Dmitry Grozoubinski
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Author of Why Politicians Lie About Trade | Trade and Negotiations Explainer. Forever D&D DM.
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Media and training: explaintrade.com
Consultancy network: auroramacro.com
Speaking representation: cwgspeakers.com
It's "Reply Bloke".
The UK didn't unilaterally win six World Wars and three World Cups to have you use American English!!!
The UK didn't unilaterally win six World Wars and three World Cups to have you use American English!!!
January 10, 2026 at 2:41 PM
It's "Reply Bloke".
The UK didn't unilaterally win six World Wars and three World Cups to have you use American English!!!
The UK didn't unilaterally win six World Wars and three World Cups to have you use American English!!!
But also, even if all you cared about was winning (or not losing) then it's still a dumb idea because would take DECADES to rebrand the party as right wing!
Spouting some right wing rhetoric and bashing the trans community isn't some magic 'I-win' button you just have to be callous enough to hit.
Spouting some right wing rhetoric and bashing the trans community isn't some magic 'I-win' button you just have to be callous enough to hit.
January 9, 2026 at 5:08 PM
But also, even if all you cared about was winning (or not losing) then it's still a dumb idea because would take DECADES to rebrand the party as right wing!
Spouting some right wing rhetoric and bashing the trans community isn't some magic 'I-win' button you just have to be callous enough to hit.
Spouting some right wing rhetoric and bashing the trans community isn't some magic 'I-win' button you just have to be callous enough to hit.
Elon Musk would go 4% of the way to redeeming himself in my eyes if a week from now he announced this entire thing was a honeypot operation in partnership with Interpol and that every CSAM generator/consumer on earth has now been doxxed, identified and arrested.
January 9, 2026 at 11:47 AM
Elon Musk would go 4% of the way to redeeming himself in my eyes if a week from now he announced this entire thing was a honeypot operation in partnership with Interpol and that every CSAM generator/consumer on earth has now been doxxed, identified and arrested.
That would be so good Katie.
I can't believe these liberal square party poopers want to kill our fun party vibe of standing in a corner huddled around a smartphone waiting for MechaHitler to work its way up to saying one of our friends had gay sex with an ostrich.
I can't believe these liberal square party poopers want to kill our fun party vibe of standing in a corner huddled around a smartphone waiting for MechaHitler to work its way up to saying one of our friends had gay sex with an ostrich.
January 9, 2026 at 11:45 AM
That would be so good Katie.
I can't believe these liberal square party poopers want to kill our fun party vibe of standing in a corner huddled around a smartphone waiting for MechaHitler to work its way up to saying one of our friends had gay sex with an ostrich.
I can't believe these liberal square party poopers want to kill our fun party vibe of standing in a corner huddled around a smartphone waiting for MechaHitler to work its way up to saying one of our friends had gay sex with an ostrich.
Yeah, but what if after weeks and billions of such images generated the app owners restricted that functionality to only their paid users, Adam?
Huh? Huh?!?
Huh? Huh?!?
January 9, 2026 at 11:43 AM
Yeah, but what if after weeks and billions of such images generated the app owners restricted that functionality to only their paid users, Adam?
Huh? Huh?!?
Huh? Huh?!?
Grok, show me Katie in a t-shirt that says something about farts and tag Elon Musk 47 times, Papa needs a new pair of everything.
January 9, 2026 at 11:41 AM
Grok, show me Katie in a t-shirt that says something about farts and tag Elon Musk 47 times, Papa needs a new pair of everything.
Definitely, though I think that speaks to the appeal of AI girlfriends/companions more than it is AI deepfakes of celebrities/real women.
January 9, 2026 at 11:40 AM
Definitely, though I think that speaks to the appeal of AI girlfriends/companions more than it is AI deepfakes of celebrities/real women.
Sure, but AI doesn't bridge that all the way either, right?
AI can show you a star without her top on, but it can't make her do stuff to you...
