A little about me and how I came to see the world as a laboratory and playground.
Category: Alexandra Kitty
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True Crime, Wrong Story: Robert Schwartz and the Disappearing Detective
True crime television never goes to air without the lead detective, but in the Schwartz Case, a half dozen shows…
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Newspapers Are the New Automats: Why Billionaire “Rescues” Misread a Habit Market as a Comeback
Every few years, you have a spate of silly billionaires trying to make money by “saving” journalism, which has as…
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Since when was Canada joining the EU a thing?
Until very recently, “Canada joins the European Union” belonged in speculative fiction, not on the front page. Yet in the…
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Pressed Wood Songs: From IKEA Rooms to Loop‑Pop and Fan‑Art
In the postwar era, our cultural environment was rebuilt on flat‑pack principles. We live in IKEA rooms, listen to IKEA…
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True Crime and Closure
My latest SubStack is here.
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American Dream 3.0: Built by Oddballs, Not Magazine Covers
The American Dream 3.0 Won’t Have a Leading Man Legacy media keeps trying to cast Sam Altman as the new…
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AI Doomers Don’t Preach: Lego, Disney, Madonna, and the AI Panic
We didn’t suddenly become squeamish about derivative work when AI showed up. We’ve spent decades cheering for respectable plagiarists in…
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AI is American Dream 1.0 coming back to collect on the debts of 2.0.
The original American Dream was brutal propaganda but at least it was honest. It told immigrants and citizens: endure, build…