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Best of the Best
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Onstage couple’s therapy: catharsis and breakup songs
Below every YouTube upload of the May 1997 performance of Fleetwood Mac’s “Silver Springs,” there are endless comments discussing the stage behavior of one Stephanie Nicks. What Stevie really feels doesn’t matter, though. Only our perception does.
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A programmer, unmoored
America has always been a place defined by the contributions of immigrants. One such immigrant, like many before him, has the restless hands of a tinkerer. From in front of a stark white wall in Sao Paulo Brazil, he spun a plastic fidget toy between his fingers.
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Deconstructing the Deindexing
Gamers, we have a sitchuation on our hands. On July 24, Itch.io unlisted all NSFW and adult content on their site in response to “scrutiny from [their] payment processors.” To say the response was overwhelming would be an understatement.
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Has anyone wanked the TikTok ban yet?
On Sunday, January 19, 2025, the American Agora will go dark. The TikTok ban is interesting in part because it echoes the bans of previous sites like Tumblr and LiveJournal, and these bans beg the question: When online communities built around creativity and free expression collapse, where do the users go?
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Why are Louisiana’s laws about human remains so strict?
Happy Halloween. Let’s talk about Boneghazi. In July 2016, a witch named Ender Darling was taken into custody in Florida and returned to Louisiana. Their crime? Stealing human bones from cemeteries in the state. The same year, Louisiana’s legislature passed the “Louisiana Human Remains Protection and Control Act,” a law intended to stop the ownership…
Bet you’ve never seen a poltergeist use a typewriter.
Putting one’s work out into the world is perhaps the purest example of being known. What a mortifying ordeal.
I’m an early-career journalist that strives to seek out untold stories and spread their messages in a way that is unique and useful to readers.
Much of my current work is with Back Alley Games, an independent gaming magazine, and can be found here.
Before that, I attended Colorado State University for Journalism and Media Communications.
Otherwise I type too many words here about whatever catches my interest.