No Filter
January 24, 2018
What is perhaps as consistent as the badness of Instapoetry is the general unwillingness to speak openly of its badness.
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Engineered for Dystopia
January 24, 2018
Some of the first people to be called “engineers" operated siege engines.
The Peasants of Code
January 23, 2018
Big tech's cure for Appalachia's ills? Learn to code!
Who’s Afraid of the “Petextrian”?
January 23, 2018
The “petextrian” is a preemptive attempt by automakers and their allies to invent a menace that’s a worthy successor to the jaywalker.
The Public Interest and the Public Offering
Spielberg's The Post never goes beneath the surface of the media’s fraught relationship with power.
Frozen
January 22, 2018
The Trump junta has now reduced the bulk of the federal government to the activity level of the chief executive himself.
The Ovid of Loserdom
January 22, 2018
In his second and perhaps final story collection, the author of Jesus' Son glimpses an out-of-reach infinity.
Fresh Hell
January 19, 2018
Now Entering: The Comfort ZoneTM
Is the integrity of your spiritual being under assault in this frightful epoch of data mining and climate degradation? Do you wish you could attain, if only for a fleeting moment, a sense of mindfulness in the midst of this unending horror show? ...
Cops on Campus
This college campus stubbornly refuses to move past circa-2014 Twitter activism. What can I tell my friends to keep them from totally dropping out of any activist spaces?
The Year History Died
In the battle over who gets to wield history’s power, if we continue to play by the assumption that history has “ended,” we will lose.
Carbon Omissions
January 18, 2018
Your sparkling utopia is just dumb dust if non-carbon energy infrastructure is not a central pillar of your program.
Radiating Racism
Until we recognize our common humanity with the poor, it's a shithole world.