Plus: Oppressive praise, baby names and the American exodus
#784: The absurdity of the apocalypse
Plus: repayment avoidance, the death of “hello,” and a Cinderella story for the algorithmic era
Being Black: Selections from "Soledad Brother" by Georg…
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The Shapeshifter’s Little Brother
On Mark Zuckerberg’s AI manifesto—aka nine blog posts in a trenchcoat.
764: The Intersection of Terrorism, Violent Extremism, and Child Sexual Exploitation
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Masculist pushback: the threatened extinction of the great, white Judeo-Christian male
A political ideology rooted in fear is remaking the world in its own image and dragging us with it
#786: Listening to “Abracadabra” on Belarussian prison radio
Plus: Zuckerberg’s fashion, ex-tradwives, and the aesthetics of r/malelivingspace
#783: The end of spoken conversation
Plus: Pandora Radio, birthday mania and the “perimenopause industrial complex”
#766: An AI company you can wear without socks
Plus: Wedding Brain, news hustlers, the importance of talking to strangers and the best restaurant bread in America
Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson
A collection of Jackson's letters from prison, Soledad …
Why Does Everyone Hate Children?
Why Does Everyone Hate Children?
#762: One weird trick to make new friends
Plus: Dubai influencers, cultural time and the "most uplifting corner" of the internet
It's Christlike to Love Immigrants and Transfolk
Responding to readers who invoke Christianity to defend exclusion, I argue that the Gospels consistently welcome lepers, foreigners, sinners, and gender-no…
#780: Play the banana song!
Plus: The next generation of "tradwives," babytech creep, and scrolling more socially
