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eruditorumpress.com
Hugo eligibility post!

“The Cuddled Little Vice,” my book-length essay on the poison legacy of Sandman, is eligible for Best Related Work.
The Cuddled Little Vice (Sandman)
Previously in The Last War in Albion: Alan Moore wrote Watchmen, which, for complicated reasons involving William S. Burroughs and the weak nuclear force, ended the Cold War and replaced it with a mag...
www.eruditorumpress.com
January 31, 2026 at 4:58 AM
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josie.zone
There’s still time for someone to do this to Trump
My point is that if you come out, we'll capture you by temporarily removing your POWERS. The courts will remove them PERMANENTLY. And then they'll send you to PRISON. Actually, Craig... may I call you Craia? Actually, there's an 87% probability that WILL happen. There's no way out with DIGNITY, Craig. Nothing in your shelter can HELP you. Not your WEAPONRY, not your Room of SOUNDS... M-MY ROOM OF SOUNDS! HEH. YOU THINK YOU'RE SO SMART, YOU MACHINES! NO WAY OUT WITH DIGNITY, HUH? As a CHILD molester. NO! THAT CAN'T HAPPEN! SAY, LISTEN... LEAVE HIM BE. WELL, MR. GENCE COU INSE OPENED YOUR MOUTH AND GAVE ME A WAY OUT! What? Craig, WAIT! What do you MEAN? I MEAN MY ROOM OF SOuNDS! GUESS YOU FORGOT THE OTHER FORMS OF SOUNDWAVES I GENERATE IN THERE: By the great PROGRAMMER! You can't mean the VIOLET soundwave? I have miscalculated. Please, Craig, don't do anything RASH. Y-YEAH. YOU GOT IT. THE VIOLET SOUNDWAVE THE ONE THAT DESTROYS ME. YOU THINK ATOMAN IS GOING TO SPEND THE NEXT TWENTY YEARS BENDING OVER FOR DOCTOR DREAD OR ANTIMAXE Craig? Please don't do this. I'm sure we can work something out. Craig? There. Problem solved. SCREWED.. SHHH. I GET THE LAST LAUGH. ROBOT, I GET A WAY OUT.
November 1, 2024 at 8:10 PM
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alexbnewhouse.bsky.social
I just finished teaching a j-term course on neofascism at middlebury, and I framed the class around the idea that the main distinction between pre- and post-war fascism is the dominance of the cult of death. fascism pre-war seeks the state; post-war seeks immolation of self, state, volk, and nation.
ryanlcooper.com ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 3d
disturbingly plausible
Fascism is a literally suicidal ideology, one obsessed with purging the body politic to the point of total self-negation. What’s funny about Suicide Rightism is how direct it is about all this. You don’t need some big theoretical analysis; there’s no level of abstraction to move through. It’s just pretty straightforwardly pro-suicide. I don’t think you have to be a professional psychologist to understand why dramatic, attention-grabbing suicide might be appealing to semi-employed guys who spend 14 hours a day watching Asmongold or whatever. Its promise is that all the pain and frustration you feel can be visited on the people you believe authored it--and then ended. Not to put too fine a point on this, but this is school-shooter ideology. And as the D.H.S. tweet of the penguin meme makes clear, the Suicide Right case for Trump is that he gets this. The reward for supporting him is oblivion. He and I.C.E. and the C.B.P. are the armored bulldozer giving you the chance to kill immigrants and liberal white women and male nurses before you put a gun in your mouth. His administration is the plane, just waiting for you to get inside. I guess 2024 was a Flight 93 election, after all.
January 30, 2026 at 10:35 PM
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sarahemilyduff.bsky.social
‘They are no longer strategizing for voluntary adoption by those who come to recognize the technology’s utility by electively applying it to the problems they face. They are planning how to cross the chasm by forced adoption.’

