Josh
@josh01.bsky.social
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American apocalyptism: We need to hold our hands near Jerusalem when the angels descend from the sky
European apocalyptism: We need to stock up on vodka and 7.62mm shells for when the roaches emerge from the sewers
European apocalyptism: We need to stock up on vodka and 7.62mm shells for when the roaches emerge from the sewers
November 2, 2025 at 12:07 AM
American apocalyptism: We need to hold our hands near Jerusalem when the angels descend from the sky
European apocalyptism: We need to stock up on vodka and 7.62mm shells for when the roaches emerge from the sewers
European apocalyptism: We need to stock up on vodka and 7.62mm shells for when the roaches emerge from the sewers
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Over on Whatever, I offer some thoughts on the new "Grokipedia," through the lens of the article it has up about... me.
(Spoiler, it's not great, for the reasons you probably suspect)
whatever.scalzi.com/2025/10/30/a...
(Spoiler, it's not great, for the reasons you probably suspect)
whatever.scalzi.com/2025/10/30/a...
A Review of Grokipedia, Using Myself as Test Subject
What? You didn’t know that Grokipedia exists? Well, it does, and it’s Elon Musk’s attempt to run Wikipedia out of town on a rail: An “AI”-generated compendium of infor…
whatever.scalzi.com
October 30, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Over on Whatever, I offer some thoughts on the new "Grokipedia," through the lens of the article it has up about... me.
(Spoiler, it's not great, for the reasons you probably suspect)
whatever.scalzi.com/2025/10/30/a...
(Spoiler, it's not great, for the reasons you probably suspect)
whatever.scalzi.com/2025/10/30/a...
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This is sometimes read as "look 'AI' isn't working". But the opposite is true.
_This_ is what "AI" is _for_. Push down labor power, push down wages, make employment more insecure.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/forrester_ai_rehiring/
_This_ is what "AI" is _for_. Push down labor power, push down wages, make employment more insecure.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/forrester_ai_rehiring/
October 30, 2025 at 12:05 PM
This is sometimes read as "look 'AI' isn't working". But the opposite is true.
_This_ is what "AI" is _for_. Push down labor power, push down wages, make employment more insecure.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/forrester_ai_rehiring/
_This_ is what "AI" is _for_. Push down labor power, push down wages, make employment more insecure.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/forrester_ai_rehiring/
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🧵 Yesterday I shared my views on how disordered discourse has captured the US state and the risk of that happening elsewhere, but I don’t want to leave you hanging without proposing a solution.
What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.
March 1, 2025 at 3:04 PM
🧵 Yesterday I shared my views on how disordered discourse has captured the US state and the risk of that happening elsewhere, but I don’t want to leave you hanging without proposing a solution.
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It's remarkable how straightforward and solvable most societal problems seem as long as you don't know shit about them
October 30, 2025 at 12:07 AM
It's remarkable how straightforward and solvable most societal problems seem as long as you don't know shit about them
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We gotta normalize responding to bullshit with "dude who fucking cares"
October 29, 2025 at 5:35 AM
We gotta normalize responding to bullshit with "dude who fucking cares"
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Part of ICE’s efforts will be setting up random traffic stops and checkpoints throughout the city and making educated guesses about who to detain and who not to detain. These 'Guess Stops' will be staffed by special agents known as Guess Stop Officers, or 'Guess-Stop-O for short.
ICE’s Training Manual for Determining Who to Terrorize
“The Supreme Court on Monday lifted a federal judge’s order prohibiting government agents from making indiscriminate immigration-related stops in t...
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September 27, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Part of ICE’s efforts will be setting up random traffic stops and checkpoints throughout the city and making educated guesses about who to detain and who not to detain. These 'Guess Stops' will be staffed by special agents known as Guess Stop Officers, or 'Guess-Stop-O for short.
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Kimmel should make his first show back all about Jeffrey Epstein
September 22, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Kimmel should make his first show back all about Jeffrey Epstein
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Excellent @stephenharrison.com piece about Wikipedia, breaking news, and the right wing outrage machine that's kicked into high gear around articles about Charlie Kirk and the killing of Iryna Zarutska.
slate.com/technology/2...
slate.com/technology/2...
September 17, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Excellent @stephenharrison.com piece about Wikipedia, breaking news, and the right wing outrage machine that's kicked into high gear around articles about Charlie Kirk and the killing of Iryna Zarutska.
slate.com/technology/2...
slate.com/technology/2...
