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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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 😱
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for the record, this is still happening as recently as 3 minutes ago. I know there has been some reporting on it, but most of it seems to center around the Grok account's fake apology rather than on the fact that neither X nor xAI are stopping this despite it being entirely in their power to do so.
January 3, 2026 at 12:17 AM
for the record, this is still happening as recently as 3 minutes ago. I know there has been some reporting on it, but most of it seems to center around the Grok account's fake apology rather than on the fact that neither X nor xAI are stopping this despite it being entirely in their power to do so.
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I think we need to be aware that the likely response to this will be another push to pass KOSA and other "ban queer people from the internet" legislation.
“…the creators of these [nonconsensual, violent AI] images often seemed to be treating the action like a game or meme, with an air of laughter & detachment.”
January 2, 2026 at 9:09 PM
I think we need to be aware that the likely response to this will be another push to pass KOSA and other "ban queer people from the internet" legislation.
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Trump's surplus hands
January 3, 2026 at 12:01 AM
Trump's surplus hands
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(My credentials on this include leaving a good job at a media outlet whose owner was similarly attempting to curry favor and whose leaders pronounced that one priority would be to show love for America.)
January 2, 2026 at 9:19 PM
(My credentials on this include leaving a good job at a media outlet whose owner was similarly attempting to curry favor and whose leaders pronounced that one priority would be to show love for America.)
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I also love America and believe in its stated values.
And I understand that this pronouncement lands very differently when it comes from an organization that has intentionally been overhauled in order to curry favor with a jingoistic proto-fascist who says his opponents hate the country.
And I understand that this pronouncement lands very differently when it comes from an organization that has intentionally been overhauled in order to curry favor with a jingoistic proto-fascist who says his opponents hate the country.
Incredible. CBS Evening News announces five new “simple values” — instead of their “38-page handbook” — as they roll out Tony Dokoupil is lead anchor.
One of those values is simply: “We love America and make no apologies for saying so.”
One of those values is simply: “We love America and make no apologies for saying so.”
January 2, 2026 at 9:17 PM
I also love America and believe in its stated values.
And I understand that this pronouncement lands very differently when it comes from an organization that has intentionally been overhauled in order to curry favor with a jingoistic proto-fascist who says his opponents hate the country.
And I understand that this pronouncement lands very differently when it comes from an organization that has intentionally been overhauled in order to curry favor with a jingoistic proto-fascist who says his opponents hate the country.
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Worth noting that every regime functionary has been marinating themselves in insanity at a rate considerably higher than Stone has (which is already far too high).
Some of them may be relatively resistant, but we should expect them to, with only rare exception, be off their fucking rocker.
Some of them may be relatively resistant, but we should expect them to, with only rare exception, be off their fucking rocker.
The split-screen here is unbelievable - first from yesterday, the others from 2017. Musk’s Twitter has truly driven us mad. People absorb far more of their beliefs from their social environment than they realize, and we’ve created an environment where being a gutter bigot is the baseline expectation
January 2, 2026 at 11:57 PM
Worth noting that every regime functionary has been marinating themselves in insanity at a rate considerably higher than Stone has (which is already far too high).
Some of them may be relatively resistant, but we should expect them to, with only rare exception, be off their fucking rocker.
Some of them may be relatively resistant, but we should expect them to, with only rare exception, be off their fucking rocker.
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The split-screen here is unbelievable - first from yesterday, the others from 2017. Musk’s Twitter has truly driven us mad. People absorb far more of their beliefs from their social environment than they realize, and we’ve created an environment where being a gutter bigot is the baseline expectation
January 2, 2026 at 7:21 PM
The split-screen here is unbelievable - first from yesterday, the others from 2017. Musk’s Twitter has truly driven us mad. People absorb far more of their beliefs from their social environment than they realize, and we’ve created an environment where being a gutter bigot is the baseline expectation
JD Vance's biggest problem rn is that I don't think he has it in him, at his very best, to be more sane than, say, Curtis Yarvin. He can perhaps, with a tremendous effort, only be as nuts as the guy saying 'that Hitler fellow had some good points'.
More likely is a Yoon / Tucker style decline.
More likely is a Yoon / Tucker style decline.
January 2, 2026 at 11:46 PM
JD Vance's biggest problem rn is that I don't think he has it in him, at his very best, to be more sane than, say, Curtis Yarvin. He can perhaps, with a tremendous effort, only be as nuts as the guy saying 'that Hitler fellow had some good points'.
More likely is a Yoon / Tucker style decline.
More likely is a Yoon / Tucker style decline.
It's genuinely good seeing this come from relatively normal and sane elites, because we're going to need them to help us reconstitute a normal, functional elite and enforce new norms that banish the insane shit swallowing everything for a generation or more.
January 2, 2026 at 11:42 PM
It's genuinely good seeing this come from relatively normal and sane elites, because we're going to need them to help us reconstitute a normal, functional elite and enforce new norms that banish the insane shit swallowing everything for a generation or more.
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I'm not even convinced the current scale actually warrants serious regulatory intervention, but it sure is generating a lot of press and now governments are sure to try to "fix" things, which they are so very good at, as we all know.
January 2, 2026 at 11:38 PM
I'm not even convinced the current scale actually warrants serious regulatory intervention, but it sure is generating a lot of press and now governments are sure to try to "fix" things, which they are so very good at, as we all know.
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There's a common thing I've seen of people acting like if they deny Israel exists and/or deny the reality of Zionism long enough, Israel will go away.
Somehow.
Somehow.
this is what i ultimately dislike about, let's call it the myth of the artificiality of zionism: to basically treat it as an invention of nefarious western (christian) powers and not an idea a lot of jewish people came up with perfectly fine by themselves is just a patronising rewrite of history
in 2024 behind the bastards did their annual non-bastard podcast about abba kovner. i couldn’t bring myself to listen to it, but i’ve been told by someone who did that they said “even though he was a zionist he tried to kill nazis” and i’m like you misspelled “partially because”
January 2, 2026 at 5:59 PM
There's a common thing I've seen of people acting like if they deny Israel exists and/or deny the reality of Zionism long enough, Israel will go away.
Somehow.
Somehow.
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all the problems with generative AI are, indeed, problems, but they've been supercharged by putting these tools in front of every random asshole on the internet.
January 2, 2026 at 11:31 PM
all the problems with generative AI are, indeed, problems, but they've been supercharged by putting these tools in front of every random asshole on the internet.
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I swear to god if xAI+Elon's irresponsible idiocy leads to clipper chipped GPUs I'm going to scream
January 2, 2026 at 11:26 PM
I swear to god if xAI+Elon's irresponsible idiocy leads to clipper chipped GPUs I'm going to scream