Al-Roker Martyrs Brigade
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I’ve argued it over and over, but the core driver of the worldwide collapse into populist madness is a very specific economic trend:
THE FALLING COST OF PUBLISHING
That has created almost infinite access to media, which allows consumers to be highly selective and forces publishers to compete.
THE FALLING COST OF PUBLISHING
That has created almost infinite access to media, which allows consumers to be highly selective and forces publishers to compete.
The collapsing cost of media production has fragmented media into literally millions of publishers, creating a true marketplace of ideas where producers benefit by providing the exact narratives that consumers enjoy hearing the most. That means lurid doomerism is endemic
boy there seems to be a bottomless appetite for dogmatic economic pessimism on video platforms. clicked on one of those during the morning Zwift and now my youtube feed is WE'RE DOOMED re the stock market, jobs, car market, inflation, AI on and on
January 3, 2026 at 12:06 AM
I’ve argued it over and over, but the core driver of the worldwide collapse into populist madness is a very specific economic trend:
THE FALLING COST OF PUBLISHING
That has created almost infinite access to media, which allows consumers to be highly selective and forces publishers to compete.
THE FALLING COST OF PUBLISHING
That has created almost infinite access to media, which allows consumers to be highly selective and forces publishers to compete.
I loved the first few seasons but this season is absolutely excruciating
January 1, 2026 at 3:26 AM
I loved the first few seasons but this season is absolutely excruciating
Holy shit what a skeet
December 30, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Holy shit what a skeet
What finally sent me over the edge was paying for ESPN on Fubo. But that’s not good enough! To “activate” it I need to set up a separate ESPN account. But that’s not good enough either because to get an ESPN account you have to first set up a Disney account! Send them all to the bottom of the ocean.
December 28, 2025 at 3:38 PM
What finally sent me over the edge was paying for ESPN on Fubo. But that’s not good enough! To “activate” it I need to set up a separate ESPN account. But that’s not good enough either because to get an ESPN account you have to first set up a Disney account! Send them all to the bottom of the ocean.
He said conservative, not Republican. We all know the differences.
December 27, 2025 at 9:42 PM
He said conservative, not Republican. We all know the differences.
Yep. This is one that’s probably worth buying.
December 25, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Yep. This is one that’s probably worth buying.
Exactly! What is so hard about this? Turning on a lightbulb is literally a metaphor for the easiest thing imaginable and we’re going to boil the oceans inventing AIs to do it for us?
December 23, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Exactly! What is so hard about this? Turning on a lightbulb is literally a metaphor for the easiest thing imaginable and we’re going to boil the oceans inventing AIs to do it for us?
AI can’t reliably turn on a light bulb but the super geniuses in American Tech need 147 quadrillion dollars of new data centers to power it. Lol.
December 23, 2025 at 4:08 PM
AI can’t reliably turn on a light bulb but the super geniuses in American Tech need 147 quadrillion dollars of new data centers to power it. Lol.
John Normanson!
December 23, 2025 at 2:54 AM
John Normanson!
“Principles” haha
December 22, 2025 at 3:51 PM
“Principles” haha
60 minutes is dead to me now. Unfollowing and never watching again. Good luck.
December 22, 2025 at 12:05 AM
60 minutes is dead to me now. Unfollowing and never watching again. Good luck.
Why? It is extremely unreliable and imprecise, baselessly confident in its answers, and delivers wildly differing outputs given identical inputs. All things that academics are trained to avoid like Black Death.
December 20, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Why? It is extremely unreliable and imprecise, baselessly confident in its answers, and delivers wildly differing outputs given identical inputs. All things that academics are trained to avoid like Black Death.
Ah I see we are at the “should ordinary taxpayers give money to billionaires” stage of the discussion.
December 17, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Ah I see we are at the “should ordinary taxpayers give money to billionaires” stage of the discussion.
Yes and the power stations and lines needed to power the data centers that don’t exist yet for the demand that doesn’t exist yet for the profits that don’t exist yet, don’t exist yet.
December 15, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Yes and the power stations and lines needed to power the data centers that don’t exist yet for the demand that doesn’t exist yet for the profits that don’t exist yet, don’t exist yet.
Can’t help but think about the dozens of police in Uvalde, Texas wetting themselves with fear for 75 minutes during a mass school shooting. This guy has more spine than all the police in Texas combined.
December 14, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Can’t help but think about the dozens of police in Uvalde, Texas wetting themselves with fear for 75 minutes during a mass school shooting. This guy has more spine than all the police in Texas combined.
Joe Manchin has ideas about what’s wrong with the senate @nytpitchbot.bsky.social
December 14, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Joe Manchin has ideas about what’s wrong with the senate @nytpitchbot.bsky.social
One of TV’s greatest plot and character writers has written a show with almost no characters and almost no plot.
December 13, 2025 at 6:46 PM
One of TV’s greatest plot and character writers has written a show with almost no characters and almost no plot.
Once they decided “well-regulated” didn’t mean well-regulated and “militia” doesn’t mean militia, it seems like the chains of plain language fell off.
December 9, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Once they decided “well-regulated” didn’t mean well-regulated and “militia” doesn’t mean militia, it seems like the chains of plain language fell off.
It might actually be good to let him shift the Overton window on this one.
December 5, 2025 at 5:09 PM
It might actually be good to let him shift the Overton window on this one.
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Brutus is getting robbed here
December 2, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Brutus is getting robbed here
“Some say”
WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE??
WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE??
November 30, 2025 at 4:10 PM
“Some say”
WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE??
WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE??
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What a truly silly tagline in a world where everyone but corporate dems can see that oligarchy is a huge problem. We want a ceiling! We want it very much! You can't make as much money as these guys make without ruining the world for the rest of us
November 30, 2025 at 2:35 PM
What a truly silly tagline in a world where everyone but corporate dems can see that oligarchy is a huge problem. We want a ceiling! We want it very much! You can't make as much money as these guys make without ruining the world for the rest of us
Democracy dies in fartness
November 28, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Democracy dies in fartness
Strong Teenjus vibes
November 26, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Strong Teenjus vibes