Newsom and AOC have a vibe that fundamentally deranges the right for different reasons. Newsom is the symbolic California nightmare: slick, handsome, unbothered, elite — He’s the polished mirror of their resentment. He doesn’t just disagree; he radiates confidence that their worldview is obsolete.
October 26, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Newsom and AOC have a vibe that fundamentally deranges the right for different reasons. Newsom is the symbolic California nightmare: slick, handsome, unbothered, elite — He’s the polished mirror of their resentment. He doesn’t just disagree; he radiates confidence that their worldview is obsolete.
Agnostic, waiting for landmarks
September 30, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Agnostic, waiting for landmarks
Slight curveball: how are Assignats and Continentals different from today’s stablecoins — or are we just rehashing history in code
September 29, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Slight curveball: how are Assignats and Continentals different from today’s stablecoins — or are we just rehashing history in code
I think we're at a point in the cycle in which cigarettes and booze are healthier than social media.
September 22, 2025 at 6:59 PM
I think we're at a point in the cycle in which cigarettes and booze are healthier than social media.
So Media was an “adequate” way of balancing separation of powers but this are not match for platforms. Platforms are not just media—they’re meta-media. They don’t sit in the same balance-of-power scheme, because they’re not in the “checking” business. They’re in the rewiring business.
September 21, 2025 at 1:35 AM
So Media was an “adequate” way of balancing separation of powers but this are not match for platforms. Platforms are not just media—they’re meta-media. They don’t sit in the same balance-of-power scheme, because they’re not in the “checking” business. They’re in the rewiring business.
The modern progressive career path: rail against corporate consolidation until you can land a job in an administration or a consolidated corporation — then spend the rest of your life yellin’at the TV about corporate consolidation from the sofa
September 20, 2025 at 7:02 PM
The modern progressive career path: rail against corporate consolidation until you can land a job in an administration or a consolidated corporation — then spend the rest of your life yellin’at the TV about corporate consolidation from the sofa
It’s remarkable, that besides all their other innumerable faults, none of them — Yglesias, Klein, Smith,— have ever delivered anything of substance on media consolidation
September 19, 2025 at 9:41 PM
It’s remarkable, that besides all their other innumerable faults, none of them — Yglesias, Klein, Smith,— have ever delivered anything of substance on media consolidation
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I started with the idea of "Feudal Optimization" — the notion that the Dark Ages weren't just a dumb collapse, but also brutal, pragmatic re-prioritization. It's about how we often don't realize we're speaking feudalism while hearing engineering.
I started with the idea of "Feudal Optimization" — the notion that the Dark Ages weren't just a dumb collapse, but also brutal, pragmatic re-prioritization. It's about how we often don't realize we're speaking feudalism while hearing engineering.
Feudal Optimization – MUSIC IN PHASE SPACE
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September 9, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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I started with the idea of "Feudal Optimization" — the notion that the Dark Ages weren't just a dumb collapse, but also brutal, pragmatic re-prioritization. It's about how we often don't realize we're speaking feudalism while hearing engineering.
I started with the idea of "Feudal Optimization" — the notion that the Dark Ages weren't just a dumb collapse, but also brutal, pragmatic re-prioritization. It's about how we often don't realize we're speaking feudalism while hearing engineering.
The business of America is bootstrapping cycles of hype.
June 23, 2025 at 3:24 PM
The business of America is bootstrapping cycles of hype.
The abundance agenda embraces what I call the Richard Pryor principle: Who are you gonna believe? Us or your lying eyes?
April 11, 2025 at 2:15 AM
The abundance agenda embraces what I call the Richard Pryor principle: Who are you gonna believe? Us or your lying eyes?
Trading all my pitch & forks JPEGs and sad emojis for the analog version—
April 8, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Trading all my pitch & forks JPEGs and sad emojis for the analog version—
Trump last line of defense is the DNC: rigged primaries, superdelegate circus, backroom deals, media blackouts, caucus disasters, corporate overlords, fear-mongering about third parties, debate-rule gymnastics, invisible hands.
March 13, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Trump last line of defense is the DNC: rigged primaries, superdelegate circus, backroom deals, media blackouts, caucus disasters, corporate overlords, fear-mongering about third parties, debate-rule gymnastics, invisible hands.
