I haven’t written about the Iran War before now because the whole thing just infuriates me, but now I stew in bafflement at its pointless, brutal, stupidity. The most concise way that it can be summed up for future historians is this classic tweet from 2014: But the topic
Little by little, glimpse by flickering glimpse, there are signs that we are pushing our way through to the other side of this ten-year chronic societal illness. Last year there was the one-two punch of landslide federal elections in Australia and Canada that thoroughly rejected candidates who promised to be
So, I’m running into an increasingly concerning research problem. Last week, I wrote a piece that took considerably more research than usual, because it’s a topic I’m not great at: Hard science. It’s about why human beings are never going to colonize other planets. I understood
I haven’t written about the Iran War before now because the whole thing just infuriates me, but now I stew in bafflement at its pointless, brutal, stupidity. The most concise way that it can be summed up for future historians is this classic tweet from 2014: But the topic
The Artemis II mission to the moon that was launched a few days ago is a legitimately exciting space adventure that suffered unfortunately little press in the face of Donald Trump’s stupid and pointless resurrection of the Middle East Forever Wars. But what little press it has gotten is
So, I’m running into an increasingly concerning research problem. Last week, I wrote a piece that took considerably more research than usual, because it’s a topic I’m not great at: Hard science. It’s about why human beings are never going to colonize other planets. I understood
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
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
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
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
Pickup Artistry and its roots in quack psychotherapy, pop philosophy, and marketing.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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