Stephen David Miller
@sdavidmiller.bsky.social
Investor; techie; former founder & product exec; Stanford AI PhD dropout; movie podcaster at The Spoiler Warning; lover of travel, film, writing, snobby beverages. I write at sdavidmiller.com and decodingeverything.com on occasion. He/him.
@murderxbryan.bsky.social looks like Mike Zeroh got a new copywriting gig
December 4, 2025 at 9:43 PM
@murderxbryan.bsky.social looks like Mike Zeroh got a new copywriting gig
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"Countries with state subsidies for abortion, transgender-friendly policies for children, hate speech laws and affirmative action policies will now be considered to be violating human rights under rules imposed at the [US] State Department..."
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Abortion And DEI Policies Now Considered Violations Of Human Rights, U.S. Says
The Trump administration has overhauled how the State Department conducts its annual Human Rights Report.
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November 22, 2025 at 3:42 PM
"Countries with state subsidies for abortion, transgender-friendly policies for children, hate speech laws and affirmative action policies will now be considered to be violating human rights under rules imposed at the [US] State Department..."
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It is hilarious how quickly Trump fell in love with the guy who, without a doubt, he will claim is the embodiment of pure evil within a few months
November 21, 2025 at 10:35 PM
It is hilarious how quickly Trump fell in love with the guy who, without a doubt, he will claim is the embodiment of pure evil within a few months
I know there are far more important things going on in the world today, but I am livid at how terrible the official Tetris iPhone app is. I just want to play Tetris! Let me pay you an annual subscription to play Tetris!
November 15, 2025 at 2:11 AM
I know there are far more important things going on in the world today, but I am livid at how terrible the official Tetris iPhone app is. I just want to play Tetris! Let me pay you an annual subscription to play Tetris!
That feeling when you’re absolutely livid about the Democrats folding on the government shutdown, but also have a flight on Thursday and kinda wish this abject moral failure and cowardice would pick up the pace a little
November 11, 2025 at 3:31 PM
That feeling when you’re absolutely livid about the Democrats folding on the government shutdown, but also have a flight on Thursday and kinda wish this abject moral failure and cowardice would pick up the pace a little
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Just imagining the meeting where they must have been like “they might cancel my flight? Time to kill the sick.”
November 10, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Just imagining the meeting where they must have been like “they might cancel my flight? Time to kill the sick.”
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May all terrible people be sad tonight.
November 5, 2025 at 2:17 AM
May all terrible people be sad tonight.
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Congratulations, Andrew Cuomo!
I know how hard you worked for this.
I know how hard you worked for this.
![Red Trump-style graphic with images of Donald Trump and Andrew Cuomo.
At the top it says, "I'm going to pick [Cuomo]." - Donald Trump, 60 Minutes Interview, 11-2-25
Then beneath it
TRUMP ENDORSES CUOMO](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j5hrotody26iqi24hcusufxu/bafkreib7wnor7hl45ryvmifde4sov74rrnexa3iecbyu7zxjx6brrslsiy@jpeg)
November 3, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Congratulations, Andrew Cuomo!
I know how hard you worked for this.
I know how hard you worked for this.
There's a joke to be made somewhere around CNN claiming Mamdani was referring to his "Aunt Ifa" but I'm tired
October 28, 2025 at 9:24 PM
There's a joke to be made somewhere around CNN claiming Mamdani was referring to his "Aunt Ifa" but I'm tired
Call me a tight ass, but I think we can disqualify anyone from political leadership if they espouse Nazi viewpoints, joke about being Nazi, or have Nazi tattoos. I don’t know the exact demographics, but I’m gonna wager there’s something like 200 million adults in the US who can pass this strict bar.
October 22, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Call me a tight ass, but I think we can disqualify anyone from political leadership if they espouse Nazi viewpoints, joke about being Nazi, or have Nazi tattoos. I don’t know the exact demographics, but I’m gonna wager there’s something like 200 million adults in the US who can pass this strict bar.
