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Four years later, time to take a break! 4️⃣
Nov 19
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Étienne Fortier-Dubois
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Notes From the Periphery on the Recent Election in the Empire
I don't really want to write about politics but I have to free my brain of it ☑️
Nov 16
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Living on the Periphery of the Empire
What do you do when you grow up at the edge of a superpower? 🇺🇸
Nov 5
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Étienne Fortier-Dubois
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Common Tech Jobs Described as Cabals of Mesoamerican Wizards
Aug 11, 2022
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The IQ Bell Curve Meme
Mar 18, 2021
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Remaining Ambitious
Jun 9, 2022
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The Figurative-to-Abstract Art Pipeline
Nov 10, 2023
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There Is No Planet B (For Worldbuilding)
Jan 18
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Étienne Fortier-Dubois
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There Is No Planet B (For Worldbuilding)
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We Rarely Lose Technology
Jun 23, 2023
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Not a rebranding 🎃
Oct 31
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Karl Popper’s Theory of Evolution
Natural selection as creative and purposeful problem-solving ☁️
Oct 25
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Étienne Fortier-Dubois
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Atlas of Links #1
Blogging battles, burning buildings, beautiful brutalism, and more
Oct 16
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Histories of the Greater West
Imagining trees of culture to understand civilizations better 𓏞
Oct 10
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Meta-Meta-Meta-Contrarian Woke
Iterated thesis → antithesis → synthesis ⚖️
Oct 3
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Étienne Fortier-Dubois
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The Great Showdown!! History vs. Science Fiction
LET’S FIGHT 🦹
Sep 26
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Sacred Hydro
Attachment to public institutions is suboptimal but culturally important 🔋
Sep 19
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