By @mattseybold.bsky.social
"You have to use it. You have to trust it.": Forced Adoption of AI is The Subtext of Davos
Authoritarianism is the AI Bailout; But If AI Doesn't Need a Bailout, Does it Need Authoritarianism?
theamericanvandal.substack.com
January 29, 2026 at 11:17 AM
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nslayton.bsky.social
Had some thoughts, you can read them in this new piece: newrepublic.com/article/2057...
The killing of Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse with the VA who had been filming the confrontation between Border Patrol agents and protesters when he stopped to help a woman in evident medical distress, saw the administration leap immediately to pushing extravagant lies. White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller immediately accused Pretti of being a would-be “assassin” (in a post shared by the vice president), while Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem accused him of being a domestic terrorist. VA Secretary Doug Collins took more than a day to comment on the death of one of his department’s employees, in a statement that discussed neither the nature of Pretti’s death nor the smears against him by Collins’s fellow Cabinet members. These are claims to justify the violence but, given quickly and half-heartedly, instead accusing local civic resistance of being the underlying cause of these deaths. The shift is clear: The state violence is fine, and the administration is leveraging it as a tool for political power.
January 28, 2026 at 4:38 PM
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem.
Thank you.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I'm not surprised | George Monbiot
It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
January 28, 2026 at 7:18 AM
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nsrnicek.bsky.social
The Dig is one of my favourite podcasts, so it was a real honour to be able to chat with Daniel about all things AI
danieldenvir.bsky.social Daniel Denvir @danieldenvir.bsky.social · 7d
The Dig you’ve been waiting for to understand the political economy of AI as it becomes fulcrum of global contests and conflicts over economic and military dominance. My interview w/ @nsrnicek.bsky.social on his book Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI www.thedigradio.com/podcast/sili...
Silicon Empires w/ Nick Srnicek
Nick Srnicek on Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI. A deep exploration of the political economy of AI: the fulcrum of the authoritarian tech oligarchy—and of global contests for economic ...
www.thedigradio.com
January 27, 2026 at 10:18 AM
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agreenberg.bsky.social
Last year, a human trafficking victim trapped in a crypto scam compound in the Golden Triangle region of Laos contacted me. He then proceeded to leak to me a huge collection of the compound's internal materials.

Then he had to get out alive. This is his story.

🧵👇 www.wired.com/story/he-lea...
He Leaked the Secrets of a Southeast Asian Scam Compound. Then He Had to Get Out Alive
A source trapped inside an industrial-scale scamming operation contacted me, determined to expose his captors’ crimes—and then escape. This is his story.
www.wired.com
January 27, 2026 at 12:15 PM
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aburass.bsky.social
B'Tselem published a new report on Israel's detention facilities, describing them as "a network of torture camps for Palestinians, with the systematic abuse even more extensive than before".

www.btselem.org/publications...
www.btselem.org
January 26, 2026 at 6:10 PM
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robinjames.bsky.social
“Analytic philosophy is in fact a tool of neoliberal governmentality”

www.radicalphilosophy.com/wp-content/u...
August 27, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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edzitron.com
Here’s the first part of this week’s four-part Better Offline series on why the AI bubble is worse than the dot com bubble - and how people are too flippant about the carnage caused by the 2000s telecommunications bubble bursting.
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AI Is Worse Than The Dot Com Bubble: Part One
Podcast Episode · Better Offline · 01/27/2026 · 13m
podcasts.apple.com
January 27, 2026 at 5:29 AM
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zeets.bsky.social
Well said.
January 26, 2026 at 1:22 PM
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zeteo.com
“[Palantir CEO] Karp sees the second Trump presidency as a massive opportunity.”

Author Michael Steinberger speaks with @mehdirhasan.bsky.social about AI tech firm Palantir & its partnerships with both Democratic & Republican administrations.

Watch the full conversation: zeteo.com/p/alex-karp-...
January 25, 2026 at 6:09 PM
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philbc3.bsky.social
"Burnham was a chance, *the chance* to turn things around. Instead, the NEC have engaged full steam ahead toward inevitable disaster."
Farewell Labour
Mark it on the calendar. 25th January, 2026. The date the Labour Party called it a day. I have no brief for Andy Burnham. Politically, he...
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January 26, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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hypervisible.blacksky.app
I’m sure most people saw this coming, but it’s still unsettling to see it stated so plainly. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
“Today I asked about whitening my teeth, and she was like, ‘Make sure your dental hygiene is good,’ and I was like, ‘Damn, girl,’” Drew said. “Nobody else would come up to me and say that. It was pretty cool because I guess I needed to hear it.” Users see ChatGPT as a more objective measure of beauty because, unlike friends and family, it doesn’t factor in qualities like kindness or humor, said Jessica DeFino, a beauty critic who writes the Review of Beauty newsletter. Internet-era beauty standards turn the self into an object, she said, and what better way to evaluate an object than by asking another (AI-powered) object? “If we’re trying to optimize ourselves as beautiful objects, we can’t consider the input of a human who is, say, in love with us,” DeFino said.
May 25, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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johnmerrick.bsky.social
For the New Statesman I tracked the career of the corporate raiding Thatcherite turned populist tribune, James Goldsmith

