Hi all, just popping up to ask @gilduran.com @xriskology.bsky.social @katewillett.bsky.social to cover this article and interview its authors. It's made of awesome. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I went to Cuba last week with comrades from across the org. I’ll have more to say on the politics and analysis and what not. For now, I can say that the bonds we made with each other will last the rest of our lives.

Wanted to say a special thanks to everyone who donated school supplies and/or cash to this fundraiser. Your generosity resulted in 150+lbs of supplies to a Cuban elementary school.

Most people would consider Robin Hanson to be disturbed. But not Tyler Cowen: "Those of us who speak regularly with Robin know how brightly his star blazes. He's a truly original and important thinker in a way that few are, plus on analytic back and forth he is blindingly fast and accurate."

You can read a lot more about the abundance scam from my friend @katewillett.bsky.social here:

It's disturbing enough that Cowen, who teaches 18-year-old students Econ 103 at George Mason University, publicly offered advice about "finding virgins," but unfortunately, the post has a more disturbing background.

🧵 Libertarian economist Tyler Cowen is making headlines for an extremely creepy post at Bari Weiss's blog fantasizing about robot virgins and the AI character Tilly Norwood. Unfortunately, the story behind is much worse...

Just dropped a new episode for paid subscribers on why Ezra Klein's "abundance" is just another sock puppet No Labels effort by Republican billionaires to divide and conquer the left. Featuring the great @katewillett.bsky.social

CHOTINER: And you thought it would be funny to do a fake interview by me? ME: A lot of people have, so CHOTINER: You were looking for engagement? ME: Well, to make someone laugh I guess CHOTINER: How many likes and reposts did it get? ME: That's, uh, not really the metric...look can we start over

New: For @msnbc.com I wrote abt Trump’s absurd EO declaring antifa a “domestic terror org” I trace history of MAGA manufacturing antifa bogeyman to both distract from v real far right violence, & to create a pretext for vigilantes & police to target the wider left www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

For those interested in learning more about the the TESCREAL bundle, I highly recommend the podcast Dystopia Now, hosted by @xriskology.bsky.social, who coined the term together with @timnitgebru.bsky.social, and @katewillett.bsky.social www.patreon.com/DystopiaNow

I synthesized some thoughts after reading Brian Goldstone’s There Is No Place for us and taking in some other reporting about how hard it is for people to forge a life for themselves. I also reference @katewillett.bsky.social’s vital reporting on Abundance’s deep ties to the tech right.

1. Blood of the Wild (GCN pf2e AP) DMed by @jaredlogan.bsky.social 2. Factually with @adamconover.net 3. Time for Chaos (GCN CoC AP) 4. Dystopia Now with @katewillett.bsky.social and @xriskology.bsky.social 5. @cosmereconvo.bsky.social

And we did it! Thank you so much to everyone who donated. I’m going to put this stuff in a suitcase, see how much more weight I’m allowed to bring and then do one more drive for kids OTC meds and vitamins. You are all the best!!

i just sent this email to @ezraklein.bsky.social

THANK YOU so much to those who purchased these supplies. We still have a bunch of construction paper, erasers, pens, pencil sharpers, some stuff as low as $5 on the list. If you tried the list earlier and it didn't work, I fixed it. Thank you again!

School supply drive! Please RT and donate. I'm going on a diplomatic delegation to Cuba next month and I will be bringing a giant suitcase full of school supplies for children that are very hard to get in Cuba due to the embargo.

Finally doing an episode that nobody asked for: Penis Guys

@katewillett.bsky.social did excellent reporting showing how much Klein’s Abundance movement is aligned with the tech right, I think his take makes a lot more sense in that context newintermag.com/abundance-bi...

Bay Area friends! This is tonight in San Francisco!

San Francisco tomorrow! Tix below

Not to be rude but it wasn’t v hard to look at a project heavily funded by the Koch family and the Tech Right and know it was going to be an instrument for pushing libertarianism and scientific racism.

"The Tech Right has reshaped the Republican Party, and with the Abundance faction, is trying to reshape Democrats." Excellent exposé on the right wing entryism of "Abundance" by @katewillett.bsky.social newintermag.com/abundance-bi...

