What a time to choose to be opposed to moral clarity...
The Left’s New Moralism Will Backfire
Under Trump, progressives have embraced the rhetoric of “moral clarity.” It won’t help their cause.
www.theatlantic.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM
What a time to choose to be opposed to moral clarity...
Just my Lyft driver casually flossing while blasting a love life self-help book at bone rattling volume.
Send help.
Send help.
October 27, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Just my Lyft driver casually flossing while blasting a love life self-help book at bone rattling volume.
Send help.
Send help.
Reposted by David Vosburg
Please read this flyer in your best monster-truck-rally voice after first saying “Sunday! Sunday! Sunday”
October 24, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Please read this flyer in your best monster-truck-rally voice after first saying “Sunday! Sunday! Sunday”
No great insight, but strikes me that many things seen as repressive in China have been relatively normative in the US for quite some time:
- state/media narratives dissonant to experience
- inability to reconcile violence to that narrative
- paranoid shut down of any mass action for "security"
- state/media narratives dissonant to experience
- inability to reconcile violence to that narrative
- paranoid shut down of any mass action for "security"
Life Has Gotten Surreal in China
The state is ever more insistent on a reality at odds with people’s experience. That’s not a good sign for progress.
www.theatlantic.com
August 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
No great insight, but strikes me that many things seen as repressive in China have been relatively normative in the US for quite some time:
- state/media narratives dissonant to experience
- inability to reconcile violence to that narrative
- paranoid shut down of any mass action for "security"
- state/media narratives dissonant to experience
- inability to reconcile violence to that narrative
- paranoid shut down of any mass action for "security"
Reposted by David Vosburg
McKinsey believing from its board of directors on down that the current state of AI is existential to its business says far more about McKinsey than it does about AI lol apple.news/A8FLn2BPeRP6...
August 3, 2025 at 12:55 AM
McKinsey believing from its board of directors on down that the current state of AI is existential to its business says far more about McKinsey than it does about AI lol apple.news/A8FLn2BPeRP6...
Reposted by David Vosburg
July 24, 2025 at 10:15 PM
So, two guys in their 30s:
One operates as shadow-president, starting concentration camps and establishing an enormous secretive second military.
The other won a mayoral primary and wants to make public transit better.
I think we all know who the dangerous radical is here.
One operates as shadow-president, starting concentration camps and establishing an enormous secretive second military.
The other won a mayoral primary and wants to make public transit better.
I think we all know who the dangerous radical is here.
July 9, 2025 at 1:53 AM
So, two guys in their 30s:
One operates as shadow-president, starting concentration camps and establishing an enormous secretive second military.
The other won a mayoral primary and wants to make public transit better.
I think we all know who the dangerous radical is here.
One operates as shadow-president, starting concentration camps and establishing an enormous secretive second military.
The other won a mayoral primary and wants to make public transit better.
I think we all know who the dangerous radical is here.
My son got a book of baseball jokes as a gift.
Me: Share a funny one!
Him: There aren't any
Me: Just pick one.
Him: *reads nonsensical vaguely baseball related sentences*
Me: *grabs book and flips through 50 pages of AI slop formatted into "jokes"*
So glad for the future!
Me: Share a funny one!
Him: There aren't any
Me: Just pick one.
Him: *reads nonsensical vaguely baseball related sentences*
Me: *grabs book and flips through 50 pages of AI slop formatted into "jokes"*
So glad for the future!
June 2, 2025 at 5:58 PM
My son got a book of baseball jokes as a gift.
Me: Share a funny one!
Him: There aren't any
Me: Just pick one.
Him: *reads nonsensical vaguely baseball related sentences*
Me: *grabs book and flips through 50 pages of AI slop formatted into "jokes"*
So glad for the future!
Me: Share a funny one!
Him: There aren't any
Me: Just pick one.
Him: *reads nonsensical vaguely baseball related sentences*
Me: *grabs book and flips through 50 pages of AI slop formatted into "jokes"*
So glad for the future!
Turns out building an entire society on marketing was probably a mistake.
March 21, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Turns out building an entire society on marketing was probably a mistake.
How I spend my summer Tuesdays...
March 21, 2025 at 3:19 PM
How I spend my summer Tuesdays...
Explaining this timeline to my 90s era self: "So you see, Teen Vogue, Wired Magazine and Rolling Stone are the only publications left in the fight to save democracy from Donald Trump and the richest man in the world, a wannabe-Nazi-tech-lord trying to populate Mars with his children."
February 5, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Explaining this timeline to my 90s era self: "So you see, Teen Vogue, Wired Magazine and Rolling Stone are the only publications left in the fight to save democracy from Donald Trump and the richest man in the world, a wannabe-Nazi-tech-lord trying to populate Mars with his children."
Beyond raw force, power needs our imaginations to exist. Don't give it to them. Imagining a better world matters as much as anything.
I've spent a long time thinking about power and our imaginations. I was recently asked to sum up my academic work in 600 words (shared below). If even that needs a TLDR; power depends on imagination, making it the frontline of subversive possibility.
davidvosburg.substack.com/p/subversive...
davidvosburg.substack.com/p/subversive...
Subversive imagination
Some thoughts on our relationship to power
davidvosburg.substack.com
January 22, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Beyond raw force, power needs our imaginations to exist. Don't give it to them. Imagining a better world matters as much as anything.
I've spent a long time thinking about power and our imaginations. I was recently asked to sum up my academic work in 600 words (shared below). If even that needs a TLDR; power depends on imagination, making it the frontline of subversive possibility.
davidvosburg.substack.com/p/subversive...
davidvosburg.substack.com/p/subversive...
Subversive imagination
Some thoughts on our relationship to power
davidvosburg.substack.com
January 22, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I've spent a long time thinking about power and our imaginations. I was recently asked to sum up my academic work in 600 words (shared below). If even that needs a TLDR; power depends on imagination, making it the frontline of subversive possibility.
davidvosburg.substack.com/p/subversive...
davidvosburg.substack.com/p/subversive...
Mark certainly seems to have a lot of thoughts on what constitutes free speech these days!
www.404media.co/facebook-del...
www.404media.co/facebook-del...
Facebook Deletes Internal Employee Criticism of New Board Member Dana White
"Insulting, criticizing, or antagonizing our colleagues or Board members is not aligned with the CEE."
www.404media.co
January 9, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Mark certainly seems to have a lot of thoughts on what constitutes free speech these days!
www.404media.co/facebook-del...
www.404media.co/facebook-del...
Been sitting with this essay by Henri Lefebvre. An evergreen critique (originally written in the 80s), but it seems particularly potent in the ideological craze for AI... www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HCf...
April 4, 2024 at 3:18 PM
Been sitting with this essay by Henri Lefebvre. An evergreen critique (originally written in the 80s), but it seems particularly potent in the ideological craze for AI... www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HCf...
The multiplicity of self-protecting power structures feels unending these days. Subverting that power is the only way forward. It's very risky to individuals, especially in the short term, but the long term consequences are far worse. We will need to do it together.
Putting my career on the line to make a run at Goliath: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Please share.
Please share.
December 4, 2023 at 5:11 PM
The multiplicity of self-protecting power structures feels unending these days. Subverting that power is the only way forward. It's very risky to individuals, especially in the short term, but the long term consequences are far worse. We will need to do it together.