Articles From the Web

I’ve showcased some of the recent highlights from my journalistic career below (particularly from Vice and Boing Boing)—I’ve worked as a journalist off and on for most of my life, and have had the privilege to call the world’s attention to many of the injustices that continually occur just below the surface of our hypnotized world, and break some shocking stories (I was, for instance, the first journalist to widely report on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which became a central issue in the 2016 Presidential race). I’ve also written quite a lot about technology and pop culture. Check out some of my work below!

From VICE:

I’ve covered the dark side of technology and globalization for VICE News and Motherboard, breaking multiple stories of critical national and geopolitical importance. Here’s some of my best pieces:

Line 61, the Oil Pipeline That Will Dwarf Keystone XL

The Trans-Pacific Partnership Could ‘Establish a War of All Against All’

The NSA Has Set Up Shop at the US Embassy in Mexico

Thanks to Dredging and Coal, the Great Barrier Reef is More Threatened Than Ever

Germany Condemns “Illegal Killings,” Halts All Purchases of American Drones

Every Person on Earth is Polluted With Hundreds of Human-Made Toxins

A Federal Court Approved Chevron’s Request for Activists’ Data

The Scientific Assassination of a Sexual Revolutionary: How America Interrupted Wilhelm Reich’s Orgasmic Utopia?

How Smart Drugs and Cybernetics Could Create a Superhuman Workforce

The Long Tail of America’s Eugenics Problem

From Boing Boing:

Here’s a few profiles of outlaw thinkers and spiritual figures. I’m quite proud of these articles.

Robert Anton Wilson’s Cosmic Trigger, and the Psychedelic Interstellar Future We Need

John Dee Was the 16th Century’s Real-Life Gandalf

The Dalai Lama Will Not Return to Lead Tibet (He Has Something Better in Mind)

I’ve done a lot of reporting on the Oculus Rift and virtual reality, in particular this article for Boing Boing:

The Headset Revolution Will Be a Blizzard of Conflicting Realities—If it Happens, That Is

I really like tabletop role-playing games and think that they’re a great alternative to digital alienation and also a fun way to spark creativity and lateral thinking in kids and adults. I’ve written four articles on Dungeons and Dragons for Boing Boing:

The Truth About the Dungeon Master That Disappeared in the Steam Tunnels (About James Dallas Egbert III, the gay teenager whose death helped spark the Satanic Panic)

Reviews of the new edition of D&D:

The Awesome Glory That is Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition

Princes of the Apocalypse is D&D’s Killer App

Out of the Abyss, the New D&D Adventure, is Alice in Wonderland Meets Diablo