UnapologeticallyDahling
Alicia Dahling, editor
Independent essays for thinking clearly.
Follow the evidence through culture, business, beauty, technology and modern life.
A selected argument
The claim
The distinctionFeed an AI everything and it will learn to write in your voice.
True. The unresolved part is custody.
See what holds up
What I am looking for
The useful distinction is usually the one the headline leaves out.
NoiseEvidence
Edited in the open
Every argument leaves a paper trail.
ClaimEvidenceJudgment
The red line does not decorate the page. It follows each story from the confident claim to the inconvenient fact.
The current issue
What holds up. What does not.
Lifestyle
What Is Oura's 95 Percent Sleep Accuracy Number Actually Measuring?
12 min read
Culture
What Can Smart Glasses Actually Do, and Who Consented to It?
12 min read
Business and Money
Whose Job Is It to Notice Your Card Expired?
14 min read
Lifestyle
What Are Readiness, Recovery, and Strain Scores Actually Measuring?
12 min read
Beauty
Why Is American Sunscreen Still Stuck on a 1999 List?
13 min readThe Dahling Index
Editor's note
I am interested in the point where a confident claim meets inconvenient evidence.
Alicia writes from the vantage point of someone who spent years watching big decisions get made, justified, revised and occasionally undone.
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