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Yesterday’s Attack on the Capitol Complex

4 Apr 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Cje95 $0.24

It has been barely a week since the outer perimeter fencing has come down yet here we are again having to talk about another attack on the Capitol Complex. While 2020 was a crap show it seems 2021 is not going to be to much better for those of us who...

Tie-In: How I Did a Double-Left

2 Apr 2021 4 minute read 0 comments Hatty Hacker $0.10

I know I say don't talk about politics, religion, sports, or finances in the workplace... but this one had it coming I mentioned in a video "those that left the left" while a title card came up stating 'like me in 2009'. A complete 180 is quite an...

Towards a Cultural Study of Crypto

31 Mar 2021 4 minute read 1 comment Maximilian Brichta $0.83

The vast majority of us folks in the crypto space are here to speculate about the economic, technological, and ideological upside of blockchain. On the first front, everyone from retail investors inspired by r/wallstreetbets to firmly established fin...

Ernst Cassirer: The Last Philosopher of Culture (Summary: Ch 1-3)

31 Mar 2021 5 minute read 0 comments Maximilian Brichta $0.09

In the first three chapters of Ernst Cassirer: The Last Philosopher of Culture, Skidelski offers a contextualization of Cassirer’s philosophy by outlining the tensions that the Marburg school (which Cassirer was trained) and the prevailing philosophi...

Imagine Dragons - Rising back like a phoenix

31 Mar 2021 3 minute read 1 comment Ykretz $0.32

I always had some difficulties to find musics I like. Most of time when I hear a music I like, listening to other musics from the musician doesn't work. I like all kinds of music but few in each one. Imagine Dragons is different. A long time ago, At...

The Spiral of Silence And Intellectual Politics

30 Mar 2021 3 minute read 0 comments Maximilian Brichta $0.20

        Noelle-Neumann's spiral theory starts with the assumption that social belonging is more important than the perceived ability to express one’s own judgment. A sense of fear or insecurity about one’s own capacity to make judgements can arise fr...

Federal Agent Ortiz Goes Full Frontal

30 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments StealthySteve $0.12

Agent Ortiz knew that if he did not go through with this mass killing event, he would never solidify himself as a "ironic" federal agent who is also the leading member of a trilateral pact between the most infamous ethno-nationalist groups on the Web...

Shoe Version of CryptoKitties?!

30 Mar 2021 1 minute read 8 comments Cje95 $0.14

Today while I was going over stock market news trying to hash out how I thought things were going to play out I ran across something that I never dreamed of beforehand. With the huge increase in popularity of NFTs, we have seen an assortment of thing...

Haley's Civil War Diaries

29 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments StealthySteve $0.07

Haley slammed her forehead on the secondary bunk bed unit directly above her own . She had vowed to herself she wouldn't do that again, but after 7 months she still hasn't gotten used to the continuous booms from the Tannerite . She relaxed tense abd...

A Man Amongst Boobs: H.L. Mencken’s Critique of the “New America”

28 Mar 2021 9 minute read 0 comments Maximilian Brichta $0.15

If there is one cultural critic that was able to capture early 20th-century America’s structure of feeling, H.L. Mencken is it. His iconoclastic, skeptical, caustic, and pessimistic critiques probed into the everyday life of the emerging middle class...