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2026 2

  1. I’m trying to stop drinking coffee
  2. Rx: A Prescription for a New Hypertext

2024 2

  1. Subliminal Messages
  2. The Phantom is Structured Like a Language: the symbolic economy of high strangeness

2023 1

  1. As a magick practitioner the whole “magic is science we don’t understand” thing frustrates me.

2022 5

  1. Fandom’s two cultures (and third wheel)
  2. Media indoctrination and the patriarchy
  3. There’s this idea that every major shift in media technology produces political instability, and…
  4. Whenever I complain about dating, there’s a certain kind of guy who sees it, fails to process what…
  5. People who think Torvalds won the Tanenbaum/Torvalds debate & therefore monolithic kernels are…

Undated 98

  1. If people gave car advice like they gave dating advice 21ce67e2fbc
  2. What is the working class 5303d0fc070f
  3. The action button review of tokimeki memorial caused me to go back to true love a hentai game i 146a663f194d
  4. Why are pop culture zombies so strongly associated with communication communications technologies 724dc6263fa3
  5. The seige of the dream city f86f3a30c2e4
  6. The moral valence of technical decisions aadc1b307747
  7. Dog the poseur a949282e80ec
  8. Plates of shrimp social priming and the wikiality of the superorganism yet another b597a0ed20b1
  9. The lesswrong adjacent folks putter around very visibly on the fringes of ai research while f3eff2ac60af
  10. The correct explanation is the one you didnt cover here e403f2a098d1
  11. Mark fisher and the spectre of acid communism 5883521bcdb7
  12. I hate that cryptocurrency and especially proof of work cryptocurrency has been so strongly b0dcecfdd0e1
  13. A common idea that really annoys me aeb17c097df5
  14. This second part isnt really accurate efca39855d9
  15. Property is incompatible with decentralization 8d616b7903dd
  16. Using web technologies seems like merely a different genre of design faux pas than is usual for b767e97df882
  17. Labyrinth of text 3e179cb6a7bd
  18. Mutual aid is contigent and that scares some people da20b04b0a12
  19. If he is still the star of a reality tv show 17 994 years from now there are complicated and 62bd1c1929c5
  20. If musk doesnt know that rapid antigen tests can produce false negatives then he almost ce322503be33
  21. There is a vampire on your television 6f190386ee7e
  22. The great crystallization upon hearing in the sublunar state 48cf9449fbad
  23. The entry for a priori is a little misleading 9d40b5b1a84
  24. Eschew does not mean demonstrate it means avoid fe1bf1963251
  25. Honestly i read your stuff because despite all your attempts to throw people like me off the cc30c61d81c9
  26. Sticking apart ed2777c2e01f
  27. A qualified defense of terrorist tactics a7c8122a1c53
  28. The origin of features cc4a249e86f8
  29. How does marxism fit in here fefe712cdc9f
  30. I have often referenced my older pieces in newer pieces 97d3fea310da
  31. Action anime tend to have a lot of action but anime is a medium and not a genre so there is a ad27fa970973
  32. Counterpoint 5e5d5e32b176
  33. Explosive versus implosive cultural modes 6452d54dae44
  34. Anime dissecting a vibe abebf9b14f2c
  35. What does it say about society that seinfeld ended up being much more popular than mad about you a8bb6f53b5b
  36. Review deadly friend 1986 787b81e80c4b
  37. The term i always loved for this phenomenon is steam engine time as in it steam engines when it c0efeb0712db
  38. Media indoctrination and the patriarchy 9955a80b0c0d
  39. Mishas millennium 43244789c755
  40. Ad tech touchscreen capture and our social dilemma a50d0ef375e1
  41. Small computing and the security mindset 821dfb512aa7
  42. Its not really accurate to say that the left has taken control of the broadcast mechanisms 3e39746f1726
  43. Announcing the winners of the 2020 no budget film contest be6be795078
  44. The existing goodreads api is so limited and poorly designed as to be almost pointless 7d0559a14f5a
  45. St dog and st 685fc4cbd44
  46. The bowling alley bae141736091
