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The Meta Wristband: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Looking Like a Cyborg Mall Cop
Somewhere in Menlo Park, a Meta engineer is staring lovingly at a pair of plastic frames that cost $800, muttering: “This time, it’s different.” The glasses? Sure, they’re fine. Sleek even. Oakley-branded, Ray-Ban styled, whispering normalcy in a way that Google Glass never managed. But then—like a bad sequel nobody asked for—the neural wristband enters
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Sneak Peek: The First Chapter of Sleeping Fairy
Back in 2018, I drafted a retelling of Sleeping Beauty that was never really about castles or curses. It was about MySpace. It was about being twenty-one in the early 2000s—when dial-up whined through your bedroom wall, when your whole life could be demolished in a single public post, when “delete” wasn’t an option because
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Pregnant Robots & Patriarchy: China’s Pregnancy Bot and the Future We Didn’t Choose
Imagine a world where babies aren’t born from mothers but delivered by robots—in a literal tin womb. Welcome to 2026, Chinese-style, where scientists at Kaiwa Technology promise to debut the world’s first humanoid “pregnancy robot,” complete with an artificial womb embedded in its abdomen. It’s billed as a technological marvel for struggling parents—but if that
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The Art of the Photo-Op: Trump, Zelenskyy, and the Global Summit That Was Basically a Calendar Invite
Today in Washington, history was made. Not the good kind, not the kind they etch in marble or even scribble in textbooks. No, today was the kind of history where Donald Trump hosts Volodymyr Zelenskyy and a rotating cast of European leaders at the White House, declares it “a very good early step,” and then
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Pompoms, Politics, and the Fragile Masculinity of the 50-Yard Line: On the NFL’s Male Cheerleader Panic
It’s 2025, and the NFL has finally decided that maybe, just maybe, a man in sequins yelling “Defense!” won’t unravel the fabric of Western civilization. Twelve teams—including the Vikings and Patriots—are adding male cheerleaders to their squads this season. A gesture toward gender equality, sure, but also, apparently, a trigger for every uncle in America
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Florida’s Book Ban Just Banned Fahrenheit 451—Meet the Literary Irony Police
Censorship never starts with flags and alarms. It begins with scare stories, moral panic, and a public so hungry for control that they let the system eat the books one cover-sized bite at a time. Florida’s “parental rights” show was never about rights. It was about rewriting history by force. Thankfully, in Orlando, the script…
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The Dust in the Sunlight: Why I Stopped Waiting and Hit Publish
Thank you for being here—for reading to the bottom, for believing longform isn’t dead, for understanding that the dust in the sunlight is not failure but evidence. Evidence that we’ve been moving, living, changing the air. These books are my evidence. I hope one of them becomes yours.
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Pete Buttigieg and the Litmus Test That Ate 2028
This was supposed to be Buttigieg’s strength: grace under pressure, a knack for threading impossible needles. Instead, he’s left with the political equivalent of a half-buttoned shirt in a job interview—too casual for the formal crowd, too formal for the casual one. The Gaza litmus test has no safe answers. But what Pete Buttigieg discovered…
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The Sandwich That Shook the Republic
In a different era, this would’ve been a throwaway story — a quirky “and finally…” item at the end of the evening news. But in 2025, with an administration hungry for proof of chaos, it’s an entrée. A wrapped sandwich has been elevated to the level of a threat to national order. The bread is…
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When Big Brother Hires a Hall Monitor: FCC’s ‘Bias Monitor’ and the Death of Media Independence
The beauty—and the danger—of the First Amendment is that it protects the press even when the press is bad at its job. Even when it’s biased, sloppy, arrogant, or out of touch. Especially then. Because the alternative is a press that is only allowed to be “good” according to the standards of the people in…