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Latest — 21 Sep 2026

What Happens When You Unzip “End Times Fascism”?

Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor’s End Times Fascism offers a phrase that arrives prepackaged and compressed. It binds prophetic religion, technological transcendence, extreme wealth, militarized borders, climate breakdown, and dreams of escape into one political story: the shared world is being abandoned, and the important question is who gets

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What the Story Lands On

In November 1820, a sperm whale stove in the Nantucket whaleship Essex and the crew took to three open boats in the middle of the Pacific. They had islands to leeward. The Marquesas and the Societies were within reach, downwind, and the officers knew it. They steered instead for South

The Sump

An introductory five-room cavern for The Black Hack Three rooms present combat, each showcasing one class's signature tool — though another class's ability may bypass it entirely, and that's a feature. Two rooms teach the rest. Room Spotlight Lesson 1. The Grate Thief Tests,

The Probable Barrier Operator

What I Think I Know About What Delia Thinks About Us After seven in the evening, Delia will sometimes sit and stare at me. Not Nancy. Me. And cry. There are plenty of things a dog might accomplish by staring at a human, but more often than not this particular

Corpse Run: Onboarding the New Hires

A TiGGR Setting Expansion — here, the future has weekends. Touchstones: a certain grim darkness (you know the one) • Corpse Run • For personal use Getting Started Touchstone A second portal event in Receiving. A second displaced adventuring party — except these five aren't refugees from a game built around enjoyable

What the Machine Does

Stafford Beer said the purpose of a system is what it does. Not what the charter says. Not what the judge reads before the oath. Bald fact. A better starting point than good intentions. First, one has to define the system. If you draw the box around a courtroom, you

Keeping the Furniture

A companion to Reject Narrative Structure. There is a pressure that shows up during play — the small persistent tug to bend what you're doing toward a beat, to make this moment land, to give the scene a shape it hasn't earned yet. It is real, most

So You’re AR-curious

That is a normal thought. The rifle is everywhere, it takes a standard magazine, and half the internet will tell you that you are incomplete without one. You can want one without joining a militia, naming it, or writing a novel about the collapse. Here is the civilian version. An

Team Bravo: The One Year War

A 24” x 24" table. Six-sided dice. A tape measure. Index cards or Post-It notes. Any models you like. The Basics UNITS have five numbers, printed on a card and never modified by anything: Skill (2–5), Move (inches), Resistance (0+), Hits, Size (1–5). Plus weapons,

A Million Monkeys (Minus One)

Causal redundancy, and what a measurement can be asked to mean There's that old joke about a million monkeys at a million typewriters eventually producing Shakespeare. A recent MIT paper suggests a different experiment. Suppose the monkeys have been typing for some time, their pages collected to train