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Fascism did not begin with the camps

Any discussion about fascism invariably ends up with those the regime disapproves of being removed to internment, concentration, and/or…

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The Grift of the Social Media Self-Help Coach

Healing from Trauma is Not a Mindset Hack

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Gender critics cannot help themselves

As with all things on the internet it is impossible to know who precisely is behind a screen, so when I post any trans related content on…

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Sent to Fetch Us

Jay-Z didn’t partner with Target. Target hired Jay-Z to bring Black dollars back — and he thought we’d be too busy buying vinyl to notice.

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Forgotten Firebaugh Fosters Freeze Fotoessay

Ice cream memories in California’s Central Valley.

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Go Into The Story Interview: Geoff LaTulippe

My conversation with the 2008 Black List screenwriter.

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Page One: “Upstream Color” (2013)

Written by Shane Carruth

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Replacing Trump with a Random Felon Would Be an Improvement

This is how low the bar is

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Essential Oils That Are Toxic to Cats: Hidden Dangers Every Cat Owner Must Know

Essential oils are marketed as natural, safe, and even therapeutic for humans. But when it comes to cats, “natural” does not equal safe. In…

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Mourning Mom

Happy Birthday Mom

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The 7-Minute Ritual Neuroscientists Swear By (And Why It Changes Everything)

How to hijack your morning cortisol spike to eliminate anxiety, double your focus, and reclaim your attention from your phone.

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Less Than Fifteen Miles

They’ll burn the city down for a trophy. They won’t cross the river for a cage.

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My Month of Introspection, Reading This Book, and Ugly Crying About It

Or, my review of “My Year of Rest and Relaxation.”

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Xbox Found New Holes To Dig

Microsoft can’t cut their way to higher player numbers

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Dogs That Can Smell Phones: How Electronics Detection Dogs Find Hidden Devices

In an age where almost everything is digital, crime has gone digital too. From smuggled mobile phones in prisons to hidden hard drives…

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Does Apple Intelligence Make Shortcuts Easier to Use?

The biggest challenge isn’t building shortcuts — it’s knowing when a shortcut can’t be built

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RANSOMWARE: The CRIMINAL BUSINESS That DESTROYS COMPANIES — and How to DECLARE Your LOSSES to the…

It was a Tuesday morning.

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SpaceX: the IPO that should make us all think twice

SpaceX’s stock market launch was not simply the biggest ever, it was a demonstration that the financial markets are willing to bet…

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What’s in a Word?

Words are often masks to hide our shame

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Blue Mountains, Blue Riders

Gabriele Münter and the evolution of an extraordinary sense of colour and form

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12 Things to Know About Monterey Bay FC vs. FC Tulsa

MBFC takes their three-game winning streak on the road to Oklahoma seeking to get back into the USl Championship playoff picture

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I Love the Power of Drag and Queer Joy Spaces in Alaska and Everywhere

Watching a drag show in the Land of the Midnight Sun

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Smalltalk Blocks

The expression of the square bracket

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The Foundation Myths of Barad-dûr: Why Sauron’s Dark Tower Is an Ode to Geotechnical Failure

Or, How the Lord of the Rings Spent Centuries Ignoring Bearing Capacity, Drainage, and Basic Common Sense

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Eat the Reich: Nazis are Bad

This TTRPG is mechanically elegant, visually glorious, and thematically apropos

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AI Resources for Geotechnical Engineering Firms: How Modern Practices Are Cutting Hours Off Every…

The geotechnical engineering sector is built on complexity. Every project starts underground — literally — where data is expensive to…

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Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead (1991) — endearing but flawed cult favourite

When Risky Business (1983) arrived in cinemas, it completely disrupted the landscape of teen comedies. The genre’s familiar blend of…

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The Dystopian Horror of AI Data Centers

Where have all the natural resources gone?

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Manifestations of Abandonment Part 4

The Wall

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Ralph Erskine’s drawing(s) of Kiruna and Resolute Bay—and which is which?

Are Erskine’s 1958 drawings of Kiruna really of Kiruna in 1958? Are they amongst the first solar panels in urban design? Or are they of…

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‘I Saw the TV Glow’ and Being Trans

“There is still time” was written in chalk on the street. Is this true?

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On Writing

“First drafts are for learning what your story is about.”

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Page One: “Upgrade” (2018)

Written by Leigh Whannell

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‘Disclosure Day’ Lucked Out Immensely

Radical empathy versus primal fear test the limits of what humanity can handle

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The Night the Owl Came for Her…

Extract from my draft manuscript of The Squawking

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Protests Continue in Bolivia, More Violent Crackdowns On the Horizon

After Bolivia’s president implemented austerity shock measures and spending cuts after he took office in 2025, protests began to grow

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I Love Fictional Arcade Games

One of my favorite world building concepts in video games is when unique in-universe arcade games show up. I just love the notion that game…

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What Reggaeton-House Music Means For Your Summer

Why your summer is about to bump harder than ever. And, yes, I’m baiting you with the old Bad Bunny pic.

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Stop Waiting for Nature to Inspire You. Your Next Haiku Is Already Here

How a car wash taught me that haiku isn’t about where you are — it’s about how you see.

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The Test

“Does he want to apologize?”

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ChatGPT under scrutiny: the end of move fast and fix things later?

The only surprising thing about the investigation launched by a coalition of 42 US state attorneys general into OpenAI is that it didn’t…

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It’s Still Moving

Before film could become an art medium, ‘motion pictures’ had to be invented and the conventions of ‘cinema’ set-out

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AI for Small Business: From Hype to Real-World Results

Automate, optimize and rethink processes without losing the human touch

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AI is Now More Expensive Than the Mass Layoff Human Labor It’s Replacing

The bill for AI as labor replacement is coming due, and it’s an actual, big bill with many zeroes

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The Weight-Loss Drug Nobody Warned You About: When the Scale Goes Down, and Your Sight Goes With It

You go to sleep one night feeling fine. When you wake up the next morning, something is wrong with one eye. The world looks blurry…

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The People Holding America Hostage Keep Forgetting Who Opened the Door

America has spent centuries benefiting from Black progress while treating the people who produced it as the problem.

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A Summer’s Tale — Éric Rohmer’s charming summer of fickle, competing romances

As a reserved young graduate vacations in a seaside town, he hopes his girlfriend will join him, but ends up bonding with a local girl…

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Two Ibises

Photos from Bogotá, with a reading from José María Vargas Vila

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Hey Dr Sue — Why When I Hold Back And Don’t Ejaculate When I Need To I Lose My Erection?

Let me start by saying that this is really common!

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If You Look Hard Enough at a Thing You Love, You End Up Seeing Hope

An appreciation of the American goldfinch

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