Thom Dunn – Medium

May 5, 2021

The Liberals Who Can’t Quit The Zombie Apocalypse

Progressive communities have been home to some of the fiercest battles over anti-zombie policies, and some liberal policy makers have left scientific evidence behind. — A while ago, I started noticing something strange: Very progressive people, who love to talk about “believing in science,” were adopting zombie defenses *over and above* the CDC’s recommended zombie preparedness guidelines. I thought, is there a story here? And, well, wow, there is.

Covid 19

4 min read

The Liberals Who Can’t Quit The Zombie Apocalypse

Apr 29, 2021

Police are twice as deadly as mass shooters, and steal more than burglars.

Police are statistically responsible for more death and theft than some criminals. But we let them do it, in the name of liberty & freedom. — There have been a lot of uniquely awful mass shooting tragedies in the news lately; the shocking uniqueness makes them newsworthy, because it’s new, or at least, out-of-the-ordinary. But it’s easy to confuse the frequency of these heartbreaking reports with the actual rate of mass shootings in which four or…

Police

5 min read

Jan 11, 2021

There’s never been free speech on social media

In the immediate aftermath of the insurrection at the Capitol Building, every major social media platform in the United States decided to ban outgoing US President Donald J. Trump. …

Politics

5 min read

There’s never been free speech on social media

Nov 25, 2020

I asked several different bots to re-write READY PLAYER TWO

Ready Player One was bad—shlock wish-fulfillment fantasy that rewards the reader for understanding fairly-basic nerd pop culture references, instead of providing any value or satisfaction derived from character, plot, emotion, philosophy, prose, or anything else that typically constitutes good writing. …

Ready Player One

14 min read

I asked different AI text generators to re-write READY PLAYER TWO

Oct 16, 2020

HP Lovecraft’s Monster Mash

Darkness fell upon the small New England where I had been attending university. Under cover of the night, I travelled surreptitiously from the boarding house to the basement of the local mortuary, where I had established a makeshift medical practice of sorts. My clientele were not of the typical warm-bodied…

Lovecraft

7 min read