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The Baffler

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

Will Harrison

January 26, 2023

On the trailblazing pornographer Fred Halsted.

For the Public Good

Carlos Ortega Arámburo

January 25, 2023

On Mexico’s history of overzealous public works.

Bolsonaro’s Long Shadow

Nara Roberta Silva

January 24, 2023

Bolsonaro’s attack on the Brazilian state.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

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

Rafia Zakaria

January 20, 2023

Alienated

Social media is flooded with accounts of solipsistic and often clueless travel-influencers.

From the Deep Forests and Seas of Yambaru

Shun Medoruma

January 19, 2023

Found in Translation

Against the U.S. military presence in Japan.

Donkey Work

Robert Rubsam

January 18, 2023

What does the pained animal signify?

The Crime Wave That Wasn’t

Katya Schwenk

January 17, 2023

Burlington challenges the power of its police department.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

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

Sanjana Varghese

January 12, 2023

Government databases aren’t just benign repositories of information.

Hong Kong Literature’s Growing Pains

Jaime Chu

January 11, 2023

The city’s Anglophone writers are caught at a crossroads.