This Christmas, I lost my job, lost my sight, and had some thoughts about Napoleon. A new essay for @flaminghydra.com called "Blind Spots." flaminghydra.com/issue-468/

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.

look at how little effort it takes for someone on the conservative grievance circuit to destroy a life millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get

Good Art should kill you instantly

I’m sure this will be popular. 5 million people are in default right now. The Dept of Ed estimates as many as 10 million by end of next year because of job market.

The purpose of the executive class is to think of new ways to funnel money to the executive class. This may be too simplistic for some but prove me wrong. It’s been this way for as long as I’ve been alive.

Disgraced British comedian Russell Brand has been charged with new rape and sexual assault offenses

I had five fascinating conversations for this RPS piece, gathering perspectives on genAI chatbots in games, as seen in Where Winds Meet. Thanks to @meghna.bsky.social, @pyrofoux.bsky.social, @maxkreminski.bsky.social, and @chrisgardiner.bsky.social www.rockpapershotgun.com/horrible-bor...

Essentially, I think that LLM-generated dialogue only makes sense if you believe that the product of writing is words. But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.

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To be clear here, if you derive pleasure from the pain of Jake Paul, I encourage you to keep doing so. I wish I could feel the same schadenfreude. I just don't. I mostly just feel indifferent about his entire career.

I feel like, most of the time when a fighter is notable enough to be hated, they're also getting paid a lot of fucking money. Hard to see a stoppage as a 'loss' in that context. The exception here is, of course, Greg Hardy. He got paid fuck-all and lost on every level, it was wonderful.

I've always felt weird about the 'can't wait to see him lose' stuff that's prevalent in combat sports. I get it, some terrible fucker gets destroyed, no problem with anyone celebrating that. But it also frames the consequences of combat sports as some sort of retribution in a way I find offputting

It might be worth questioning why people feel like they got one over on Jake Paul by watching his entire boxing career until he lost. I can't blame anyone for enjoying his pain, but I also feel that it kind of... leans into his grift.

This means the VA won't cover abortions EVEN in the case of rape, incest, or serious threat to the health of the patient. The DOJ memo was authored by Josh Craddock, one of the chief legal advocates for fetal personhood, i.e. imposing a nationwide abortion ban through the courts.

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Movies and TV are an art form I’m almost entirely insulated from. If your movie or TV pitch got rejected from Typebar, this is why! Don’t take it personally!

get everyone gambling on their phone and then charge them for losing is actually pretty funny

Justice Department launches compelling new word game website with thousands of puzzles.

You’re telling me this Dan is made of steel?

you’re telling me a pussy footed this around?

"Just put garbage on the page and fix it later" - no, you need to actually be thinking, feeling, and composing as you write. Placeholders that lack clear intention will derail the cumulative narrative impact. Details matter. Always Be Crafting.

AI is a cancer.

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is steaming bell peppers effective? Can it be done? Should it be done? I don't feel like having to steam one vegetable while preparing another vegetable differently.

If incomes aren't a proxy for merit, a lot of other assumptions break down. Preserving those assumptions by treating the poor as deficient or abject is worth the price of less effective solutions

it did exactly what it was designed to do and delivered pretty significantly for the person who made it

the amount of publications calling DOGE a "failure" or saying that it delivered nothing is pretty alarming

as much as I want to be the Goku or Vegeta of online writing I think, optimistically, I have to shoot for being King Kai

"this could have been slop, but it's not" is rapidly becoming a surefire signifier of premium-ness

And then there’s the pandemic, which acts as a pretty major cutoff point for that entire era…

I also have an unsubstantiated and probably entirely wrong pet theory that Rise of Skywalker coming out the same year and very obviously doing all the standard blockbuster beats as part of a very poorly constructed story took the wind out of the sales of that entire mode of storytelling.

thinking about physical media and how in my generation children made ribald jokes concerning "3 and a half inch floppy"

A plea: It is 2025. The term "mail-in ballots" is hopelessly stuck in previous decades. There is absolutely no need for the addition of "-in." We all know the ballots are mailed "in." Please just call them "mail ballots." That is what they are. Ballots returned through the mail. MAIL BALLOTS!

Here are some poems I wrote this year that I was proud of. I only recently returned to poems after enjoying writing them as a kid. It's a very vulnerable exercise; I'd been conditioned to find modern poetry to be cringe, and getting back into it has been scary and rewarding. Anyway, hope you enjoy

Me: I don’t get enough credit for helping defeat the marvel cinematic universe Also me: calm down you didn’t do anything you just never saw the movies and posted about how what little you were exposed to was terrible

This always seemed to be the goal, right? They wanted to push unemployment higher to suppress wages while keeping those stock prices strong. And it looks like it worked.

The coopting of the Grinch as a Christmas icon proves that Christmas has the ability to subsume all critiques into itself.

The Rise of Deepfake Cyberbullying Poses a Growing Problem for Schools | Students have been prosecuted in Florida and Pennsylvania and expelled in places like California.

If you, an academic or a journalist for a liberal coded institution drop into a place where the church leaders talk about the seven mountain mandate & call America god's chosen land, they're going to be nice to you, especially if you're white! It's not as if they don't know they're being evaluated!

It's also striking to me how often they writers encounter MAGA Christians who are polite to them and think their short encounters are indicative of who those people are. Christian nationalists are often ignorant but rarely stupid.

FWIW, I think that piece on Christian Nationalism is at best, naive. It's very frustrating as someone who grew up in Evangelical MAGA-land and is personally acquainted with Dominionist politics, to see people parachute into those communities and miss the story.

love that software developers are advertising AI functionality in every single app now and it's up to you to try to figure out if they mean "this has spellcheck" or "everything you create in this app will sync in real-time to sam altman's personal laptop" or something in between

Here are some screenshots of some of the most bonkers things the CEO of Roblox said in a recent interview with NYT www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/p...

amazing work of course but it’s always like “the victim’s murder-crazed ex-boyfriend was cleared by police after he said he definitely didn’t do it” and then he looks like this

It's so sad to know how many mid-career+ journalists who have been laid off and/or burned out are going to leave the industry because of how bad everything has become, not return, and journalism will suffer from that level of experience, skills and perspective walking out the door forever.

I have always said it, I will continue to say it, we are limiting the productive potential of millions of freaks by demanding they earn a wage to survive instead of enabling them to do whatever thing their brain is broken for