Dec 15, 2022 from Joybuke The Dissident's Masochistic, Schizo-allegiance Dissidents to our current regime find themselves in an unfortunate type of war: a war against themselves. A good portion of those dissidents roaming around today, rather they be trumpsters, communi...
Dec 12, 2022 from Joybuke The Political War isn't actually political This may come as a shock, but our current political situation isn’t all that political. It’s a situation, it’s a problematic situation, and it is as it seems when it comes to the parties involved, ...
Dec 06, 2022 from Joybuke Delete Your Account, They Wont Miss You One very common misconception that I see online is that your social media accounts are important because “that’s where your friends are”. This line of thinking is more common among the chronically ...
Sep 01, 2022 from Real Life Life’s a Glitch The non-apocalypse of Y2K obscures the lessons it has for the present
Aug 29, 2022 from Real Life Who Can It Be Now On social platforms, the "fluid self" is not a rejection of personal branding but another manifestation of it
Aug 25, 2022 from Real Life Colony Collapse God games like Civilization and The Sims offer a fantasy of control based on miniaturization, giving us little ant hills to rule over. But they are also premised on the idea that we too are ants an...
Aug 18, 2022 from Real Life Dreaming in Color Satoshi Kon's movies, which paralleled the rise of social media, explore the surreal meeting of interiority and public life
Aug 15, 2022 from Real Life Hold the Line Media technology is not a modern antidote to older, vernacular modes of information transmission. Folklore instead thrives through these new channels, helping explain and assimilate new technologie...
Jan 10, 2022 from Prakash S Invisible Obvious Most people used to presume the Earth was the centre of the Universe. It sounded bizarre to others when Nicolaus Copernicus came up with Copernican heliocentrism. His model positioned the sun as th...
Oct 06, 2021 from Prakash S Right Kind of learning During my teenage years, I am so fond of reading books, I believed the most effective way of learning is to read through books on your own.