A Good Death
January 31, 2023
Instruction manuals for living written by the dying.
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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.
From the Deep Forests and Seas of Yambaru
Against the U.S. military presence in Japan.
Donkey Work
January 18, 2023
What does the pained animal signify?
The Crime Wave That Wasn’t
January 17, 2023
Burlington challenges the power of its police department.
Fresh Hell
January 13, 2023
Sex and Con-dy
It is a new year and, with Valentine’s Day approaching, love is in the air—along with its attendant archangels of confusion, deception, and betrayal. To wit, Susan Meachen, the author of independently published romance novels like Smoky Mtn. Love and a ...
Database States
January 12, 2023
Government databases aren’t just benign repositories of information.