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Parasocial Media: How We Became a World of Influencers

On the now quite rare occasion that I scroll through my Facebook feed, I see a hell of a lot of this one guy: That’s Jason Pargin, my old boss, who is now a prominent TikTok/Reels influencer. We haven’t spoken in nearly a decade, but Facebook spams

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🔒 Confronting the Popular Delusion of Colonizing Space

At the beginning of February, Elon Musk did another internal merger of his companies, putting to rest the notion that these are different companies in any meaningful sense. Earlier, he merged X with his AI company, XAI, and now he has merged X/XAI with his rocketry company, SpaceX. Then

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I Sure Hate This Annoying Pandemic of Online Age Restriction Laws

With everyone all focused on Donald Trump and Benny Netanyahu starting World War III out of a mutual desire to stay out of prison, another major war recently began that hasn’t earned the same headlines: Australia’s war on the internet.  Now I know I don’t talk about

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🔒 Parasocial Media: How We Became a World of Influencers

On the now quite rare occasion that I scroll through my Facebook feed, I see a hell of a lot of this one guy: That’s Jason Pargin, my old boss, who is now a prominent TikTok/Reels influencer. We haven’t spoken in nearly a decade, but Facebook spams

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🔒 How Geeks Ate the World: The Masculinity Medicine Show

Pickup Artistry and its roots in quack psychotherapy, pop philosophy, and marketing.

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Why the Right Will Never Dominate Entertainment

It’s plain to see that the carnival of horror clowns squatting in the United States government are attempting some kind of top-down cultural revolution by force, to replace the dominant western culture with nebulous “anti-woke” and thinly veiled white supremacist sensibilities.  And they’ve actually had a pretty good

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🔒 I Sure Hate This Annoying Pandemic of Online Age Restriction Laws

With everyone all focused on Donald Trump and Benny Netanyahu starting World War III out of a mutual desire to stay out of prison, another major war recently began that hasn’t earned the same headlines: Australia’s war on the internet.  Now I know I don’t talk about

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Substack is at the Gambling Stage of Desperation

Some men are probably coming to break Chris Best’s legs.  That’s the best explanation for why Substack is entering an exclusive partnership with Polymarket as announced in a comments-disabled post from Substack’s Official Substack, a newsletter that has nearly 6 million subscribers. The post got fewer than

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The Innate Hypocrisy of the Pronatalist Movement

When it comes to issues on which people care way too much about other people’s preferences, the worst offenders have to be steak doneness, and the decision whether to have children.  Like most people, I have strong opinions on both, when it comes to my personal preference. If you

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Epstein Was Never the Head of the Conspiracy. The Reality is Worse. (Part 2)

Releasing the Epstein emails in the manner that they did was considerably worse than not releasing them at all. I’m not even convinced that releasing them was a good idea in the first place and there, I’ve said it.  Right up to the point that they actually did

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Staying Rational When the Conspiracies are Real (Part 1)

I’ll be honest with you, I didn’t expect the US Justice Department to ever release the “Epstein Files.” I made a snide comment about it on Substack literally two days before they dumped a trillion of his emails onto the internet without warning. The instant result was like

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Why the Right Keeps Losing Female Influencers

One of the most fascinating things to happen in recent political discourse, for me, has to be the question of: What changed Ashley St Clair’s mind?  For those who don’t know, St Clair was one of the midlist female figures in the world of online MAGA influencers, primarily