AI + Society

Transhumanism is terror management theory funded by venture capital, and it is telling on itself.

We engineered boredom out of existence and lost something we cannot get back from a screen.

The 'finding yourself' narrative assumes a fixed self waiting to be discovered. Identity is constructed, revised, and performed -- and that's more freeing than any gap year.

Every authoritarian movement sells a mythologized past. The longing is real. The history is fabricated.

Water scarcity is not a future crisis. It is a present emergency reshaping geopolitics, agriculture, and daily survival for billions of people right now.

Mass incarceration, racial disparities, and brutal recidivism rates aren't system failures. They're system features.

Free access to information, open to everyone, no purchase required. If someone proposed public libraries today, they would be called a socialist.

The word meritocracy was coined as satire, and we built an entire economic theology around the joke.

We treat healthcare like a consumer product when it functions like a road or a power grid.

Abolition is not the absence of safety but the presence of something better than cages.

The modern border regime is barely a century old, and pretending otherwise distorts every immigration debate we have.

Smart apartment tech is marketed as convenience for tenants and works as surveillance for landlords.

You bought it but you don't own it. Repair restrictions aren't a consumer inconvenience; they're a property rights crisis.

The debate about AI art focuses on output quality. That misses the point entirely.

The entire internet runs on software maintained by exhausted volunteers. That's not a feature; it's a crisis.

We turned our bodies into dashboards and our lives into optimization problems. The numbers aren't setting us free.

The 'attention economy' metaphor gets it wrong, and the error isn't academic.

Universal basic income has gone mainstream, and that should make you suspicious of what it leaves untouched.

The self-made billionaire is a myth that serves a political function, and it is time to retire it.

In a secular, atomized society, stadiums are one of the few places where strangers still cry together without irony.

Your grandparents repaired everything. You throw everything away. This isn't a generational virtue difference.

Speculative political fiction: How a DSA assemblyman could defeat Andrew Cuomo with grassroots organizing, and what it would mean for American politics.

US citizens have been killed and deported by immigration enforcement. The machine doesn't care about papers.

When 'just following protocol' produces atrocities. The banality of cruelty in American institutions.

Immigration enforcement operates outside constitutional norms. These exceptions are spreading to other domains. The erosion is already here.

Once built, enforcement systems don't stay confined to their original targets. Institutional momentum ensures the machine keeps running.

Some policies exist to hurt people. That's the feature, not the bug. Deterrence through suffering laid bare.

You can't vote your way out of structural violence. The system is working as designed. A critique of reformism without nihilism.

You don't own your digital life. You rent it from lords who can evict you at will. This isn't metaphor - it's the actual structure of digital property relations.

Technology embeds politics. The design is the ideology. There are no mere instruments - every tool shapes what's possible and what's thinkable.

Running your own infrastructure isn't just for nerds. It's a form of resistance against platform dependence. Digital autonomy requires material control.

The difference between giving help and building power. Charity maintains hierarchy while mutual aid dissolves it.

The workers who extract, transport, and burn fossil fuels are the same ones who'll build what comes next. Climate transition requires labor organizing.

You don't choose what you see. Systems choose for you, optimizing for engagement, not understanding. Culture is increasingly machine-curated.

Infinite scroll isn't a feature. It's an extraction mechanism. The feed format itself, not just the content, is designed against human flourishing.

The countryside isn't monolithically conservative. It's complicated, abandoned, and organizing in ways that defy stereotypes.

Political boundaries are arbitrary. Ecological ones aren't. What organizing politics around natural systems actually means.

We replaced church with other rituals. They're just less honest about what they are.

The radical tradition within Christianity that sided with the poor. What happens when religion takes material conditions seriously.

A look at what we as individuals must do to reform instead of more grandiose gestures that would only cause short-term fixes like electing a new president for example.

From feminist revolutionary to 'hyper-racism' advocate: Land's trajectory shows how theoretical transgression can slide into genuine political extremism. His innovations don't excuse what he became.

From the camera obscura controversy to AI lawsuits in 2025, each wave of technological disruption has forced artists to confront what is irreplaceably human about creative expression.

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