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Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things: Three Decades of Survival in the Desert of Social Media
I bet you're wondering how we got here...
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The Hardening of the Online Heart
How the response to the Hamas attack illuminated the damage living online has done to us all
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Pain Is Not a Penance
On our unexamined assumptions about pain, character, cause and effect, etymologies, and what we do to each other when we cannot stop hurting
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It May Not Be Praxis, But We Need Corporate Pride
Corporate Pride is the pointy tip of the spear in the fight for acceptance. We need to ease up a little and let our capitalist overlords help us before…
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Discord Invite for Paid Tier Subscribers...
When I started this Substack, I polled my Patreon patrons and we agreed to extend one of the benefits of Patreon to paid tier folk here—access to the…
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Huddle Up, Geeks: Some of These Hot Garbage Developments Are Our Fault
We here in the geek community are very used to considering ourselves smarter, kinder, and more accepting than the madding crowd, but Elon Musk is our…
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Practical, If Infrequent, Magic
On Substack and me and you and how often I am or am not writing things here
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Mark F***king Zuckerberg Is Not Your Friend
You know, I had other things I wanted to yell about. I have about five essays in my drafts folder about like, deep systemic issues and big bad shadows…
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