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After the films about Dylan going electric and Springsteen going acoustic, I cannot wait for the 2+ hour Oscar bait biopic all about when Tom Waits went full Cookie Monster
October 22, 2025 at 8:32 PM
After the films about Dylan going electric and Springsteen going acoustic, I cannot wait for the 2+ hour Oscar bait biopic all about when Tom Waits went full Cookie Monster
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This is just to say
I have bulldozed
the East Wing
that you were probably
hoping to pass down
to future generations
Well, fuck you
it was in the way
so inconvenient
and so old
I have bulldozed
the East Wing
that you were probably
hoping to pass down
to future generations
Well, fuck you
it was in the way
so inconvenient
and so old
October 21, 2025 at 11:03 PM
This is just to say
I have bulldozed
the East Wing
that you were probably
hoping to pass down
to future generations
Well, fuck you
it was in the way
so inconvenient
and so old
I have bulldozed
the East Wing
that you were probably
hoping to pass down
to future generations
Well, fuck you
it was in the way
so inconvenient
and so old
Truly one of the most deranged things I’ve ever seen in US politics
and another thing: he’s not mad. please don’t put it in the newspaper that he got mad.
October 19, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Truly one of the most deranged things I’ve ever seen in US politics
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It is a scandal totally unprecedented in history that the Vice President has shared a video depicting the President as king. It’s an obscene violation of every founding American principle.
And nothing will come of it. It makes me physically sick.
And nothing will come of it. It makes me physically sick.
October 19, 2025 at 12:35 AM
It is a scandal totally unprecedented in history that the Vice President has shared a video depicting the President as king. It’s an obscene violation of every founding American principle.
And nothing will come of it. It makes me physically sick.
And nothing will come of it. It makes me physically sick.
I’m extremely let down by the media’s whitewashing of genocide and fascism, but I also think our outrage over passive vs active voice is occasionally overstated. Does “children were pulled, crying, from their apartments” leave any real reader unclear on the ethics? (See also: “falsehood” vs “lie”.)
October 4, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I’m extremely let down by the media’s whitewashing of genocide and fascism, but I also think our outrage over passive vs active voice is occasionally overstated. Does “children were pulled, crying, from their apartments” leave any real reader unclear on the ethics? (See also: “falsehood” vs “lie”.)
Anybody feel that Gmail’s spam filter heavily regressed this year? I’ve had so many false positives—emails from friends, newsletters I subscribe to, etc—and have had multiple friends miss my emails for the same reason.
I now routinely check my spam folder, which defeats the point of a spam folder!
I now routinely check my spam folder, which defeats the point of a spam folder!
October 3, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Anybody feel that Gmail’s spam filter heavily regressed this year? I’ve had so many false positives—emails from friends, newsletters I subscribe to, etc—and have had multiple friends miss my emails for the same reason.
I now routinely check my spam folder, which defeats the point of a spam folder!
I now routinely check my spam folder, which defeats the point of a spam folder!
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[at my second rodeo] listen up you ignorant sack of shit
September 26, 2025 at 12:40 PM
[at my second rodeo] listen up you ignorant sack of shit
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It's sobering, in its way, to realize that there was truly nobody (save, perhaps, his children) who knew him that loved him as a man. He made himself into content, and he died as content, and his funeral is the most content of all. Soundbites to soundbites, bits to bits
September 21, 2025 at 11:43 PM
It's sobering, in its way, to realize that there was truly nobody (save, perhaps, his children) who knew him that loved him as a man. He made himself into content, and he died as content, and his funeral is the most content of all. Soundbites to soundbites, bits to bits
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They are literally canceling culture
September 18, 2025 at 12:26 AM
They are literally canceling culture
One thing that makes the Kimmel suspension so absurd is that it isn't about offensive speech. This isn't "Will the ACLU defend Nazis?" or even "Are you allowed to speak ill of the dead?" It's a light criticism of conservative media and politicians. It's not even particularly interesting!
