Stephen Egolf
@polymath42.bsky.social
Curious about everything, often to my own detriment. Mechanical engineer by trade and training, mostly in heavy duty truck drivetrain and suspension. Intermittent community volunteer, coming off 6 years on a non-profit board.
Bruce Hornsby & The Range - Look Out Any Window
Listen to Look Out Any Window on TIDAL
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December 20, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Very interesting thoughts on the drivers of the Long Boom and the Long Decline. pluralistic.net/2025/12/06/b...
Pluralistic: Metabolizing the theory of “political capitalism” (06 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
December 13, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Very interesting thoughts on the drivers of the Long Boom and the Long Decline. pluralistic.net/2025/12/06/b...
Well, this is some hopeful news substack.com/@deanblundel...
Dean Blundell (@deanblundell)
BREAKING: The EU just greenlit the transfer of $300 billion in frozen Russian assets to fund Ukraine’s war effort while tabling a MASSIVE US bond sell-off.
WOW.
My Latest…
substack.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Well, this is some hopeful news substack.com/@deanblundel...
Crash Test Dummies - God Shuffled His Feet (Official Video)
YouTube video by CrashTestDummiesVEVO
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November 15, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Very good dissection of how we ended up with a group of leaders ready to tear it all down and restablish feudalism / authoritarianism open.substack.com/pub/mikebroc...
The Coming Clash of Civilizations
From the Wilderness of a Recovering Technocrat
open.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Very good dissection of how we ended up with a group of leaders ready to tear it all down and restablish feudalism / authoritarianism open.substack.com/pub/mikebroc...
"One of those questions came from a young man who said (...) "So, you're saying a third of the stock market is tied up in seven AI companies that have no way to become profitable and that this is a bubble that's going to burst and take the whole economy with it?" pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...
Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
October 20, 2025 at 11:06 PM
"One of those questions came from a young man who said (...) "So, you're saying a third of the stock market is tied up in seven AI companies that have no way to become profitable and that this is a bubble that's going to burst and take the whole economy with it?" pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...
"Life as a prisoner of the neoliberal mind palace must suck: it's a world where every person who suffers under predatory business practices is a "consumer" who has "revealed a preference" for being screwed:" pluralistic.net/2025/10/07/t...
October 19, 2025 at 11:31 PM
"Life as a prisoner of the neoliberal mind palace must suck: it's a world where every person who suffers under predatory business practices is a "consumer" who has "revealed a preference" for being screwed:" pluralistic.net/2025/10/07/t...
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Let's be clear what this image represents.
Those skull masks were first popularized on the far right by a very specific Nazi terror movement that began on the pro-terror Ironmarch forums and entered mainstream news with the Atomwaffen Nazi terrorist murders.
THAT is the reference here.
Those skull masks were first popularized on the far right by a very specific Nazi terror movement that began on the pro-terror Ironmarch forums and entered mainstream news with the Atomwaffen Nazi terrorist murders.
THAT is the reference here.
September 7, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Let's be clear what this image represents.
Those skull masks were first popularized on the far right by a very specific Nazi terror movement that began on the pro-terror Ironmarch forums and entered mainstream news with the Atomwaffen Nazi terrorist murders.
THAT is the reference here.
Those skull masks were first popularized on the far right by a very specific Nazi terror movement that began on the pro-terror Ironmarch forums and entered mainstream news with the Atomwaffen Nazi terrorist murders.
THAT is the reference here.
"I think that ideologically, conservatism contains elements that groom its followers to get rooked by scammers" - interesting pondering on how conservative movements marry so well with people who are easy marks pluralistic.net/2025/07/22/a...
Pluralistic: Conservatism considered as a movement of bitter rubes (22 Jul 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
August 1, 2025 at 12:42 AM
"I think that ideologically, conservatism contains elements that groom its followers to get rooked by scammers" - interesting pondering on how conservative movements marry so well with people who are easy marks pluralistic.net/2025/07/22/a...
While I may be ugly crying over the budget bill that is stomping on so many already downtrodden, this song helps me hope for a better day to come open.spotify.com/track/0RoA7O...
A Million Dreams
Ziv Zaifman, Hugh Jackman, Michelle Williams · The Greatest Showman (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) · Song · 2017
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July 2, 2025 at 2:13 AM
While I may be ugly crying over the budget bill that is stomping on so many already downtrodden, this song helps me hope for a better day to come open.spotify.com/track/0RoA7O...
