Tessa Fights Robots - Being Human Among Robots

Lovers, Missionaries and Technology: A Story of a Passionate Little Boy

Listen, baby. I’ve built a castle for you. I want you to love my castle, and I want you to love me for building it.

I am an Outsider: A Story of Freedom

In a world driven by financial self-preservation, truth-telling is a commercial affair. Truth, the edited version, hello.

Civilization at a Crossroads: Feelings, Words, and a Power Grab

Our masters don’t mind our fighting with each other for the leftovers from their table.

The Speedup

Imagine trying to get happy on a tight deadline. Like you have ten minutes to get happy, or else your boss is going to punish you.

Facts, Soundbites, Disinfo: Who Decides What’s Real?

Our soundbites are our digital drugs.

I Wanted to Talk About Dating R Kelly But Ended Up Talking about Russian Culture Instead

This story is about the Russian women and our cross-generational strengths, weaknesses, courage, and servitude.

Too Many Names to Remember: Are We 7 Billion Anonymous Observers?

I can watch a video with 55 million views, cry over it, feel the feeling—and never know who made it, or who was in it.

Loveless: Rotten Religion of the Cruel

Does anybody realize that people who in all seriousness think about America in terms of an ‘ancient’ battle between Christianity and Islam are (in great need of reading up on history of this land, but besides that) of the same psychological type as those who supported burning local and foreign witches and massacring local and foreign pagan babies? Or those who thought that Muslims and Jews were to blame for poverty of common people in Europe? Or those who behead infidels today in the name of God knows what?

Enslaved Art, Enslaved Everything: Peer Pressure Sucks

We live in a society where the system is set up to disrespect human spirit.

Feel Something? Post Something…

Venting about politics on Facebook is like writing letters to Stalin.

What Is More Dangerous, Psychopaths or Collective Apathy?

I am okay with existence of psychopaths. They play a role, like any predator in nature.
I am mad as hell at those who buy into the divide and conquer narrative.

Wet Dreams of Technology and Power of Emotion

A lot of problems could be solved a lot faster if subjectivity of leaders and free will of followers weren’t played down.

Commercialism

I want to scream about how murderous commercialism is to a live human spirit. We are trained not to notice, but underneath the “how are you fine thanks”, souls are crying. Especially if you are an artist doing something original.

Catcalling and Accidental Comedy: A Short Story

This is a bit embarrassing but I have a reaction of a 5-year-old to strangers who check me out too intently. I laugh. I've been this way since I was a teen. So today, I am walking in the street and I see a group of about fifteen construction workers at lunch break. I...

Being Squashed for Being a Whore, Or…?

On that day, I avoided the path of a linguist / ethnomusicologist turned sex slave by an inch.

My Open Letter to Peter Sunde, Founder of Pirate Bay

I recently read Peter Sunde’s statement of giving up, and I was touched. Pirate Bay has caused (and is causing) a lot of havoc, and there is no way around that. But when I read Peter’s letter, I saw a fellow human. Here’s what I have to say in response. I think it’s important.

Peter, I look in your eyes and I think you are a good man. You mean well, and you believe in what you say. That, in my eyes, demands respect. But you are also a confused man, and your philosophy is causing harm.