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It's not even Luke! He's been lying to us all along!

A big prompt, but I'm still trying to figure out what things matter and what things don't. Half my friends have gone hard-trad: agrarian wet dreams, small towns, triplets at twenty-seven. They post memes on social media of cities burning, "muh culture in the time of riot." The rest seem destined...

A summer villa in southern-central Mexico, on the patio (then roof, then inside to the kitchen, then patio again). Beautiful vines growing on the veranda’s trellis, and the weather is good: sunny with wisps of clouds floating past. Idyllic but semi-empty, meaning-wise. Y is a kind of honorable...

Alternate title: I hear you all are into neologisms... Erisology was originally coined by a friend of mine, John Nerst, to try and broker a new field: the study of disagreement. (Name comes from Eris, Greek goddess of discord.) The field combines psychology, rhetoric, logic, field theory...

I was on Google Music for years—they let you upload 50k tracks free, which meant streaming my library on mobile. Unfortunately I got into the sloppy habit of giving up torrents and hard files for the one-click "Add to library" of a streaming service, and now, with Google Play shutting down for...

Bourdieu. You don't know Bourdieu? Across the pond, in the old country of the Normans (long live William 1028-1087) are some folks we Americans prefer to call "intellekshuals." Very lost and impotent men these, by the bunch. I don't know what you all think of Barthes, but I'll take Credence...

As an American I just heard of this "Eurovision Song Contest" for the first time. Apparently the video below is genuine footage of a real event... If you have not seen it previously, strong content warning on what's to come Is this why the UK went and Brexited? Is this poptimism's ultimate...

Well, were Simon & Burns right, or were Simon & Burns right? Wire thread.