  47. Mfom postmortem 5f1250177402
  48. The more time i spend in the tech industry the more often i see things that dont work at all or 8a71cb02b58c
  49. A year of reading women an experiment de351032f693
  50. Rethinking common carriers 6837ad9925b7
  51. I love 70s made for tv horror movies bc460b89aa02
  52. Something the avengers did really well especially during the emma peel era was recognize the 66528d1fa7fc
  53. The work of interpreting i e 62047dd81ff5
  54. I just saw lupin iii legend of the gold of babylon f5dcd8a0a2f9
  55. Theres an unjustified assumption here that identification is done automatically must be fought a49fb9e85951
  56. The ufos arent news cc67694965a1
  57. There is one model of the function of money that you dont address here that maybe is closest to f0a3deb6cd85
  58. With regard to the life or death vibe your example in this essay of changing the border in your af0b6c76f32
  59. Please review love exposure d2e648d87e38
  60. Discordianism has already become historically important because of its impact on major c569c028c9aa
  61. When youre imagining new models for physics say you re not necessarily stuck calculating a huge d189a35fcdb
  62. Acid communism and the american civic religion 10ef19579685
  63. Manga vs comics how the base influences the superstructure 2df91b0978d8
  64. A huge part of enjoying media objects in good faith is figuring out where you stand in relation to 627d22d237a6
  65. The bacchanal 54ef75bf865d
  66. Theres a much easier way to resolve this i think beac76dc3962
  67. Generating interesting stories b6d1ef5e33ec
  68. I wrote a bit about my techniques a few years ago e3011dda848c
  69. Twitter can suck a lot dogpiling drive by snark become easy when literally anybody can 5c0ec9c68106
  70. Crashing the wedding acca7e360ac8
  71. Within anything there is the potential of a knot which sub verts and per verts the entire context 29bb755f8c04
  72. Both neoreaction a basilisk and postcapitalist desire try to act as a vaccine against the nick 9be2000746f5
  73. When it comes to privacy regulation is not enough 4fe3d281c4f
  74. A major problem here is that neither the democrats nor the republicans have ever been good at 9ae474036365
  75. As a magick practitioner the whole magic is science we dont understand thing frustrates me d657af4b6c37
  76. Fandoms two cultures and third wheel 9eb79ff9289e
  77. Im trying to stop drinking coffee 323e79fa8115
  78. Subliminal messages 82812091a2b3
  79. What do we mean by cancelled bb799aae8555
  80. Once upon a time folks who made content for hypertext systems were called authors ce4086aec66a
  81. While we must acknowledge that the profusion of small ponds attracts those who would like to be af514118e1a6
  82. When performative wokeness misses the point a83c15162519
  83. See i thought this was a side effect of alignment because they always start and end pay periods 4f0d0a58d2a1
  84. Idea for a novel interface d535b5190d60
  85. You can kind of break the history of hypertext into three lineages with different lenses a0432407bf34
  86. Rules of online social engagement i wish i knew in 1999 9923140628ab
  87. The lost apps of the 80s never went away caa8f4ac5c5e
  88. Writing advice should stop targeting people who hate to write 6d7d658954d2
  89. What is anime art vs nationalism fe242bb374ce
  90. The correct phrase here is spurred on like a horse is driven by the use of spurs 55568304b1c2
  91. It appears that what were actually seeing is a return to the normal state of individual c48ac630dfd5
  92. Heat death 8035f80d468c
  93. Lapitac ea1b8673c0c1
  94. People who think torvalds won the tanenbaum torvalds debate therefore monolithic kernels are 118662a4c878
  95. Whenever i complain about dating theres a certain kind of guy who sees it fails to process what f6ba58623a77
  96. Theres this idea that every major shift in media technology produces political instability and 3337aff9fee3
  97. Any chance you will participate in nanogenmo this year 2dc6f2deb26d
  98. Rx a prescription for a new hypertext 39bf08bc7c4a