Archive - Brain Worms

Welcome To The Authoritarian Internet

With fascists and technocrats in control of all its major platforms, when should we concede that the battle for the internet has been lost?

May 13 •

Some words scribbled on a wall late at night

May 13 •

The Dumb Phone Diaries Finale: How To Get Out Of Hell

A relapse into the clutches of my iPhone reframed the way I view the modern conception of convenience

May 13 •

Dumb Phone Diaries: So You Want To Kill A Smart Phone

I'd resolved to get rid of my smartphone, but freedom was never going to be that easy.

May 13 •

April 2025

Dumb Phone Diaries

Why I decided to kill my iPhone

Apr 16 •

January 2025

Out With The Old

How the Democrats saved us from the Democrats

Jan 20 •

2024 In Review: The Good Stuff

Here are some of my favorite things from 2024 and a few of my least favorites.

Jan 1 •

December 2024

2024: The Year We Gave Up On Normal

If you're the terminally sentimental type, the end of the year is a bit of a bacchanal.

Dec 31, 2024 •

The End of Social

What if the problem is posting?

Dec 12, 2024 •

Where Can A Car Kill Me?

On Jaywalking, The Little Walk Button, And Other Pedestrian Grievances

Dec 9, 2024 •

October 2024

What it means to carry stones

A week of climate catastrophe leaves us once again wondering if there's room in the budget for anything other than bombs

Oct 1, 2024 •

May 2024

Highway To Hell

The line between America's automobile obsession and its descent into fascistic individualism is getting easier and easier to draw.

May 21, 2024 •

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