A brief study on turning an important public service into a guaranteed billion-dollar for-profit private industry. No patents have yet been filed, so if you beat me too it, well, you’re welcome.

https://thofk.substack.com/p/imagine-youre-a-human-being

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This time around, on Further Tales from the Third Lobe:

How Do You Know When Ol’ Great-Auntie Effie Is Dead?

A necromancer's expert view of that fuzzy border between life and death and the esoteric flows of … cold hard cash?

https://thofk.substack.com/p/how-do-you-know

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Perhaps it's time to look into what the opposition party might have to offer.

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https://thofk.substack.com/p/to-be-clear

A few timely words about the continued use of the death penalty in the United States.

https://thofk.substack.com/p/one-out-of-eight

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The devolution of social media and the rise of bizarre behavior to defeat the algorithm -- here's how it works.

https://open.substack.com/pub/thofk/p/the-pigeon-dance

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You'd think some things wouldn't need explaining, but sometimes they do because they're so quotidian and ubiquitous that they've turned completely invisible.

https://thofk.substack.com/p/imma-just-take-this

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It's weird how the Amazon has slowed to a trickle, isn't it?

https://thofk.substack.com/p/about-the-clog-in-the-pipeline

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Randomly, on the order of every hour or two, a timer goes off. When the alarm sounds, you have to stop and explain what you were doing to your visiting alien friend in enough detail that they, with zero context, will understand.

Is it even possible?

https://thofk.substack.com/p/my-alien-visitor

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The text in that clause from the Adobe Creative Suite/Cloud T&Cs we're seeing getting passed around looks familiar. For a reason.

We've all been through this before. Lemme explain.

https://thofk.substack.com/p/adobe-assholery-explained

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It's the new moon, so it's time for the new moonthly study guide from The House of Forbidden Knowledge. This past lunar month gave us lovely previews from the Bottled Spirits textbook. Can't risk falling behind!

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https://thofk.substack.com/p/monthly-study-guide-june-2024