its so cool that marxists will partially recognize how hayek's points apply to bosses and workers... only to be like "yeah but don't worry we can handwave those problems for our aspirations" brooklynrail.org/2026/02/fiel...

yeah this is pretty detailed and specific given the date it was released and how much of it checks out

i have an essay on woke 2 that i refuse to publish until ICE has left minneapolis because, lol, i want it to be more than just signalling on the part of institutions and elites bad bunny beating TPUSA in viewership for the super bowl half time is nice. but i like stopping the police state more

The Tate Brothers, Nick Fuentes, and other RW manosphere guys posted their Miami night out to a chorus of "hmm...this is embarrassing." The main reason it was embarrassing was that they weren't straight, they were highfivesexual- more interested in impressing each other than women. (Link below)

James thinks we could totally build a Dyson sphere if we got rid of NEPA. This is what qualifies as a serious conservative thinker today.

This broke me: James keeps returning to his complaint that scifi is just too Down Wing. “The dark turn of American scifi speaks to (…) a lack of confidence in our ability and desire to fashion a brighter future. Or even simply to imagine one.” And then he QUOTES WILLIAM GIBSON FOR SUPPORT

(For those who don’t know: I read the entire WIRED back catalog in 2018 and wrote about it for their 25th anniversary issue. I have read the whole back catalog a second time and have a book coming out on all the things the techno-optimists persistently get wrong.) www.wired.com/story/wired2...

while we're on the subject i have nuclear war insurance to sell people

depends on when they were born. if they're an xer/early millennial, IDW harpers letter signer who beat out barry weiss as a billionaire suckup. if late millennial/gen z they lived in a rationalist group house, transitioned to either male or nonbinary and are a cult leader

extremely funny machine learning side project just dropped

in which I write many things which will look ironic when I am starving in the gutter begging for a few hours work tagging images for my robot overlords. backofmind.substack.com/p/finally-we...

effective anarchism everyone

this is why the democratic nominee in 2028 will be vehemently anti ICE in rhetoric btw

if anyone wants a project that is (probably) low hanging fruit just start OpenCyberSyn

okay but the lib alternative is going to be WWIII starting because various queer millennial politicians that are all in a polycule have drama

>there's a backlash against trans people, so we need to have reasonable debate with people who (correctly) perceive them as an existential threat to their conception of the world lmao, adorable no we need to help them escape to cities with lots of cheap housing, give them guns and black market hrt

so what *is* the best explanation for why conservatives stopped being able to make good art?

Local queer bookstore handing out free 3D printed tools to turn a water bottle into an eye wash station and we haven’t even seen any big deployment in Madison yet. Love to see it

The thing is, Chomsky was always fervent in his liberalism and campism, which fit together snugly. His paling with Epstein was *ideologically consistent.* It's inseparable from his constant defenses of holocaust deniers, hostility to antifa, and endless cover for dictators and atrocities.

scientists in the 1920s, 30s and 40s helped german colleagues escape from fascism, organized against race science, fought fascists in the street in the UK, were part of resistance movements in europe and made multiple inventions that helped defeat fascism during WWII

fun fact one of the neo-nazi leaders in australia, joel davis, was an anarchist punk in his teens because he wanted to get in fights but was ostracized by a bunch of feminists in those spaces for being a dick

To give you an idea of how deranged the UK has become about gender stuff, here's Enid Blyton - the absolute avatar of classic English conservatism and a huge fan of racist "gollywogs" - casually describing a gender non-conforming kid in the 1940s and having their friends be totally cool with it.

Thinking more about the bizarre non-logic deployed in things like "transphobia began with colonization" (wife showed me an annoying TikTok video when I got back from the bar). And like, so let's assume the genesis of transphobia was, say, British colonization in non-Western nations. Fine.

I don't really talk about this but the fact that I can currently eat because I'm making enough money because of my writing is a) a bit of a fluke and I feel fortunate it happened, because b) I become unhirable pretty much right after I transitioned, which makes my situation quite precarious.

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No. This is somewhere to be. This is all you have, but it's still something. Streets and sodium lights. The sky, the world. You're still alive.

i often think about this review

I don't know, but this recently came out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v8AsTHfAG0

oh fuck david hines is still around and is trying to give advice him getting the ear of the security state is an x-risk i am not joking

We laugh at the masses of right-wingers who cannot fathom giving a shit and so massively misunderstand us, but far more dangerous is the genre of right-winger who comes to understand with horror that sincere altruism exists in this world and sets their entire life towards frantically destroying it.

I'm going to start a history podcast aimed at kids in a few months - I've heard from SO MANY parents whose children are into history but haven't found age-appropriate material, and I've had a lot of practice with my kids, so we're going to give it a shot

get the kid in the brown hoodie a scholarship

Hoping somebody can pull off Cold War grand strategy at some point, something with crusader kings levels of intrigue and Victoria-like statecraft that turns into DEFCON if things get out of hand

it's crazy to see your long held hypothesis about the modern american right wing—something you've ranted irl and written 10,000 pointless screeds over online, this website included—to literally be notarized by literally the world's foremost infamous pedophile billionaire rapist.

message from MN

alright I was gonna anonymize if I posted further butttttt “Modestly, pretty fucking brilliant” 😭 you simply cannot post like this lol

I don't really like the quip about how we may in fact be in a "pre rules based order" but I do appreciate that she specifically says that the US and West have rules for themselves and exceptions for the Global South and that, eventually, these exceptions become the rules.

A lot of bail reform laws that centrist commentators now complain endlessly about were built upon econometric evidence that showed that cash bail was ineffective and other methods were both more equitable and more effective. Diddn't get there from Angela Davis

my memory is such that I've forgotten the names of several militant groups who've held me up over the years but i can remember every word of the Starcraft: Brood War opening cinematic

in another case, annie gaslit a friend of mine into thinking annie raped her while my friend was drunk. the stories i have listed are just the ones i know the most about. i highly recommend to anyone in the vicinity to be careful around or entirely avoid annie. (2/2)

coming back here because i feel obligated to post a warning about this: the person carrying the "property rights are human rights" sign is @annie.bsky.social. annie has abused several of my friends and made a death threat about me as a method of frightening one such friend. (1/2)

"how the left can win back the internet [corporate social media which is apparently 'the internet']" 😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨

people overindex on tech ceos as representative of american capitalists more broadly because they have an financial incentive to sell you a story about the future (cf @davekarpf.bsky.social davekarpf.substack.com/p/will-netfl...) but there's something to be said about Rationalism as a memeplex

More people should be injured by ebikes. There's an optimal level of ebike injuries and we're far, far below it

I used to think this, but it is not accounting for the risk of ruin to society from systems capture and corruption. I obviously learned this in a hindsight 2020 way, but nonetheless any good that came so far feels offset by that risk having manifested. The class is malignant and should be maligned.

There is trusting the laws of orbital mechanics on paper, and then there is strapping yourself into a maneuvering unit and wandering off from your ship 300 km above the surface of the Earth while moving at nearly 8 kilometers per second. (4/n)

this is why ep thompson is probably my favorite marxist

amazing things are happening in SF

it is pretty safe to assume that at least one in five of the adult population in twin cities has engaged in some facet of community defense and direct aid at this point.