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When drafting a new blog post after some years, it’s mandatory to begin it with some form of mea culpa.

I often think of this essay by Baudrillard, and always have a hard time finding it.

In the 1978 edition of “The Aleph and Other Stories,” written by Jorge Luis Borges, edited and translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni, there’s a throwaway line in the final section titled “An Autobiographical Essay”[1]: My mother has always had a hospita…

There’s a theory called linguistic relativity which postulates that the language you speak modifies your comprehension of the world.

From a tweetstorm!

Jon Yu was the one who got me tuned into The Chris Gethard Show with a humble tweet:[1] Watch Jon Hamm Wrestle X-Pac https://t.co/AymluvsozB — Adam Riff™ (@adamriffs) July 8, 2016 When I was younger, I was very into wrestling.[2] It was a consequence of b…

On May 25, 2016, around 8am PST, tired and bored, I bought a Super Nintendo console from eBay, with the explicit intent of coming up with some kind of art project for it.

By all accounts, 2016 was an absolute mess of a year.

A few years ago, I noticed a trend in the ethnicities of characters that needed to be weird, vile, or both.

I have been looking for an excuse to learn Rust for some time now.

I still regularly watch cartoons.

There’s a petition being passed around amongst people working in the tech industry, http://neveragain.tech/, which aims to ensure that any signer vows to resist designing systems that would “facilitate ethnic or religious targeting”.

For as long as I’ve been able to vote, I’ve lived in the blue parts of California.

About a week ago, I moved to San Francisco ten years ago.

I can tell you with excruciatingly embarrassing details how I became interested in Japan as a teenager.

As part of an entire suite of 2016 changes, I’ve decided to give public blogging another try.

Two years after I first heard about it during my Bolaño craze, I have finally started Javier Marías’ “Dark Back of Time.”

It’s not a city of lost souls.

“I say this not to deny my debts to him, which are many, but to lead you back, and to lead myself back, to a principle that I think is fundamental for all those who have taken part in this conference, certainly for me, and certainly for Borges: this most…

"I think about forgotten gestures, the multiple signals and words of grandparents, lost little by little, not inherited, fallen one after the other off the tree of time.