Craig Garrett
@betatronic.bsky.social
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I wrote a column about Andrew Cuomo: www.elizabethspiers.com/andrew-cuomo...
Andrew Cuomo is a Nihilist Who Hates New York City
Near the beginning of his mayoral campaign, an eagle eyed observer noticed Andrew Cuomo’s car parked illegally and snapped a photo of it for social media. It wasn’t the worst of Andrew Cuomo’s offense...
www.elizabethspiers.com
October 27, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I wrote a column about Andrew Cuomo: www.elizabethspiers.com/andrew-cuomo...
I wrote about the reality of individual guilt in a culture of moral disintegration.
darkforum.substack.com/p/how-to-liv...
darkforum.substack.com/p/how-to-liv...
How to Live with Yourself and Others
On Jim Goldberg’s “Rich and Poor”
darkforum.substack.com
October 13, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I wrote about the reality of individual guilt in a culture of moral disintegration.
darkforum.substack.com/p/how-to-liv...
darkforum.substack.com/p/how-to-liv...
I read this article when it came out a month ago, and I've thought about it every day since. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/o...
Opinion | Disney and the Decline of America’s Middle Class
www.nytimes.com
September 27, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I read this article when it came out a month ago, and I've thought about it every day since. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/o...
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The defining lesson of this first year of Trump authoritarianism is that kowtowing & capitulating yields zero permanent benefit and only emboldens the admin to come after you more.
This critical lesson was first documented in the landmark political science treatise “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.”
This critical lesson was first documented in the landmark political science treatise “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.”
Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."
So, a university president fired a professor because they taught a course that discussed there being more than two genders, and now the university president is being fired for not having fired the professor quickly enough, is where we're at. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...
September 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM
The defining lesson of this first year of Trump authoritarianism is that kowtowing & capitulating yields zero permanent benefit and only emboldens the admin to come after you more.
This critical lesson was first documented in the landmark political science treatise “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.”
This critical lesson was first documented in the landmark political science treatise “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.”
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In this short piece, I lean on embodied cog sci to argue that we should refuse & resist llms in education (pp. 53-58) unesdoc.unesco.org/in/documentV...
"the classroom is an environment where love, trust, empathy, care & humility are fostered & mutually cultivated through dialogical interactions"
"the classroom is an environment where love, trust, empathy, care & humility are fostered & mutually cultivated through dialogical interactions"
September 7, 2025 at 10:06 AM
In this short piece, I lean on embodied cog sci to argue that we should refuse & resist llms in education (pp. 53-58) unesdoc.unesco.org/in/documentV...
"the classroom is an environment where love, trust, empathy, care & humility are fostered & mutually cultivated through dialogical interactions"
"the classroom is an environment where love, trust, empathy, care & humility are fostered & mutually cultivated through dialogical interactions"
The people stoking anti-immigrant hysteria aren't interested in adjusting immigration to an acceptable level, not even to zero, because hysteria is the point. "No matter what ever-escalating pledges, solutions or policies are offered, nothing will ever be enough." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Vote Brexit, stop the boats – the goalposts on immigration keep moving, and those who oppose it will never be appeased | Nesrine Malik
The facts and the numbers are irrelevant: Donald Trump and Nigel Farage just find new excuses and increase the toxicity, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
September 1, 2025 at 1:54 PM
The people stoking anti-immigrant hysteria aren't interested in adjusting immigration to an acceptable level, not even to zero, because hysteria is the point. "No matter what ever-escalating pledges, solutions or policies are offered, nothing will ever be enough." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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"generate a map of the USA with each state named"
August 8, 2025 at 2:35 AM
"generate a map of the USA with each state named"
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Justice Jackson taking on Gorsuch's "pure textualism" and arguing for a more holistic reading of Congress' handiwork—worth reading in full. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
![The majority’s contention that I reject “ ‘pure textualism’ [a]s insufficiently pliable to secure the result [I] seek,” ante, at 10, stems from an
unfortunate misunderstanding of the judicial role. Our interpretative
task is not to seek our own desired results (whatever they may be). And,
indeed, it is precisely because of this solemn duty that, in my view, it is
imperative that we interpret statutes consistent with all relevant indicia
of what Congress wanted, as best we can ascertain its intent. A methodology that includes consideration of Congress’s aims does exactly that—
and no more. By contrast, pure textualism’s refusal to try to understand
the text of a statute in the larger context of what Congress sought to
achieve turns the interpretive task into a potent weapon for advancing
judicial policy preferences. By “finding” answers in ambiguous text, and
not bothering to consider whether those answers align with other sources
of statutory meaning, pure textualists can easily disguise their own preferences as “textual” inevitabilities. So, really, far from being “insufficiently pliable,” I think pure textualism is incessantly malleable—that’s
its primary problem—and, indeed, it is certainly somehow always flexible enough to secure the majority’s desired outcome.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreih3qdtlloz3yhggypbtwiveqdgzzfgapsnetvq7qsni7wfmyuovoi@jpeg)
June 20, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Justice Jackson taking on Gorsuch's "pure textualism" and arguing for a more holistic reading of Congress' handiwork—worth reading in full. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
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A centralized database will be "ill-equipped to correct errors, allow for extenuating circumstances, or bring facts up to date," warned Vance Packard. "The notion of the possibility of redemption is likely to be incomprehensible to a computer."
