I Am Once Again Begging the Left Not to Get Baited Into Conspiracy Thinking
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🔒 The Warlord Internet
It’s kind of funny how the trajectory of the internet wound up following the plot of the Mad Max movies in an analogy that’s only a little bit silly. Those movies are often used as a reference for a lawless post-apocalyptic anarchy, but the story only started off
Civil War MAGA: Why They're Fighting
Well, the most predictable thing ever has begun happening—the self-driven implosion of the Trump administration. Everyone knew it, I knew it, the only question was how many months it would be into Trump’s second term before the cracks started showing. The answer, beating everyone’s most pessimistic estimates,
🔒 I Am Once Again Begging the Left Not to Get Baited Into Conspiracy Thinking
Among the increasingly unhinged (decreasingly hinged?) antics of our friend Elon Musk lately, one recent debacle stood out from the rest: The curious and absurd case of Adrian Dittmann. For those with the good sense to have no idea what I’m talking about, for months the surprisingly robust community
Real Time True Crime: The Unsatisfying and Often Damaging Outcomes of Internet Sleuthing
Within an hour of Luigi Mangione’s name being released, the whole world was scouring his biography. What people found didn’t make the kind of sense they thought it would. A wealthy heir to an Italian-American real estate fortune, Mangione looked up to figures as diverse as Sam Harris,