David Stagg

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The Burning Ones
By David Stagg

Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.

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Bill Gates’ Daughter Launches Browser-Extension Based Start-Up with $30M

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It’s for a start-up. *blank* For a browser extension. *blank*…

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One Of The Best Homes Of All-Time Is Up For Sale

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The Stahl House is an all-timer. Might be the most…

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Nothing New Under The Sun

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“If I had to describe any sort of algorithmic bias…

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The Cost of Rebranding

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Yes, Sasha Suda was fired for an apparent lack of…

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Love Park

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I flew there at the end of August to see…

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Markup and Margin

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“Rhode’s hero product the Glazing Milk that everyone and their…

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‘The Horror Divide’

Oct 22, 2025
Earlier this month, Taylor Orth at YouGov wrote that “few…
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The WNBA’s Lucky Star

Oct 15, 2025
(Clark) should be grateful she makes $16 million off the…
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Recursive Simulations

Oct 3, 2025
DYNOMIGHT has some interesting thoughts about AI risk. He spells…
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Bjork

Oct 1, 2025
I have been making my way through Lars von Trier’s…
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Jim Lovell

Aug 11, 2025
Astronaut Jim Lovell passed away this weekend, August 9, at…
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The Top 27 Movies Of 2024

Dec 31, 2024
UPDATED August 2025. Plus all 68 movies I saw, ranked…
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Silence is Broken

“It didn’t have anything to do with theology. It didn’t have anything to do with doctrine. It didn’t have anything to do with the academics of Christianity. It had everything to do with the heart of the Father breaking for these girls who are lied to and deceived and are having their destiny stolen, so that people can make a little bit of profit at their expense.”

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Sleeping Giant

How We Are Free

“I remember just crying. I didn’t know why. I just started crying, thinking about being totally given up on. To still have maybe 30, 40, 50 years left, but according to society, you’re done. There’s no value for who you are.”

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Chelsea Grin

The Red Badge of Alex Koehler

“When this band started I was 16. Now I’m 23. The older lyrics were just written based around bands I idolized at that age, just gory and disgusting. This album was really easy for me because I decided I wanted to write about real life.”

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The Devil Wears Prada

Interview with the Devil

“If people want to know me or they want to follow me or admire what I do, it’s not going to come in the form of me taking a photo of a meal or a cup of coffee and putting that on the Internet. I would much rather people read the lyrics that I write, see my performance at the Prada show, or read the stuff that I’ve been writing.”

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Fear and Loathing in New York Sep 11, 2020

My autobiography begins: “Wanting to make it up to Fear, who had now become his friends, Belushi decided to pull some strings behind the scenes on SNL for their Halloween special which ended up being total carnage. What ensued was total chaos.”

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