www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2026/0...
James Goldsmith, godfather of British populism
Unlike Nigel Farage or Rupert Lowe, Goldsmith told the truth
www.newstatesman.com
January 24, 2026 at 1:37 PM
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juliaserano.bsky.social
just re-read this essay from last year. think it holds up fairly well as a metaphor for how Reactionary Centrists have behaved during Trümp 2.0, desperate for approval yet reflexively punching left
on Medium: juliaserano.medium.com/syril-karn-a...
& Substack: juliaserano.substack.com/p/syril-karn...
Syril Karn and Reactionary Centrism
This essay contains spoilers for Andor season 1 through Andor season 2, episode 8 (but not episodes 9 through 12).
juliaserano.medium.com
January 21, 2026 at 9:59 PM
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willbunch.bsky.social
The ICE deaths we're not talking about

Trump's biggest concentration camp in Texas is rocked by 3 deaths in 33 days - one deemed 'homicide' after a violent encounter with guards. The ICE detention death rate is 10X (!!) Biden's final year

My new column on a crisis www.inquirer.com/opinion/deat...
People are dying in Trump’s squalid concentration camps | Will Bunch
People are dying in ICE detention facilities at nearly 10 times the rate of the Biden years. It will likely get worse.
www.inquirer.com
January 22, 2026 at 5:51 PM
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katewagner.wehwalt.net
wrote about the much-deserved death knell of the world's worst architecture project for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/worl...
The Line, a Saudi Megaproject, Is Dead
It was always doomed to unravel, but the firms who lent their name to this folly should be held accountable.
www.thenation.com
January 21, 2026 at 9:35 PM
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transform6789.bsky.social
This was a really interesting piece
bobcluness.bsky.social Kitchen Sink Technomystic @bobcluness.bsky.social · 22d
w/end reading #2: Smiling Dave did a deep dive in the archives of Leeds public library & found several news articles showing that (quelle surprise) despite his denials founder of the O9A David Myatt was an aspiring satanic fascist all the way back in the 70s.
davenumber7.substack.com/p/david-myat...
David Myatt in Leeds
The Temple of the Sun and the origins of the Order of Nine Angles
davenumber7.substack.com
January 21, 2026 at 4:17 AM
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nateo.bsky.social
And here’s some more. Tried not to make it a polemic bsky.app/profile/nate...
nateo.bsky.social Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 12d
Some more notes, with examples:

