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...
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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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