The Life and Death of American MallsSep 26
rip malls and the socialist who escaped nazis to create them, and the era when we had one perfectly air-conditioned place to hang out together irl
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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.
The Life and Death of American Malls
Men's Health: The Benefits of BleedingSep 22
from leeches to bloodletting, the ancients were right: modern doctors are overlooking the risk of iron overload in men, who evolved to bleed in combat (start donating, boys)
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Murder is Bad Sep 16
pirate wires #148 // on accusations of "fanning the flames" after accurately describing reality, and an earnest appeal to the center left: we must reassert a strong taboo against violence — together
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