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Chestnut Blight

It turned out after the fact that there were many prior signs and warnings we had ignored (perhaps signs and warnings themselves were the…

Nov 8, 2023

Chestnut Blight

Nov 8, 2023

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How To Quit Vim

There are many reasons why you’d want to exit out of or otherwise quit a computer program. Maybe you thought of a different program that…

Oct 27, 2023

How To Quit Vim

Oct 27, 2023

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objet petit t: A Poem and Prose Reflection on the Shitty Taco

The problem is that today, in the double movement of the progressive commodification of aesthetics and the aesthetification of the universe…

Jan 7, 2023

Slightly sepia-toned picture of a group of people eating at an outdoor table in front of an old-school Taco Bell.

Jan 7, 2023

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Desire and the DJ: Psychoanalysis and “Ya Boy Kongming!”

This article contains extensive spoilers for the anime Ya Boy Kongming! (Paripi Koumei, lit. “Kongming of the Party People”) streaming in…

Oct 23, 2022

A blonde girl in a red cap says “I keep climbing and climbing but never reach the peak” while ascending a mountain.

Oct 23, 2022

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History as a Non-Renewable Resource

Michael Kupperman’s “All The Answers.”

Dec 14, 2021

Four Quiz Kids: Harve Bennett Fischman, Richard Williams, Joel Kupperman and Ruth Duskin. Credit…Universal Studios

Dec 14, 2021

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Of Mice and Wolfmen: A Review of Steinbeck’s “Murder at Full Moon”

Or: Cannery Growl, The Moon is Up, etc. (“Beast of Eden” was already taken)

Oct 7, 2021

The three wolf moon t-shirt image, but the wolves have emoji grapes for faces. idk, it was funnier in my head.

Oct 7, 2021

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Four Charts that Explain the 2020 Presidential Election

Information visualization experts and data journalists, always game for experimentation, often use big important elections to test out new…

Nov 12, 2020

Four Charts that Explain the 2020 Presidential Election

Nov 12, 2020

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Encyclopedia Brown 2077

Idaville looked just like any other hab complex in the middle levels of the Stacks. It had an air scrubber that reclaimed trace amounts of…

Sep 18, 2020

Encyclopedia Brown 2077

Sep 18, 2020

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Advice for Incoming Grad Students

It’s the fall, which means that many people are now in their first year in a graduate program. Whether you’re coming straight from…

Oct 7, 2019

1963 Soviet poster by V. Rybakov emphasizing academics: “Every door is open: choose!”

Oct 7, 2019

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Since “Socialism or Barbarism” is Well-Trod Territory, Here’s ~2k Words on Sailor Moon

I came across an old Onion article written in those heady pre-apocalyptic days of 2011, and it made me think about the obvious moral…

Sep 18, 2019

Since “Socialism or Barbarism” is Well-Trod Territory, Here’s ~2k Words on Sailor Moon

Sep 18, 2019

The Birdbassador

The Birdbassador

enthusiast of things you like, detester of the things you don't like, but not in a mean way so i don't seem off-putting. just generally a solid follow

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