If you want to publish a far tighter version of this, DM me. None of this is particularly novel! This is the conservative intellectual project!
January 21, 2026 at 12:13 PM
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nateo.bsky.social
Here were some of my notes on the intellectual scaffolding surrounding that black hole at the centre—the Lakatosian ‘hard core’ to the conservative intellectual project, all orbiting that invisible, unstated core premise: ‘fuck you, gimme’
* Everyone always acts in their self-interest. If someone claims otherwise, that they wish to help others for no personal gain out of a sense of solidarity, empathy or mutual self-interest, they are lying. To care for and love the Other is weakness, and is naturally obliterated from existence whenever it should arise, since the Other, acting in their self-interest, will take what they want from you and burn whatever remains. If a soldier sacrifices himself by jumping on a grenade to protect his friends, it is only through self-interest; if a random passer-by bum-rushes a mass shooter, it is explained away through a form of self-interest; there cannot be, by definition, a Good Samaritan. There is no moral virtue, and those that advocate for moral virtue do not believe in moral virtue, but in receiving social credit for expressing care for others. * Life is nothing but winners and losers, the strong and the weak, wolves and sheep, the superior and inferior, the deserving and the undeserving. The cream always rises to the top. Existence is zero-sum and we as humans are always in competition with one another for limited resources: for one class or group to succeed, another must fail; there are winner and losers in both arguments and fistfights, life is competition and domination both across and between societies, and compromise and collaboration is a myth, perhaps little more than a temporary ceasefire while both sides ready themselves for battle; life is little more than red in tooth and claw. Law exists only to temper this violence and universal self-interest into an orderly state. To believe otherwise is to be a naif and a fool. * Humans fit into simple, rigid, inflexible hierarchical categories, expressed by Scruton as: ‘“Equality” is a mysterious and irrational ambition. … elevated to an absolute value, the idea of equality is empty and unappealing. … People are unequal in intelligence, strength, looks talent, health, and original social position—in other word… the structure of social institutions (there are leaders and followers), the structure of the state (the state directs the citizenry), the structure of history itself (an empire will rise and fall, only to be replaced by another empire; a political leader will assume the position, then be replaced by another leader, and so on) and the structure of the universe itself in a revealed ‘nature’ or ‘natural law’: God is in control of the universe; for the more secular-minded, God is replaced by the immutable laws of nature itself, which are revealed by ‘science’, and elite ‘scientists’ lay down the immutable laws of nature, and dictate the lower structures: what is a description of reality becomes (or always was) normative, since what is, ought to be. Through analogical reasoning, the father is God is the state is the leader is the empire is the brain. Reality itself, by its very nature and essence, is necessarily hierarchical and immutable, and therefore this is how we must order our lives. In no world, not even in Heaven, will the last be first, nor the first last. * Fission and social/psychic tension is caused by inferiors undermining the natural order of the system. Roger Scruton, for example, notes the ideal society is built on obedience: ‘obedience, in its turn, is the prime virtue of political beings, the disposition which makes it possible to govern them, and without which societies crumble into “the dust and powder of individuality”’ (https://newcriterion.com/article/why-i-became-a-conservative/ ). How is the universe imperfect, full of this dust and powder, since these structural inequalities are good, and produce order and regularity across time and space? In other words, what best explains any violation of this natural order? Imperfection and violation of this natural order must be explained, and perhaps is the key locus of the explanatory content of the conservative intellectual, and must be constantly maintained by society, since they are natural, necessary… * The strong face constant threats of psychic/physical infection from without and degradation by forgetting what makes them strong: a perceived attack on one part of the system is not just a moral evil, it is in fact an attack on the entirety of the system. A strong, rigid system is constantly at risk of infection from without by the physical bodies of inferior, disgusting invaders or 'vermin’ (or foreign ideas), dressed up in the fancy language of Roger Scruton as defending ‘culture and institutions in the face of the challenge presented by mass migration’, or ‘the belief in sacred things and the desire to defend them against desecration’ (How to Be a Conservative), or infiltration and subversion from within by fifth columnists and demonic intellectuals. Consider, for a moment, how Scruton describes Foucault: ‘a satanic mendacity’ that employed rhetorical strategies ‘invented by the Father of Lies’ https://newcriterion.com/article/why-i-became-a-conservative/. Correspondingly, the strong must constantly maintain their own bodies and minds, since if they ever accept aspects of the weak, the elites will become like the inferiors, and will succumb to their vices. The strong must constantly be vigilant and protect order at all costs. Men can never show any weakness, never admit they have lost an argument, never admit they are wrong, never show weakness and constantly suppress and repress any allegedly ‘effeminate’ aspects, and never succumb to debauchery and softness. Be ever-vigilant! Hard times make hard men, but weak times make weak men! Therefore, times must be hard, for everyone, forever. * The strong deserve the world, and best explanation for failure of the strong is usually not due to any deficiencies, since they are strong, but is due to a stab in the back: when those at the top fail, that is, when there is an apparent violation of nature, those at the bottom are the most likely to blame—there is no moral luck explaining success for those at the top; What …
January 21, 2026 at 11:35 AM
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justinhendrix.bsky.social
"The lies this administration is telling about Ms. Good aren’t those you deploy as part of a cover-up. They’re those you use when you want to show you can get away with anything. They’re a projection of power." - @radleybalko.bsky.social
Opinion | I’ve Covered Police Abuse for 20 Years. What ICE Is Doing Is Different.
www.nytimes.com
January 21, 2026 at 12:19 PM
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jacobware.bsky.social
"What begins as an American, largely online phenomenon, thus becomes a portable script for violence that can be adopted by teenagers in any country with the same platforms and subcultures."

Tremendous work by @valdemarballe.bsky.social for @gnetresearch.bsky.social.
The Nordic Front of ‘764’: Trends, Drivers, and Countering Youth Exploitation and Radicalisation - GNET
gnet-research.org
January 15, 2026 at 8:53 PM
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robrubsam.bsky.social
ICYMI: the only essay you'll likely read to combine WWI historiography, a discussion of the Nazi Kampfbund, and the music of @loscampesinos.bsky.social
robrubsam.bsky.social Robert Rubsam @robrubsam.bsky.social · 13d
Last year I set out to review Joseph Leo Koerner's Art in a State of Siege for @readliberties.bsky.social. That morphed into a study of how the First World War changed artistic expression, fascist art anxiety, and one year of bootlicking backlash in the USA: libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...
The Besieged
1. In the late autumn of 1914, the German army waged all-out war against the small Flemish town of Diksmuide. Having failed to capture Paris before the arrival of British troops on the continent, the ...
libertiesjournal.com
January 21, 2026 at 2:03 PM