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The Anti-Woke Doomer’s Challenge for Civilization
Societal decadence is a kind of filter that civilization much pass through
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Open Letter to Cities of the Future
A startup city, to really come to life, needs to have stories.
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Do We Need an Ozempic Shot that Motivates People?
Overdosing on motivation could have disastrous unintended consequences.
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Open Letter to Cities of the Future
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Barbenheimer – A Coincidental Fantasy and the End of the World
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Internet Historians & the Joke of Online Culture
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Artisanal Simulacra: A Better Kind of Hyperreality
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Is Moloch the Right Metaphor for AI?
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Jane Goodall Needs an E/Acc Intervention
Tech optimism can prevent an Avengers-level threat
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Poor Man South of Richmond vs. Fake Inc.
Raw, authentic art will always cut the deepest.
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Help Save the World!
With a touch of utopian dreaming and a big pause button
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There's a Hollywood Movie-Shaped Hole in Our Hearts
“Everyone has a God-shaped hole in their hearts,” Melissa Chen recently tweeted. “The question is: what’s going to fill it?” “Dogs,” answered Bo…
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Barbenheimer – A Coincidental Fantasy and the End of the World
In his recent appearance on Lex Friedman’s podcast, Yuval Noah Harari makes this point again and again: storytelling is the most powerful tool we have…
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Decadent Cupcake Alien Visitation Theory
What’s the U.S. government really hiding from us? Or are even they in the dark about the aliens coming for our cupcakes? A couple years ago I was…
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How to Create a Fantasy World: Build Portals
We all spend too much time staring at screens. I like to romanticize the experience by saying it’s “inhabiting digital spaces” or “living a partial…
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