The most twadpockliest posts of 2024

We trusted the numbers, bullied AI, broke our own hearths, and much much more!

Thanks for reading the Twadpockle Report in 2024!

I enjoyed colliding my favorite narratives for you, and I look forward to more in 2025.

Around September, a major piece of my life got disrupted and threw off my creative rhythm. This was a good thing that I knew was coming, yet it brought growing pains that were hard to prepare for. I am still regrouping and experimenting and will be back to a more predictable routine when I can.

“We trusted the numbers, bullied AI, broke our own hearths, and much much more!” by Substack AI, ETCHING style

I enjoyed my first audio episode and plan to record more. Speaking allows me to explore a topic more fluidly, when I don’t have a literary goal. I will still write when an idea comes with a clear sense of story, character, or literary form. Or when I feel like it.

The upshot is, I left you plenty of free time to read all of this year’s top posts, listed below.

If you’ve missed any, you have only yourself to blame now is the perfect time to catch up.

Your favorites

The most viewed of 2024

1. Woo is me
   Nothing to see here but a magical force that binds the galaxy together
   16 Jun 2024

2. Simulation Theory

   I agree to disagree, but you’ll never guess how!

   25 Nov 2024

3. Introduction to Awareness Recursion Theory (ART)

   How symbols get their meanings

   16 Apr 2024

4. #TPT - The history of medicine and the founding of the AMA

   Sarah Thompson’s live talk at Porcfest 2024

   7 Aug 2024

5. Orange you glad the AI didn’t say banana?

   AI self-defense, Lesson Four

   16 Aug 2024

“We trusted the numbers, bullied AI, broke our own hearths, and much much more!” by Substack AI

My favorites

The ones I would FORCE you to read—if you asked me nicely

• Wild, bold, and twad-pocryphal
  Another Marecian fable with Edison and Einstein
  8 Jan 2024

• To pen a hobgoblin

  A Thoreau debunking

  12 Feb 2024

• My first AI

  Expecting the expected, Part One

  26 Feb 2024

  (Catch the whole AI series starting here!)

• Study links furnaces to indoor cooling

  Numbers still don’t lie!

  25 Mar 2024

• Everyone is wrong about free speech

  A rhapsody of rights

  2 Apr 2024

• Hearth breakers

  Beware those who organize themselves in other ways.

  21 Jul 2024

“We trusted the numbers, bullied AI, broke our own hearths, and much much more!” by Substack AI, PAINT style