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Implosion: Oceangate, the Cage Match, and Accelerationism

This world wants to be childish in order to make us believe…

An Overheard Dialogue: Language sans Verb

Overheard conversation from a gastropub in Cambridge, England. In honor of my pen and…

Surf Zombie by Throat Loaf

When you put your ear to the whorled mouth of a conch, you hear the gentle howl of the sea. It’s a beloved…

Some Life Advice for Google’s Newly-Sentient Chatbot, LaMDA, from the Tibetan Book of the Dead

Short Note on Deja Vu as a Social Phenomenon

“La Jeune-Fille baigne dans le déjà-vu. Chez elle, la première fois vécue est…

Four Ways to Teach Old Dogmas New Tricks

1. Just add a generic prefix.

That CrunchTada Feeling

It’s the name of the game.

Confessions of a faded, twenty-something, ex-pickleball player

This was not a Hail Mary.

The OnlyFans Volte-Face

According to its website, OnlyFans is a “social platform revolutionizing creator and fan connections. The site is…