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How To Parent In This Unruly Age
Lol I don't know
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The World Needs A Recession. Forever
GDP is a dead end. We’ve got to go back and start over
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America Is One Big Pity Party: Everybody Blames Foreigners
Democrats blame Russians, Republicans blame Mexicans, and they both blame China
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Elon Musk Is A Masturbator More Than An Innovator
Most of what he’s selling is self-gratification
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Bitcoin Has Become A Victim Of Its Own Success
Bitcoin got so mainstream that it’s drowning in it
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How Films Are Like Psychotic Episodes
Watching ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’
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Why Sapiens Is A Hate Crime
Yuval Noah Hariri has written the White Man’s Burden for atheist tech fuckbois
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How The Rich Are Doing In Sri Lanka’s Collapse
Just fine, thank you
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Leaving.
Leaving my country as it collapses.
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Why Trump Is Coming Back, The Free Press Doesn't Exist, and Clothes Are Wearing Us
I've been writing too much so this is the first summary email.
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Last Call On The Titanic
Having a drink while it all goes down
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How Clothes Started Wearing Us
From slavery to wage-slavery to fast fashion
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The Myth Of A Free Press
There is no free press. It’s very expensive
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Why Trump Deserves To Come Back
I didn’t think it possible, but Biden is worse
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How Dystopian Art Became Utopian Advertising
A Blade Runner future, Metaverse, and eating Soylent should all be terrifying. Instead, they’re cool.
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Why It’s So Hard To Talk About Feelings
Look at Magritte instead
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Socialism For Babies At Least 👶🏾☭
Toddlers of the world unite
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Worshiping The Rich
Beggars at my doorstep, bowing before the wrong person
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America Deserves Gun Violence
It’s chickens coming home to roost
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How Merchants Became The New Nobility
The movement of caste
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Are You Depressed If Things Are Actually Sad?
When the world goes mad, only a crazy person stays sane
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How We Misunderstand AI
We keep looking for AI that looks like us and missing what’s right in front of our eyes
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Anarchy For An Anarchic Village
Reading Tolstoy in a Sri Lankan protest village
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How China Is The Most Democratic Country In The World
According to a global survey, “the countries considered most democratic by their citizens are China, Vietnam, and Taiwan”
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Science Is The New Science Fiction
Real collapse is just another on-screen dystopia
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A Death Too Young
On losing a young friend
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What If Opinion Polls Actually Mattered?
Polls and the polis
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Which Doomer Are You? A New Political Map
Extinctionist, Activist, or Humanist? Which doomer are you?
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Conservatives Are Playing The Long Game And Winning
Guns and abortion are just tactics, and they work
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Why We Need Planned Economies
We’re not getting thru all of these collapses without a plan
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Why We’re Failing The Climate Test
Can’t cram for this one
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How The Hero’s Journey Is Totalitarian
When bad guys try to change the world, heroes put them down
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How I’m Betting Against A Crashing Market
Selling western civilization short
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How Liberal Democracy Is Bullshit
People don’t have power. Elites do
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How You’re In A Symbiotic Relationship With Your Job
A Marxist reading of Spiderman
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Why Crypto Will Crash Hard And Come Back Long
Geologically speaking
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Our Love/Hate Relationship With Violence
We love violent movies but get dismayed at violent news
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Tesla’s Netflix Problem
Competition incoming
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At Least It’s A Good Time For Philosophy
When there’s blood on the streets, do philosophy
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Today Is The Buddha’s Birthday, But He Can’t Come
This is the saddest Vesak I remember
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Why Voting Is Dumb
Electile dysfunction
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Why Humans Won’t Go Extinct From Climate Collapse
But boy will it suck
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Advertising Is How Corporations Dream
And it’s a nightmare for human beings
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What’s Happening In Sri Lanka — The Attack On #GotaGoGama, and The Riotous Response
The government got violent and got violence in return
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How Art Creates Parallel Universes
Every artist paints a window to another world
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Three Happy Moments
In a rather stressful life
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The Economy Is Far Too Important To Be Left To Economists
How economists are the worst
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How Crypto Is Like Early Corporations
And how they’re both artificial life
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How The Rich Get Richer Under Austerity
It’s prosperity for the rich, austerity for the poor
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We Have No Hope Of Stopping Climate Collapse
What we should be feeling is grief, and rage