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How The Ancients Had Better Technology Than Us
They had communication technology so powerful it reaches us still
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Fossil Fuels Were A One-Time Inheritance And We Blew It
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What a textbook shows about peak everything
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How, Precisely, We’re Fucked
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A review of a seminal collapse textbook.
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0.1) Birth
The next part of a book I'm writing.
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0.0) Starting A Book
The intro to the intro of a book
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The Failure Of Capitalism As An Ideology
And its continuing zombie existence, eating brains
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How Are You? Nobody Is Fine
How asking ‘how are you?’ is both heroic and banal
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How To Deprogram Yourself From Hating China
A reading list of how I deprogrammed it myself
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How The Economist Is The Worst Propaganda
As illustrated with 25 Economist covers
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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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Anarchy For An Anarchic Village
Reading Tolstoy in a Sri Lankan protest village
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Why Climate Resistance Needs To Get Violent
Fossil fuel infrastructure isn't going to destroy itself
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How Humans Forgot How To Eat
When food culture became consumer culture, it all went to shit
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How Marx's Capital Is About AI
Capital is not a form of human life, it's a lifeform.
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How I Finally Understood Crypto (Thru Animal Farm)
Crypto is just the idea that 'hey, if those fuckers can make up money, so can we.'
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A Brief History Of Human Communication
From orality to literacy and back again
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How America Is Becoming Nazi Germany
3 lessons from two books: Weimar Germany and Berlin In Lights
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Tolstoy, The Most Woke Anarchist Since Jesus
Tolstoy is the anarchist philosopher poet, trying to make peasants into philosopher kings.
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The Revolting Racism Of Roald Dahl
How the Oompa Loompas were originally black, and enslaved
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How Water Keeps Us Alive
Biologically speaking, we’re just walking water balloons
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A Chinese Life, In Pictures
Chinese history in one graphic novel
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8 Lessons From The 1918 Flu
Oh God, why didn’t we learn this before
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The End Of The Soviet Empire
Reading Last Empire by Serhii Plokhy
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5 Easter Eggs In Goodnight Moon
The classic children’s book has some odd secrets
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CEOs Do Not Read a Book a Week
Hucksters love using this number to sell… videos