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“A democratic society needs people in Ezra Klein’s position to treat Charlie Kirk’s anti-democracy stances as disqualifying, rather than pretend they’re just another policy opinion…”
@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social w/an excellent critique of Kirk hagiography
www.arcdigital.media/p/ezra-klein...
@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social w/an excellent critique of Kirk hagiography
www.arcdigital.media/p/ezra-klein...
Ezra Klein Accidentally Shows How the Media Brought Us Trump
The prominent liberal pundit made up a fake version of Charlie Kirk to praise, laundering his reputation the way a lot of mainstream media launders MAGA
www.arcdigital.media
September 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
“A democratic society needs people in Ezra Klein’s position to treat Charlie Kirk’s anti-democracy stances as disqualifying, rather than pretend they’re just another policy opinion…”
@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social w/an excellent critique of Kirk hagiography
www.arcdigital.media/p/ezra-klein...
@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social w/an excellent critique of Kirk hagiography
www.arcdigital.media/p/ezra-klein...
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The “Debate Me Bro” Grift: How Trolls Weaponized The Marketplace Of Ideas
Among the attempts to create hagiographic eulogies of Charlie Kirk, I’ve seen more than a few people suggest that Kirk should be respected for being willing to talk to “those who disagree with him” as a sign that he was…
Among the attempts to create hagiographic eulogies of Charlie Kirk, I’ve seen more than a few people suggest that Kirk should be respected for being willing to talk to “those who disagree with him” as a sign that he was…
The “Debate Me Bro” Grift: How Trolls Weaponized The Marketplace Of Ideas
Among the attempts to create hagiographic eulogies of Charlie Kirk, I’ve seen more than a few people suggest that Kirk should be respected for being willing to talk to “those who disagree with him” as a sign that he was engaging in good faith. Perhaps the perfect example of this is Ezra Klein’s silly eulogy claiming that Kirk was “
www.techdirt.com
September 17, 2025 at 4:31 PM
The “Debate Me Bro” Grift: How Trolls Weaponized The Marketplace Of Ideas
Among the attempts to create hagiographic eulogies of Charlie Kirk, I’ve seen more than a few people suggest that Kirk should be respected for being willing to talk to “those who disagree with him” as a sign that he was…
Among the attempts to create hagiographic eulogies of Charlie Kirk, I’ve seen more than a few people suggest that Kirk should be respected for being willing to talk to “those who disagree with him” as a sign that he was…
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I wrote a thing. As someone who survived the 1970s and kept the receipts.
Shocked by Epstein’s birthday book? That culture was everywhere before feminism | Rebecca Solnit
Feminism exposed the ubiquity of child abuse, rape, sexual harassment and domestic violence – and helped fight that culture
www.theguardian.com
September 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM
I wrote a thing. As someone who survived the 1970s and kept the receipts.
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So the paradox is that the people trying to ruin society have believed the lie that society has already been ruined. I have attempted to walk through it here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRxG...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRxG...
Your Apocalypse Fever is Driving Me Nuts
YouTube video by JasonKPargin
www.youtube.com
August 23, 2025 at 4:47 PM
So the paradox is that the people trying to ruin society have believed the lie that society has already been ruined. I have attempted to walk through it here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRxG...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRxG...
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nobody's afraid of the subway. they're afraid of having to witness poverty and having to share a physical space with people of color/queer people/teenagers etc. they don't like being uncomfortable and the thing that makes them most uncomfortable is *us*
August 24, 2025 at 1:38 AM
nobody's afraid of the subway. they're afraid of having to witness poverty and having to share a physical space with people of color/queer people/teenagers etc. they don't like being uncomfortable and the thing that makes them most uncomfortable is *us*
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this is maybe trite at this point but it is in your interest to find ways to create things. basically everyone wants you to be consuming nonstop. making stuff, from cooking to photography or whatever, can help you feel more in control. doesn’t even have to be something you share with other people
May 9, 2025 at 2:06 AM
this is maybe trite at this point but it is in your interest to find ways to create things. basically everyone wants you to be consuming nonstop. making stuff, from cooking to photography or whatever, can help you feel more in control. doesn’t even have to be something you share with other people
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It's LUCKY DAY WEEK!! Leah Schnelbach spoke with our favorite buckaroo @chucktingle.bsky.social about his new horror book, The Rehearsal season two, and applying creativity to fictional violence 🃏
reactormag.com/author-inter...
reactormag.com/author-inter...
