Katya Grishakova
@katyagrishakova.bsky.social
Writer, Former i-banker, poker player
Check out my novel: https://www.amazon.com/Hermit-Novel-Katerina-Grishakova/dp/B0CW85S89G/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3F
Check out my novel: https://www.amazon.com/Hermit-Novel-Katerina-Grishakova/dp/B0CW85S89G/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3F
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I reviewed HBO's "Mountainhead" for The Metropolitan Review.
I reviewed HBO's "Mountainhead" for The Metropolitan Review.
Model Collapse
On Jesse Armstrong's 'Mountainhead'
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June 25, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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I reviewed HBO's "Mountainhead" for The Metropolitan Review.
I reviewed HBO's "Mountainhead" for The Metropolitan Review.
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Why are tech bros restless? An investigation.
Why are tech bros restless? An investigation.
CRITIQUE OF INFINITE FREEDOM
Why are tech bros restless?
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May 10, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Why are tech bros restless? An investigation.
Why are tech bros restless? An investigation.
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To get your mind off things for a bit, check out my new essay on niche cult 1991 flick 'Harley Davidson and Marlboro Man'.
To get your mind off things for a bit, check out my new essay on niche cult 1991 flick 'Harley Davidson and Marlboro Man'.
HARLEY DAVIDSON AND THE MARLBORO MAN (AND THE POWER OF THE UNCONSCIOUS)
An in-depth look into a niche 1991 cult movie
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April 9, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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To get your mind off things for a bit, check out my new essay on niche cult 1991 flick 'Harley Davidson and Marlboro Man'.
To get your mind off things for a bit, check out my new essay on niche cult 1991 flick 'Harley Davidson and Marlboro Man'.
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it is shocking the extent to which they openly sneer at morality
February 22, 2025 at 2:45 AM
it is shocking the extent to which they openly sneer at morality
It's like when Night King/White Walkers turned a dragon into their own.
February 20, 2025 at 9:01 PM
It's like when Night King/White Walkers turned a dragon into their own.
Precisely. When a government functions you *don't notice* that it functions.
Government’s wins are often invisible: Systems that avoid plane crashes; alliances that avert war; surveillance that prevent pandemics.
Government wins are often *the avoidance of loss.*
So how do we tell the story of the destruction of government? The story of future losses *not* averted?
Government wins are often *the avoidance of loss.*
So how do we tell the story of the destruction of government? The story of future losses *not* averted?
February 16, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Precisely. When a government functions you *don't notice* that it functions.
"We wanted to get tax cuts and deregulation. But NOT LIKE THIS!"
February 15, 2025 at 3:12 PM
"We wanted to get tax cuts and deregulation. But NOT LIKE THIS!"
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My first novel The Hermit is being republished by Skyhorse Press in March. In the meantime, I'd like to offer a sample chapter from my second novel that I've been working on for the last 2 years. It's about the demise of Atlantic City.
My first novel The Hermit is being republished by Skyhorse Press in March. In the meantime, I'd like to offer a sample chapter from my second novel that I've been working on for the last 2 years. It's about the demise of Atlantic City.
Excerpt from my second novel.
(This particular chapter is about bankers, but the novel is about Atlantic City. Lots of Tool references here. KG)
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February 14, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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My first novel The Hermit is being republished by Skyhorse Press in March. In the meantime, I'd like to offer a sample chapter from my second novel that I've been working on for the last 2 years. It's about the demise of Atlantic City.
My first novel The Hermit is being republished by Skyhorse Press in March. In the meantime, I'd like to offer a sample chapter from my second novel that I've been working on for the last 2 years. It's about the demise of Atlantic City.
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i am grateful to Trump and especially Musk for making so powerful and visceral a case that wealth taxes — at levels quite confiscatory for a while, to remedy past lassitude — are an absolute necessity, prerequisite to a sustainable democratic society.
Honestly if they all went to jail but Musk got to keep his wealth and freedom that would still be unsatisfactory - and dangerous, as he would prepare for vengeance.
February 2, 2025 at 8:00 PM
i am grateful to Trump and especially Musk for making so powerful and visceral a case that wealth taxes — at levels quite confiscatory for a while, to remedy past lassitude — are an absolute necessity, prerequisite to a sustainable democratic society.
Unintended consequences of elimination of Chevron doctrine by SCOTUS: more difficult for DOGE/Musk to dismantle administrative state.