NEW EPISODE: Kevin talks with Kate Willett before her show in San Francisco next Friday. We discuss tech dystopias, old San Francisco and Peter Thiel’s weird obsession with the antichrist. It’s a fun one! @katewillett.bsky.social @dscotmiller.bsky.social youtu.be/CDYUve6h1QI?...

San Francisco next Friday. Tix on my website in bio

San Francisco next Friday! Tix below

Just wait until the public really starts understanding how much they’ve been lied to about the severity/urgency of climate breakdown by outlets like the Times. This vandalism will seem like Christmas decorations.

San Francisco next week! Tix on my website!

"Israel is engaging in the deadliest and most deliberate effort to kill and silence journalists that the Committee to Protect Journalists has ever documented." cpj.org/full-coverag...

Ugh lol

If you’re mad about Dems avoiding talking about DC, you can blame the Democratic quants, as demonstrated in this memo from David Shor’s Blue Rose Research

I find this stuff maddening. But my take is that Blue Rose/Third Way/Slow Boring are just today's equivalents of the DLC, PPI and Mark Penn's polling outfit from the 90s/early 2000s. The problem is that elected Dems want and solicit this kind of advice.

I will never vote for Gavin Newsom. He's throwing the trans community under the bus.

Here's part 1 of this week's two-part episode of Better Offline. I walk you through how AI startups’ overstuffed valuations make them impossible targets for acquisition or IPO - and how it'll harm Silicon Valley when the bubble bursts. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... linktr.ee/betteroffline

At (another) Hampton’s fundraiser with Republican donors on Saturday, Andrew Cuomo said it plainly: he’s expecting Trump’s help to defeat us in November. “I feel good about that,” Cuomo said. New Yorkers won’t.

In Charleston SC this weekend! Tix on my website

I love the weird pronatalist couple. I want to learn more about them. What types of glasses are they buying? Where do they source their bonnets? Give me the good shit.

Silence is complicity. sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/on-palestine

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Saying this to someone personally harassed by Andrew Cuomo is fuckin wild man

Everyone should give The Nerd Reich podcast by @gilduran.com a listen as well as Dystopia Now with @xriskology.bsky.social and @katewillett.bsky.social to really get into the names to listen for in the network state movement.

Listened to this while cleaning kitchen. OH GOD. These people can’t even evaluate sources!! Most of the “studies” on home school kids are deeply, deeply flawed and skewed, usually with no IRB involved, and exclude anyone who is a “problem”. They’re propaganda, not studies. Trust NOTHING they say.

New ep of Dystopia Now on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. This week @xriskology.bsky.social and I talked about the Silicon Valley pro-natalist influencer couple who want 10 children that only have AI friends. Learn about Simone and Malcolm Collins, and Effective Altruism parenting.

Premium Newsletter: The enshittification of AI has begun. With GPT-5, OpenAI has cut access to all other models, reducing the value of even their $200-a-month subscriptions. They join Anthropic in screwing their customers over by making their products worse. www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshitti...

Lo explican muy bien @xriskology.bsky.social y @katewillett.bsky.social en 'Dystopia Now', uno de mis podcasts favoritos. Este episodio es de las cosas más repugnantes que haya escuchado en mi vida: sites.libsyn.com/566555/pro-n...

“there's a sizable percentage of tech leaders who have bought bunkers. So…one of the main reasons, according to insiders in Silicon Valley, is the fear that at some point there's going to be a backlash” 1/

If you have ever considered subscribing, do it for this, if only because this was one of the most brutal things I've ever had to write. These companies are intentionally misleading the media by leaking annualized revenue, despite that number not actually telling you what they're making!

1. Florida has subpoenaed a drag bar for a list of attendees to a drag show, in what could be a new first for anti-trans and anti-LGBTQ+ legislation. Their goal is to end drag in the state. Subscribe to support our journalism.

For @forward.com, I wrote about how we know that Israel has been withholding food as a military tactic because Israeli officials have said versions of “we are withholding food as a military tactic” for the entirety of the war and pretending otherwise is willful ignorance forward.com/opinion/7586...