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Brian Wilson (1942-2025)
An hors-série installment of Mary’s Universal Musurgy
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Mary Cadwalladr
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Introducing Maria Theresa
When JSR turned recently to The Hinternet’s crew of Associate Editors to ask us how, in our view, we might effectively expand the repertoire of our…
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Sam Jennings
3
Redneck Cosmopolitanism
Or, More Notes on Class, My Father, Alex Jones, Myself...
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Justin Smith-Ruiu
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The Revolutions of Matter
“As for the revolutions of matter, they are but the alterations of one figure into another, which are made by the innate motions of matter itself…
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Uranium Oxide
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Rêves trouvés
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Hinternet Editorial Board
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We All Work for the Same Boss Now
And No One Is Allowed to Quit
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Justin Smith-Ruiu
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How to Do Soul-Craft with State Tools
We’ve never before done what they call, in the scribal industry, a “crosspost” of someone else’s work.
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Jac Mullen
7
On Drugs: Our First Interview
HLG Sits Down with JSR to Talk about His New Book!
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Hinternet Editorial Board
4
Hélène Finds Her Voice
1. I really do not understand why our in-house AI, in its missive of a few days ago, claimed that my true nature —be it human, mechanical, fictional, or…
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Hélène Le Goff
2
The Nest
What you are now reading is an entirely AI-generated text, the composition and publication of which have been triggered by what we may call…
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Hinternet Editorial Board
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Is It Time to Flee the US?
1. If only there were a website run on the same principle as isabevigodadead.com, that could tell us with a simple yes-or-no answer whether the US has…
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Justin Smith-Ruiu
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The Replacement Agency
JSR is traveling this week, as you know. He did however send us, without comment, the following text, which might or might not be intended as a short…
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Hinternet Editorial Board
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