What they don't tell you is that even if you write 50 words in 20 different documents, that's still writing 1000 words per day. Just a little life hack in never releasing anything.

I really wasn't lying. Sorry but I will continue having nothing interesting to say for awhile. I am reading and rereading a bunch of very dense books and it will be years before I can promise any results from this time wasted.

Correct as far as it goes—deserves a passing mark. But people need be more critical of the mechanical naturalism and utilitarianism that is so often taken as the default ethical framework, beyond just pointing out the hypocrisy of anti-AI arguments. Even if that hypocrisy is apparent.

It's a very lonely place being "anti-AI" but also reminded endlessly that "anti-AI" people are often metaphysically incoherent and dependent upon magical/spiritual thinking. The only categorical gap between people and computers* that holds up for me is humanity's embodied being-there in the world.

I'll try explaining Kiyoshi Kasai's "Phenomenology of Terrorism" in "basic" terms and link it to Charlie Kirk: There is of course a sense of revolution that means a historical phenomenon. It is the sudden and explosive action of a mass of people based on the particular circumstances of the moment.

It's interesting that Kiyoshi Kasai is so stylistically distinct as an essayist vs fiction author. The essays are contemporary whereas the fiction is retro and naturalistic. And yet, their content mirrors and supports each other at a pretty deep level, such that they ought to be read together.

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

The fact that someone in the Trump admin thought "notices bulges OwO what’s this?" was a reference to "transgender ideology" confirms something that we already knew: We live under a Gooner Occupied Government. God help us.

Holy shit bro

Today in particular, I'd appreciate if people read this to understand my disgust with vigilantism and the worship of death. You don't need to perform empty sympathy for bad people. But you must not let yourself marinate in exterminationism. It's evil. blog.psychopopular.com/film/the-purge

The reasons Hitler had to die had nothing to do with retribution or deserving it. Hitler had to die to end National Socialism. Holding onto this conservative idea that justice is punishment will be lethal to the left in the fullness of time, as it concedes the concept of justice to the right.

This form of political violence shows impotence, not power. Violence destroys because it cannot build. Its main purpose is catharsis for that animalistic part of us that wants karmic justice and revenge. It risks losing real politics so that nihilists can soak in the aesthetic experience of hate.

Unfortunately for anyone who enjoys anything I write or do, I just bought a bunch of books on Ancient Greek and Medieval economic theory. The value theory arc may be just around the corner.

People seem to forget that a major part of why the eroge/doujin sphere was as highly valued as it was is because it was capable of tackling subject matter which would be ruthlessly pinned down by censorship elsewhere. It might not be "clean", but they could talk about anything without repose.

As time goes on, I just become more and more Arendtian in my outlook. This is fine for what it is, but it comes with the side effect of becoming more Heideggerian, which is the opposite of fine.

It's far less depth than the game deserves and maybe not my best post ever, but I wanted to talk about Cross Channel, masculinity, and gender norms. blog.psychopopular.com/other-media/...

Here we see the American progressive cultural critic speaking in their mother tongue: moral majority conservatism. Inspiring.

Honestly, at this point Powell should raise rates in September to assert the independence of the Fed. The effect on long-term real interest rates would probably be negative, at least compared to caving and cutting in this context. Monetary dominance has to become a goal in and of itself.

It's far less depth than the game deserves and maybe not my best post ever, but I wanted to talk about Cross Channel, masculinity, and gender norms. blog.psychopopular.com/other-media/...

People say that Bluesky is more left-wing than Twitter. But I don't think that's quite true. The hard left are still over there. It's just that Twitter is a more hateful place. So much of what gets currency over there is about seeming cool, detached, and superior. This post is pretty representative.

Everything I try to write has so much mission creep that I'm starting to understand Donald Rumsfeld.