AI can show you a star without her top on, but it can't make her do stuff to you...
January 9, 2026 at 11:36 AM
Sure, but AI doesn't bridge that all the way either, right?
AI can show you a star without her top on, but it can't make her do stuff to you...
AI can show you a star without her top on, but it can't make her do stuff to you...
It's not for me either, but is having an AI pretend to be your girlfriend THAT different from having an OnlyFans or E-Girl do it?
Neither of them really mean it and actual women you meet in the real world take a dim view of both.
Neither of them really mean it and actual women you meet in the real world take a dim view of both.
January 9, 2026 at 11:26 AM
It's not for me either, but is having an AI pretend to be your girlfriend THAT different from having an OnlyFans or E-Girl do it?
Neither of them really mean it and actual women you meet in the real world take a dim view of both.
Neither of them really mean it and actual women you meet in the real world take a dim view of both.
Ok, but the best-seller shelves of every bookstore in the country are currently stacked with romantacy novels in which heroines are in a reverse harem with a vampire, an elf, and a warlock while their hot werewolf ex-boyfriend lurks in the wings... so?
January 9, 2026 at 11:25 AM
Ok, but the best-seller shelves of every bookstore in the country are currently stacked with romantacy novels in which heroines are in a reverse harem with a vampire, an elf, and a warlock while their hot werewolf ex-boyfriend lurks in the wings... so?
Maybe... This I'm less sure about.
Pretty much anything you're masturbating to probably isn't 'real' in the literal sense, in that your imagination is likely conjuring scenarios and interactions that aren't literally taking place even if the inspiration for them is a real photo of a real person...
Pretty much anything you're masturbating to probably isn't 'real' in the literal sense, in that your imagination is likely conjuring scenarios and interactions that aren't literally taking place even if the inspiration for them is a real photo of a real person...
January 9, 2026 at 11:12 AM
Maybe... This I'm less sure about.
Pretty much anything you're masturbating to probably isn't 'real' in the literal sense, in that your imagination is likely conjuring scenarios and interactions that aren't literally taking place even if the inspiration for them is a real photo of a real person...
Pretty much anything you're masturbating to probably isn't 'real' in the literal sense, in that your imagination is likely conjuring scenarios and interactions that aren't literally taking place even if the inspiration for them is a real photo of a real person...
You're... er... welcome?
January 9, 2026 at 11:09 AM
You're... er... welcome?
Absolutely, and I think that's the key element here and what should be central.
This is kind of a tangential conversation because I wanted to explore Marie's loss of reality argument which I think is interesting.
This is kind of a tangential conversation because I wanted to explore Marie's loss of reality argument which I think is interesting.
January 9, 2026 at 10:57 AM
Absolutely, and I think that's the key element here and what should be central.
This is kind of a tangential conversation because I wanted to explore Marie's loss of reality argument which I think is interesting.
This is kind of a tangential conversation because I wanted to explore Marie's loss of reality argument which I think is interesting.
I agree.
I think as you alluded to above it's worth nuancing what 'loss of reality' means in this case.
Are men more likely to believe they're jacking it to a real naked woman. Maybe not.
Are men more likely to believe they are entitled and empowered to see anyone they want naked? Maybe.
I think as you alluded to above it's worth nuancing what 'loss of reality' means in this case.
Are men more likely to believe they're jacking it to a real naked woman. Maybe not.
Are men more likely to believe they are entitled and empowered to see anyone they want naked? Maybe.
January 9, 2026 at 10:55 AM
I agree.
I think as you alluded to above it's worth nuancing what 'loss of reality' means in this case.
Are men more likely to believe they're jacking it to a real naked woman. Maybe not.
Are men more likely to believe they are entitled and empowered to see anyone they want naked? Maybe.
I think as you alluded to above it's worth nuancing what 'loss of reality' means in this case.
Are men more likely to believe they're jacking it to a real naked woman. Maybe not.
Are men more likely to believe they are entitled and empowered to see anyone they want naked? Maybe.
