Welcome to whatever this is!

Thank you for joining me in this experiment.

It’s a shiny new Substack!

I’m hoping to keep myself accountable, and write to you once a week (at least). I don’t have a plan yet for any kind of overarching theme, but I’ll say this: I love wandering down research rabbit holes, so if you subscribe, you can send me a topic and I’ll run with it for one of these posts. (Subject to the bounds of good sense and my own desires, because I do in fact run this joint.)

Some subjects you can reliably expect to hear about:

• Nuclear history, especially Chernobyl and Hanford

• Technology and social justice

• Inordinately in-depth analysis of video games

• The strange beauty and beautiful strangeness of sports

• Clumsy but rhapsodic appreciation of opera

And more!

In any case, this is the beginning of an experiment. Thank you for your service, and I look forward to inflicting my thoughts on you.