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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The Cyborgian Denizens of DIDTok
on "multiple personality" tiktok, to be is to be perceived
River Page
Jul 12, 2023
Has the internet made us all insane — literally? This has been a major theme of Pirate Wires, and a central question of my work, since I first launched the company. From campfire stories to print to the televised debates of Nixon and Kennedy, we are shaped by the mediums through which we communicate. So how, I’ve found myself wondering, has a third of our country been shaped by TikTok? Well, to begin with: young people across the country now genuinely seem to believe they have dissociative identity disorder (in other words, multiple personalities).
Welcome to DIDTok, a cartoonish hellscape content genre (community?) perfectly in keeping with the Clown World laws that govern our culture. It is funny and horrifying and unfortunately sort of important. Fml.
River Page reports.
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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