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Now You Do What They Told Ya @ Fellow Travelers
The military in the time of coronavirus has put strip-mall recruiting centers on the back burner. With handshakes now the equivalent to launching plague corpses over the city walls, virtual recruiting is taking over the task of enlistment. But this recent shift does not send the Pentagon into uncharted territory. Rather, it vindicates the US Military’s decades-long…
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How our endless wars have pushed the US military to court young gamers @ Responsible Statecraft
Parents beware: U.S. military recruiters are coming to a game console near you. Read it over at Responsible Statecraft.
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I want UwU for US Army @ Inkstick Media
The Army’s latest attempt to take young people from Fortnite to Fallujah. Read it over at Inkstick Media.
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We are doomed to reboot the past
Human immortality has been reached. Not through the de-fictionalizing of suspended animation, nor through the ability to upload your conscience into a mainframe, but rather through the backwash of intellectual property. The death of creativity was foretold by Francis Fukuyama in his 1992 attempt to cryogenically freeze the progress of humanity, preventing any life from forming…
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Lana Del Rey is rotting your brain
Read with footnotes here. We hold these truths to be self-evident: Lana Del Rey does not exist. No, since she is the character performed by the artist Lizzie Grant, whose uncritical approach to American nostalgia does more to invoke the helplessness of American apocalyptica than to make us yearn for simpler times. And just as Lana…