Miguel Antonio
@messengerbagboy.bsky.social
I judge myself unfit for human contact.
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Friend: Aren't you glad that you're not an existentialist?
Me: Aren't you glad you managed to pronounce that word?
Me: Aren't you glad you managed to pronounce that word?
It’s as though the city feels it’s been invaded by the unhoused. But turn San José inside out and it’s a giant homeless camp being invaded by a city.
On the Death of Tech Idealism (and Rise of the Homeless) in Northern California
Fuckers. I couldn’t get the word out of my head, because he wouldn’t stop saying it. I was sitting in the tiled courtyard of the Mediterranean-style home of an old acquaintance, a venture capitalis…
lithub.com
February 9, 2026 at 9:32 AM
It’s as though the city feels it’s been invaded by the unhoused. But turn San José inside out and it’s a giant homeless camp being invaded by a city.
How did multilevel marketing schemes come to be legal, let alone so widespread? The answer has to do with how we think of workers and how we think of consumers.
Selling a Defective Dream | Zephyr Teachout
How did multilevel marketing schemes come to be legal, let alone so widespread? The answer has to do with how we think of workers and how we think of consumers.
www.nybooks.com
February 8, 2026 at 10:02 AM
How did multilevel marketing schemes come to be legal, let alone so widespread? The answer has to do with how we think of workers and how we think of consumers.
The rise, fall, and rise again of right-wing separatism.
That’s All, Volks! | Henry Luzzatto
The folk community cautionary tale of the hippie-Nazi commune Volksberg.
thebaffler.com
February 7, 2026 at 3:45 PM
The rise, fall, and rise again of right-wing separatism.
Something Cold, Something New.
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February 6, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Something Cold, Something New.
#CovetFashion
#CovetFashion
Thomas Pynchon’s evolving populisms.
Using the Night | Mark Iosifescu
Maybe you know the drill: metahistorical intrigue and antiauthoritarian politics; several deep benches’ worth of quirky characters toting loudly emblematic affectations and not-strictly-probable names...
www.nplusonemag.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:19 AM
Thomas Pynchon’s evolving populisms.
Learning is painful, pleasant and, above all, communal.
The Secret to Getting Through Big, Dense, Difficult Books
www.nytimes.com
February 4, 2026 at 9:22 AM
Learning is painful, pleasant and, above all, communal.
What if they don’t send out their scientists to talk to us? What if there is no such job on their planet? Where do alien nerds find gainful employ?
What If Aliens Don’t Actually Do Science?
Before we can achieve an interspecies scientific mind meld with visiting aliens and crack the secrets of the Universe, we have a few pesky problems to take care of. We are eager to download alien t…
lithub.com
February 3, 2026 at 7:35 AM
What if they don’t send out their scientists to talk to us? What if there is no such job on their planet? Where do alien nerds find gainful employ?
To recognize a tyrant, it helps to have some experience with tyranny. A daughter of the 19th century, Woolf knew coercion when she saw it.
Don’t Close Your Teeth | Los Angeles Review of Books
Cynthia Zarin traces the rise of fascism through the diary entries of Virginia Woolf, in an essay from LARB Quarterly no. 47: “Security.”
lareviewofbooks.org
February 2, 2026 at 10:09 AM
To recognize a tyrant, it helps to have some experience with tyranny. A daughter of the 19th century, Woolf knew coercion when she saw it.
The fine line between creation and destruction
Making Sense of Sylvia Plath’s Final Act
Plath felt that marriage and children were the necessary but insufficient condition of her continued creativity.
hedgehogreview.com
February 1, 2026 at 10:43 AM
The fine line between creation and destruction
Take it from me: A crossword clue can be debated with the kind of fervor normally reserved for corporatist propaganda and outright racism.
The Hidden Politics of the Crossword Puzzle
Take it from me: A crossword clue can be debated with the kind of fervor normally reserved for corporatist propaganda and outright racism.
www.thenation.com
January 31, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Take it from me: A crossword clue can be debated with the kind of fervor normally reserved for corporatist propaganda and outright racism.