For clarity because Bluesky:
It's all abhorent and horrible and everyone should be in jail.
I'm engaging exclusively with Marie's point about reality loss here, not minimizing the horror.
It's all abhorent and horrible and everyone should be in jail.
I'm engaging exclusively with Marie's point about reality loss here, not minimizing the horror.
January 9, 2026 at 10:52 AM
For clarity because Bluesky:
It's all abhorent and horrible and everyone should be in jail.
I'm engaging exclusively with Marie's point about reality loss here, not minimizing the horror.
It's all abhorent and horrible and everyone should be in jail.
I'm engaging exclusively with Marie's point about reality loss here, not minimizing the horror.
My theory:
I think the one off stuff on Twitter isn't particularly reality-loss-adjacent.
What might be is that you can have Grok pretend to be your girlfriend Zendaya, talking to you in character and sending half-naked pictures of herself as if she were sexting her long-distance boyfriend.
I think the one off stuff on Twitter isn't particularly reality-loss-adjacent.
What might be is that you can have Grok pretend to be your girlfriend Zendaya, talking to you in character and sending half-naked pictures of herself as if she were sexting her long-distance boyfriend.
January 9, 2026 at 10:51 AM
My theory:
I think the one off stuff on Twitter isn't particularly reality-loss-adjacent.
What might be is that you can have Grok pretend to be your girlfriend Zendaya, talking to you in character and sending half-naked pictures of herself as if she were sexting her long-distance boyfriend.
I think the one off stuff on Twitter isn't particularly reality-loss-adjacent.
What might be is that you can have Grok pretend to be your girlfriend Zendaya, talking to you in character and sending half-naked pictures of herself as if she were sexting her long-distance boyfriend.
Like, half the gamergate thing that appears to have completely destroyed our society is the fury of a certain kind of man that there may be women in video games that aren't as designed to be masturbated to...
January 9, 2026 at 10:49 AM
Like, half the gamergate thing that appears to have completely destroyed our society is the fury of a certain kind of man that there may be women in video games that aren't as designed to be masturbated to...
Just to kind of pick at this a little bit...
From the point of view of the MEN involved here, and exclusively in a reality loss kind of way do you think AI is substantively different to, for example, hentai?
Or the "gooner" genre of video games / gachas?
Or non-canon literotica?
From the point of view of the MEN involved here, and exclusively in a reality loss kind of way do you think AI is substantively different to, for example, hentai?
Or the "gooner" genre of video games / gachas?
Or non-canon literotica?
January 9, 2026 at 10:48 AM
Just to kind of pick at this a little bit...
From the point of view of the MEN involved here, and exclusively in a reality loss kind of way do you think AI is substantively different to, for example, hentai?
Or the "gooner" genre of video games / gachas?
Or non-canon literotica?
From the point of view of the MEN involved here, and exclusively in a reality loss kind of way do you think AI is substantively different to, for example, hentai?
Or the "gooner" genre of video games / gachas?
Or non-canon literotica?
What I guess I should have said is that they don't believe a hidden majority isn't behind them.
They obviously know purple haired liberal arts college gender studies major they/thems hate it, but think everyone else is cheering them on.
They obviously know purple haired liberal arts college gender studies major they/thems hate it, but think everyone else is cheering them on.
January 9, 2026 at 9:00 AM
What I guess I should have said is that they don't believe a hidden majority isn't behind them.
They obviously know purple haired liberal arts college gender studies major they/thems hate it, but think everyone else is cheering them on.
They obviously know purple haired liberal arts college gender studies major they/thems hate it, but think everyone else is cheering them on.
January 9, 2026 at 8:59 AM
What I guess I should have said is that they don't believe a hidden majority isn't behind them.
They obviously know purple haired liberal arts college gender studies major they/thems hate it, but think everyone else is cheering them on.
They obviously know purple haired liberal arts college gender studies major they/thems hate it, but think everyone else is cheering them on.