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Capital Will Crush Substack

One of the biggest problems with trying to build a career in something creative in a capitalist world is that the tools and platforms you need to use to achieve your goals are all adversarial to those goals. When some service or company insists that their success depends on your

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🔒 I Am Begging the Left to Quit Focusing on Nazi Numerology

As government embraced the internet as a tool for messaging to its citizens it was only a matter of time before it was infected by a particular kind of cultural rot. Governments and politicians, just like brands, hire savvy young professional influencers to run their social media profiles, and with

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The Tech-Right's War on Independent Journalism

Last week I saw journalist Matt Taibbi launch himself face-first into the most embarrassingly incorrect and state-sycophantic take I’ve ever seen from him, and it inspired me to pick up a book that had been sitting in a pile next to me for a while now. It was on

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🔒 Capital Will Crush Substack

One of the biggest problems with trying to build a career in something creative in a capitalist world is that the tools and platforms you need to use to achieve your goals are all adversarial to those goals. When some service or company insists that their success depends on your

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Is Something Worse than Trump Coming?

It was bound to happen eventually: The Trump administration have painted themselves into a corner, having gotten elected partially on the promise that the government is in possession of the list of elite pedophiles who the conspiracy cookers all believe control the world. Now the cookers kind of want them

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🔒 The Tech-Right's War on Independent Journalism

Last week I saw journalist Matt Taibbi launch himself face-first into the most embarrassingly incorrect and state-sycophantic take I’ve ever seen from him, and it inspired me to pick up a book that had been sitting in a pile next to me for a while now. It was on

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We Are Exploiting Epstein's Victims For Our Own Politics

Can we all agree finally that we will never, ever see such a thing as an “Epstein List?”  I phrase it like that because, if it ever did exist, we can say with close to one hundred percent certainty that it has been destroyed. If, the theory goes, that Trump

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🔒 Is Something Worse than Trump Coming?

It was bound to happen eventually: The Trump administration have painted themselves into a corner, having gotten elected partially on the promise that the government is in possession of the list of elite pedophiles who the conspiracy cookers all believe control the world. Now the cookers kind of want them

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🔒 How Geeks Ate the World: Something Old, Something New, Something Rotten, & Something Awful

Gore, gamers, and goons - early internet geek humor from shock sites to Seanbaby

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A Very American Fascism

A recurring thought that has occurred to me so many times over the past six months about events happening in the USA is just how incredibly American this fascism is.  And you know it makes perfect sense that these guys aren’t wearing Hugo Boss. Back in February Ronke Babajide

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🔒 We Are Exploiting Epstein's Victims For Our Own Politics

Can we all agree finally that we will never, ever see such a thing as an “Epstein List?”  I phrase it like that because, if it ever did exist, we can say with close to one hundred percent certainty that it has been destroyed. If, the theory goes, that Trump

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Nobody Cares About Truth, Only the Better Story

If you’d asked me at two particular phases of my life, and my maturity, what my favorite book was, I would have told you either Life of Pi or American Psycho. You might think that’s a hell of a swing in literary taste, but then again, both books