Every App Wants to Be Your OS
Nothing is allowed to just be a thing anymore. Everything wants to be everything.
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Thinkers You Should Know: bell hooks
bell hooks (she refused to capitalize her name because she wanted people to focus on her ideas, not her brand) was an American writer who spent her career building bridges between feminism, anti-racism, and class poli...
Continue readingPropaganda 101: Language and Framing
“If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”— George Orwell, 1984
Continue readingPersonal Finance for the Third World: The Foreign Currency Question
Every third world country has two exchange rates: the official one and the real one. The official rate is what the government tells you the currency is worth (a lie). The real rate is what you actually pay on the stre...
Continue readingThinkers You Should Know: Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt was a German Jewish political theorist who fled the Nazis, ended up in New York, and spent the rest of her life trying to understand how the Holocaust happened. Her conclusion was terrifying and nobody w...
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