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The Spectacle as Shield

This is the story of how the legal profession fought AI to protect its relevance—and how the tech industry smiled, built the AI, and made the stuffing. Introduction In April 2023, attorney Steven Schwartz became the unwitting face of artificial intelligence's invasion of the legal profession. His

Myth, Millstone, Machine

American Identity in the Age of Symbolic War There's a photograph of Jimmy Stewart in uniform, standing beside his father behind the counter of the family hardware store in Indiana, Pennsylvania. A recruitment poster looms behind them—"Time for Service"—while shelves lined with medicines and

Gaps in the Feedback Loop

Memory, Relics, and the Delayed Recognition of Cultural Cornerstones The "legendary" status of Loveless built up like a feedback loop with a bit of a delay. The UK presses were doing their usual thing of hyping things up (so they can knock it down later... a vicious, pernicious

Beyond the Neon Rain: How Cyberfolk Reimagines Community in the Digital Age

What happens when cyberpunk stops looking up at corporate towers and starts tending the moss growing between server racks? For decades, cyberpunk has trained us to see the future through rain-slicked chrome and neon reflections, following data pirates through corporate arcologies while atmospheric hackers manipulate weather-as-a-service. These stories of rebellion

Coffeehouse Conundrums: A One-Act Play

Setting: A trendy urban coffeehouse, all exposed brick and Edison bulbs. The air hums with the clatter of espresso machines and the weight of unspoken social codes. A chalkboard menu looms, prices just high enough to signal exclusivity. A corner table sits slightly apart, offering a view of the entire

A Platform for the Party of the Politically Exiled

Democracy for People Who Shop at Bi-Mart Article 1: Safe Communities & Accountable Justice Every Oregonian deserves to feel safe at home, work, and school. We’re committed to practical solutions that protect communities while ensuring justice is fair and accountable. * Swift and Fair Prosecution: Prioritize prosecuting repeat offenders, especially

Päiväkahvit and the Patience of Time

The word "outtakes" poisons the well before we even begin listening. It suggests material that wasn't quite good enough, the songs that didn't make the cut—creative leftovers relegated to the margins. But Sontag Shogun and Lau Nau's Päiväkahvit demands we abandon

Unflattening the Plate

Mexican Food, Market Contradictions, and the Sacred Labor of Memory Mexican food in the United States has never been just one thing. It is pre-Columbian agriculture, colonial rupture, Catholic ritual, borderland invention, migrant labor, corporate abstraction. It is memory folded into masa, and it is melted cheese on a combo

A Redacted Document: Field Entry

FIELD ENTRY [UNCATALOGUED] PORTLAND (PDX), Zone 4 Date Unknown (device time drifted; not recalibrated) I arrived late into Portland. Rain again—like the city was exhaling something it couldn't name. I hadn’t meant to stop here. The flight was rerouted. Or maybe I was. I no longer

A Ledgered Meal: Paqui, Portland

We’ve lived in the neighborhood nearly a decade and have seen this corner go through many identities—brewpubs, fusion experiments—but Paqui feels like a genuine arrival. It’s not trying to dazzle with reinvention or nostalgia. Instead, it offers something more rare: memory rendered with clarity and care.