Vol. XXX · No. 304
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Political
One cop watching you drive down Main Street isn't the same thing as every cop in the country being able to ask a database everywhere you've driven for the last three months. Those aren't remotely equivalent capabilities. Useful does not mean constitutionally unlimited....
Society
He learned that crying louder gives you power over the room — that the second the tears start, everyone else is supposed to soften up and rearrange reality around his feelings. It worked on teachers, on HR, on social media. Then he met police officers who just needed him to stop causing a scene. The meltdown didn't strengthen his case. It destroyed it....
Political
People sell the Communist Manifesto like it's a children's book about putting all the toys in one box. It isn't. It's a blueprint for power...
Political
People love to post 'Hitler was right wing' and then turn the comments off — because nothing says intellectual confidence like barricading the door so...
Political
DEI is racism with a marketing department — that's the part nobody is supposed to say out loud. We're told judging people by skin color...
Science
I really do hope they're trolls, because trolling has a motive I can hold in my hand. The problem is I don't think all of...
Political
'We live on stolen land' pretends history began five minutes before Europeans showed up. Stolen from whom, exactly? And who did they get it from?...
Software
A lot of people are terrified of AI right now, and honestly, I get it. But the fear is pointed in the wrong direction. The...
Political
Some people are now floating the idea that American air conditioning is somehow responsible for Europeans roasting during a heat wave. What a beautiful little...
Technology
YouTube is getting harder and harder to watch, and it's not because people suddenly forgot how to make videos. It's because the platform is being...
Software
Microsoft didn't lose me in one giant disaster. It lost me the way companies usually lose customers: one small insult at a time. A nag...
Society
I reached the point where I needed the internet equivalent of a shock collar. Reddit annoyed me enough that I built a tiny digital cattle...