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Flannery O'Connor Kept It Real

And she didn't have much with truck with authors who didn't (Blog Post)

AI Can Build Great Things, but They're Inherently Fake and Crappy

Attraction to older women, square circles, halls of mirrors, Sam Kriss (Essay)

The Week in Review

Ilhan, did you marry your brother? "Ehhhhhh." How we know Moroccan women are ugly even though we've never seen pictures because they're all covered-up and shit. Throttling the Internet. Norm MacDonald is the Man/Netflix. Larry David and the DSA.

A Marijuana-Beer Column from 2004

I still stand by it, which is kinda surprising (Blog Post)

The Violent Bear It Away, by Flannery O'Connor

(Micro-Essay)

If One Gunman Could Destroy the World, Let's Have More Than One Gunman

One AI to rule them all? (Essay)

The Week in Review

My apologies: My Week in Review this week grew into its own short essay. I'll be running it at Substack and here tomorrow. For this week, just a few very small things. (Blog Post)

How Did Thaddeus Russell Fall Off My Radar Screen?

My copy of A Renegade History of the United States has more highlights than pink haired Goth chick but I long ago stopped following him. (Blog Post)