Dick Laurent
@cblockus.bsky.social
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this is a subject that's near and dear to my heart
1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks
2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections
1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks
2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections
February 9, 2026 at 6:06 PM
this is a subject that's near and dear to my heart
1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks
2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections
1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks
2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections
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how’s jeff bezos’s asshole taste btw
Breaking — Will Lewis out at the Washington Post. He just sent this email to staff (shared with me by staffer):
February 8, 2026 at 12:47 AM
how’s jeff bezos’s asshole taste btw
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Hold institutions accountable.
The British Museum posted Al slop and quietly deleted it. Here's what it was and why it matters.
#archaeology🏺#musuem #culture #heritage #history
#archaeology🏺#musuem #culture #heritage #history
February 2, 2026 at 4:47 AM
Hold institutions accountable.
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the Epstein files make it very clear why the MeToo backlash was so extreme and why so much of elite society preferred Donald Trump ruling us like a king to the barest hint of accountability
February 1, 2026 at 9:27 PM
the Epstein files make it very clear why the MeToo backlash was so extreme and why so much of elite society preferred Donald Trump ruling us like a king to the barest hint of accountability
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I think what both the second Trump administration and the Epstein files have taught us is that there’s very little need of covertness or secrecy if everyone with power pretends you aren’t doing what you’re doing when you openly tell them what you’re doing
January 31, 2026 at 2:13 PM
I think what both the second Trump administration and the Epstein files have taught us is that there’s very little need of covertness or secrecy if everyone with power pretends you aren’t doing what you’re doing when you openly tell them what you’re doing
Lucas does groundbreaking (and ethical) work, take a second to check this out.
My January zine is live! Werewolf + Android is a quantum mystery TTRPG for two different inhuman investigators in a neo-noir, cyberpunk future. Meet your client, comb the city, uncover the crime, and examine what it means to be human with this playtest release of the game!
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January 30, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Lucas does groundbreaking (and ethical) work, take a second to check this out.
There isn’t a bottom, is there.
This is fucking appalling. This is university-administrators’-heads-should-roll appalling.
The college at which I'm employed, which has signed a contract with the AI firm that stole books from 131 colleagues & me, paid a student to write an op-ed for the student paper promoting AI, guided the writing of it, and did not disclose this to the paper. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...
January 30, 2026 at 1:03 AM
There isn’t a bottom, is there.
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This is my exact quote btw:
“Kat is a journalist by training. She believes deeply in rigorous reporting.
That is precisely why she believes editorial boards like this one often undermine the credibility of the institutions they sit within by laundering ideology as objectivity.”
“Kat is a journalist by training. She believes deeply in rigorous reporting.
That is precisely why she believes editorial boards like this one often undermine the credibility of the institutions they sit within by laundering ideology as objectivity.”
January 30, 2026 at 12:04 AM
This is my exact quote btw:
“Kat is a journalist by training. She believes deeply in rigorous reporting.
That is precisely why she believes editorial boards like this one often undermine the credibility of the institutions they sit within by laundering ideology as objectivity.”
“Kat is a journalist by training. She believes deeply in rigorous reporting.
That is precisely why she believes editorial boards like this one often undermine the credibility of the institutions they sit within by laundering ideology as objectivity.”
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If you are a person who works in social media, and your job requires you to manage an account on Twitter/X, please ask your boss, in writing, to verify that you are required as a responsibility of your position to be on a platform that knowingly creates and monetizes child sexual abuse material …
January 29, 2026 at 6:46 PM
If you are a person who works in social media, and your job requires you to manage an account on Twitter/X, please ask your boss, in writing, to verify that you are required as a responsibility of your position to be on a platform that knowingly creates and monetizes child sexual abuse material …
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Block everyone who posts like this in defense of the Democratic Party Establishment’s controlled opposition. You’ve heard it before, it’s designed to restrain the Left not the Right and it’s a complete waste of time to give these people attention they do not deserve. Their worldview is going extinct
January 29, 2026 at 12:14 AM
Block everyone who posts like this in defense of the Democratic Party Establishment’s controlled opposition. You’ve heard it before, it’s designed to restrain the Left not the Right and it’s a complete waste of time to give these people attention they do not deserve. Their worldview is going extinct
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Stop calling the slaughter from bear hunts and the like a "harvest." There is zero scientific evidence that slaughtering bears leads to anything good, for ecosystems or our ethics and morals. It's just bullshit so hunters can feel like they're farmers or something. Fuck that.
January 28, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Stop calling the slaughter from bear hunts and the like a "harvest." There is zero scientific evidence that slaughtering bears leads to anything good, for ecosystems or our ethics and morals. It's just bullshit so hunters can feel like they're farmers or something. Fuck that.
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Never forget that the reason they are so convinced you’re all getting paid is that they are all getting paid.
The fact that every right winger with influence screams "who is paying for all of this" tells you exactly how awash in cash they all are, and how much they rely on that to keep their movement afloat.
James O'Keefe says he's never seen anything so organized as the anti-ICE movement, observers--he seems to think this term is code--everywhere he goes. Who is paying for it??? he demands to know. It's like he can't even imagine people caring for one another.
January 25, 2026 at 3:31 PM
Never forget that the reason they are so convinced you’re all getting paid is that they are all getting paid.