April 30, 2025 at 11:20 AM
A centralized database will be "ill-equipped to correct errors, allow for extenuating circumstances, or bring facts up to date," warned Vance Packard. "The notion of the possibility of redemption is likely to be incomprehensible to a computer."
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The reason it was a great crowd and no incidents is BECAUSE there were so few police officers.
I asked the one high ranking policeman I saw on 5th Ave why there were so few police. He said “We did not expect anything like this. Don’t tell anyone but I’ve only got 44 officers out here — and it’s a great crowd, great event, no incidents.”
I have never seen anything like this in NYC. 5th Ave covered from 42nd St well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding the traffic on all the side streets. No police in sight. #handsoff
April 5, 2025 at 8:39 PM
The reason it was a great crowd and no incidents is BECAUSE there were so few police officers.
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I’ve seen a lot of assumptions in the media that Trump (and Musk) are targeting institutions with loyalty tests.
But that’s not quite right. They’re using dominance tests. And the difference between these two things matter. 🧵
But that’s not quite right. They’re using dominance tests. And the difference between these two things matter. 🧵
March 7, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I’ve seen a lot of assumptions in the media that Trump (and Musk) are targeting institutions with loyalty tests.
But that’s not quite right. They’re using dominance tests. And the difference between these two things matter. 🧵
But that’s not quite right. They’re using dominance tests. And the difference between these two things matter. 🧵
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In retrospect we should have reacted much more strongly to people being like “you’re just virtue signaling, you’re just saying you have virtue, you’re just treating virtue like it’s a good thing for an adult human being to have, you just want to run around everywhere having morality and being good”
March 11, 2025 at 12:14 AM
In retrospect we should have reacted much more strongly to people being like “you’re just virtue signaling, you’re just saying you have virtue, you’re just treating virtue like it’s a good thing for an adult human being to have, you just want to run around everywhere having morality and being good”
Yesterday I was working on my next Darkforum post when the NY Times scooped me:
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/w...
A thread… 1/11
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/w...
A thread… 1/11
Welcome to the Zero Sum Era. Now How Do We Get Out? (Gift Article)
Zero-sum thinking has spread like a mind virus, from geopolitics to pop culture.
www.nytimes.com
March 2, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Yesterday I was working on my next Darkforum post when the NY Times scooped me:
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/w...
A thread… 1/11
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/w...
A thread… 1/11
Living in London years ago I noticed whenever a politician said "the UK economy" they meant the auto industry. Meanwhile what the world actually admires about Britain are its music, literature, films, universities. And they keep actively destroying those sectors! tiny.cc/i2ab001
Why are creatives fighting UK government AI proposals on copyright?
More than 48,000 creators including Kate Bush and Abba’s Björn Ulvaeus say Labour’s preferred option is unfair and unworkable
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February 25, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Living in London years ago I noticed whenever a politician said "the UK economy" they meant the auto industry. Meanwhile what the world actually admires about Britain are its music, literature, films, universities. And they keep actively destroying those sectors! tiny.cc/i2ab001
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An entire analysis piece rooted in the (unacknowledged) logic of domestic abuse. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/w...
February 24, 2025 at 5:08 PM
An entire analysis piece rooted in the (unacknowledged) logic of domestic abuse. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/w...
Here's something I wrote about art, individualism, predatory behavior, and how we ended up in this mess:
open.substack.com/pub/darkforu...
open.substack.com/pub/darkforu...
On Artists, Entrepreneurs, and Psychopaths
Cady Noland predicted all of this
open.substack.com
February 13, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Here's something I wrote about art, individualism, predatory behavior, and how we ended up in this mess:
open.substack.com/pub/darkforu...
open.substack.com/pub/darkforu...