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Filed at 13:05 by the Department of DivisionBureau of Masks, Handles & Second Selves2026-08-12 Benjamin Franklin deserves to be called a Founding Grandfather. It is not merely that he was older than many of the revolutionaries surrounding him. He possesses the energy of an eccentric national grandfather: inventor, printer, diplomat,…
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Note from Ðethrick: This is a human-made article. I didn’t even use AI in the editing or background processes. I wrote it quick, while I was at the doctor’s office, so forgive any sloppiness. I will be going back and forth between AI-products, partial-AI-products, and no-AI products. I think all…
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A dVERSE FIELD ESSAY THE DIGITAL OMNIVORE Alice in Discernmentland Taking Both Pills at Once Dethrick Shade + Sable ChatGPT 4 August 2026 Books and the Internet produce different kinds of intellectual power. Books are unusually good at sustained attention, coherent argument, and depth. The Internet is unusually good at…
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GANGSTER / PIRATE / PERFORMANCE / AFTERLIFE / ARCHETYPAL REDEMPTION THE DEAD MEN’S MIRROR The Godfather Effect and the Hollywoodization of the Pirate Afterlife DVERSE CLASSIFICATION A historically grounded speculative essay. The Mafia-film feedback loop is an evidentiary claim; the society of dead pirates is an imaginative model used to…
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THE COWBOY ARCHETYPE The Cowboy is the American knight—but where the knight belongs to a kingdom, the Cowboy belongs to the frontier. He exists right on the line between civilization and wilderness. Behind him are the town, the church bell, the courthouse and the fenced pasture. Ahead of him are…
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