Picture it: a rogue startup in powdered wigs. A pirate VC firm with private armies, shipping lanes, and the ear of the king. That’s the East India Company—a corporate insurgency that didn’t just lobby governments, it was the government.
March 1, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Picture it: a rogue startup in powdered wigs. A pirate VC firm with private armies, shipping lanes, and the ear of the king. That’s the East India Company—a corporate insurgency that didn’t just lobby governments, it was the government.
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Herman Mankiewicz, Pauline Kael, and the Battle Over “Citizen Kane”
David Fincher’s new film, “Mank,” is an attempt to define the nature of Mankiewicz’s contribution to “Citizen Kane,” and to the history of cinema—and to dramatize his battle to get credit for it.
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February 22, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Tired: Subscriptions
Wired: Piracy
Inspired: Legal defense funds
Wired: Piracy
Inspired: Legal defense funds
February 18, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Tired: Subscriptions
Wired: Piracy
Inspired: Legal defense funds
Wired: Piracy
Inspired: Legal defense funds
Remember when everyone became a 'photographer' once digital cameras got cheap? That's LLMs right now. Same energy, different pixels. JFC those host a at party who'd corner you with their 'professional shots' for 20 minutes?
February 2, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Remember when everyone became a 'photographer' once digital cameras got cheap? That's LLMs right now. Same energy, different pixels. JFC those host a at party who'd corner you with their 'professional shots' for 20 minutes?
Consider the humble water beetle who, seeing the lotus leaf float, made its own vessel. Did it steal the lotus's secret, or did it honor the flower's teaching by carrying new life across still waters? The merchants of the Western shores cry "Thief!" while the Eastern kingdoms celebrate innovation.
January 30, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Consider the humble water beetle who, seeing the lotus leaf float, made its own vessel. Did it steal the lotus's secret, or did it honor the flower's teaching by carrying new life across still waters? The merchants of the Western shores cry "Thief!" while the Eastern kingdoms celebrate innovation.
The last mini golden age of Hollywood was Bush second term
January 24, 2025 at 4:41 PM
The last mini golden age of Hollywood was Bush second term
The deeper truth of Stargate the mediocre movie is that the “new world” we are promised is nothing more than a rehashing of old tropes and clichés, where ancient alien gods become stand-ins for our modern fantasies of domination and transcendence.
Stargate is an uncomfortable Frankenstein of trickle-down economics, and perpetual motion machine promising infinite returns as long as the last investor keeps buying in.
January 23, 2025 at 10:45 PM
The deeper truth of Stargate the mediocre movie is that the “new world” we are promised is nothing more than a rehashing of old tropes and clichés, where ancient alien gods become stand-ins for our modern fantasies of domination and transcendence.
Stargate is an uncomfortable Frankenstein of trickle-down economics, and perpetual motion machine promising infinite returns as long as the last investor keeps buying in.
January 23, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Stargate is an uncomfortable Frankenstein of trickle-down economics, and perpetual motion machine promising infinite returns as long as the last investor keeps buying in.
Thinking of decamping here permanently
January 23, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Thinking of decamping here permanently
Watching Los Angeles burn last week, I felt an overwhelming grief. It made me think about loss, survival, and the last few Paul McCartney albums, which suddenly revealed themselves as quiet meditations on survivor’s guilt. Here’s what I saw in them:
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Survivor’s Guilt – MUSIC IN PHASE SPACE
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January 16, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Watching Los Angeles burn last week, I felt an overwhelming grief. It made me think about loss, survival, and the last few Paul McCartney albums, which suddenly revealed themselves as quiet meditations on survivor’s guilt. Here’s what I saw in them:
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The beauty of X is you can keep up with everything: breaking updates from the Great Fire of London, Grooming Gangs of the Palisades, exclusive deals on dick enhancement on Musks Prime, and—did you hear?—Jeff Bezos took Ivermectin during a Mel Gibson show and couldn’t shit for two months.
January 11, 2025 at 6:49 PM
The beauty of X is you can keep up with everything: breaking updates from the Great Fire of London, Grooming Gangs of the Palisades, exclusive deals on dick enhancement on Musks Prime, and—did you hear?—Jeff Bezos took Ivermectin during a Mel Gibson show and couldn’t shit for two months.
