“If a woman dares to show herself in public in any way, then she can and will be sexually harassed with the aid of genAI-driven tools that can easily turn her face into highly realistic pornography” is an absolute red-alarm human rights disaster

disgusting. shutter the rags.

One reason for the posting is so they can drum up hype for insider trading on the prediction markets. The other is because being determines consciousness and their social and economic being is the most hypermediated slop fountain in human history.

I spent over a year writing a book linking mass data production, imperialism, and subjectivation in the economy of social media. None of it comes close to seeing a US cabinet of fascist influencers in a florida club turned war room, monitoring posts about their crimes across 3 tabs of fuckin twitter

NYT with a completely psychotic take: 1. It’s good but doesn’t go far enough. 2. Might be some problems with how it was done but let’s not focus there, because 3. What if icky China does this??? Plenty to celebrate and probably awesome but some difficulty ahead 👍🥰😇

Feels more and more clear that, through hell or high water, 2026 is going to be the last year of this particular organ of Leviathan. The US is shedding its armor so it can carry a larger, more unwieldy sword.

Perhaps now people will stop wishcasting about the US military refusing illegal orders. That's not a thing that happens. The 100% compliance rate with using civilian boats for target practice was a bit of a tell.

I say this a lot, but it's worth saying it again: I fucking hate this country and I'm embarrassed to be from here.

Video from the port city of La Guaira shows the aftermath of explosions that took place across Venezuela on early Saturday morning. President Maduro has declared a state of emergency after accusing the US of striking the country.

It is so easy to have the correct opinion today. I would encourage you all to not over think it.

What a fucking crazy thing to wake up to.

Don't overthink the Trump admin's reasoning here. They don't have a grand scheme. They are willing to upend the international order because they think everyone else will be too scared to fuck with them. And whatever terrorist attacks this inspires against us will just help them electorally.

Most Honorable President Xi Jinping: as the precedent under international law has now been established allowing for the forcible capture of a foreign nation's illegitimate leader to stand trial under another nation's laws, I humbly submit a modest proposal,

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This post turned me on to Seymour’s Disaster Nationalism and the introduction alone makes so, so much about the current moment legible.

without a doubt his biggest blind spot. what people who aren’t from here don’t fully understand is the NYPD is the Mob. they run this shit. as mayor you either go to war with them or you are serving at their pleasure

Ludocapitalism, where “textbook capitalist exploitation thrives in peaceful and productive coexistence with the play-drive of the exploited,” feels like a useful term to have in my back pocket.

2025 in books. Let's go: I finished 52 books this year (two of them I read twice). 40 of them were by authors I'd never read before

"The desire for fascism is a latent temptation from which no one is exempt... In this sense, we might think of the ‘fascism in us all’ much as we were encouraged to see the Covid-19 virus: we might be contagious without knowing it."

Yes, as a matter of fact I *do* have a New Year's Resolution, just the one:

This is extremely good. It also dovetails nicely with a conversation I regularly had with my wife when she was teaching and would have class after class of totally silent students. Students who (usually) knew the answers to the questions that were being asked of them, but could not say them out loud

If you start “Melancholia” by Lars Von Trier at exactly 11:55:11pm on New Year’s Eve, the planet crashes into the Earth at exactly midnight. Kick off 2026 the way it’s meant to be.

Please don't put in the newspaper that 28 children laughed at me

I'm sure I'm not the first person to point this out, but Freud was a bad reader and is at his most ridiculous, in my opinion, when he's working from biographical work. I've not read most of the fiction he cites but my guess is he's not great at interpreting that either.

Thinking about getting into magic so I can really start accessorizing.

this is all vibes based bullshit - if they admitted that ~25% of the country are bloodthirsty fascists hoping for the death camps to get fired up yesterday they would have to act accordingly (ie not like wishy-washy liberal squishes)

One of the best to ever do it

"it's in our DNA to push the limits & obtain Gigachad" is a sentence I would expect to hear from someone in the midst of a psychotic episode.

Not at all surprising, but still deeply troubling, that at the end of a conference largely dedicated to the question of "how racist should MAGA be?" the Vice President came on stage and said "Enough gatekeeping! Racists and non-racists are welcome in our coalition"

Terrific reporting from @azrww.bsky.social on TPUSA’s annual conference. Go for the review of MAGA infighting and stay for observations like “Young zoomers in ill-fitted suits wandered the halls holding up tiny, fuzzy lapel mics desperately looking to film viral content…”

There's something darkly funny about the fact, whether or not this claim is a result of cognitive decline or intentional obfuscating misinformation, it slots very cleanly into the paranoiac landscape where no one has any idea what's true save for the intuition that we're being constantly lied to.

A new scene I wrote yesterday! It was not an easy one to get right but I'm pleased with how it came out. Names removed for spoiler reasons, as usual. And I'm subbing "strike" for "clobber." #WIPSnips #WriteSky

Watched the Malcom in the Middle reunion preview and I'm struck by two distinct, but not necessarily contradictory, fears about the program. - that it will be terrible - that it will make me weep like a little baby

I don't think it's wrong to not like Spinal Tap, but I am intensely curious about the subjective experience of someone who watches it and thinks the jokes are few and far between

My man, there is a better way.

Next time some shit goes down in France and you feel the impulse to post "why cant we have this in the US" cut that shit out. Especially since 2026 is the year we finish this motherfucker off

The US has had the most combative, organized and social movement oriented working class in the West over the last fifteen years, there are whole national street mvmts people have completely forgotten about (OccupyICE, anybody?) and anyone who fails to name this assessing the political situation 🚮

thanks to AI you can now become the malignant illusion spinning demiurge whom Descartes had to axiomatically banish in order to make Rationality possible

antifascist avant garde conspiracy theory sludge and it's good

"The guitars made my child cry" is such a wild thing to put on the internet for everyone to see lmao

Lighting a candle for the memory of Willem van Spronsen today.

trump: prices are down. we're living deliciously. it's beautiful kilmeade: democrats say you met with black phillip-in essence the devil. can you squash that rumor? trump: i won't say who but we had a conversation that might be one of the most wonderful conversations in terms of the things we said

Tonight the president bombed Nigeria on Christmas in defense of "innocent Christians," but the US will never take action against the genocidal Israeli state when they beat, arrest and kill Christians in Palestine because the US has, historically, not considered Palestinians to be fully human.

This year more and more people aren't listening to Christmas music and instead are opening presents to songs like "Psycho-Electronic Weapon Effects" and "Doppelganger" from HAVANA