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If the Right Protects Its Sinners, the Left Should Forgive Its Clowns

Bill Burr told jokes in Riyadh. A week later, the internet wasn’t laughing.

7 days ago   •   6 min read

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The Death of Gatekeepers

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

2 months ago   •   8 min read

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The Great Debate Delusion

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

2 months 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

3 months 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.

3 months ago   •   4 min read

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The Great American Culture Suicide

A Neighbour’s Guide to Watching a Superpower Eat Itself

3 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

4 months ago   •   7 min read

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The Fat Old Man in a White House

A Poem

6 months ago   •   1 min read

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Uncle Son of Sam Posters

Uncle Sam Posters Reimagined for the 21st Century

6 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

2 years ago   •   3 min read

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