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Business Schools vs. Socialist Magazines: A Market Analysis of Mutual Irrelevance

In which we discover that both Harvard MBAs and Jacobin writers produce roughly the same amount of value for society By Chad Middlebrow The Hanoverin Senior Correspondent for Institutional Dysfunction Last week, our friends at Jacobin published yet another breathless exposé revealing that—brace yourselves—business schools teach people how

From Chuck Jones in Space to Hank Hill's Propane Zen

A Conversation's Folk Process or How theoretical game criticism became practical creative refusal The Starting Point: Literary Analysis as Game Design We began with a synthesized essay about horror RPGs - the kind of piece that treats tabletop games as serious cultural objects worthy of academic analysis. Recursive

The Boo Radleys and Notes from Inside the Unlocked Door

Or: How a 1992 Song Became a Field Guide to Democratic Exhaustion In 1992, the Gulf War was a video game played out on television, Bill Clinton was on his way to winning back the White House, and the musical world was still scratching its head in the exhaust clouds

The Violet Leaf Expedition

A UVG Caravan of Speculative Traders, Fragile Alliances, and Unspoken Debts The Caravan An overburdened wagon rolls across the wastes, pulled by four mules who've seen too much and two combat steeds who think they're better than this. The wagon creaks under odd fruits, trading kits,

core.js: The Lost SourceForge Archive

core.js — Official (Unofficial) Archive Maintained by whoever still remembers the FTP password. README.txt (original, 1987) core.js is a suffix application for use with any genre descriptor. Intended for use by musicians, zinesters, and loud people who need to communicate subcultural specificity without explanation. USAGE: bandName + genre + core

Double Rations Tonight! or The AI Millionaire Machine

How to Turn a Million Workers Into Corpse-Starch and Call It Progress "AI will create more millionaires in the next 5 years than the internet did in 20." —Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA "Hey guys! Quartermaster said double rations tonight!" —Imperial Guard trooper, standing on a

The Love Song of J. Alfred Metadata

Let us go then, you and I, When the servers are spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a gurney of fiber optic cable; Let us scroll, through certain half-deserted feeds, The muttering retreats Of restless nights of clickbait And sawdust video calls with oyster shells: Algorithms

How to Hate the Game (As Well as the Players)

A Field Guide to Principled Cynicism in the Age of Performative Democracy Fresh in my inbox this week: Oregon Democrats asking for money to support Texas Democrats who fled the state to break quorum and block Republican redistricting. "The gloves are off," they announced, "and Texas Democrats

There Is No Outside

A Space Horror Folktale Overview No Outside is a space horror TTRPG module for 3–6 players and a Game Master (GM). The players are crew members of the Anamnesis, a salvage ship that has intercepted a looping distress signal from an unknown source. The ship is not merely a

Soup Is Good Food (2025 Remaster)

Or: How Dead Kennedys Predicted the LinkedIn Economy In 1985, Jello Biafra and the Dead Kennedys released "Soup Is Good Food," a brutal prophecy about technological displacement and corporate cannibalism. Forty years later, as I scroll through LinkedIn watching professionals optimize themselves into algorithmic nutrients, I realize: the