Tag: books
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The Fingerprint on the Glass: Why I Fired the Algorithm
There’s a very specific kind of modern arrogance that convinces a guy running a neighborhood gathering space that having an algorithm design a poster is an act of sheer genius rather than a quiet admission that he is completely out of gas. When you spend your waking hours unjamming sixty-year-old steel pinsetters, counting beer cans…
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A Poem About Needing a Typewriter to Write This Poem
the ink is ready in my headblack and thick and foulready to bite into cheap cotton paperready to make a racket at three in the morninglike hail hitting a tin roof i have the cadencethe rough edgesthe heavy sigh of a man who knowsthe rent is latethe world is hollowand the coffee is cold i…
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The Rise of Slop Culture and the Defense of Human Sweat
Walk into any grocery store at two in the morning and take a slow stroll down the center aisles. What you are looking at isn’t really food. It’s miles of shelf-stable calories extruded through high-pressure industrial nozzles, chemically dyed to look appetizing and shrink-wrapped in slick plastic. It’s food stripped of dirt, season, weather and…
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The Compassionate Contagion: How Empathy Becomes a Revolutionary Act
We’ve turned the entire world into a single, global comment section, where every headline is a starting gun and every opinion is a battle cry. But for a great many people, that isn’t a game; it’s just Tuesday. It’s the daily reality of a queer person calculating their personal safety before holding a partner’s hand,…
JUSTIN LOCKRIDGE 