Friday, August 29, 2025

What People Are Getting Wrong about Bluesky (and Social Media More Broadly)

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  The standard narrative in every “Why you should move back to X” or “The Problem with Bluesky” article is that Musk bought Twitter, the...
Friday, January 21, 2022

50 Shades of Grey: An Allegorical-Political Reading

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Fifty Shades of Grey is a Marxist allegory, covering the development of the protagonist’s class consciousness, while tearing down, one by o...
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Saturday, July 31, 2021

Coleman Cox Hates You and Other Observations

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At a recent trip to a thrift store, I came across Straight Talk from Coleman Cox , a 1928 collection of the "witty sayings" of a C...
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Tuesday, April 20, 2021

Tom Cantor Seems Like a Loser and a Moron

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Earlier today, I received in the mail an unsolicited autobiography by Tom Cantor titled Changed, which is a recounting of Cantor's decis...
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Monday, December 10, 2018

Everybody's Dystopia: The Ambivalent Politics of The Hunger Games

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You've probably seen the meme that's been going around for a couple years, generally some variation on a particular idea: This gener...
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Tuesday, August 14, 2018

"Assassination Vacation" and the Reliquary of the Damned

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Sarah Vowell's  Assassination Vacation (2005) is part pop-history and part travelogue.  Vowell sets off to visit the places ass...
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Tuesday, August 7, 2018

On the True Origins of the Conspiracy Theorist

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The common explanation for how otherwise reasonable people end up believing in conspiracy theories is straight-forward and easy to empathi...
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