LOSERS. Can you imagine being this pathetic? Abandoning your entire pretense and outing yourself this nakedly? Out of my cold dead hands lol FUCKING LOSERS!
January 25, 2026 at 2:16 AM
LOSERS. Can you imagine being this pathetic? Abandoning your entire pretense and outing yourself this nakedly? Out of my cold dead hands lol FUCKING LOSERS!
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sorry, but the Founding Fathers' original intent for the 2nd Amendment was always *just* to do school shootings
January 24, 2026 at 10:28 PM
sorry, but the Founding Fathers' original intent for the 2nd Amendment was always *just* to do school shootings
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if ONLY theyd had their QR codes on
January 24, 2026 at 6:06 PM
if ONLY theyd had their QR codes on
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By who? Who shot the person dead? You saw the video. We all know a federal agent shot a man dead who was prone on the ground. Also, it's not "according to officials." It's according to verified video seen with your eyes. Not saying what anyone can obviously see with their eyes is a form of lying.
January 24, 2026 at 6:28 PM
By who? Who shot the person dead? You saw the video. We all know a federal agent shot a man dead who was prone on the ground. Also, it's not "according to officials." It's according to verified video seen with your eyes. Not saying what anyone can obviously see with their eyes is a form of lying.
“The rules are to protect us and oppress you.”
“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment
January 24, 2026 at 7:21 PM
“The rules are to protect us and oppress you.”
If writing can accomplish anything anymore (or ever could), it’s writing like this: proteanmag.com/2025/11/01/w...
We Had it Coming [EXCERPTS] • Protean Magazine
Three new short stories by Luke O'Neil—"The rules," "How to live," and "Something that was once potentially good"—are excerpted here from his new book of stories, We Had it Coming, out from OR Books.
proteanmag.com
January 18, 2026 at 5:58 PM
If writing can accomplish anything anymore (or ever could), it’s writing like this: proteanmag.com/2025/11/01/w...
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NVidia chief creep says resistance and scorn for AI have done a lot of harm. Good. Nice confirmation it's working. Keep it up. Although the main thing is this stuff is harmful crap so the mind and body tend to revolt against it automatically.
January 16, 2026 at 3:36 PM
NVidia chief creep says resistance and scorn for AI have done a lot of harm. Good. Nice confirmation it's working. Keep it up. Although the main thing is this stuff is harmful crap so the mind and body tend to revolt against it automatically.
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Honestly pretty solid analysis
January 13, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Honestly pretty solid analysis
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I am not a politician, political strategist or anything remotely important to the public good, and *I* know that if Third Way warns me to do something, that means I should keep doing it and, in fact, do more of it.
ICE may be shooting people in the face, sending people to concentration camps, and illegally occupying our cities but, apparently, the Democrats think saying, "abolish ICE" is "emotional" and politically "lethal."
January 13, 2026 at 5:49 PM
I am not a politician, political strategist or anything remotely important to the public good, and *I* know that if Third Way warns me to do something, that means I should keep doing it and, in fact, do more of it.
You can always count on Wendig.
Chuck Wendig had a great response:
My Open Letter To That Open Letter About AI In Writing And Publishing
The tl;dr before you get into this post is this: the SFWA came out, said that some AI usage was okay enough in books for the authors of those books to not to be disqualified from winning a Nebula a…
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December 29, 2025 at 3:05 PM
You can always count on Wendig.
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Look, this person doesn't understand what process is and how keeping it writer-based supports style and narrative, period. Thus, several things she suggests harmless if AI-driven are actually harmful. Also, the fallacy that AI is inevitable belies evidence of a bubble 1/2 file770.com/erin-underwo...
Erin Underwood: Open Letter to the Science Fiction Writers Association and Community
Hi Friends, Erin Underwood After writing the letter below, I thought rather than sending it to SFWA only, I’d share it with Mike at File 770 along with a note that read: “Am I crazy? Will this blow…
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December 29, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Look, this person doesn't understand what process is and how keeping it writer-based supports style and narrative, period. Thus, several things she suggests harmless if AI-driven are actually harmful. Also, the fallacy that AI is inevitable belies evidence of a bubble 1/2 file770.com/erin-underwo...
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This letter pretends it is reasonable and obvious but ultimately is an attempt to excuse a dozen or more ways of letting anti-human, pro-techlord, environment-destroying septic AI into our industry, organizations and processes. But there just isn’t an ethical use of generative AI, full stop.
Erin Underwood: Open Letter to the Science Fiction Writers Association and Community on AI
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Erin's core thesis is "There are responsible ways to use AI that support creators without replacing creative labor."
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Erin's core thesis is "There are responsible ways to use AI that support creators without replacing creative labor."
Erin Underwood: Open Letter to the Science Fiction Writers Association and Community
Hi Friends, Erin Underwood After writing the letter below, I thought rather than sending it to SFWA only, I’d share it with Mike at File 770 along with a note that read: “Am I crazy? Will this blow…
file770.com
December 28, 2025 at 4:14 PM
This letter pretends it is reasonable and obvious but ultimately is an attempt to excuse a dozen or more ways of letting anti-human, pro-techlord, environment-destroying septic AI into our industry, organizations and processes. But there just isn’t an ethical use of generative AI, full stop.