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Drew Pavlou and the Shitpost Economy

If you’ve been on social media much over the past few years you may have noticed a rising star in the “politically bonkers” space. Drew Pavlou is a damn near omnipresent figure on Twitter who shows up in so many retweets by MAGA influencers and Trump administration officials that

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🔒 Substack Has Become Middlebrow Twitter (Derogatory)

Hey, Ghost readers! I know a lot of you are here to get away from Substack, which is precisely why I set up this alternative for y’all. Part of my schtick is talking about social media and internet culture, and how it’s pretty much all going to heck,

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But At Least Woke is Dead, Right?

On Wednesday they shot a poet.  37 year old writer and mother of three Renee Nicole Good was sitting in her car observing an ICE raid in a Minneapolis neighborhood when a number of the goons rushed at her car, yelling at her to leave the area. Paradoxically, while issuing

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🔒 Drew Pavlou and the Shitpost Economy

If you’ve been on social media much over the past few years you may have noticed a rising star in the “politically bonkers” space. Drew Pavlou is a damn near omnipresent figure on Twitter who shows up in so many retweets by MAGA influencers and Trump administration officials that

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Why Do Covid Revisionists Need to Fabricate Evidence to Make Their Case?

Yoel Roth, the former head of Trust and Safety at a now very dead website that used to be called Twitter, was recently made aware of something disturbing. He’d been quoted in a recently published, bestselling book, without his knowledge.  This in itself isn’t a problem—if you’

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🔒 But At Least Woke is Dead, Right?

On Wednesday they shot a poet.  37 year old writer and mother of three Renee Nicole Good was sitting in her car observing an ICE raid in a Minneapolis neighborhood when a number of the goons rushed at her car, yelling at her to leave the area. Paradoxically, while issuing

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In Defense of Rob Reiner's "North"

Rob Reiner’s final film was a sequel to his very first film.  This, obviously, was not planned. It’s a fact that will be remarked upon in history, but Reiner didn’t have the ability to foresee and plan for the end of his own career in the same

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Well, That Sure Was a Year

Have you ever stopped to think about the fact that we’re now more than a quarter of the way through the 21st century? That it’s now actually plausible that some of you reading this will see the 22nd century? One thing I’ve been doing this year is

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So, The Right Suddenly Isn't Into Conspiracy Theories Anymore

Here’s a banger of a tweet from Christopher Rufo, one of the aspiring Grima Wormtongues of the emerging American dictatorial theocracy: Golly gee, the Right has begun leaning into conspiracy theories, has it? Nobody could have predicted that, it’s completely unprecedented. Rufo might easily be the most bad-faith

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Why Normal People Idolize Movie Villains

I can’t help but think, whenever Pete Hegseth speaks, that he is imitating somebody he saw in a movie.  Of course, this isn’t surprising. This is the Ratings Administration, staffed full of television personalities and social media influencers, whose whole thing is using modern persuasion methods to get

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How the Far-Right Weaponized the Masculinity Crisis

Why would Andrew Tate tweet something like this? Tate is mostly—almost exclusively—known for his misogyny. But the mistake that people make, to the extent that they can stomach knowing anything about him at all, is identifying him as some sort of pickup artist or sex guru, an antidote

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What This Videogame Says About My Creative Slump

A few weeks ago, during some idle procrastination, I browsed through my Steam library and opened up a game that I’d actually purchased like a year ago but never got around to trying out.  I’m not much of a gamer at all, although I played them when I