Archive - shadowrunners

Why we love to hate the Muslim

On orientalism, theology and the meaning of the West

11 hrs ago •

laughlyn (johan eddebo)

Big Brother is having a baby

I’m never gonna learn Cantonese, but I’ve kind of picked up a bit of the prosody.

Jul 1 •

laughlyn (johan eddebo)

June 2025

The solstice & the slipstream

There’s inevitably someting magical absout the solstice.

Jun 23 •

laughlyn (johan eddebo)

Israel's rigged game of chicken

Additional reflections on the developing situation

Jun 18 •

laughlyn (johan eddebo)

Why the Iran-Israel conflict is unlikely to escalate further

Some general observations

Jun 16 •

laughlyn (johan eddebo)

All hail the stumbling child-king

Israel, Ukraine, and the end of empire

Jun 13 •

laughlyn (johan eddebo)

A criticism of the recent chatGPT meta-study in Nature currently making the rounds

On “The effect of ChatGPT on students’ learning performance, learning perception, and higher-order thinking: insights from a meta-analysis” and its…

Jun 8 •

laughlyn (johan eddebo)

What is a woman?

On the metaphysics of sex

Jun 6 •

laughlyn (johan eddebo)

Drone Warriors, or: The war in Ukraine is not taking place

On the most excellent, beautiful, truly double-plus-good escalation

Jun 6 •

laughlyn (johan eddebo)

May 2025

Authenticity, faith and journalism

Hamburgers, doom metal and Hunter S. Thompson

May 26 •

laughlyn (johan eddebo)

AI as the ultimate technology of alienation

On AI, the Real, and the hyper-real pt. 1

May 9 •

laughlyn (johan eddebo)

April 2025

Jesus, the influencer

Something on spectacular religion and Tiktok-trending piety (and a bit on the contemporary history of the religion of end-stage empire)

Apr 21 •

laughlyn (johan eddebo)

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