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Rom-Coms Are Getting Dystopian Now - 2023/06/09

On “The Flat Share”
Mental Health Is Not Your Problem, It’s Our Problem - 2022/08/10

On mental health and material conditions.
How We Live In A World Of Modern Ritual - 2022/03/24

Walking through an airport like walking through a temple
We Never Lose Our Imagination, We Just Spend It Imagining Dumb Shit - 2022/02/16

Children imagine unicorns and talking animals. Adults imagine dumb shit like borders and money
How Video Games Become Religions - 2022/02/11

Did ancient religions begin this way too?
How Too Much Data Makes People Stupid - 2022/02/01

This is your brain on TMI
How To Keep COVID Away From Your Fucking Face (an Infographic) - 2022/01/24

Masks should be our last line of defense, not our first
How Buddhist 'No-Self' Can Solve Social Problems - 2022/01/13

What if pandemics, 'weight', and mental health can't be solved at the individual level at all?
How Omicron Makes A Mockery Of Herd Immunity - 2021/12/23

We’ve gone from COVID-19 to COVID-∞
Why Trans Rights Are Just Polite - 2021/12/20

Civil rights are just being civil
How American Comedy Is Science Fiction - 2021/12/02

SOCIAL science fiction
How AI Has Already Taken Over Democracy - 2021/10/27

When corporations have the right to speech and influence, humans are screwed
Capitalism Is A Golem Run Amok - 2021/10/22

We made artificial beings out of corporations and they suck
America's Soggy Taco Problem - 2021/10/15

How the middle has fallen out of American politics.
How Class Starts In The Classroom - 2021/09/15

How education has created a modern caste system
America Has A Terminal Case Of Capitalism (In Two Charts) - 2021/08/28

Just follow the money
Prison Is An Unethical Experiment On Human Beings - 2021/07/27

Caging humans is a cruel experiment, practiced without results or consent.
How News Makes You Stupider - 2021/07/22

News is the processed food of information, the Doritos of literacy.
Why American Totalitarianism Is Totally Possible - 2021/07/13

Conspiracy theories, stupid mobs, demagogues, where do you think this all leads?
Confucian Parenting Advice - 2021/07/06

When your parents die, live in the backyard for three years.
What Life Is Like Without Amazon - 2021/06/30

It's fine.
The Myth Of General Intelligence - 2021/06/25

And how it makes us dumb
How I Grew Up Transphobic (With Ace Ventura) - 2021/06/08

Hating trans people was popular culture just a generation ago
Basecamp's Problem Isn't Politics. It's Philosophy - 2021/05/03

Basecamp's implosion—losing one-third of staff—is about much more than politics. It's a failure of philosophy.
To Solve Big Problems, We Need To Go Back To Preschool - 2021/04/29

I find myself teaching my children lessons I don't follow as an adult. That we don't follow as a society. We really should.
Why Substack Sucks - 2021/03/20

Imagine if Facebook paid Ben Shapiro. That’s Substack Pro
Gaslit Empire: How Meghan Markle Exposes British Racism - 2021/03/11

The monarchy is literally a bloodline. The whole thing is racist
If History Is Repeating, We’re Heading For War - 2021/03/10

How 1910s levels of inequality can lead to 1940s levels of war
Take ANY Vaccine. They’ll All Save Your Life - 2021/03/04

Every vaccine is 100% effective at keeping you alive
Cosmetic Changes Won’t Stop American Collapse - 2021/02/19

America has already hit the iceberg. It’s going down
America Is Still Fucked - 2021/02/01

Biden can’t deliver $2,000, how’s he going to deliver the nation?
The Myth Of Intelligence - 2021/01/30

Everybody‘s smart about something
How The Pandemic Is Making Us Turn On Each Other - 2021/01/27

It’s not our fault, but it feels that way
America’s Violent Empire Is Imploding - 2021/01/14

Chickens have come home to roost
American Exceptionalism Is Getting You Killed - 2021/01/09

America is exceptionally fucked
Social Distancing Is Impossible. We Can’t Blame People - 2020/12/17

We can’t blame each other for government failures
Stop Using ‘Third World’ As An Insult - 2020/11/29

I live in the ‘Third World’. You’re not better than us
You Have The Right To Not Work - 2020/11/28

The final labor right is the right to not labor
Why Americans Need To Feel Bad - 2020/11/22

Things are bad. Why should you feel good?
The Sheer Fatigue Of Whatever Wave This Is - 2020/11/19

We’re sick and tired. Tired and sick.
COVID Has Already Broken Up The United States (Map) - 2020/11/16

The question isn’t whether America will break up. It’s how to put it back together
Confucius and the Programming Language of Power - 2020/10/14

How the sage connects to Computer Science today
The Sadness Of American Collapse - 2020/10/11

The people an empire falls down on
The Cat Comes Back: How COVID Never Goes Away - 2020/10/07

Sri Lanka’s third and worst wave thus far
How School Launders Class - 2020/10/04

Education isn’t a ladder, it’s a wall
Collapse Takes A Lifetime. America Is Just Getting Started - 2020/10/01

I was born into collapse in Sri Lanka. It only ended when I was nearly 30 years old
Living Through Collapse - 2020/09/26

Where I’ve been, and where Americans are
I Lived Through Collapse. America Is Already There. - 2020/09/26

Living in Sri Lanka during the end of the civil war, I saw how life goes on, surrounded by death
The #1 Fitness Tip: Be Rich - 2020/09/23

Towards a Marxist workout plan
Someone Has Always Been Cancelled - 2019/09/17

Let it be the guilty for once