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Rom-Coms Are Getting Dystopian Now
On “The Flat Share”
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Mental Health Is Not Your Problem, It’s Our Problem
On mental health and material conditions.
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How We Live In A World Of Modern Ritual
Walking through an airport like walking through a temple
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We Never Lose Our Imagination, We Just Spend It Imagining Dumb Shit
Children imagine unicorns and talking animals. Adults imagine dumb shit like borders and money
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How Video Games Become Religions
Did ancient religions begin this way too?
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How Too Much Data Makes People Stupid
This is your brain on TMI
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How To Keep COVID Away From Your Fucking Face (an Infographic)
Masks should be our last line of defense, not our first
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How Buddhist 'No-Self' Can Solve Social Problems
What if pandemics, 'weight', and mental health can't be solved at the individual level at all?
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How Omicron Makes A Mockery Of Herd Immunity
We’ve gone from COVID-19 to COVID-∞
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Why Trans Rights Are Just Polite
Civil rights are just being civil
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How American Comedy Is Science Fiction
SOCIAL science fiction
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How AI Has Already Taken Over Democracy
When corporations have the right to speech and influence, humans are screwed
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Capitalism Is A Golem Run Amok
We made artificial beings out of corporations and they suck
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America's Soggy Taco Problem
How the middle has fallen out of American politics.
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How Class Starts In The Classroom
How education has created a modern caste system
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America Has A Terminal Case Of Capitalism (In Two Charts)
Just follow the money
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Prison Is An Unethical Experiment On Human Beings
Caging humans is a cruel experiment, practiced without results or consent.
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How News Makes You Stupider
News is the processed food of information, the Doritos of literacy.
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Why American Totalitarianism Is Totally Possible
Conspiracy theories, stupid mobs, demagogues, where do you think this all leads?
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Confucian Parenting Advice
When your parents die, live in the backyard for three years.
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What Life Is Like Without Amazon
It's fine.
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The Myth Of General Intelligence
And how it makes us dumb
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How I Grew Up Transphobic (With Ace Ventura)
Hating trans people was popular culture just a generation ago
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Basecamp's Problem Isn't Politics. It's Philosophy
Basecamp's implosion—losing one-third of staff—is about much more than politics. It's a failure of philosophy.
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To Solve Big Problems, We Need To Go Back To Preschool
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.
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Why Substack Sucks
Imagine if Facebook paid Ben Shapiro. That’s Substack Pro
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Gaslit Empire: How Meghan Markle Exposes British Racism
The monarchy is literally a bloodline. The whole thing is racist
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If History Is Repeating, We’re Heading For War
How 1910s levels of inequality can lead to 1940s levels of war
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Take ANY Vaccine. They’ll All Save Your Life
Every vaccine is 100% effective at keeping you alive
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Cosmetic Changes Won’t Stop American Collapse
America has already hit the iceberg. It’s going down
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America Is Still Fucked
Biden can’t deliver $2,000, how’s he going to deliver the nation?
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The Myth Of Intelligence
Everybody‘s smart about something
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How The Pandemic Is Making Us Turn On Each Other
It’s not our fault, but it feels that way
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America’s Violent Empire Is Imploding
Chickens have come home to roost
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American Exceptionalism Is Getting You Killed
America is exceptionally fucked
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Social Distancing Is Impossible. We Can’t Blame People
We can’t blame each other for government failures
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Stop Using ‘Third World’ As An Insult
I live in the ‘Third World’. You’re not better than us
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You Have The Right To Not Work
The final labor right is the right to not labor
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Why Americans Need To Feel Bad
Things are bad. Why should you feel good?
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The Sheer Fatigue Of Whatever Wave This Is
We’re sick and tired. Tired and sick.
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COVID Has Already Broken Up The United States (Map)
The question isn’t whether America will break up. It’s how to put it back together
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Confucius and the Programming Language of Power
How the sage connects to Computer Science today
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The Sadness Of American Collapse
The people an empire falls down on
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The Cat Comes Back: How COVID Never Goes Away
Sri Lanka’s third and worst wave thus far
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How School Launders Class
Education isn’t a ladder, it’s a wall
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Collapse Takes A Lifetime. America Is Just Getting Started
I was born into collapse in Sri Lanka. It only ended when I was nearly 30 years old
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Living Through Collapse
Where I’ve been, and where Americans are
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I Lived Through Collapse. America Is Already There.
Living in Sri Lanka during the end of the civil war, I saw how life goes on, surrounded by death
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The #1 Fitness Tip: Be Rich
Towards a Marxist workout plan
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Someone Has Always Been Cancelled
Let it be the guilty for once