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here's a hot for Bluesky take: a lot of tech-criticism is so bad and focused on a kind of stupid imagined STEM-humanities culture war that some companies have been able to build whole brands around being "evil tech bros 😈" making supervillain promises despite their shit being vaporware
December 23, 2025 at 8:17 AM
here's a hot for Bluesky take: a lot of tech-criticism is so bad and focused on a kind of stupid imagined STEM-humanities culture war that some companies have been able to build whole brands around being "evil tech bros 😈" making supervillain promises despite their shit being vaporware
@jvl.bsky.social
JVL - you previewed the Monday Triad by mentioning the City Journal interview. This is what hits me - don't these guys sound *exactly* like anti-anti-Trump politicians when Hitler is mentioned? "I don't support what he did in all of these specifics, but I absolutely support him!"
JVL - you previewed the Monday Triad by mentioning the City Journal interview. This is what hits me - don't these guys sound *exactly* like anti-anti-Trump politicians when Hitler is mentioned? "I don't support what he did in all of these specifics, but I absolutely support him!"
December 22, 2025 at 12:42 AM
@jvl.bsky.social
JVL - you previewed the Monday Triad by mentioning the City Journal interview. This is what hits me - don't these guys sound *exactly* like anti-anti-Trump politicians when Hitler is mentioned? "I don't support what he did in all of these specifics, but I absolutely support him!"
JVL - you previewed the Monday Triad by mentioning the City Journal interview. This is what hits me - don't these guys sound *exactly* like anti-anti-Trump politicians when Hitler is mentioned? "I don't support what he did in all of these specifics, but I absolutely support him!"
@jvl.bsky.social - I was inspired by your "Match-Throwing Club" for this one. Well, less 'inspired' and more 'reassured that it was okay to write' - the only other person I know of who writes in parable is Elizer Yudkowsky, and I don't want to get any of *that* on me.
Russian Roulette: Bad for America, Good For CBS
At 5:53 PM Pacific Standard Time, on Wednesday, December 17th, 2025, I did not know whether or not my country was going to be at war ten minutes from then. That's great for TV.
neoreality.substack.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:12 PM
@jvl.bsky.social - I was inspired by your "Match-Throwing Club" for this one. Well, less 'inspired' and more 'reassured that it was okay to write' - the only other person I know of who writes in parable is Elizer Yudkowsky, and I don't want to get any of *that* on me.
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This person has been posting explicit violent fantasies about me for months if not years. I don't care if she's trans, she's unhinged and at some point people are responsible for their words and actions.
December 13, 2025 at 12:44 AM
This person has been posting explicit violent fantasies about me for months if not years. I don't care if she's trans, she's unhinged and at some point people are responsible for their words and actions.
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I think this is right. It’s like when a family has decided to tolerate an abusive drunk. They know what he’s like and they’ve priced it into their decisions and they don’t want to hear you talk about it.
Yes, Fox makes people dumber, but I think many of you underestimate how many Trump supporters go to Fox because they already know he’s terrible and they don’t want to hear about it
For my own edification, I started watching Fox News. Their audience has no clue about any of Trump's failings. Any thing negative will not be reported, or if it is, it'll be cast as a false accusation made by evil Dems.
I know several Ivy League graduates who fell for the narrative. It's nuts.
I know several Ivy League graduates who fell for the narrative. It's nuts.
December 11, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I think this is right. It’s like when a family has decided to tolerate an abusive drunk. They know what he’s like and they’ve priced it into their decisions and they don’t want to hear you talk about it.
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Yes, Fox makes people dumber, but I think many of you underestimate how many Trump supporters go to Fox because they already know he’s terrible and they don’t want to hear about it
For my own edification, I started watching Fox News. Their audience has no clue about any of Trump's failings. Any thing negative will not be reported, or if it is, it'll be cast as a false accusation made by evil Dems.
I know several Ivy League graduates who fell for the narrative. It's nuts.
I know several Ivy League graduates who fell for the narrative. It's nuts.
December 11, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Yes, Fox makes people dumber, but I think many of you underestimate how many Trump supporters go to Fox because they already know he’s terrible and they don’t want to hear about it
@jvl.bsky.social and @ebharrington.bsky.social - submitted for your approval (after months), I finally have another post. Hopefully, this one is worth the essay-length read. I'll try to get the next one out sooner, but I'm a perfectionist at heart.
It Takes 60 Votes To Pass A Law And 34 To Ignore It
Impeachment - the Founders' remedy for a rogue executive - is a dead button, but that's exactly the way the Senate wants it to be. They gave up their power on purpose.
neoreality.substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:55 PM
@jvl.bsky.social and @ebharrington.bsky.social - submitted for your approval (after months), I finally have another post. Hopefully, this one is worth the essay-length read. I'll try to get the next one out sooner, but I'm a perfectionist at heart.
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I still genuinely cannot believe that it is apparently the position of many Latin American leftists that the government of the United Kingdom should have allowed a bunch of their own subjects to be sacrificed to a brutally repressive right-wing dictatorship
December 2, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I still genuinely cannot believe that it is apparently the position of many Latin American leftists that the government of the United Kingdom should have allowed a bunch of their own subjects to be sacrificed to a brutally repressive right-wing dictatorship
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I find this sort of messaging so much better than insisting that the USA is somehow poor in aggregate.
