Costa Koutsoutis
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Writer, professor, old punk. NO CASTLES, THE HOWL OF THE EARTH, & more out now on your favorite e-book platforms. Read MAPMAKERS on Patreon. No roads but the ones we make. He/Him.
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fyi @thedeadlands.com will be open to fiction submissions from Dec 1 to Dec 31, so maybe you want to put that on your calendar and study the guidelines and ring out this horrible year making something beautiful. psychopomp.com/the-deadland...
The Deadlands Guidelines - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
Fiction
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November 17, 2025 at 11:13 PM
DOOOOO
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Well this is an immediate fucking follow
November 17, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Well this is an immediate fucking follow
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This is a hell of a read, and that special kind of essay where I know I would never have had the background knowledge or aptitude to draw the conclusions made, but those conclusions are explained clearly enough that I understand how they were reached.
If that makes sense.
Anyway: it’s good.
If that makes sense.
Anyway: it’s good.
In which I articulate the case that AGI is impossible and machines just plain cannot think. www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/on-inco...
On Incomputable Language: An Essay on AI
An incidental consequence of having written a book on tech-fascism and the so-called rationalist movement is that I find myself periodically queried for my thoughts on artificial intelligence. On the ...
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November 17, 2025 at 6:44 PM
This is a hell of a read, and that special kind of essay where I know I would never have had the background knowledge or aptitude to draw the conclusions made, but those conclusions are explained clearly enough that I understand how they were reached.
If that makes sense.
Anyway: it’s good.
If that makes sense.
Anyway: it’s good.
Instead of whatsherface and her new book, instead think about the November 17 massacre of almost 50 college students by the Greek Junta (the right-wing military government) in 1973 during the Athens Polytechnic Uprising.
November 17, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Instead of whatsherface and her new book, instead think about the November 17 massacre of almost 50 college students by the Greek Junta (the right-wing military government) in 1973 during the Athens Polytechnic Uprising.
Oh, her, huh. OK, then that's enough Internet for today, I think.
November 17, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Oh, her, huh. OK, then that's enough Internet for today, I think.
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy.
November 17, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy.
Moments like this make me almost forget they almost knocked the TV over while getting the zoomies last night. Almost.
November 17, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Moments like this make me almost forget they almost knocked the TV over while getting the zoomies last night. Almost.
Reminding the world to remind myself I do, in fact, create things (thread);
November 17, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Reminding the world to remind myself I do, in fact, create things (thread);
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This is the stuff.
Over the past few weeks, HiLoBrow has run installments of my long essay “Without Care,” which maps out a 21st century gothic that I started calling The Devoid. All four installments are now live and you can read the whole thing here; enjoy!
without-care – HILOBROW
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November 16, 2025 at 5:43 PM
This is the stuff.
“For England, for home, and for the prize!” from MASTER AND COMMANDER gets me so hyped up to fight the French.
ALSO? I cry every time I watch Sean Connery say “Indiana…let it go” in INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE.
ALSO? I cry every time I watch Sean Connery say “Indiana…let it go” in INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE.
what’s your favorite line delivery
November 16, 2025 at 10:15 AM
“For England, for home, and for the prize!” from MASTER AND COMMANDER gets me so hyped up to fight the French.
ALSO? I cry every time I watch Sean Connery say “Indiana…let it go” in INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE.
ALSO? I cry every time I watch Sean Connery say “Indiana…let it go” in INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE.
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I remember a time where all the guardrails we had in place were not only there but we knew why not to remove them. Widespread gambling, liquor commercials, even prescription drugs used to not be able to be advertised. It's taking almost no time to learn AGAIN why they were banned.
The Athletic polled hundreds of players from across the NBA, NFL, MLB and NHL about their opinions surrounding how sports betting impacts players — the responses were haunting.
November 15, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I remember a time where all the guardrails we had in place were not only there but we knew why not to remove them. Widespread gambling, liquor commercials, even prescription drugs used to not be able to be advertised. It's taking almost no time to learn AGAIN why they were banned.
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I think podcasts are probably really bad for you.
November 15, 2025 at 7:45 AM
I think podcasts are probably really bad for you.
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Say what you will about social media, but there was no other point in history where you got to read thousands of people trying to explain Catholicism directly to the Pope
November 14, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Say what you will about social media, but there was no other point in history where you got to read thousands of people trying to explain Catholicism directly to the Pope
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If you find yourself typing sentences expounding on the semantic difference between pedophile, hebophile, and ephebophile, you should delete those sentences, walk outside, lay down in the grass, let the vultures have your flesh, the sun to bleach your bones, etc
November 14, 2025 at 2:43 PM
If you find yourself typing sentences expounding on the semantic difference between pedophile, hebophile, and ephebophile, you should delete those sentences, walk outside, lay down in the grass, let the vultures have your flesh, the sun to bleach your bones, etc
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“What’s your most woke opinion?”
I Don’t Know How To Explain To You That You Should Care About Other People
I Don’t Know How To Explain To You That You Should Care About Other People
November 14, 2025 at 2:51 PM
“What’s your most woke opinion?”
I Don’t Know How To Explain To You That You Should Care About Other People
I Don’t Know How To Explain To You That You Should Care About Other People
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In my latest newsletter, I talk about the promise of the internet, the horrors of social media, the fear of performance, the desire to live publicly online, and how I'm trying to reconcile all of these contradicting realities
Living in Public and Other Modern Agonies
On growing up online and being an adult in an age of horrors.
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November 14, 2025 at 11:27 AM
In my latest newsletter, I talk about the promise of the internet, the horrors of social media, the fear of performance, the desire to live publicly online, and how I'm trying to reconcile all of these contradicting realities
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Professors at the end of the semester
November 13, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Professors at the end of the semester
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Gillian Anderson polaroids
November 13, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Gillian Anderson polaroids
At the Mountains of Madness and The Call of Cthulhu of course, though The Dunwitch Horror is also a good ‘un.
What's your favourite Lovecraft story
November 13, 2025 at 10:50 PM
At the Mountains of Madness and The Call of Cthulhu of course, though The Dunwitch Horror is also a good ‘un.
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THE SPICE MUST FLOW
November 13, 2025 at 1:33 PM
THE SPICE MUST FLOW
The Vice-President is as much a dilettante moron as the President, just in a “I say this shit to bootlick” way VS a “My brain is Swiss cheese from a diet of nothing but amphetamines and Diet Coke” way.
November 13, 2025 at 1:34 PM
The Vice-President is as much a dilettante moron as the President, just in a “I say this shit to bootlick” way VS a “My brain is Swiss cheese from a diet of nothing but amphetamines and Diet Coke” way.
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This month's newsletter piece goes out tomorrow. In it, I discuss growing up on the internet in the 90s and into the 00s, how the internet has changed, my relationship to social media, my fear of performativity, and my lifelong desire to live publicly
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November 13, 2025 at 1:18 PM
This month's newsletter piece goes out tomorrow. In it, I discuss growing up on the internet in the 90s and into the 00s, how the internet has changed, my relationship to social media, my fear of performativity, and my lifelong desire to live publicly
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Just a thread of bangers.
/Hank Hill voice
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November 12, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Just a thread of bangers.
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Dashiell Hammett's The Thin Man is going into the public domain on January 1st in case anyone wants to make a horror film about an adorably drunk couple and their dog chasing, like, a killer clown or something.
November 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Dashiell Hammett's The Thin Man is going into the public domain on January 1st in case anyone wants to make a horror film about an adorably drunk couple and their dog chasing, like, a killer clown or something.