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May 7, 2026
I have always had a problem with the “extremism industry,” and I could never quite place what it was. It isn’t that extremism doesn’t exist in American...
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May 4, 2026
There is a sentence on page 18 of GIRLS® around which nearly the entire book is structured. “I am not an expert or an academic,” Freya India writes. “I am...
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May 1, 2026
This week, internet interlocutors noted that OpenAI had to instruct a new model, Codex 5.5, repeatedly, in its own system prompt, to stop bringing up goblins, gremlins,...
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Mar 23, 2026
“American Diner Gothic,” published in The New Atlantis and newly viral on X, coins a term for what author Robert Mariani sees as a new American archetype: the...
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Mar 6, 2026
Last week, New York magazine published a cover story on Heated Rivalry and fujoshi, a Japanese term for women who love stories about sex and romance between men. The online discourse...
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Mar 3, 2026
Conspiracy thinking is as old as politics. The state names an enemy inside its own house — real or invented — and uses the accusation to discipline or crush...