Public Safety Dance
August 11, 2022
Public “safety” for whom?
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Poxed and Abandoned
August 10, 2022
On the global response to the monkeypox outbreak.
Flooding in the Sacrifice Zone
August 09, 2022
Surveying the wreckage in flooded-out Eastern Kentucky.
Excavating the Internet
August 08, 2022
Studying the internet’s pre-history is interesting—but can it help us in the present?
Fresh Hell
August 05, 2022
Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Zombie
Death is not the end, nor is disability, injury, or the need to visit the bathroom any excuse to falter in your labor if you happen to be an Amazon warehouse employee. Where there is profit, there is life. In a grim preview of how our ...
Hard to Be a God
August 04, 2022
A new history of deification suggests that political power is always mythological.
Two Poems
I.
I caught a glimpse of you as I ran. I had no time to stop and kiss your hand. The world was chasing me down like I was a thief and it was impossible for me to stop. If I had stopped I’d have been killed. But I caught a glimpse of you: your hand a stem of narcissus in a ...
Beyond the Frame
August 02, 2022
The forward-thinking sci-fi of Izumi Suzuki.
Big Beefing
August 01, 2022
Delusions of bovine sustainability.
Fresh Hell
July 29, 2022
Monkey See, Monkey Do
Not that long after our vindictive patriarch in the sky created Adam on, as some have determined, October 23 at 5 a.m. EST in 4004 BCE, God must have ascertained that our sorry species would accomplish little of lasting value. In the thousands of years ...
Questions, Questions, Questions
A good conversation partner is hard to find.
Hardwickian
July 28, 2022
The Uncollected Essays shows us another Elizabeth Hardwick.