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So, the British weekly "The Economist" declared in October 2026 that Effective Altruism (EA) is one of the most significant ideas of the 21st Century. They credit the idea with the rise in charitable donations, especiall...

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"It's now reasonable to project that half of the electric grid will be powering the digital-Internet economy within the next decade," warned an article in a respectable magazine. Another article echoed the prediction, ex...

","url":"https://mariuszozminkowski.com/writing-%26-commentary/f/electricity-seriously-in-defense-of-data-centers","title":"Electricity, Seriously? In defense of data centers.","summary":"\"It's now reasonable to project that half of the electric grid will be powering the digital-Internet economy within the next decade,\" warned an article in a respectable magazine. Another article echoed the prediction, ex...","date_modified":"2026-09-29T05:10:00Z"},{"id":"https://mariuszozminkowski.com/writing-%26-commentary/f/los-alamitos-one-year-later","html_content":"

A quick update to the 2025 article "The Warrior Ethos Is Crashing Down at Los Alamitos."

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Written from a Liu Xiaobo Bench in Griffith Park, Los Angeles, September 2026

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Verba volant, scripta manent! Today, when everything seems to be recorded and stored somewhere on paper or the internet, that old Latin proverb—"spoken words fly away, written words remain"—may not make much sense. But p...

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I know I shouldn't. I know that. I don't think I have anything new to say, anything that has not been said by others. But since everyone says something about Christopher Nolan's Odyssey... Well, here it is.

","url":"https://mariuszozminkowski.com/writing-%26-commentary/f/christopher-nolans-odyssey-curb-your-enthusiasm","title":"CHRISTOPHER NOLAN'S ODYSSEY: CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM","summary":"I know I shouldn't. I know that. I don't think I have anything new to say, anything that has not been said by others. But since everyone says something about Christopher Nolan's Odyssey... Well, here it is.","date_modified":"2026-07-29T04:18:06Z"},{"id":"https://mariuszozminkowski.com/writing-%26-commentary/f/a-hard-candy-from-sam-neill","html_content":"

New Zealand actor Sam Neill passed away on Monday, July 13 at a Sydney hospital. Much has been said about Sam Neill, his work, and his life right after his passing. I didn’t know him and know little beyond what everyone ...

","url":"https://mariuszozminkowski.com/writing-%26-commentary/f/a-hard-candy-from-sam-neill","title":"A HARD CANDY FROM SAM NEILL","summary":"New Zealand actor Sam Neill passed away on Monday, July 13 at a Sydney hospital. Much has been said about Sam Neill, his work, and his life right after his passing. I didn’t know him and know little beyond what everyone ...","date_modified":"2026-07-22T00:15:23Z"},{"id":"https://mariuszozminkowski.com/writing-%26-commentary/f/the-road-to-custer-and-crazy-horse-memorial-south-dakota","html_content":"

This is a sketch of one chapter for what I envision to be a book about my road trips across America. A sketch, a first draft—just ideas. An unfinished work.

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Brief reflections on LACMA, on judging art and architecture, and their subjectivity.

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I must say, the Secretary of Defense (War?) Pete Hegseth is a buffoon. And yet, I agree with him that the military must be a real fighting force to defeat the scoundrels of the world, like Putin or Xi Jinping. I agree th...

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Almost twenty years ago, Lawrance E. Harrison invited me to a conference organized by the Cultural Change Institute at Tufts University. I didn't know anything about the person or the Institute. What puzzled me even more...

","url":"https://mariuszozminkowski.com/writing-%26-commentary/f/cultural-change-not-always-in-the-right-direction-1","title":"CULTURAL CHANGE: NOT ALWAYS IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION","summary":"Almost twenty years ago, Lawrance E. Harrison invited me to a conference organized by the Cultural Change Institute at Tufts University. I didn't know anything about the person or the Institute. What puzzled me even more...","date_modified":"2025-08-19T04:31:29Z"},{"id":"https://mariuszozminkowski.com/writing-%26-commentary/f/ethnic-studies-charade","html_content":"

In 2021, California passed a requirement for ethnic studies classes in high school, later also extended to college. A letter from the Governor’s office stated, “California students are wonderfully diverse, and celebratin...

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Climate activists often lament the enormous differences between the rich and the poor countries in contributing to global warming. While rich countries spew millions of tons of CO2, the poor nations pay the price. They a...

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Written in 2022

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This is an older piece. Written in 2020 at the peak of woke craziness.

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I looked through the recent books on journalism, from textbooks to memoirs, written by some of the top journalism professors and editors of the most influential newspapers, and not one of them says much about… curiosity....

","url":"https://mariuszozminkowski.com/writing-%26-commentary/f/about-curiosity-and-journalism","title":"ABOUT CURIOSITY AND JOURNALISM ","summary":"I looked through the recent books on journalism, from textbooks to memoirs, written by some of the top journalism professors and editors of the most influential newspapers, and not one of them says much about… curiosity....","date_modified":"2024-10-24T22:53:18Z"}]}