Very excited to announce that, after an eight-year labor of love and three trips to India, we’ve started to publish Maheswari’s Story: A Memoir on Substack. Maheswari Sateesh is one of the most remarkable people I know, with one of the most astounding life stories I’ve ever heard. Born around 1975 in rural South India […]
Back in 2016, when I still had time to blog, Tuomas Kaila and I did a prank post about a suppressed Tintin comic book in which the hero works as a Nazi collaborator in occupied Belgium. It brought in a few new readers, and more importantly, served as a prelude to a more serious post […]
Embrace this moment we call 2020; next year will be so much worse.
Talking about the cosmic shitshow that is Elon Musk, on Paris Marx’s new podcast “Tech Won’t Save Us”.
“Gödel, Escher, Bach” by Douglas Hofstadter turns 40 this year. Bach’s music never had a justified place in the book – but could it find one?
Elon Musk is the perfect hero for our era of reboots and reality TV. Much of the mythos around him consists of tired sci-fi clichés, recycled and sold as reality. And in this way, Musk himself is like an update on L. Ron Hubbard.
A leftwing case against the term “neoliberalism” from historian Daniel Rodgers plays into the hands of those aiming to divert criticism.
It’s always fascinating when a public official commits a Kinsley gaffe, and the veil drops for a brief moment.
Did you know that Finland has twice as many mass shootings per capita as the US? Discussing violence honestly matters, and propaganda, even for a good cause, is counterproductive — as in criminologist Frederic Lemieux’s analysis.
Stop saying, “Isn’t it unbelievable that Trump is president?” It’s the kind of disjointed revelation you get when you’re high. “Isn’t it amazing that we have, like, hands? Doesn’t it blow your mind that trees exist?”
Limited Hangout 