Every season I research one topic—utopian cities, an analog future in the age of AI, religious welfare states. Free subscribers get every essay. Paid subscribers get the collection as an illustrated e-book or print pamphlet.
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On the desire to live in a cabin in the woods
What does it say about modern life that I dream of escaping it?
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Derek Beyer I feel this. I used to joke that I was caught somewhere between Thoreau and Sagan — I wanted to fuck off to the woods and I also to do everything and...
This sewing machine powers AI
Meet the anti-AI AI.
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Derek Beyer I loved this one, Elle. I really appreciate that you refuse to collapse complexity or give in to false dilemmas.
Yes, let’s abolish federal governments
And replace them with international governments we can join à la carte.
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Tom McNabb The article I cited about whichever one Norway is stuck into, is that because the withdrawal arrangements of that treaty are difficult, and the Scheng...
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