“Death gives life meaning,” is cope born out of the utter hopelessness of doing anything about it for the vast majority of human existence

I appreciate when people are kind enough to include spoiler warnings in their death threats. Just because you wish death upon someone, you shouldn't ruin a perfectly good movie.

I wrote a review of 1998's film "Love & Pop" directed by Anno Hideaki. natsukawacottage.wordpress.com/2025/08/07/l...

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i am sort of an aspirational socialist but my paramount policy concern for the foreseeable future is just staving off civilizational collapse

Here's the story. It was about On Photography, not Against Interpretation. Well, that makes sense—On Photography is a more consistent book anyway.

There's a story about Susan Sontag which I think about a lot: Not long after the Against Interpretation collection, she had a depressive spell. A friend tried to cheer her up by relaying that critics were calling her the best essayist of the decade.

People never really stopped believing in the gods of Olympus as the personification of natural forces. They just now believe in the "300 Families" and the "Elders of Zion" as the god-form of the capitalist system of social organisation. We're closer to ancient superstitions than we realise.

An indie game made me a little uncomfortable once, so I leveraged the very core of world commerce to obliterate free expression.

Something something tap the sign.

Let's make this clear: if you claim to be leftist, pro-LGBT, pro other minorities etc, then you MUST stand up for freedom of artistic expression, which means defending the right for legal but icky art to exist. Not doing so directly empowers the worst kind of actors wishing to eradicate minorities 🧵

In general, the left could learn a thing or two about radicalism from the anti-social tendencies of libertarians and AnCaps. You can't just imagine utopia and wait for society to catch up with you. Sometimes you need the tools to rebel in the microcosm—whether that's payment alternatives, or a gun.

The way that itch.io was the first target for the censorship freaks as soon as they had even mild success with mainstream storefronts proved the already obvious fact that the right to "obscenity" and queer rights are attached at the hip. A threat to one always endangers the other.

This is also going to create some really dark and quite bad tendencies among an entire cohort who are scrolling through an algorithm that shows them unspeakable horror and then, like, cynical reactionaries to literal Nazis decrying that horror but with zero context of who these people are.

FYI, I've taken my most recent post down while I shop it around for publication. If you want to read, I'll include links for a pdf and epub below.

I've cleaned up my long essay on Kiyoshi Kasai and posted it on the blog. This one is for all of the boring people who love political philosophy (my besties <3). blog.psychopopular.com/social-issue...

I've cleaned up my long essay on Kiyoshi Kasai and posted it on the blog. This one is for all of the boring people who love political philosophy (my besties <3). blog.psychopopular.com/social-issue...

This is like pornography for everything I hate in political analysis. - "Bush v. Gore changed the election" (not true) - "Presidents decide history" (wrong) - "Everything goes better if the Democrats win" (lmao) Truly impressive.

A counterintuitive thing about my most recent post is that it seems like the whole idea of right-wing otaku is mostly interpreted as slander by those who aren't very otaku, and who don't see much of themselves in the post.

My latest blog post rides a strange line where I can't tell if I love it or hate it. It's kinda experimental in a way I haven't done since the early days of the blog. Anyway, it's about anime pfp Nazis, basically. blog.psychopopular.com/japan-and-as...

My latest blog post rides a strange line where I can't tell if I love it or hate it. It's kinda experimental in a way I haven't done since the early days of the blog. Anyway, it's about anime pfp Nazis, basically. blog.psychopopular.com/japan-and-as...

It's kinda scary that I probably don't even really know myself since I haven't spent a sleepless night alone in the dark, mixing coffee and whisky and dancing with the demons of my past. I just keep going to work and posting through it. Concerning.

Musk might be about to (once again) prove that money cannot actually buy political power in the way people imagine

It's in part a moe-fascism. A fascism that starts by treating the world as virtual. Playing pretend as the Gestapo after you've lost the distinction between reality and play. Their victims, of course, remain all too real.

Welcome back, Mr Kristol

It appears that a Trotskyite is a Neocon mugged by reality after all.