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NOT NORMAL
A random collection of back-of-the-envelope calculations, short stories, half-baked theories, bad poems, and more.
Many of these relate to the idea of normalcy, what it entails, and what it does not.
We are fortunate to live in a time where right and wrong, traditions, and norms are being renegotiated.
Yet, only through exploring what is normal can we experience the depths of the clash.
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Overton Morals and My Accepting Harry Potter Again
No one is required to be exceptional. Artists often are. Here I discuss how I reconcile a few idols of my previous self.
Jun 30
Migrant Victim Blaming
It really bothers me that when someone is unjustly deported, the media focuses on their actions and not the crime committed by immigration.
Jun 27, 2025
Global Warming and Toastier AI Winters
Winter is coming is a common saying for AI. Yet, every winter is warmer, we keep moving the goalposts as our world becomes more algorithmic.
Jan 16, 2025
Towards a Migrant Voting Party
Migrants pay taxes. Yet, we are unrepresented in the elections where we reside. This is stupid. Here, I propose a party for the migrants
Nov 6, 2024
Shame on the Surprised
I am a bit confused. Why are so many people surprised today? Did I miss something? If you need help with your migration give me a call
Nov 6, 2024
Murderers are disappering around where I live
Have you ever looked at a very old man and wondered if they are a murderer? I do. Here I try to estimate this chance. I should not have.
Nov 1, 2024
One Household One Vote
Everyone should be able to vote in an election. Be them war retirees, migrant workers, or newborn babies. Voting makes society humane.
Jul 30, 2024
Munificent Labor Markets Create Flater Firms
Where, I link civil rights to the emergence of flatter firms, the rise in CEO compensation, the decrease in care work at home, and more.
May 17, 2024
How did you tell your children about climate change?
My daughter will live to see climate change become under control. Here I write my initial thoughts on how to introduce her generation's foe.
Nov 7, 2023
Hurt People Hurt People
I find it very convenient how when conflict happens in the Middle East we forget that the conflict was started by actions Europe made.
Oct 10, 2023
Grand Opportunities Not Challenges
What if we think about what is possible and not what the problems are? In an era of boiling water superconductors how will our lives change?
Aug 2, 2023
The Great Machista Extinction Event
"Are you a feminist?" if the person you are dating does not answer "Yes 100%", please RUN. Help us build a better world who you date matters
Jun 8, 2023
This Cold, Never Again
If we meet the Paris agreement's goals, our world will never be as cold as it is today. Never again will the temperature be as mild. #WTF
Jan 16, 2023
On the Lack of Migrant Representation
With exceptions, migrants do not have elected officials that represent them. At least, I do not. Could this be the racism of our generation?
Jan 10, 2023
Religious Gerrymandering
Where I discuss weird uses of voting in international organizations.
Jan 10, 2023
A death per million
This month, the world tunes in to watch its religion jubilee play out on altars built over the bodies of tributes; one per million humans.
Nov 23, 2022
On A Woman is No Man
Some books send shockwaves as you read them. Waves that ebb away as they shift your self inside you. A woman is no man is my loudest example
Nov 4, 2022
On the Alien Logic of the Cold War
Isn't it crazy that hydrogen bombs exist just because people disliked who owned the companies in a country far far away from theirs?
Aug 29, 2022
Yes, and: On the Improv Logic of Sustainable Development
In a world in which ESG ratings have low correlations, is improvisation a way out? If we do not who is right, then no one is wrong? #IDK
Aug 24, 2022
More Female, Brown, and Queer
Although I firmly believe in equality. I also know how gendered aggression is. To step away from aggression societal change is needed.
Aug 24, 2022
A Pseudotheory on the Pursuit of Equality and of Lost Prosperity
This post builds huge implications from one societal change. I cannot imagine it's falsifiable. But its pseudotheory never leaves my head.
Aug 22, 2022
On Abortion and The Salvadorian Case
A couple of thoughts about women going to jail in El Salvador for stillbirth and miscarriages. Not a happy post.
May 11, 2022
Empathy for the Ukrainians Not Whataboutism
Empathy is not a racist behavior. The structures that prevent us to empathize with brown people are the problem. Let's stop the whataboutism
Mar 6, 2022
A Ten-year Overnight Tragedy
My thoughts go to the people of Ukraine. May our leaders feel this tragedy and prevent the suffering of the many over the profits of the few
Feb 27, 2022
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