Ethan Johnston
@ebjohnston.bsky.social
Federation and decentralization are not commodifiable. Stochasticism can only ever aspire to insight. Tech bros are not the future.
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Why the Left Needs to Get Serious and Constructively Engage with the Potential of the Torment Nexus
February 17, 2026 at 7:51 AM
Why the Left Needs to Get Serious and Constructively Engage with the Potential of the Torment Nexus
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One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
January 25, 2026 at 10:39 PM
One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
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A thread of MAGA protesting with guns and not getting murdered for it...
Arizona, November 2020
Arizona, November 2020
January 25, 2026 at 10:22 PM
A thread of MAGA protesting with guns and not getting murdered for it...
Arizona, November 2020
Arizona, November 2020
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Happy Martin Luther King Jr Day!
January 19, 2026 at 5:34 PM
Happy Martin Luther King Jr Day!
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I am by no means a prominent public intellectual, but my inbox is increasingly filled with messages from people who have been convinced by sycophantic chatbots that they have discovered revolutionary theories that entirely upend our scientific understanding of the universe.
November 21, 2025 at 2:49 AM
I am by no means a prominent public intellectual, but my inbox is increasingly filled with messages from people who have been convinced by sycophantic chatbots that they have discovered revolutionary theories that entirely upend our scientific understanding of the universe.
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Start practicing your scripts now:
💠 "All food is just food."
💠 "I'm not labeling my eating today."
💠 "That's a weird thing to say out loud."
PRO-TIP: Have your phone ready to suddenly need to "take this call" and leave the table.
💠 "All food is just food."
💠 "I'm not labeling my eating today."
💠 "That's a weird thing to say out loud."
PRO-TIP: Have your phone ready to suddenly need to "take this call" and leave the table.
November 13, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Start practicing your scripts now:
💠 "All food is just food."
💠 "I'm not labeling my eating today."
💠 "That's a weird thing to say out loud."
PRO-TIP: Have your phone ready to suddenly need to "take this call" and leave the table.
💠 "All food is just food."
💠 "I'm not labeling my eating today."
💠 "That's a weird thing to say out loud."
PRO-TIP: Have your phone ready to suddenly need to "take this call" and leave the table.
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Engagement-based #algorithms amplify intergroup hostility + moral-emotional content, leading it to be overrepresented in your feed
This leads us to falsely perceive that people want to see this kind of content and share more of it.
This technology fuels false polarization: osf.io/preprints/os...
This leads us to falsely perceive that people want to see this kind of content and share more of it.
This technology fuels false polarization: osf.io/preprints/os...
November 4, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Engagement-based #algorithms amplify intergroup hostility + moral-emotional content, leading it to be overrepresented in your feed
This leads us to falsely perceive that people want to see this kind of content and share more of it.
This technology fuels false polarization: osf.io/preprints/os...
This leads us to falsely perceive that people want to see this kind of content and share more of it.
This technology fuels false polarization: osf.io/preprints/os...
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“I’m strong and I want to have like fifty kids and a farm” of course you do. You’re twelve. “I don’t want to eat vegetables I think steak and French fries is the only meal” hell yeah homie you’re twelve. “Maybe if there’s crime we should just send the army” bless your heart my twelve year old buddy
September 8, 2025 at 12:51 AM
“I’m strong and I want to have like fifty kids and a farm” of course you do. You’re twelve. “I don’t want to eat vegetables I think steak and French fries is the only meal” hell yeah homie you’re twelve. “Maybe if there’s crime we should just send the army” bless your heart my twelve year old buddy
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i met anubis in the realm of the underworld, big strong guy by the way, had a dog’s head, i’m not so sure about that. and he said to me, mr president, you’ve got the heaviest soul we’ve ever weighed down here. can you believe it? they’ve never seen a soul that heavy in all of duat
September 2, 2025 at 4:48 AM
i met anubis in the realm of the underworld, big strong guy by the way, had a dog’s head, i’m not so sure about that. and he said to me, mr president, you’ve got the heaviest soul we’ve ever weighed down here. can you believe it? they’ve never seen a soul that heavy in all of duat
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my father-in-law is a “I know a guy” Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because it’s not about “winning” a deal, it’s about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy
August 30, 2025 at 2:51 PM
my father-in-law is a “I know a guy” Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because it’s not about “winning” a deal, it’s about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy
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Are vaccines safe? Let's ask this guy who sounds like a dying refrigerator compressor
August 28, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Are vaccines safe? Let's ask this guy who sounds like a dying refrigerator compressor
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It's getting harder and harder to deny that AGI is a near certainty. This kind of rapid expansion, this level of investment and infrastructural shift, this amount of *risk* - it doesn't happen without astronomical reward. The other day I saw a big barn, which can only mean one thing: giant horses
August 27, 2025 at 9:14 AM
It's getting harder and harder to deny that AGI is a near certainty. This kind of rapid expansion, this level of investment and infrastructural shift, this amount of *risk* - it doesn't happen without astronomical reward. The other day I saw a big barn, which can only mean one thing: giant horses
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I really hate the term "sideloading". I preferred the original term, which was "installing software on a computer that you own"
August 25, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I really hate the term "sideloading". I preferred the original term, which was "installing software on a computer that you own"
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I spent seven years writing a book on this and she just… said it in three succinct paragraphs to politico.
Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
July 31, 2025 at 11:21 AM
I spent seven years writing a book on this and she just… said it in three succinct paragraphs to politico.
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AI turns substantive relationships into flattened transactions. it replaces faces for masks, substance for simulacra. if you want monuments, but you're too cheap to build anything, you make potemkin villages & cynically challenge people to explain the difference between a home and sheets of plywood.
June 25, 2025 at 6:56 PM
AI turns substantive relationships into flattened transactions. it replaces faces for masks, substance for simulacra. if you want monuments, but you're too cheap to build anything, you make potemkin villages & cynically challenge people to explain the difference between a home and sheets of plywood.
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it's the unmoisturized elbows for me.
June 5, 2025 at 7:43 PM
it's the unmoisturized elbows for me.
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My brain right now: “This is not normal 🎶Steve le🎶 The crisis is here 🎶le poisson Steve le🎶 the constitution itself is under threat 🎶poisoooon steeEeEEeve🎶 we will resist together or apart but we will resist.
April 19, 2025 at 6:57 PM
My brain right now: “This is not normal 🎶Steve le🎶 The crisis is here 🎶le poisson Steve le🎶 the constitution itself is under threat 🎶poisoooon steeEeEEeve🎶 we will resist together or apart but we will resist.
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if you’re an artist who ever thought “what’s the point? The world is Hell and I should do something that matters instead”
even in an ICE detention center people will treat art as sacred, seek it out, and find joy and comfort in it. You aren’t making art, you’re making hope.
even in an ICE detention center people will treat art as sacred, seek it out, and find joy and comfort in it. You aren’t making art, you’re making hope.
April 5, 2025 at 4:33 PM
if you’re an artist who ever thought “what’s the point? The world is Hell and I should do something that matters instead”
even in an ICE detention center people will treat art as sacred, seek it out, and find joy and comfort in it. You aren’t making art, you’re making hope.
even in an ICE detention center people will treat art as sacred, seek it out, and find joy and comfort in it. You aren’t making art, you’re making hope.
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Over on the other site Elon Musk said that DOGE stopped $50M of condoms from being delivered to Gaza which Trump the repeated several times but it turns out that was the number for all contraceptive support from USAID everywhere on Earth, of which none went to Palestinians.
January 30, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Over on the other site Elon Musk said that DOGE stopped $50M of condoms from being delivered to Gaza which Trump the repeated several times but it turns out that was the number for all contraceptive support from USAID everywhere on Earth, of which none went to Palestinians.
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Trans right are human rights.
January 21, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Trans right are human rights.
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Before the inauguration: Chop wood, carry water, support trans rights
After the inauguration: Chop wood, carry water, support trans rights
After the inauguration: Chop wood, carry water, support trans rights
January 21, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Before the inauguration: Chop wood, carry water, support trans rights
After the inauguration: Chop wood, carry water, support trans rights
After the inauguration: Chop wood, carry water, support trans rights
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ngl i kinda hate nazis and people who do nazi salutes
January 21, 2025 at 3:00 PM
ngl i kinda hate nazis and people who do nazi salutes
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