manifestation is a scam.

Why are we letting egoists make us feel bad about our average fates? A deep dive into the culture surrounding the law of attraction, and manifesting your future.

After coming across a thought provoking tweet by a friend, I decided to investigate the weird world of Manifesting your future, and how its fallout is toxic.

How were Women's Magazines 75 Years Ago?

I hope you enjoyed this week's magazine - Woman, still published today in the UK. This wartime issue features recipes, stories, poems, knitting patterns, and advice.

The Creepy Truth about AI.

I hope you enjoyed diving into Human After All’s magazine, Weapons of Reason. Their Superintelligence issue dived deep into the past, present, and future of AI, and the implications it will have on our society. I particularly enjoyed reading about automation and job loss - and how UBI (Universal Basic Income) can remedy the fallout. I also found the topic of Black Box societies important - how long has it been since we found ourselves in an opaque system of corporations?

Fetish Mining

I hope you enjoy exploring the weird world of 'fetish mining' - one of the many creepy and conspiratorial phenomena the great 2000's has kindly birthed.

Have a read of some of the strange messages I’ve received that are prime examples:

Picturegoer (1944)

I hope you enjoyed delving into this 1944 issue of Picturegoer with me. With discussion about taking on too many roles in one production, like Noel Coward, to faking an accent for a role, just like Laurence Olivier in Demi Paradise. It was also fascinating to see wartime adverts in this issue, particularity from brands which we still see selling today.

As promised, here are full images of each page, for you to download and enjoy. If you republish these anywhere, please give credit back.