sudden flashback to the time I was applying for a job in college, an interviewer asked me, "how would you execute your vision?" and my half-baked ass reflexively answered "for me it's always either gangland or classic execution style." I got the gig. reader, the past truly is a different country
Earlier this year an author in my genre with a lot more money and clout than me released an AI slop book trailer and it made me angry so I made this with my friends
“The long-term vision is to financialize everything,” a prediction market CEO said recently.
Financialization isn’t new, but the push for profit maximization is now reaching deeper into daily life than ever before.
In a new blog, @bradlipton.bsky.social asks: is this the kind of economy we want?
My most liberal idpol radlib take is that I think it's pretty bad that
right wing forces are actively intervening on behalf of the Klan with the full weight of the state legal apparatus
EXCLUSIVE: Pentagon Erases Wounded U.S. Troops From Iran War Casualty List: “Definition of a Cover-up”
The U.S. government altered its tally of American casualties — inexplicably scrubbing 15 wounded-in-action troops from the count.
theintercept.com/2026/04/22/i...
(sincere and convincingly) my fellow leftists and liberals, has not our supple body politic grown corrupt, sickened by the woke mind virus of unseemly care for Palestinian life? are not purgative measures, even harsh medicine, well past due? Wirklich ja, wir müßen die --
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Our noble discourse hygiene, their depraved purity spirals, etc etc...
neither here nor there but it sometimes seems like the distinction between doing ad hominems and merely saying something unfortunate is that the latter is a contemptuous dismissal of entire categories of people deemed unworthy of any consideration beyond merely serving as props in the first place
a dogged journalist who cut their teeth on the just-asking-questions "sure seems like there are too many trans people right now" beat, back to ask why somebody hasn't done something about the scary extremists who care too much about our planet's already excessive number of Palestinians
imagine a guy who made a career at the convergence of obscure personal psychosexual fixations and the endless appetite of the right for cruel moral panics becoming self appointed surgeon general for discourse hygiene. thank god that’d be just too silly stupid and plain offensive to be real!
I'm a better writer now than I was when I did these stories, but this is still probably the best work I've done, and I hate that it's already breaking and I'm going to have to cut and paste it into a Google doc if I want to revisit a year from now.
“To say that President Trump is corrupt is to somehow understate the size, scope and magnitude of his corruption.
It is as if you were to describe a modern thermonuclear device as a ‘bomb.’ That is true enough, but it is not quite the truth. It does not capture the nature of the thing in full.”
its 2026. you can just be openly racist now. it won't fix the emptiness but it will get you some of the attention and rewards you feel they took from you. no need for the verbiage, the effort. in fact, at this point, your snobbishness may be the only thing still holding you back
OTOH people can and do Just Say Things, incoherence and contradiction bedamned. OTOH if what they're saying is on the order of "nyt besteller postmodern neolib marxists want gigs as race hustler PMCs in HR" you gotta wonder why they just can't say the thing they so clearly want to
happy 4/20 to all my Old Believer / Julian calendar followers! we may disagree about everything else - but on this we are brothers and sisters 🤝
not anymore I believe
I wanted maximum personal freedom, so i joined the military
sure a hundred grand will buy a lot more in Hungary than it will stateside but can you even put a price on how much retaining the silver pen of the demonologist-poet-moral witness who coined the phrase “primitive root weiner” has done for the greater glory of Magyarország
everyone with real American manliness and a basic knowledge of military history knows that serious war efforts have never been derailed by such trifling matters as "communicable diseases"
reducing vaccine requirements and cutting rations to gruel, is, well, it's attempting to recreate the conditions of the old Department of War (readiness levels depleted from sickness and malnutrition).
me, I would simply have taken Stalingrad, not laid siege to it. hell, the boys would start at noon on 12/23 and all be home by Christmas eve
but seriously the way to make sense of this, beyond "first as tragedy, then as farce" is, and I'm a broken record I know, the american death drive
2027. a quarter of the newly re-renamed Legion of the United States is annihilated in a single battle at a site on Kharg Island named "New Wabash." at last, we finally have retvrned
tired: its the Department of Defense (est. 1947)
hired: its the War Department (1789-1947)
wired: we're bringing back rum rations, handsaw amputations, trench foot, latrines made of pure cholera, and other manly things of that nature
well jim deploying the rusty razors and broken glass slip-and-slide at the playground would certainly be an escalatory ladder
using AI to replace these guys heads with Billy the Puppet so that people otherwise inured might clock how dementedly evil this all is
(somber and reflectively) sure I just shat myself in public while proudly squealing "look at MEEEE!!!" but when you think about it the reaction of all the people who said "bro you are shitting yourself in public" actually Says A Lot About Society
worried that I might forget to post this tomorrow and so getting ahead of it now. and so, please enjoy A Modern Spiritual by Gail and Dale
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8td...