This isn’t a new problem: the United States has had a problem with land speculation since its founding. Even without the genocidal settler-colonial project, this would be a problem: even if we acce...

These are good, but this is less than I like posting. I really wish that I had something else that was really pressing to write an article on, because I’m almost done with Gravity’s Rainbow and I...

Okay, this is about AI, but it’s not about AI-the-actually-existing-technology (more properly called LLMs or Generative Pre-Trained Transformers, etc.), nor is it about the portrayal of artificial int...

In the immortal words of They Might Be Giants, “Time / Is marching on / And time / Is still marching on,” so here we are, I guess.

One could see the Zone as the last preserve of dragons – it used to be that the edges of the map were full of sea serpents, from world-circling Jormungandr all the way down to the smaller examples tha...

It seems to me that the emphasis on cycles is a kind of replacement for the various cycles that structured the world for many societies before modernity. The impulse to see cycles – as the seasons, a...

The rhetorical stew and tribalism and lack of forethought work out so that the vision being proposed is, essentially, that we’re going to tear down heaven and put up a data center.

Secretary of State Denny Hoskins rejected a proposed constitutional amendment that would make it harder to overturn vote

I’m burning through books at a rate of about four a week because of this job. I’ll be back to dragging along in Edgar’s wake soon enough, as the school year picks up. Still, I’ve got two more weeks ...

CryptPad: end-to-end encrypted collaboration suite

We come now to the crown jewel of this round-up, a book I have been chasing since my first youth (or at least my early teens) and which I have finally read in its original language, over the course of...

But it’s not necessary to engage in struggle sessions or self-flagellation, and it’s important to remember that thought-crime isn’t real. What matters is what you do and say, and so the work is to ju...

I’ve been reading too much too fast: working my summer job, that’s something that I can certainly acknowledge: I have plenty of time to listen to audio books while I work.

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Despite a childhood punctuated by driveway M80s and bottle rockets, I have lost my taste for fireworks.

I’m trying something different today. I’m going to be brief, and I’m going to be relatively transparent about a lot of things. You should consider this an invitation to join a discussion. If you’re...

This tendency to equate Tumblr and 4Chan is out of a desire to present dichotomous oppositions: 4Chan is made up of libertarians, fascists, and the weird in-between states of those two things, and Tu...

When I say that the cash system is being enclosed, I mean that the combination of banks, payment processors, and similar agencies who actually do the moving of the money are seeking to control where...