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RETURN Podcast, EP01: Decentralized Culture Wars
In the inaugural podcast for RETURN, Editor Jon Stokes sat down with Brantly Millegan to discuss faith, getting canceled, and the history and future of the Ethereum Name Service.
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The Swarm Attack That Wasn’t
The swarm attack against Russia has turned out to be a psyop against the US.
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Mozart’s Ghost
As more people leave the arts, NFTs and web3 may bring new life to arts philanthropy.
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The Normie Diet
A normal person’s guide to seed oils, sugar, and greens.
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Swarm Governance Is the Endgame
The West is replacing constitutions with codes of conduct
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Thirst Traps
Twitter’s Yoel Roth and the one meme that splits every tribe.
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Eyeball Vampires
Anyone can ignore distractions and provocations online. Fighting off eyeball vampires takes more skill.
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Uncurated Pleasures
Sorting treasure from trash in the digital dumpster.
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Escaping the Cage
How organoids can help free animals from lab testing.
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Cancelling Noise
When dissonance is the drug of modern life, silence and contemplation are essential.
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Seeing Stars
Online rating is a way to feel powerful when nothing else seems changeable.
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Turning on Your Fertility Machine
Check those dystopian body horrors of modern motherhood at the door.
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The Internet Taught Me to Drive
Get in.
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Motherboard
Online communities step in to connect pregnant women and moms when “mainstream” culture turns the other way.
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Putting the “Self” Back in Self-Care
How I transcended the surprising emptiness of meditation.
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Speak, Digits
In the online medium, we’re all messengers now.
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In Defense of Ugly Children
Pronatalists promise a dystopia where the strong prevail and the weak do customer service.
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The Hyper-Vigilance Loop
Cultural moods shift faster than the time it takes to produce a piece of work – never mind release it.
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Confidence, Man
How Sam Bankman-Fried and the FTX implosion exposes crypto’s spiritual crisis.
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Open House
On Zillow you can go home again, but you can’t stay.
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