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The Hip Is Innocent

Ten thousand teacher trainings have spent ten thousand hours telling students to open the hip. Some percentage of those students have hips that are not actually the problem. The hip is what gets accused. The ankle is usually what failed. Walking trains exactly one corner of the ankle: dorsiflexion with a slight inversion bias, the…

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MichaelFilter: A Daily Edition of One in a World of Algorithmic Slop

Every morning before dawn, a machine I own builds me a newspaper. One issue. Numbered. Finite. It is called MichaelFilter, and it is the deliberate opposite of a feed. A feed is infinite, sourceless, and tuned to keep you scrolling — and lately it is half machine-extruded slop, text and images made by no one…