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Unaccountability Machines

The CDC has repeatedly changed the way in which it’s color-coded what constitutes high-levels of Covid on their maps.

7 hrs ago •

May 2024

May 8 •

Acknowledging the existence of Palestinians is not anti-semitic.

May 2 •

April 2024

who knows! / your guess is as good as mine! / it could be this / or this / it’s certainly not this / though maybe it’s this / or this / maybe? / maybe…

Apr 13 •

Friendly Reminder.

I recently went to go see the poet Ada Limon talk about about her new book, The Hurting Kind. And while there certainly were interesting bits over the…

Apr 5 •

February 2024

A Claymation Fox Growing Flowers in Its Garden

This is basically the sequel to the National Review cruise essay Joe Hagan wrote for New York Magazine in 2012.

Feb 22 •

Are Newsletters Newsletters? Are Publications Publications? We Turn To An Expert To Hear More, See More, Be More, Be Less, To Float Upon the…

“How To Build A Small Solar-Powered System.”

Feb 9 •

January 2024

Thinking Out Loud

Substack still seems perfectly comfortable making money off Nazis.

Jan 19 •

December 2023

Something I Noticed

A quick video I put together after noticing something about the beginning of Beverly Hills Cop.

Dec 24, 2023 •

It feels like Blindboy and Emily Hilliard are both trying to get at the same thing through two different angles with their most recent work.

Dec 14, 2023 •

November 2023

A Chat with Nicole Graev Lipson

Here’s what I know: as a classmate, Nicole Graev Lipson made grad school worthwhile; as a fellow writer, I will be forever impressed with her…

Nov 21, 2023 •

Steven Spielberg interviews Martin Scorsese (2023)

Nov 19, 2023 •

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