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Management of Similarity: Blame
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Management of Similarity: Blame

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 10 January 20225 February 2022

To forgive is to condemn

  • Blog
  • Capitalism
  • Philosophy

Management of Similarity Moment

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 17 November 202118 November 2021

Management of similarity is hard, precisely because we prefer to believe in ‘right and wrong.’

  • Blog
  • Capitalism
  • Scripts

Daemons

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 15 November 202128 November 2021

A corporation is literally a daemon: a non-human person that performs deeds or oversight on behalf of another.

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Second Medieval Era

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 6 November 202111 June 2022

Did you know that in 1981, you could have a personal computer with a keyboard? Forty years earlier, in 1941, the most you could hope for was a vacuum-tube radio…

adli wahid
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Civilization’s Sweet Revenge

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 18 September 20217 December 2021

It is the irony of civilization that it is never so bad that we may hate it.

Peer Relevance
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  • Historical

Peer Relevance

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 12 August 202111 June 2022

Are you networked? Are you relevant? Your adversaries are.

Alternative Culture Attrition
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Alternative Culture Attrition

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 10 August 202117 October 2021

There is a reason that has to do with the observation that there are far fewer middle-age people than young people pursuing an alternative lifestyle, and it has nothing to…

Victorian Women were Smashing
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  • Historical
  • LGBTQ

Victorian Women were Smashing

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 20 July 202123 May 2022

A shadow society, ignored or denied. Mutual support networks among the disempowered. Role models and fans. Petting and kisses. Half of women.

We came to the End
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We came to the End

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 12 July 202123 September 2021

If you send a take-down notice, plz tell me who you are.

The Old New Sexy
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  • Historical

The Old New Sexy

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 9 July 202124 September 2021

There’s a new look trending, but it’s looking a lot like the old one. Where fashion and finance blurr

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