JD Goulet
@jdgoulet
Writer & immigrant in Portugal
JD Goulet
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Reality as we understand it is a phenomenon of social structures, language, and shared processes for engaging with the world. Digital media is remaking all of these in such a way that media consumption more and more resembles the act of playing an alternate reality game.
Jon Askonas • Reality Is Just a Game Now
The American Diaspora
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"For the uninitiated on this side of the pond, the European Parliament is kind of a cross between the Continental Congress of the 1770s as envisioned under the weak, decentralized Articles of Confederation and the Galactic Senate from the Star Wars prequels. It has some power over the EU budget and approves members of the executive European
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Actually, Gossiping Has Its Benefits. So Why Are Women Ridiculed for It?
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“To recap, neoliberalism's network of influence operates as follows:
• “Oligarchs and corporations often covertly (i.e. 'using dark money') fund think tanks and academic departments.
• “These institutions, in turn, make the unreasonable demands of the oligarchs and corporations sound reasonable and normal.
• “The press - also largely controlled by
The urgent task facing queer communites is that we must facilitate kinship that is strong enough that nobody has to fear exclusion.
How Too Much Information Can Make Us Stupid and Miserable
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