Zoomer Antimillenarian
@surcomplicated.bsky.social
Staunch liberal, hopeful Georgist, moderate intuitionist. Hoping to one day pass on an even better world than the one I inherited. Retweet =/= Endorsement
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Since I love procgen / high systemic story generator games, I decided to finally pick up Rim World. But I did not like it, which did not make any sense. So I spent a bunch of time trying to figure out why and made a little graph.
January 2, 2026 at 5:12 PM
Since I love procgen / high systemic story generator games, I decided to finally pick up Rim World. But I did not like it, which did not make any sense. So I spent a bunch of time trying to figure out why and made a little graph.
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Retired federal judge Nancy Gertner points out two Supreme Court decisions, INS v. Lopez-Mendoza (1984) and Egbert v. Boule (2022), that ensure ICE and deportation officers will not be held to the civil liberties standards to which other law enforcers can sometimes be held.
January 3, 2026 at 1:30 AM
Retired federal judge Nancy Gertner points out two Supreme Court decisions, INS v. Lopez-Mendoza (1984) and Egbert v. Boule (2022), that ensure ICE and deportation officers will not be held to the civil liberties standards to which other law enforcers can sometimes be held.
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figuring out cadence on this one seems pretty important because he's not gonna tell us when he flunks
January 2, 2026 at 3:23 PM
figuring out cadence on this one seems pretty important because he's not gonna tell us when he flunks
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The WHCA just collectively, consensually gave up on doing their jobs huh?
January 3, 2026 at 1:42 AM
The WHCA just collectively, consensually gave up on doing their jobs huh?
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It's probably helpful to remember that for any group, the people on social media who are the most loud and vigorous representations of that group are probably not actually fairly representative of that group
January 3, 2026 at 1:39 AM
It's probably helpful to remember that for any group, the people on social media who are the most loud and vigorous representations of that group are probably not actually fairly representative of that group
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Well you can tell by the way I use my walk
I’m a woman’s man, no time to talk.
I’m a woman’s man, no time to talk.
January 2, 2026 at 6:27 PM
Well you can tell by the way I use my walk
I’m a woman’s man, no time to talk.
I’m a woman’s man, no time to talk.
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This is fake. Not a real Politico article. Not something that’s being considered. Someone with *320K followers* should be exercising more caution before posting whatever someone sends them
"It's completely unacceptable to see fat generals. It's a bad look and it's not who we are. [Whatever your rank or uniform] you need to meet height and weight standards and pass you PT test."
--Pete Hegseth, Sep 30, 2025
--Pete Hegseth, Sep 30, 2025
January 2, 2026 at 11:48 PM
This is fake. Not a real Politico article. Not something that’s being considered. Someone with *320K followers* should be exercising more caution before posting whatever someone sends them
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A Japanese artist made the print DHS lifted to spread anti-immigrant hate. Can't make this up.
January 2, 2026 at 11:24 PM
A Japanese artist made the print DHS lifted to spread anti-immigrant hate. Can't make this up.
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pg seems to have this kind of revelation every few months for... years? And then... does nothing and goes back to doing the same things he was doing before and hyping up the same people he was before.
I remember when he quit Twitter for Mastodon. For like a week.
I remember when he quit Twitter for Mastodon. For like a week.
Paul Graham has been having a several months long “Are we the baddies?” moment on X.
Here he concedes that people have had their fears come to pass when it comes to tech billionaires misusing their wealth to capture political power.
Here he concedes that people have had their fears come to pass when it comes to tech billionaires misusing their wealth to capture political power.
January 3, 2026 at 12:17 AM
pg seems to have this kind of revelation every few months for... years? And then... does nothing and goes back to doing the same things he was doing before and hyping up the same people he was before.
I remember when he quit Twitter for Mastodon. For like a week.
I remember when he quit Twitter for Mastodon. For like a week.
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This is a hell of an achievement. I'm not sure the extent to which they were leaned on versus they put their fingers in the wind and wanted to stay on his good side. I expect a bit of both. But it throws open the door to a lot of his agenda.
Mamdani says Rent Guidelines Board pick coming ‘soon’ after two Adams appointees drop out
Mamdani can now name a majority to the Rent Guidelines Board in boost to his rent-freeze plan.
gothamist.com
January 2, 2026 at 11:46 PM
This is a hell of an achievement. I'm not sure the extent to which they were leaned on versus they put their fingers in the wind and wanted to stay on his good side. I expect a bit of both. But it throws open the door to a lot of his agenda.
