The Cuddled Little Vice (Sandman) Previously in The Last War in Albion: Alan Moore wrote Watchmen, which, for complicated reasons involving William S. Burroughs and the weak nuclear force, ended the Cold War and replaced it with a mag...

Hugo eligibility post!

“The Cuddled Little Vice,” my book-length essay on the poison legacy of Sandman, is eligible for Best Related Work.

So apparently I was right to shittalk m00t this week because it's been revealed that his boneheaded decision to establish /pol/ and subsequently ruin the website was allegedly born out of a one-on-one meeting with Jeffery Epstein.

That feeling when you, a terrorism and extremism scholar, see documentary evidence that shows moot met with Jeffery Epstein on the same day /pol was launched:

I kind of wish you had mentioned Did the Science Wars Take Place (Unfortunately, it sounded like you recorded this before you read Seeing like a State (middle of last year?)). Though you could, with complete coherence, take both as true, it feels like they push in different directions.

I do not know, these days, where exactly I fit. Sometimes it feels like I'm too liberal for the radicals and too radical for the liberals, and I can't quite get the words right for either.

An easy way to make sense of cishet guys being into femboys and that "not being gay" is that the core of what's always stigmatized "gay" is feminization, not same-sex activity in itself.

Male same-sex activity in a masculinizing context has always been a lot more socially acceptable.

My experience has been that liminality is the primary force for liberation. Feeling *between categories* in some way seems more important than the exact nature of the categories you're in.

A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything

This is a great question, worthy of an article or podcast, but I'll give it a quick stab here -

It's a combination of a few things:

1. Our media are very conservative, so conservatives govergn on easy mode, Labour on hard