimenting.
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Blog 5 months ago
Selling Abstraction
What global financial markets have in common with necromancers.
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