Really appreciate Abigail Disney’s continuing efforts to call out the harms of oligarchs, especially from the perspective of someone who is inside the privileged bubble and aware of what it does to a person
The Rich Should Be Paying More—and Yes, That Means Me | The New Republic
The Rich Should Be Paying More—and Yes, That Means Me | The New Republic
June 23, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Really appreciate Abigail Disney’s continuing efforts to call out the harms of oligarchs, especially from the perspective of someone who is inside the privileged bubble and aware of what it does to a person
The Rich Should Be Paying More—and Yes, That Means Me | The New Republic
The Rich Should Be Paying More—and Yes, That Means Me | The New Republic
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OK, this is wild.
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
May 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
OK, this is wild.
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
Really resonates with the reasons I left my rural background www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvL_...
Billy Strings - Must Be Seven (Lyrics)
YouTube video by radiomimi
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May 9, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Really resonates with the reasons I left my rural background www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvL_...
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In the face of disinformation, defenders of democracy are often drawn into endless battles against falsehoods. This is precisely the trap laid by anti-democratic movements.
But we don’t have to play along.
Read our our latest statement 👇
www.disinfo.eu/we-fight-dis...
But we don’t have to play along.
Read our our latest statement 👇
www.disinfo.eu/we-fight-dis...
April 11, 2025 at 7:48 AM
In the face of disinformation, defenders of democracy are often drawn into endless battles against falsehoods. This is precisely the trap laid by anti-democratic movements.
But we don’t have to play along.
Read our our latest statement 👇
www.disinfo.eu/we-fight-dis...
But we don’t have to play along.
Read our our latest statement 👇
www.disinfo.eu/we-fight-dis...
Reminder that a good protest song persists open.spotify.com/track/3rAkWY...
I Hear Them All / This Land Is Your Land
Gillian Welch, Dave Rawlings, Willie Watson · Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of 'Inside Llewyn Davis' · Song · 2015
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April 10, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Reminder that a good protest song persists open.spotify.com/track/3rAkWY...
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The skeleton key to understanding reactionary conservatism is quite simple: they are scared, all the time, of everything.
April 8, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The skeleton key to understanding reactionary conservatism is quite simple: they are scared, all the time, of everything.
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“As long as the stasi can get you across the border before you can wrangle a lawyer you’re fucked” is a hell of an argument
April 8, 2025 at 1:56 AM
“As long as the stasi can get you across the border before you can wrangle a lawyer you’re fucked” is a hell of an argument
Good start at the Indiana Statehouse. The crowd was still growing when I left an hour later.
April 5, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Good start at the Indiana Statehouse. The crowd was still growing when I left an hour later.
You could knock me over with a feather. Lawsuits coming from the right (Koch, Leonard Leo associates) seeking to block the tariffs newrepublic.com/post/193612/...
Trump Already Hit With Lawsuit Over Tariffs—From Unexpected Group
It appears that literally no one is happy with Donald Trump’s tariffs.
newrepublic.com
April 4, 2025 at 4:34 PM
You could knock me over with a feather. Lawsuits coming from the right (Koch, Leonard Leo associates) seeking to block the tariffs newrepublic.com/post/193612/...
Good summation of the current state of affairs. pluralistic.net/2025/04/04/a...
Pluralistic: End-stage capitalism (04 Apr 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
April 4, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Good summation of the current state of affairs. pluralistic.net/2025/04/04/a...
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What do you call humans being kidnapped and sent to another country to be imprisoned in shackles and forced to perform intense physical labor while living in horrid conditions under the threat of daily physical violence and rape?
Open a history book. You can do it. I believe in you.
Open a history book. You can do it. I believe in you.
March 22, 2025 at 3:21 PM
What do you call humans being kidnapped and sent to another country to be imprisoned in shackles and forced to perform intense physical labor while living in horrid conditions under the threat of daily physical violence and rape?
Open a history book. You can do it. I believe in you.
Open a history book. You can do it. I believe in you.
Nice primer on the harms of having a billionaire class. open.substack.com/pub/longmemo...
The first thing we do, let's kill all the billionaires.
How to resolve wealth inequality before it destroys us all.
open.substack.com
March 20, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Nice primer on the harms of having a billionaire class. open.substack.com/pub/longmemo...
Some needed amusement
All right, fine.
The second Trump administration as villains from the Batman TV show.
Let's do this.
The second Trump administration as villains from the Batman TV show.
Let's do this.
March 16, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Some needed amusement