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Whether the experiment succeeds or fails is in your hands. The mission of Forever Wars is to chronicle, investigate and interrogate the continuities, departures and permutations of the War on Terror. Twice a week, Forever Wars publishes some combination of original reporting, critique, essay, and the exploration of relevant history. Ideally all four at the same time. It will scale up, across the entirety of the mutating War on Terror; scale down, to focus on specific developments that impact those mutations/continuities/departures; and zoom out, to examine the impact of the War on Terror on the continuing deterioration of American democracy.

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For those who grew up here, Idaho has always been synonymous with freedom. For those who came here recently, it represents a beacon of hope in a world gone mad. For all of us, the Gem State is our homeland that must be defended at all costs. My name is Brian Almon. I am a husband, father, and a writer living in the heart of the Treasure Valley of Idaho. I left my beloved Western Washington when taxes and regulation became too much to bear, coming to Idaho because the people here shared my values.

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I share essays and life updates here every few months. I often write about books, digital life, and Coming Of Age; I believe in ideas and world-building and trusting your passions. I try to strike a balance between being generative and adversarial, but as with all things, it’s a work in progress. I'm currently most excited about designing better information ecosystems. By day, I lead core product at Substack; by night, I run Reboot, a publication and community reimagining techno-optimism for a better collective future.

In May of 2017, my husband, Ed, was diagnosed with glioblastoma, a stage 4 brain cancer. Our six children were ages one to thirteen. Ed died exactly two years later. Nothing could prepare me for widowhood, not even a two-year cancer journey. I had already been blogging at Home Joys for years, and the support and love from this community was amazing. Together we have sought God and found Him faithful even in the hard things.

In political theory and theology, to immanentize the eschaton means trying to bring about the eschaton (the final, heaven-like stage of history) in the immanent world. In all these contexts it means "trying to make that which belongs to the afterlife happen here and now on Earth". I first came across the term as a first year philosophy student and have be thinking about it ever since. It’s mostly used in the pejorative, a warning that man should not try and play God.

AI is likely the most transformative technology ever invented; Import AI is a newsletter that tries to document the frontier of AI research and analyze its potential implications. The greatest challenge of the 21st century is to make an increasingly fast-moving technical world ‘legible’ to a large number of people. My belief is that by solving these information asymmetries, we will naturally build the infrastructures necessary to maintain stability in an era of great change and possibility.

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