Just remembered when Paul Graham got a ton of (rightfully) angry replies from the Nigerian Twitter community for saying that he dismisses emails with the word “delve” in them as written by ChatGPT, because the word is often used in Nigerian English

Yeah, my experience growing up with alcoholic parents has made me uh...reticent to work for people whose behavior matches theirs.

something I've always found funny about the neoreactionaries is that they think liberal democracy is unstable and their proposed solution is to return to a system (monarchism) that was so comprehensively displaced by liberal democracy its only remaining adherents are US client states

Richest man in the world continues to be a surreal parable about having one’s mind and soul corrupted by unlimited wealth

Wagwan, Bhagwan.

sort of—conservatives think it's a tragedy about a brave and honorable Marine Corps colonel getting unjustly canceled by lawyers in the employ of Big Woke

(Unknown Armies' mid-1990s postulate that one of the defining archetypes of the 21st century would be "The Woman Everyone Can Have But You" was really unfortunately correct.)

the most banal blood and soil nazism imaginable, an entirely family soaked herrenvolk fox news to the point they’re too stupid to see the blood on their hands

It will happen either way. Better when they are weak than when they are strong.