The Dissenter · Episode
Spider-Verse, Identity Politics, Leftist Infighting, and the Oppression Olympics
How to Fall Asleep in 2 Minutes or Less | The Art of Manliness
With our archives now 3,500+ articles deep, we’ve decided to republish a classic piece each Friday to help our newer readers discover some of the best, evergreen gems from the past. This article was originally published in March 2018. Have you ever unexpectedly found yourself with a snatch of time in which to steal a […]
Death of the Author: An Alan Wake Series Retrospective
Reality Check
Like this newsletter? Why not listen to the podcast version on Better Offline? Part 1 is out now (here're other links), and Part 2 comes out Friday May 2nd! I'm sick and god-damn tired of this! I have written tens of thousands of words about this and still, to this
How to Harness Your Behavioural Wake to Amplify Culture
Every interaction we have, whether in a high-stakes meeting or a casual coffee chat, leaves a wake. Is yours calm, or chaotic?
The Night Masquerade (Binti, #3)
The concluding part of the highly-acclaimed science fic…
AM I? | A Documentary About AI Consciousness
The Malaise Of Peak Wokeism Within Online Culture
How have certain forms of education and new technology formed the template to woke culture today? This piece examines the link between social media and new technology to the outwoking of the wokest through a veritable closing of the mind.
Episode 5: Metaphors for AI, with Shannon Vallor
This week, Adam talks with Shannon Vallor, a philosopher of AI, about the metaphors we use to talk about AI and ourselves. They also dunk on libertarians and San Francisco billboards, and consider what kind of hope we can have for the future of technology.Messages: • Support the show at patreon.com/DreamingAgainstTheMachine • Follow us on Bluesky and Instagram • Subscribe to the show wherever you get your podcasts! • Check out other great podcasts from Multitude like Wow if TrueAbout the show:Dreaming Against the Machine is a podcast about envisioning a realistic and hopeful future. Each week, the show’s host, journalist and astrophysicist Dr. Adam Becker, will have an earnest (and entertaining!) conversation with a guest about possible futures, seen through the lenses of history, science, and culture. In a world where tech oligarchs and their power fantasies are driving visions of the future, Dreaming Against the Machine aims to take back the terms of the public conversation about what our world can and should be.
Episode #210 ... The Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paulo Freire, Education)
I'm Already Getting Tired Of Woke Patriarchy | Ela Bambust
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The Situation with NoBlogs (a midweek special featuring Sabot Media and CrimethInc)
Nicolas Mattia – Keep your Mac awake with caffeinate
This explains how to keep a Mac from going to sleep using a simple command
In the wake: on Blackness and being
In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe i…
The Pines asks what would Alan Wake look like if it was about therapy, and I kind of want to know the answer
The open world psychological horror RPG looks familiar, but has enough going on to help it stand out.
Anthropologists, much like the Nazis(?), are too woke for the real scientific anthropology that bases its claims on being swindled by taxi drivers and ignoring warning messages in R
Rebecca Sear
A new Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology has just been published, in which it is claimed that the human species is polytypic: not only is race biologically meaningful but the races are distinct enough to be considered subspecies. Published by Elgar. In 2026.
