A Policy of Truth

pirate wires #29 // making space for dystopia, enter: the reality czar, a brief dip into covid lab speculation, and the "r-word" heard round the world

A new pirate on the sea: Friday, we published a piece on fasting by Sasha Chapin. A few months back, Sasha told me he wanted to do a story on the whole “not eating fad,” a practice that of course spans millennia and touches almost every culture beyond the contemporary western. He also wanted to explore fasting in the context of the technology industry, …