Woke 2 Aug 13
pirate wires #162 // “woke 1 was crazy,” revolution in the democratic party, and how to talk to normie libs (or partisan hacks) who think “the DSA is just like trump”
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Choosing Not to Have Kids Is the Real Quiet Quitting
having children used to be how you joined the world, but today it’s framed as opting out of it
Aike Ho
Jun 19, 2025
Aike Ho is a partner at ACME, a venture capital firm, where she invests in companies that create, improve, and/or extend life; for example, Conceivable Life Sciences, a robotic IVF startup. In an op-ed for Pirate Wires, she writes about how the depopulation crisis, wherein Western Civilization is facing exponential decline, is a moral issue formed by a self-interested culture. Life-altering tech and policy changes can only go so far.
Woke 2
Inside the Coke-Fueled Rise and Fall of VICEAug 4
the company didn't die because of investors, sexual harassment charges, or going 'woke' — it died because our founder stopped believing in the product that made us famous
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'Luigi's the Most Beautiful Person': Dispatches from the Mangione MusicalAug 3
a new musical based on the life of luigi mangione seeks to 'interrogate' political violence — the audience celebrated it
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