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Rom-Coms Are Getting Dystopian Now
On “The Flat Share”
Mental Health Is Not Your Problem, It’s Our Problem
On mental health and material conditions.
How We Live In A World Of Modern Ritual
Walking through an airport like walking through a temple
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
How Video Games Become Religions
Did ancient religions begin this way too?
How Too Much Data Makes People Stupid
This is your brain on TMI
How To Keep COVID Away From Your Fucking Face (an Infographic)
Masks should be our last line of defense, not our first
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?
How Omicron Makes A Mockery Of Herd Immunity
We’ve gone from COVID-19 to COVID-∞
Why Trans Rights Are Just Polite
Civil rights are just being civil
How American Comedy Is Science Fiction
SOCIAL science fiction
How AI Has Already Taken Over Democracy
When corporations have the right to speech and influence, humans are screwed
Capitalism Is A Golem Run Amok
We made artificial beings out of corporations and they suck
America's Soggy Taco Problem
How the middle has fallen out of American politics.
How Class Starts In The Classroom
How education has created a modern caste system
America Has A Terminal Case Of Capitalism (In Two Charts)
Just follow the money
Prison Is An Unethical Experiment On Human Beings
Caging humans is a cruel experiment, practiced without results or consent.
How News Makes You Stupider
News is the processed food of information, the Doritos of literacy.
Why American Totalitarianism Is Totally Possible
Conspiracy theories, stupid mobs, demagogues, where do you think this all leads?
Confucian Parenting Advice
When your parents die, live in the backyard for three years.
What Life Is Like Without Amazon
It's fine.
The Myth Of General Intelligence
And how it makes us dumb
How I Grew Up Transphobic (With Ace Ventura)
Hating trans people was popular culture just a generation ago
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.
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.
Why Substack Sucks
Imagine if Facebook paid Ben Shapiro. That’s Substack Pro
Gaslit Empire: How Meghan Markle Exposes British Racism
The monarchy is literally a bloodline. The whole thing is racist
If History Is Repeating, We’re Heading For War
How 1910s levels of inequality can lead to 1940s levels of war
Take ANY Vaccine. They’ll All Save Your Life
Every vaccine is 100% effective at keeping you alive
Cosmetic Changes Won’t Stop American Collapse
America has already hit the iceberg. It’s going down
America Is Still Fucked
Biden can’t deliver $2,000, how’s he going to deliver the nation?
The Myth Of Intelligence
Everybody‘s smart about something
How The Pandemic Is Making Us Turn On Each Other
It’s not our fault, but it feels that way
America’s Violent Empire Is Imploding
Chickens have come home to roost
American Exceptionalism Is Getting You Killed
America is exceptionally fucked
Social Distancing Is Impossible. We Can’t Blame People
We can’t blame each other for government failures
Stop Using ‘Third World’ As An Insult
I live in the ‘Third World’. You’re not better than us
You Have The Right To Not Work
The final labor right is the right to not labor
Why Americans Need To Feel Bad
Things are bad. Why should you feel good?
The Sheer Fatigue Of Whatever Wave This Is
We’re sick and tired. Tired and sick.
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
Confucius and the Programming Language of Power
How the sage connects to Computer Science today
The Sadness Of American Collapse
The people an empire falls down on
The Cat Comes Back: How COVID Never Goes Away
Sri Lanka’s third and worst wave thus far
How School Launders Class
Education isn’t a ladder, it’s a wall
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
Living Through Collapse
Where I’ve been, and where Americans are
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
The #1 Fitness Tip: Be Rich
Towards a Marxist workout plan
Someone Has Always Been Cancelled
Let it be the guilty for once