What you feel in the void is kenopsia by Christian Näthler

Writing for his own lol/sos Substack, Christian Näthler writes about the very modern sensation that accompanies coming upon spaces — especially digital spaces — that were once booming but now are downright eerie in their abandonment. Um, happy holidays, I guess.

The 2024 Election Is About Real Things by Brian Beutler

Waiting for the mainstream media to do its job properly is exhausting. The political press is addicted to covering elections and politics as akin to sporting events, where winners and losers are clearly delineated and every decision is merely strategy that serves the drive to one of those two outcomes. Writing for his own Substack, Off Message, Brian Beutler details exactly why that approach, and the corresponding avoidance of how policy decisions genuinely impact people’s day to day lives, is so damaging, even dangerous. The whole republic is at risk as long as the media continues to cover the lifelong criminal who is the current standard bearer of the Grand Old Parry as if he’s just another mundane bureaucrat instead of a clear insurrectionist facing dozens of indictment.