January 22, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Unintended consequences of elimination of Chevron doctrine by SCOTUS: more difficult for DOGE/Musk to dismantle administrative state.
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If you were a right-wing strategist, designing some group that would discredit left-wing politics, how would it differ from Code Pink?
January 21, 2025 at 3:38 PM
If you were a right-wing strategist, designing some group that would discredit left-wing politics, how would it differ from Code Pink?
Lots of Chinese pages appeared on my FB feed today. Blocking all, along with other unsolicited crap.
January 19, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Lots of Chinese pages appeared on my FB feed today. Blocking all, along with other unsolicited crap.
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there's not really any contradiction between being on the left and being broadly patriotic these days because the revealed policy preferences of the American right are for the united states to be a more dysfunctional, poorer, and less globally powerful country that also hurts more people abroad
January 17, 2025 at 3:55 AM
there's not really any contradiction between being on the left and being broadly patriotic these days because the revealed policy preferences of the American right are for the united states to be a more dysfunctional, poorer, and less globally powerful country that also hurts more people abroad
Yes.
the fact that guys are heavily invested in cryptocurrency are backing trump to the hilt is not despite the fact that his economic policy will crash the economy. it's because the destruction of the american economy is part of the underlying theory of how they end up owning everything
January 17, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Yes.
It suddenly feels like Sauron got the ring.
January 8, 2025 at 5:53 PM
It suddenly feels like Sauron got the ring.
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Daily reminder that the underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.
Anyway, AI has already stolen friends’ work, and is going to put other people out of work.
I do not think a political party that claims to be the party of workers in this country should be using it. Even for just a silly joke.
I do not think a political party that claims to be the party of workers in this country should be using it. Even for just a silly joke.
December 26, 2024 at 8:34 PM
Daily reminder that the underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.
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Best New Yorker story I read in a while. Written with economy, precision and lyricism. From 1938.
Best New Yorker story I read in a while. Written with economy, precision and lyricism. From 1938.
A Crowdfunded Christmas
In 1933, Joseph Mitchell wrote about a couple living in a cave in Central Park. Then the money started to arrive.
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December 25, 2024 at 6:39 PM
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Best New Yorker story I read in a while. Written with economy, precision and lyricism. From 1938.
Best New Yorker story I read in a while. Written with economy, precision and lyricism. From 1938.
Idiotic. But he will try.
Oh hell yes, let's absolutely get rid of the FDIC. Would love to have re learn all the lessons of the New Deal again.
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Exclusive | Trump Advisers Seek to Shrink or Eliminate Bank Regulators
Advisers asked potential nominees whether Trump could abolish the FDIC.
www.wsj.com
December 13, 2024 at 12:41 AM
Idiotic. But he will try.
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This is too funny.
This is too funny.
Led Zeppelin II, if it was recorded in the 50s
YouTube video by marceve76
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December 6, 2024 at 2:23 AM
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This is too funny.
This is too funny.
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Sharing this here. It's such an astute and detailed diagnosis of current culture's artistic and moral stagnation (because of its constant focus on self). Please, no more 'poor me, look at me' stories/films/novels etc. Art should focus on how one should live.
Sharing this here. It's such an astute and detailed diagnosis of current culture's artistic and moral stagnation (because of its constant focus on self). Please, no more 'poor me, look at me' stories/films/novels etc. Art should focus on how one should live.
Art and Our Cult of the Self
A cult of the self shapes much of our lives. Its cardinal conviction is that the self is sacred. Via its often stealthy influence, self-worship has risen to riddle our culture and politics. To explain...
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December 5, 2024 at 6:19 PM
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Sharing this here. It's such an astute and detailed diagnosis of current culture's artistic and moral stagnation (because of its constant focus on self). Please, no more 'poor me, look at me' stories/films/novels etc. Art should focus on how one should live.
Sharing this here. It's such an astute and detailed diagnosis of current culture's artistic and moral stagnation (because of its constant focus on self). Please, no more 'poor me, look at me' stories/films/novels etc. Art should focus on how one should live.
Oh, hello. I'm a bulldog and who are you?
December 1, 2024 at 9:25 PM
Oh, hello. I'm a bulldog and who are you?
How beautiful is Philly.
December 1, 2024 at 9:24 PM
How beautiful is Philly.
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Four scenarios for Trumpomuskovia, the musko-trumpified America
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Trumpomuskovia
Four scenarios
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November 30, 2024 at 4:29 PM
Four scenarios for Trumpomuskovia, the musko-trumpified America
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