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One Vigilante, 22 Cell Tower Fires, and a World of Conspiracies
“Inside the mind of the most prolific anti-5G arsonist in the world—and the incoherent, very online political violence of our era.”
What if America Went Completely Dark?
“The power grid relies on thousands of aging, hand-built transformers. If enough fail, the blackout could last years.”
Every Language Everywhere All at Once
“Audiences love foreign TV and film. So do streamers. There’s just one little challenge.”
The End of Books
“What happened when a dumpster arrived behind my university’s library.”
What Neko Case taught me about curation and the week’s Top 5
“When the media covered women in the grunge and alternative scene, it treated them like a genre unto itself. This genre, though, received almost no in-depth profiles or features.” Books are one of the great joys in my life. The other is music. I’ve been following singer songwriter Neko Case since 1997, after picking up […]
ChatGPT Is Blowing Up Marriages as Spouses Use AI to Attack Their Partners
“My family is being ripped apart, and I firmly believe this phenomenon is central to why.”
Annie Dillard and the Writing Life
“Writers aren’t born, they’re made—from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine. And sometimes tutelage.”

