Broken Hands Media

Weird month. Some really good books in here, though.

The dead internet theory is a conspiracy theory. The idea is that most of the activity that you see online is executed automatically, by bo

Death is an ever-present companion, hence one of the two mantras that the game hammers home: “when one falls, we continue.”

I can’t quite account for much of the month and I somehow read 18 books during it, so we are keeping this thing brisk .

These will be short, because I am tired and times are tough.

Happy tax day, I’m way down a grading hole and not sure when I can come back up for air, but Edgar did our taxes this year right after doing

All of these places have similarities, mostly big windows so you can watch the planes taxi around, like megafauna for mechheads, but my poin

I wrote a while back that, while I don’t tend to believe people, I believe that they want me to believe what they’re saying. Sometimes, t

We’re now – by some measures – fifty or sixty or eighty years into this project, and it seems to me that both left and right have turned eit

Citation is like infrastructure. People ignore it until it breaks down. However, we can’t treat it that way if we want our education and i

This is all very important, because one of the main features of the modern nation-state is the monopoly on the use of violence within a geog

It’s hot, and weird

Okay, okay, I’ve been moving at a fair clip. Car trouble has led to me doing a lot of walking, and so I’ve gotten through a lot of audioboo

Not to be all “old man yells at cloud”, but when I was a child the assumption was that the internet was a hostile environment and the last t

But this isn’t just a meditation on the transitory nature of human relationships where we’re all ships passing in the night and every person