September 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
One thing that makes the Kimmel suspension so absurd is that it isn't about offensive speech. This isn't "Will the ACLU defend Nazis?" or even "Are you allowed to speak ill of the dead?" It's a light criticism of conservative media and politicians. It's not even particularly interesting!
Anyone who has given a live demo will feel a bone-deep cringe of recognition. The awkward silence. Not only a bug, but a bug exposing how pre-staged this was (answering a question that hadn't been asked yet). Implausible attempts to blame it on "the WiFi", a trick as old as time. It hurts my soul.
September 18, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Anyone who has given a live demo will feel a bone-deep cringe of recognition. The awkward silence. Not only a bug, but a bug exposing how pre-staged this was (answering a question that hadn't been asked yet). Implausible attempts to blame it on "the WiFi", a trick as old as time. It hurts my soul.
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Closing out my festival coverage after yesterday's flight home! 32 movies in a week was a whirlwind, and I wouldn't have it any other way. I talk Wake Up Dead Man, Frankenstein, Rental Family, Blue Heron, and The Christophers in my #TIFF50 wrap-up. www.decodingeverything.com/p/tiff-2025-...
TIFF 2025 Dispatch #2: Rian Johnson and Steven Soderbergh Pull Off Resurrections; Frankenstein Should Have Stayed Buried
Stephen David Miller wraps up the Toronto Film Festival, with thoughts on Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, The Christophers, Frankenstein, Rental Family, and Blue Heron.
www.decodingeverything.com
September 16, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Closing out my festival coverage after yesterday's flight home! 32 movies in a week was a whirlwind, and I wouldn't have it any other way. I talk Wake Up Dead Man, Frankenstein, Rental Family, Blue Heron, and The Christophers in my #TIFF50 wrap-up. www.decodingeverything.com/p/tiff-2025-...
Closing out my festival coverage after yesterday's flight home! 32 movies in a week was a whirlwind, and I wouldn't have it any other way. I talk Wake Up Dead Man, Frankenstein, Rental Family, Blue Heron, and The Christophers in my #TIFF50 wrap-up. www.decodingeverything.com/p/tiff-2025-...
TIFF 2025 Dispatch #2: Rian Johnson and Steven Soderbergh Pull Off Resurrections; Frankenstein Should Have Stayed Buried
Stephen David Miller wraps up the Toronto Film Festival, with thoughts on Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, The Christophers, Frankenstein, Rental Family, and Blue Heron.
www.decodingeverything.com
September 16, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Closing out my festival coverage after yesterday's flight home! 32 movies in a week was a whirlwind, and I wouldn't have it any other way. I talk Wake Up Dead Man, Frankenstein, Rental Family, Blue Heron, and The Christophers in my #TIFF50 wrap-up. www.decodingeverything.com/p/tiff-2025-...
I will never understand why “guns don’t kill people, people kill people” is an argument that satisfies half the country. Rather than regulate mechanisms that facilitate harm, we should regulate…the problem of original sin? The evil that lies in the heart of man? That’s the more pragmatic take?
September 15, 2025 at 2:26 AM
I will never understand why “guns don’t kill people, people kill people” is an argument that satisfies half the country. Rather than regulate mechanisms that facilitate harm, we should regulate…the problem of original sin? The evil that lies in the heart of man? That’s the more pragmatic take?
Congratulation to Chloé Zhao’s HAMNET on winning the People’s Choice Award! I wrote about it for Decoding Everything: www.decodingeverything.com/p/tiff-2025-...
TIFF 2025 Dispatch #1: Dwayne Johnson Gets Serious, Chris Evans Gets Silly, Russell Crowe Splits the Difference, and a Tale of Two Hamlets
Stephen David Miller gives an update from the Toronto Film Festival, with thoughts on Hamnet, Hamlet, The Smashing Machine, Nuremberg, and Sacrifice
www.decodingeverything.com
September 14, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Congratulation to Chloé Zhao’s HAMNET on winning the People’s Choice Award! I wrote about it for Decoding Everything: www.decodingeverything.com/p/tiff-2025-...