There is too much content, too much culture - and that’s just the stuff made by us humans
It’s time someone invented a slop filter
‘That was my first elimination’: IDF snipers are blind to the humanity of their victims
International law explicitly prohibits attacking unarmed people, and people who are retrieving bodies
I should enjoy watching the ritual humiliation of Silicon Valley’s top CEOs. But not like this
I found myself asking what had happened to the concept of f**k you money – but only momentarily
Since everyone we can agree on has already been president, or is dead, I’ve got an idea
Since everyone we can agree on has already been president, or is dead, I’ve got an idea
It wasn’t the internet that killed the old cultural order, it was U2
The resurrection and return of Oasis was a throwback to a time when we all existed in a more or less agreed cultural context
Why has Gazans’ hunger attained the status of ‘moral crisis’ when Israel’s genocidal slaughter did not?
No one understands the hollowness of its facilitators’ changed rhetoric better than the Israeli government
No one sent up Nazi rocket scientist Wernher von Braun better than satirist Tom Lehrer
Von Braun played key role in US moon landings, but now is mostly remembered for being mocked in a song
If you didn’t have qualms about Spotify before, wait until you hear what its founder has done
Over the past couple of years, tech investors have pivoted toward a collective embrace of the military-industrial complex
DJ Carey belongs to a strange and depressing category
To be from Kilkenny was to be proud – automatically, almost congenitally proud – of its supremacy in the sport of hurling. And at the very centre of that was DJ
The role of Tony Blair’s staff in the barbarous Gaza Riviera plan was beyond satire
Blair’s staff participated in calls about plans to build a Dubai-style dynamic trading and tourism hub out of the ruins of Gaza
Using ChatGPT to write an essay is a bit like using a forklift to lift weights
Just as you can’t get someone, or something, to work out for you, there is nobody and nothing that can think on your behalf
I love Wikipedia so much, I hardly even minded when it killed me off
ChatGPT is so unreliable as to be effectively worse than useless. No-one would say that about Wikipedia
Capitalism is incompatible with any kind of human flourishing on this planet
A new report lays bare what can no longer be denied: capitalism is incompatible with any kind of human flourishing on this planet
The housing crisis could erode Ireland’s middle class to a point of collapse
It’s a profound insult to our national dignity that so many people no longer feel they have any prospect of owning their own home
What a surprise to learn this powerful wizard of the Dark Enlightenment is just another needy dork
Curtis Yarvin has, for about a decade and a half now, been a highly influential figure on Silicon Valley’s anti-democratic right