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Paul Kingsnorth
paulkingsnorth.substack.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2021
Paul Kingsnorth is a writer whose Substack covers technology, the internet, AI, vaccines and Simone Weil.
What HN saysHN commenters split: one calls the newsletter brilliant and mentions his conversion to Eastern Orthodoxy, another calls its vaccine writing antivax and abhorrent.
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- 1The Neon God4 people · 3 points · first shared 2023 · 1 comments on HN
- 2The Vaccine Moment, part one2 people · 23 points · first shared 2021 · 36 comments on HN
- 3Writers Against AI2 people · 4 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
- 4The Universal – Questions Concerning the Internet2 people · 2 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
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- 6Simone Weil and the Need for Roots1 people · 80 points · first shared 2021 · 70 comments on HN
- 7The Vaccine Moment, part two1 people · 7 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
- 8AI is "a shabby, boring and evil thing" – discuss1 people · 5 points · first shared 2025 · 2 comments on HN
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- 12The Basilisk Revisited1 people · 2 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
- 13Intermission: The Scriptorium1 people · 1 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
- 14The Machine – Paul Kingsnorth1 people · 1 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
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b800h · 2023-05-20
He recently converted to Eastern Orthodoxy, and writes a brilliant newsletter:
https://paulkingsnorth.substack.com/
bambax · 2022-03-11
Well, to mention just one example, "The Abbey of Misrule" (https://paulkingsnorth.substack.com) pushes antivaxx rhetoric. I don't know if that represents "50% of the population" (let's hope not) but it's abhorrent in any case.
cholmon · 2023-05-01
The fourth question is in a later blog post, "The Neon God" - https://paulkingsnorth.substack.com/p/the-neon-god