Freddie deBoer

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Writing on education, mental health, politics, and culture from a socialist perspective.

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🎭 Culture

January 17, 2026

Perhaps People Are Cynical About Success in the Creative Arts for a Reason

I am not unaware of the fact that this is a completely thankless, pointless thing to write, a piece which will do nothing for me and will not even effectively promote the perspective I’m sharing here

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💻 Technology

January 16, 2026

LLM Hallucinations Are Still Absolutely Nuts

A couple months back, a grad student reached out to me to see if I could help with some research they were doing

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🌍 Geopolitics

January 16, 2026

If You Want Freedom and Democracy For Iranian People and All Peoples, You Must Start By Admitting What America Is and Does

we do not liberate, we do not rescue, and we do not permit democracy to get in the way of getting what we want

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🏛️ Politics

January 15, 2026

"Defund the Police" Failed Because We Have No History

to do better next time, we have to learn from the past

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🎭 Culture

January 15, 2026

All Kidding Aside, I Find the Creative Arc of Stranger Things to Be Quite Sad

an object lesson in problems with modern storytelling

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