Imitation, they say, is the greatest form of flattery. Perhaps that’s why Donald Trump’s new social media platform, Truth Social, is identical to Twitter in form and function. In released screenshots, Truth Social features all the same gimmicks: micro-blog posts, a favorite or like feature, and the ability to “retruth”…

Canada’s euthanasia law faces intense scrutiny, and it’s not coming from the religious right — On July 25th, 2019, Sean Tagert dragged his gaze across an on-screen keyboard, and with the help of an eye-reading communication system used by quadriplegics and people suffering from advanced ALS, letter-by-letter, he painstakingly wrote out a final farewell to his Facebook followers. A debilitating 2017 cardiac arrest, coming after…

Ron DeSantis, a mollusk of a man and the worst Trump impersonator you have ever seen, made headlines last week when he dispatched one of his sycophants to Texas to lure around 50 migrants (many of whom identify as political refugees) onto a plane with false promises of work, before…

And how the same problems could be coming to the U.S. next — I saw an article from CNN this week titled, “When ‘wokeness’ comes to Middle-earth: Why some say diverse casting ruins the new ‘Lord of the Rings’ series.” The article opens by focusing on a man named Brandon Morse, a self-proclaimed LOTR fanatic who, according to his own (likely self-inflated) lore…

Pakistan’s recent flooding hits closer to home than most of us are willing to admit — In the town of Charsadda, Pakistan, an unidentified couple — maybe husband and wife, possibly brother and sister — wring their way through waterlogged clothes salvaged from a nearby house. They are covered in mud, around them stand an assortment of dressers and drawers littering the ground. The deluge has…

Her latest book, The Ink Black Heart, only further highlights the problem To ‘write what you know’ is a well-known writerly cliché, but personally, I avoid its usage as an imperative, as if it were some sort of sacred commandment handed down from writer to writer. If it has any…

New ‘productivity’ technology promises to change the way you work through surveillance — My career began in a café on Vila Madalena in São Paulo. The space was full. Working gringos, metal vats, a few dozen espresso machines with portafilters being locked in and rotated out by an energetic staff. I went out there for no good reason and needed cash to get…

The mass theft of $200 million points to nothing but failure for the “crypto revolution” — There are, as far as I can tell, two kinds of revolutions — massive shifts in cultural, social, or governmental paradigms — that show up, time and time again, in the series of cycles we call history. There are the bread revolutions, and then there are the quiet revolutions. Bread…

A quarter of young Americans now live in multigenerational households — We are about to drown. We are standing knee-deep in sewage, in a quickly filling and forgotten lakebed, once drained out to make room for the age of abundance during the post-war blitz. But this is no longer the time of prosperity that allowed our parent’s parents to build a…