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Too long for a note, too casual for a post… so you get a screenshot essay on floors as workspaces
January 3, 2026 at 12:21 AM
Too long for a note, too casual for a post… so you get a screenshot essay on floors as workspaces
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Anyway this is the best and most correct explanation of what’s going on in the world with *waves hands* all of THIS, whether it’s properly regarded as materialist or non-materialist is semantic and not really of any interest to me
January 3, 2026 at 12:25 AM
Anyway this is the best and most correct explanation of what’s going on in the world with *waves hands* all of THIS, whether it’s properly regarded as materialist or non-materialist is semantic and not really of any interest to me
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All sides are competing across the same new terrain of mass low-cost publishing and they’re all stumbling upon similar answers to the question of “what kind of ideas are most competitive on this terrain.” Nostalgia. Grievance. Indulging shared social resentments. These are the apex predators.
January 3, 2026 at 12:16 AM
All sides are competing across the same new terrain of mass low-cost publishing and they’re all stumbling upon similar answers to the question of “what kind of ideas are most competitive on this terrain.” Nostalgia. Grievance. Indulging shared social resentments. These are the apex predators.
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But you’ll note that often the two extremes do appear to be pulling on suspiciously similar emotional antecedents. Witness the rise of Nostalgic Leftism, built around the notion we must RETVRN to some lost 1970s (or maybe 60s? or 80s?) era of prosperity.
January 3, 2026 at 12:13 AM
But you’ll note that often the two extremes do appear to be pulling on suspiciously similar emotional antecedents. Witness the rise of Nostalgic Leftism, built around the notion we must RETVRN to some lost 1970s (or maybe 60s? or 80s?) era of prosperity.
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This is an environment that both benefits extreme views across the spectrum (which rely on pure emotional catharsis over messy engagement with reality), and PARTICULARLY benefits the far right, which has an arsenal of highly volatile, widely-shared resentments to draw upon.
January 3, 2026 at 12:11 AM
This is an environment that both benefits extreme views across the spectrum (which rely on pure emotional catharsis over messy engagement with reality), and PARTICULARLY benefits the far right, which has an arsenal of highly volatile, widely-shared resentments to draw upon.
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The outcome of these technological changes in the cost of publishing is a media environment (which, again, our brains perceive as a social environment) of pure indulgence, where we can easily avoid any uncomfortable notion and instead seek out whichever idea we most enjoy believing.
January 3, 2026 at 12:09 AM
The outcome of these technological changes in the cost of publishing is a media environment (which, again, our brains perceive as a social environment) of pure indulgence, where we can easily avoid any uncomfortable notion and instead seek out whichever idea we most enjoy believing.
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As a result of this, consumers have been less willing to tolerate parasocial media environments that don’t flatter their prejudices and biases (no matter how absurd) while many publishers are engaged in a kind of arms race to better flatter those same prejudices and biases.
January 3, 2026 at 12:08 AM
As a result of this, consumers have been less willing to tolerate parasocial media environments that don’t flatter their prejudices and biases (no matter how absurd) while many publishers are engaged in a kind of arms race to better flatter those same prejudices and biases.
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I’ve argued it over and over, but the core driver of the worldwide collapse into populist madness is a very specific economic trend:
THE FALLING COST OF PUBLISHING
That has created almost infinite access to media, which allows consumers to be highly selective and forces publishers to compete.
THE FALLING COST OF PUBLISHING
That has created almost infinite access to media, which allows consumers to be highly selective and forces publishers to compete.
The collapsing cost of media production has fragmented media into literally millions of publishers, creating a true marketplace of ideas where producers benefit by providing the exact narratives that consumers enjoy hearing the most. That means lurid doomerism is endemic
boy there seems to be a bottomless appetite for dogmatic economic pessimism on video platforms. clicked on one of those during the morning Zwift and now my youtube feed is WE'RE DOOMED re the stock market, jobs, car market, inflation, AI on and on
January 3, 2026 at 12:06 AM
I’ve argued it over and over, but the core driver of the worldwide collapse into populist madness is a very specific economic trend:
THE FALLING COST OF PUBLISHING
That has created almost infinite access to media, which allows consumers to be highly selective and forces publishers to compete.
THE FALLING COST OF PUBLISHING
That has created almost infinite access to media, which allows consumers to be highly selective and forces publishers to compete.
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So CBS News will now be a real version of @theonion.com’s “American Voices.” Great.
January 2, 2026 at 1:53 PM
So CBS News will now be a real version of @theonion.com’s “American Voices.” Great.
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getting a variety of people who want to blame Democratic leaders for this and with due respect that is a completely insane reaction to the Republican President trying to incite pogroms
January 2, 2026 at 6:47 PM
getting a variety of people who want to blame Democratic leaders for this and with due respect that is a completely insane reaction to the Republican President trying to incite pogroms
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i'm really having a hard time getting past the "surely we can all agree that Somalis are worse than trash" thing. this feels new and very bad
January 2, 2026 at 3:36 PM
i'm really having a hard time getting past the "surely we can all agree that Somalis are worse than trash" thing. this feels new and very bad
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Thisclose to panic paralysis at the expanding to-do lists 😱
January 3, 2026 at 12:32 AM
Thisclose to panic paralysis at the expanding to-do lists 😱