Data Stream: Optimized for Everything Except You

On AI busywork, Apple at 50, building your own tools, and why making friends is broken.

22 hrs ago • Xavi Benjamin

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March 2026

Data Stream: Mind the Gap

Film, AI, reality TV, and the work of becoming.

Mar 31 • Xavi Benjamin

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July 2025

Data Stream: Sweet Heat, Big Shifts

Bees, superheroes, AI, and class struggle.

Jul 28, 2025 • Xavi Benjamin

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April 2025

Help! I Can’t Tell If Our Politics Are a Dealbreaker

When values clash, is love still a good enough reason to stay?

Apr 30, 2025 • Xavi Benjamin

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Fifteen Years Later, I’m Finally Going to College

What higher education looks like when you’re not 18 anymore.

Apr 23, 2025 • Xavi Benjamin

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March 2025

Help! I Ditched Religion, But Guilt Won't Let Me Enjoy Sex

Unlearning purity culture is not a switch you flip, it's an ongoing conscious process.

Mar 6, 2025 • Xavi Benjamin

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February 2025

Help! Why Did You Trade God for Marxism?

I stopped waiting for paradise—now I fight to build it.

Feb 20, 2025 • Xavi Benjamin

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Severance

A Tale of Marxist Alienation

Published on An Appeal to Reason • Feb 4, 2025

Unemployed, Not Unworthy

A personal reflection on job searching and self-worth in a broken system.

Feb 2, 2025 • Xavi Benjamin

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April 2024

Help! How Do I Edit and Distribute My Video Podcast?

A guide to editing and distributing a new podcast

Apr 12, 2024 • Xavi Benjamin

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Help! Should I Date Another Ex-Jehovah's Witness?

Divorced after thirty years and never dated

Apr 5, 2024 • Xavi Benjamin

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March 2024

Thirty-Two

32 things I would say to my younger self

Mar 29, 2024 • Xavi Benjamin

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