I wrote about embryos and the big question for states.
What is an embryo?
April 28th, 2024 Tuscaloosa, AL Today, I’m writing about probably one of the most important questions for lawmakers and law-shakers[1] right now: what is an embryo? Answer that — as a lawmaker or a law-shaker — and we can find out what kind of healthcare reality you want. Earlier this
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Amazing piece of writing — Magneto has serious depth and can apply to today.
The Judgment Of Magneto | Defector
Somewhere beyond death, in a realm of judgment and pain, a concrete labyrinth filled by countless names, a man walks. He is Jewish, and has been made hard and cruel by his experiences in the Nazi death camps. He’s also a mutant, gifted with the power to manipulate metal and the electromagnetic spectrum. Since his […]
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I work in the podcast industry and this piece makes me feel so much. What are media-makes here to do?
You Never Get The Full Story | Defector
Someone told me years ago that as a journalist making documentary work—the kind of work I do—you should leave every interview having fallen a little bit in love with your source. That’s how you’ll know you’ve gotten to a real, human place with them. I can’t count how many strangers I’ve fallen a little bit […]
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Great profile of a great writer
The Many Faces of Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Vietnamese American writer’s leap to the mainstream comes at a moment that demands his anti-colonialist perspective.
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If pods matter to you, and you have a feeling it has gotten too fame-host heavy, and suspect it’s too good to be true, Everyone should read this. Huberman is a terrible person and not a great scientist.
Andrew Huberman’s Mechanisms of Control
The private and public seductions of the world’s biggest pop neuroscientist.
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Another good piece about the current media climate — this really mapped it out for me.
'Very few have balls': How American news lost its nerve
In 2024, it’s harder than ever to get a tough story out in the United States of America.
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Brilliant piece: “What trans kids are saying is this: The right to change sex that has been enjoyed for decades by their parents, friends, teachers, coaches, doctors, and representatives, especially if those people are white and affluent — this right belongs to them, too. We should understand this right as flowing not from a revanchist allegiance to an existing social order on the perpetual verge of collapse but from a broader ideal of biological justice”
Freedom of Sex
The moral case for letting trans kids change their bodies.
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Check out Manvir Singh’s take on constructed languages (conlangs). This writing has opened my ears to what is going on with Game of Thrones, Halo, and of course Dune — what do we erase when we make up the language? “…the world we see in “Dune” was never meant to be fully sealed off from the one we know,” writes Singh. Read on to see what’s really going on the world of conglangs.
“Dune” and the Delicate Art of Making Fictional Languages
Manvir Singh on the alien language spoken in Frank Herbert’s novels, which carries traces of Arabic, and why that influence has been scrubbed from the “Dune” films.
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Excellent read about how Big Tech and military have held hands decades. It’s also astonishing how much the military has relied on tech to solve their problems, and be an “efficient” solution. Peace, and good old fashion human understanding might be an a better road to travel. The article is worth your attention.
The Pentagon’s Silicon Valley Problem, by Andrew Cockburn
How Big Tech is losing the wars of the future
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There are the jobs you want to do and the jobs you need to do. This piece takes a great look at the wealth gap and how creators — actors, writers, film folk, journalists, everyone — can’t make stuff easily, unless you have invisible wealth. The U.S. needs a better safety net, and waaay better paternal leave.
The Money Is In All The Wrong Places | Defector
You can always tell who in Hollywood has family money by their Instagrams. People like Dakota Johnson, who have a Hollywood lineage deeper than the Mariana Trench, post only rarely. They post about social justice causes they care about, or personal announcements. Even someone like actress and musician Maya Hawke mostly posts previews of upcoming […]
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