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No, Idiocracy is Not a Documentary, but…
... it may be based on a true story.
Nov 5, 2024 • 
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August 2024

Thoughts on the Bear
Or why the only thing in danger of being mauled is our humanity.
Aug 22, 2024 • 
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November 2023

I’ve Come Not to Praise “Cinema”
Some thoughts on criticism in the age of IP
Nov 16, 2023 • 
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May 2023

Quiet Quitting and the Future of Labor Power
Thoughts on our inability to make consistent, ordered choices.
May 5, 2023 • 
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April 2023

Dispatches: Old Dubai
What does it mean for somewhere to be a “real” place?
Apr 7, 2023 • 
j.r. leonard
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March 2023

Artefacts: 3 Feet High and Rising
Happy belated #DeLaDay!
Mar 29, 2023 • 
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The Wrong Way to Think about Wealth
“It costs a lot of money to keep this man in poverty.”
Mar 8, 2023 • 
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February 2023

Dispatches: Athens
1. There is an irony to Greece’s location.
Feb 22, 2023 • 
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Nervous Conditions
Thoughts on de-colonizing your post-colonialism.
Feb 15, 2023 • 
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Things that Work are Just Things that Have yet to Break
Why I am and am not a brokenist.
Feb 8, 2023 • 
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Dispatches: Hydra Island, Greece
It's pronounced 'EE-thra'
Feb 1, 2023 • 
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October 2022

We Can’t Change Us, until Us Changes We
Some thoughts on learning lessons and broken feedback loops
Oct 27, 2022 • 
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