Chuck Tingle Chats About Bi-Erasure, Andy Kaufman, and His New Novel, Lucky Day - Reactor
"In horror [...] you're proving love through some really dark stuff."
reactormag.com
August 14, 2025 at 2:41 PM
It's LUCKY DAY WEEK!! Leah Schnelbach spoke with our favorite buckaroo @chucktingle.bsky.social about his new horror book, The Rehearsal season two, and applying creativity to fictional violence 🃏
reactormag.com/author-inter...
reactormag.com/author-inter...
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The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?
August 13, 2025 at 10:29 PM
The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?
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a 1999 Batman comic about Robin's allergies helped normalize the idea of direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical ads! you can also make the argument that this comic is tenuously connected to a major Indian ecological crisis 1900hotdog.com/2025/08/nerd...
Nerding Day: Batman: Claritin Allergy Special Issue - 1-900-HOTDOG
Cursed artifacts from the wrong dimension every weekday.
1900hotdog.com
August 13, 2025 at 6:40 PM
a 1999 Batman comic about Robin's allergies helped normalize the idea of direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical ads! you can also make the argument that this comic is tenuously connected to a major Indian ecological crisis 1900hotdog.com/2025/08/nerd...
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Kto by się spodziewał, prawda?
Policjanci i agenci ABW z Wrocławia zatrzymali sprawcę dewastacji pomnika ofiar Rzezi Wołyńskiej, do której doszło w czwartek, 7 sierpnia Domostawie na Podkarpaciu. Jak się dowiadujemy, miał działać na zlecenie rosyjskiego wywiadu #Wyborcza #Rosja #Wołyń wroclaw.wyborcza.pl/wroclaw/7,35...
Pomnik ofiar Rzezi Wołyńskiej został zdewastowany na zlecenie rosyjskich służb
Policjanci i agenci ABW z Wrocławia zatrzymali sprawcę dewastacji pomnika ofiar Rzezi Wołyńskiej, do której doszło w czwartek, 7 sierpnia Domostawie na Podkarpaciu. Jak się dowiadujemy, miał działać n...
wroclaw.wyborcza.pl
August 13, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Kto by się spodziewał, prawda?
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Dolly Parton has sent my daughter a new book every month for years as she does for thousands of children. She help fund the development of the Covid vaccine. She’s not a billionaire. I think as non wealthy people it’s hard to even imagine how much billionaires *could* be doing with their money.
August 13, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Dolly Parton has sent my daughter a new book every month for years as she does for thousands of children. She help fund the development of the Covid vaccine. She’s not a billionaire. I think as non wealthy people it’s hard to even imagine how much billionaires *could* be doing with their money.
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#Ruleoflaw, the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, #EU legal frameworks - rings a bell?🔔
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💻Monitor legal + political developments in EU countries
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🤝Engage with policymakers, journalists & EU institutions
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August 7, 2025 at 9:23 AM
#Ruleoflaw, the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, #EU legal frameworks - rings a bell?🔔
Join our Europe team as a Research Officer in Berlin!
💻Monitor legal + political developments in EU countries
📊Produce timely analysis
🤝Engage with policymakers, journalists & EU institutions
Link to apply⬇️
Join our Europe team as a Research Officer in Berlin!
💻Monitor legal + political developments in EU countries
📊Produce timely analysis
🤝Engage with policymakers, journalists & EU institutions
Link to apply⬇️
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New piece! Anna Wójcik on the results of Poland’s presidential election, the factors that influenced the outcome, and the turbulent period of cohabitation ahead. Check it out!
@annawojcik.bsky.social
@annawojcik.bsky.social
Fertile Ground for Illiberalism: Poland’s New President and the Difficulties of Democratic Repair illiberalism.org |
Anna Wójcik on the results of Poland’s presidential election, the factors that influenced the outcome, and the turbulent period of cohabitation ahead.
www.illiberalism.org
August 5, 2025 at 3:54 PM
New piece! Anna Wójcik on the results of Poland’s presidential election, the factors that influenced the outcome, and the turbulent period of cohabitation ahead. Check it out!
@annawojcik.bsky.social
@annawojcik.bsky.social
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Social media isn’t real life. Fake controversies spun up to drive engagement isn’t real life. Don’t confuse this with real life. No one in real life is getting outraged by the fake outrage bait on social media except bots & the professionally outraged. Go love on a plant or pet. Cook something new
August 2, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Social media isn’t real life. Fake controversies spun up to drive engagement isn’t real life. Don’t confuse this with real life. No one in real life is getting outraged by the fake outrage bait on social media except bots & the professionally outraged. Go love on a plant or pet. Cook something new