In the richest city in the richest country on the planet, the thing we can’t afford is to forget those who are left hungry.
November 28, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I find this sort of messaging so much better than insisting that the USA is somehow poor in aggregate.
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We are not serious people. No one even asked us to fight for democracy - they asked us to give up a tenth of a percent of our income and we said that’s too much. We have chosen decline and chosen it with gusto
I don’t know if the bombings and blackouts just made me numb or if I’ve achieved enlightenment but I finally feel free to say everything I think about westerners and not be afraid of how they take it
November 21, 2025 at 5:51 PM
We are not serious people. No one even asked us to fight for democracy - they asked us to give up a tenth of a percent of our income and we said that’s too much. We have chosen decline and chosen it with gusto
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"the revolution will be televised but in a way that creates a parasocial connection with revolution so that a lot of people get really invested in the idea of being revolutionaries without doing much to contribute to it"
November 21, 2025 at 2:34 PM
"the revolution will be televised but in a way that creates a parasocial connection with revolution so that a lot of people get really invested in the idea of being revolutionaries without doing much to contribute to it"
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Anyway, a U.S. client state is currently doing a genocide bloodier than the Gaza war right now, yet for some reason the perpetrators lack some characteristic which stirs quite the same outrage on Al Gore’s internet. Really makes you think.
November 20, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Anyway, a U.S. client state is currently doing a genocide bloodier than the Gaza war right now, yet for some reason the perpetrators lack some characteristic which stirs quite the same outrage on Al Gore’s internet. Really makes you think.
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“It’s shocking you’d rather tell the truth than lie for my good cause” - whatever segment of the left this is, leave me out of it
November 18, 2025 at 9:10 PM
“It’s shocking you’d rather tell the truth than lie for my good cause” - whatever segment of the left this is, leave me out of it
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My stupid galaxy brain continues to be "a foundational problems with the modern American left is that its luminaries are largely entertainers & academics, two groups who not only don't have to pass policy but actually benefit from continued leftist marginal status by retaining their cool cred."
November 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
My stupid galaxy brain continues to be "a foundational problems with the modern American left is that its luminaries are largely entertainers & academics, two groups who not only don't have to pass policy but actually benefit from continued leftist marginal status by retaining their cool cred."
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I‘m tired of being nice about this; “abolitionism” has had years to develop a non-idiot policy program and the best they’ve come up with is ”murder without even the pretense of juridical process.” And I am not nut-picking; this is all over abolitionist writing.
November 14, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I‘m tired of being nice about this; “abolitionism” has had years to develop a non-idiot policy program and the best they’ve come up with is ”murder without even the pretense of juridical process.” And I am not nut-picking; this is all over abolitionist writing.
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Yeah, there are segments of the far left and far right alike that are built on a sour paranoia that the better world of your youth was robbed from you. The main difference is whether the paranoia pools around disfavored ethnic cultural groups or nebulous monied interests.
Nostalgia is a fundamentally fascist impulse. The left should never traffick in these tropes because when the we cannot bring the 50s back through science or magic, the far right will be offering a much more twisted version of the same vision.
November 10, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Yeah, there are segments of the far left and far right alike that are built on a sour paranoia that the better world of your youth was robbed from you. The main difference is whether the paranoia pools around disfavored ethnic cultural groups or nebulous monied interests.
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Thanks for your terrible opinion but actually as an Eastern European I love that the Soviet Union fell. Glory to the liberation generation of '89, death to all Stalinists xoxo
November 6, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Thanks for your terrible opinion but actually as an Eastern European I love that the Soviet Union fell. Glory to the liberation generation of '89, death to all Stalinists xoxo
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It is a completely rational heuristic, founded on the assumption that the Almighty God is evil and wants us to suffer.
October 29, 2025 at 6:20 AM
It is a completely rational heuristic, founded on the assumption that the Almighty God is evil and wants us to suffer.
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Gamers demanding they get their games right now with no production delays at the same price they paid in 1997 and then wondering why every game comes out half-finished and trying to milk cash from you with microtransactions.
AAA video games should cost $100 on launch. this would still be extremely cheap for the amount of time and enjoyment you get out of them! But an audience of whiny babies has kept them literally at the same price for *two decades* despite both general inflation *and* sector-specific costs rising
October 24, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Gamers demanding they get their games right now with no production delays at the same price they paid in 1997 and then wondering why every game comes out half-finished and trying to milk cash from you with microtransactions.
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Again for the record the idea that Fetterman got bonked on the head like Fred Flintstone and instantly changed all his political positions is pure cope from people who refuse to do anh self reflection on that six months they spent posting PigShitBalls.jpg at cringelibs who supported Connor Lamb.
October 22, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Again for the record the idea that Fetterman got bonked on the head like Fred Flintstone and instantly changed all his political positions is pure cope from people who refuse to do anh self reflection on that six months they spent posting PigShitBalls.jpg at cringelibs who supported Connor Lamb.
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How I feel about political candidates
October 22, 2025 at 3:20 AM
How I feel about political candidates
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Hey John any updates on this dunk
Isn't your entire theory of politics like pure online excitement with no material stakes?
The credulousness of this site towards Graham Platner is pretty hard to take.
October 21, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Hey John any updates on this dunk
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