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#19: The most autistic movie I've ever seen

I have no idea how to process Nathan Fielder's movie about Elizabeth Holmes, so you're just kind of getting this raw.

Io Dodds

Oct 9, 2026

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4 min read

#18: Chuuni Behavioral Therapy

How to become more powerful than your enemies can possibly imagine.

Io Dodds

Oct 2, 2026

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7 min read

#17: Personhood arbitrage

What happens to a society when the line begins to blur between products and people?

Io Dodds

Sep 18, 2026

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4 min read

#16: How I became totally Darwin-pilled

The random summer internship on a nature documentary that changed my worldview forever.

Io Dodds

Sep 11, 2026

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4 min read

#15: Gender-affirming earplugs

Why do my consumer products insist on flattering my femininity? For the same reason warplanes have painted teeth.

Io Dodds

Sep 4, 2026

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5 min read

#14: The Minimum Viable Goddess

On the challenges, comforts, and mysteries of trying to invent your own religion.

Io Dodds

#13: Your Future Self Comes Back in Time to Stop the Singularity

Apr 24, 2026

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7 min read

#13: Your Future Self Comes Back in Time to Stop the Singularity

A short work of narrative non-fiction.

Io Dodds

Dec 12, 2025

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8 min read

#12: The Dionysian computer

Is artificial intelligence more 'kiki' or more 'bouba'? Your intrepid correspondent investigates.

Io Dodds

Dec 5, 2025

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6 min read

#11: What I did on my holidays

Invent a religion. Build a server. Whatever you do, stay alive.

Io Dodds

Archive

#19: The most autistic movie I've ever seen

#18: Chuuni Behavioral Therapy

#17: Personhood arbitrage

#16: How I became totally Darwin-pilled

#15: Gender-affirming earplugs

#14: The Minimum Viable Goddess

#13: Your Future Self Comes Back in Time to Stop the Singularity

#12: The Dionysian computer

#11: What I did on my holidays

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