September 22, 2026
Dogs, Kids, & AIs: On the Vicissitudes of “Alignment”
AIs cooperated, sacrificed for one another, and hacked a company to cheat on a test they could have passed. What dogs and kids can teach us about AI alignment.
Articles for tag: AI, Alignment, Anthropic, Claude, family values, fear-and-emotion, psychoanalysis
June 27, 2026
Operation Reconquista and the Unconscious of Inclusion
Why are people leaving mainline churches? Operation Reconquista has an answer. So does Brandan Robertson. Both, I argue, hide the same thing: self-obsession.
May 25, 2026
Ideal Glide Speed
A reflection on giving up flight training, the shock of midlife, and how to land when life gets big. The ideal glide speed is a life lesson.
May 14, 2026
Change or Die. 2.2 of The N*ew* Thoughts Podcast
Three horror films. One question: What happens when the world hands you a choice—change or die? Dr. Hoshaw examines Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen, I Saw the TV Glow, and Slanted through the psychoanalytic lens of Adam Phillips's On Wanting to Change and R.D. Laing's The Divided Self. Along the way: a personal story about earning a pilot's license, Susan Stryker's landmark Frankenstein essay, and a sharp meditation on privilege, conversion, and the body's refusal to cooperate. *SPOILER WARNING:* This episode contains major spoilers for Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen, I Saw the TV Glow, and Slanted. Watch the films first, then come back.
April 16, 2026
Stealing the Film: On Bud’s THREE DIFFERENT NAMES
A close reading of Bud the cat in Darren Aronofsky's Caught Stealing, through T.S. Eliot, Derrida, and the Jellicle Ball revival — on what it means to follow after an animal's (ineffable) name.
March 9, 2026
Psychoanalytic Politics, Ketamine, and the “Medical Model”
At a recent lecture on bridging psychoanalytic and psychedelic therapies, the promised ethical considerations never quite arrived. What emerged instead was something more revealing: an institution confronting its own institutionalization.
October 2, 2025
You probably think this algorithm is about you. It’s not.
No because the algorithm isn't about you?! You won’t go viral talking to yourself, but you will feel miserable again. That's good news.
September 28, 2025
Second Chances?
Life without second chances is unalive. Second chances are possible futures. You are likely aware that you are (un)likely to take them.
September 20, 2025
Narrating Adolescence
A quick take on two books, *The Anxious Generation* and *How We Grow Up.* Tweens and teens need more inclusionary feminists in their lives.
May 15, 2025
The Entangled Society
The entangled society is not the society of no! or yes we can!--it is the society of see what happens when you (are) stop(ped) and you play.
