War

The band was called Patient Karma. They had a van with three working tires, and a bassist named Sage, who refused to play the root note. The others begged. Pleaded. […]

Everything about life tells you, you exist which makes realizing you don’t so unlikely to see. The body appears to exist, but once dead, dead. Forever is incomprehensibly long compared […]

The class was discussing a news story about women supporting trans women in sports, which became a heated discussion. One student asked ChatGPT for any other historical parallels, and it […]

There either is a Parasitic host inside me making me do regrettable things or maybe another Parasitic host makes me believe regret is me and I am a victim. Either […]

I believe I am more polite than most of my fellow Torontonians when it comes to the subway. I stand well back from the doors, giving departing passengers a clear […]

You might wonder what’s higher up the mountain, but until your body climbs, until your breath shortens and your legs burn with ascent, you can’t truly know. The mind speculates, […]

When people talk about diets, they often speak not just of reaching a goal but of keeping it off as if the success is already slipping, already plotting its return. […]

I’d never truly heard of the Komodo dragon until one lunged at me through a late-night spiral of YouTube. Now I can’t stop watching. Their jaws clamp down on whole, […]

I was reading about using AI for therapy, about the results of a study of women suffering PTSD in two groups, one that used psychotherapists three times a week, the […]

Latest Mary Harrington blog – “AI is central to the decline of social media platforms. It’s also, if misused, the greasy chute to cognitive atrophy. And I think the upshot […]