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...

A medieval reenactment troupe struggles to maintain its family-like dynamic amid pressure from local authorities, interest from talent agents, and their so-called king's delusions of grandeur.

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.

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...

My name is Avery Alder, and for the past eighteen years I’ve been designing tabletop roleplaying games. These are games about community, relationships, doubt, queerness, and the collapse of civilizati...

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.

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 ...

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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...

All of these places have similarities, mostly big windows so you can watch the planes taxi around, like megafauna for mechheads, but my point here is that, although liminal in function, they are not “...