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Line in the Sand
February 07, 2023
Hypocrisy in the city-state of the future.
Fresh Hell
February 03, 2023
The Importance of Being Concise
After another cruel turn of the old Gregorian, we once again find ourselves stranded in the month of February, which is the official month of grapefruits, bird feeding, hot breakfast, snack foods, children’s dental health, embroidery, and ...
In Rocinante’s Stirrups
February 02, 2023
Rereading the diaries of Che Guevara.
Summer Freeze
February 01, 2023
Fertility tourism could mean that countries like Spain prioritize foreign women over their own citizens.
A Good Death
January 31, 2023
Instruction manuals for living written by the dying.
Fresh Hell
January 27, 2023
Robofop
The tech world is already a burrow of shady borrowings, competing patents, and dodgy dot-com schemes, but these iniquities have so far been within the domain of the human. Enter CNET’s AI reporter, which has been found to have plagiarized the work of journalists at ...
Fisting at the End of the World
January 26, 2023
On the trailblazing pornographer Fred Halsted.
For the Public Good
January 25, 2023
On Mexico’s history of overzealous public works.
Bolsonaro’s Long Shadow
January 24, 2023
Bolsonaro’s attack on the Brazilian state.
Fresh Hell
January 20, 2023
Junior Flints
America has a long history of following up national tragedies with the marketing of questionable products, since grief and outrage are mere market demographics in the eyes of the corporate bounder: KFC’s pink buckets for cancer, O.J. Simpson pogs, the LEGO ...
Traveling While White
Social media is flooded with accounts of solipsistic and often clueless travel-influencers.