This is a site of long essays on culture, society, politics, and technology, written by SINS. Most people arrive on a single piece. The titles below are the rest of the shelf.
Bernie is selling Medicare for All, free public college, and universal childcare as the change Democrats will deliver. The last two times that party held the White House and both chambers, that list was the part they cut. So was the immigration promise, including getting rid of ICE.
Read the essayI voted to legalize marijuana. A few years later, I began to regret it.
I used to argue with friends and then go share a pizza. Disagreement used to end at the table. Now it ends at the door.
I asked an AI whether it was going to kill me and the dog. The real question is who gets the keys.
The kitchen briefing called September 11 a celebration of community. It did not mention the dead.
I haven’t voted in years. I couldn’t endorse either name on the ballot. What I hear now is making me look at it again.
A rising platform says the work is to draft a new constitution and put the old checks out of the way. That is not a tweak. That is a different foundation.
The headlines scream. Under them: AI in ordinary decisions, thinning trust, and systems nobody sees until they break. Those are the signals.
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