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Abrasion
Every time I try to use Siri I hope it will be liberating and it fails. Siri works on the assumption that we all use a statistically predictable vocabulary. Orwell...
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Saltless days
A very strange side effect of not eating salt for a few days is that when I did, finally, eat salt again — or perhaps it was when my body...
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interspecies play as the antidote
That recent post, ‘The Myth of Sustainability‘, is a short realist critique of sustainability. Here I want to dig under the realism and pull out the more profound challenges. Then...
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The myth of sustainability
In recent conversations I have heard the word ‘sustainable’ used as an unthinking excuse, an adequate gesture of compensation for violent and massive environmental destruction, one too many times. Most...
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Buddhist racism is wrong.
I want to express my sorrow and frustration at the ongoing oppression of the Rohingya. I was reporting on the plight of the Rohingya in Burma and the Chakma in...