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The Death of Gatekeepers

How Algorithms Ate Entertainment (And Why That TikTok Comedian Is Probably Not That Funny)

22 days ago   •   8 min read

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The Great Debate Delusion

Why Jubilee's "Surrounded" Is Just High-Tech Playground Fights

a month ago   •   5 min read

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Amber Waves vs. Trending Graves: How Culture Picks Its Fossils

What Sticks: Old Words, Viral Videos, and the Battle for Cultural Memory

a month ago   •   12 min read

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Maybe Day: July 23 - A Celebration of Cosmic Uncertainty

Robert Anton Wilson's cosmic celebration of uncertainty over humanity's adorable epistemic overconfidence.

a month ago   •   4 min read

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The Great American Culture Suicide

A Neighbour’s Guide to Watching a Superpower Eat Itself

2 months ago   •   8 min read

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The Great Flattening: How We Accidentally Optimized Human Culture into Oblivion

How We Accidentally Optimized Human Culture into Oblivion

3 months ago   •   7 min read

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The Fat Old Man in a White House

A Poem

4 months ago   •   1 min read

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Uncle Son of Sam Posters

Uncle Sam Posters Reimagined for the 21st Century

5 months ago   •   1 min read

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Read Books Update

I just wanted to share my thoughts on three fascinating books I recently finished reading

a year ago   •   3 min read

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The Fading Echo of Originality

A Lament for the Lost Art of Taste-Making

2 years ago   •   3 min read

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