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The Alien series has a very strong brand, deceptively so for a film franchise with, by most people’s reckoning, two hits. After 1986’s Aliens, the series has been limping along on the excess energy generated by those first two phenomenal movies. Only the Terminator series has gone to
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For the month of February only, I am sending out some previously published articles on Mondays for new readers. Brand new material will continue to run each Friday. One of the wildest things to me about the first Trump presidency, along with everything else about it, was always the ways
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So the newly selected Democratic Party nominee for president is a black lady and also the term “DEI” is trending again. This is about as surprising as night following day, the tides coming in, or Tesla missing a deadline. Anyone who claims at this point that “DEI” isn’t a
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Earlier this year I wrote about the strange fact that Elon Musk had yet to endorse Donald Trump for president, even though their politics match up in just about every significant way. Musk, though he claims to have voted for Obama, has been a die hard Republican for some time,
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I initially wrote this piece before the assassination attempt on Donald Trump last weekend. It was published the morning that happened, just before it happened, but made available at the time only to paid subscribers, because I have recently adopted a gimmick whereby paid subscribers get all my articles a
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Over the past few years Taylor Swift has risen to become, apparently, the most influential celebrity in the world, and this is a great benchmark for me to use to finally admit that I am old, because Taylor Swift marks the first time in my life that the most influential
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I like Substack a lot. I don’t know what I’d be doing as a writer during the sunset of social media if I hadn’t found the last platform on the internet that links writers up with each other and with potential audiences. The true community potential of
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As though we needed some more stupid in the AI discourse, Elon Musk recently resurrected the old Woke AI fearmongering hypothetical gambit: He asked one of the leading chatbots, Google’s Gemini, whether it would be okay to misgender Caitlyn Jenner if doing so was the only way to stop
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It kind of got lost in the news cycle but it was recently, quietly, confirmed that the Dinesh D’Souza documentary 2000 Mules, which outlined the case for the 2020 political election having been rigged by the Democratic party to oust Trump, was completely fabricated. D’Souza just made that
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I had a different piece all lined up for this week but then I saw something annoying on social media that made me throw the draft on the backburner and settle into a nice cleansing rant. This works out fine anyway because the council has decided that the patch of
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You would have seen that bizarre “pronatalist” couple making social media rounds by now. If you haven’t—Malcolm and Simone Collins were profiled in a Guardian article about the so-called pronatalist movement, whose adherents are on a mission to have as many children as possible to save western civilization
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As someone who spent way too much of my precious time following Gamergate, the front of the hobbyist culture war that was fought against video game developers exactly ten years ago, I was kind of amused to stumble onto this little interaction the other day. It serves as a neat