Pre-war Holotapes
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You best start believin' in post-apocalyptic narratives... you're in one
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You best start believin' in post-apocalyptic narratives... you're in one
there's always spots left on the dopamine carousel, price of admission may vary
January 16, 2026 at 7:30 PM
there's always spots left on the dopamine carousel, price of admission may vary
Doremus Jessup can never die.
January 16, 2026 at 3:14 AM
Doremus Jessup can never die.
Amazon going full Vault-Tec is exactly what the people expected, just a few decades before schedule ☢️
Good morning, prospective Vault Dwellers! Visit this website if you’d like to join Fallout Shelter, a new series full of escalating challenges, strategic dilemmas, and moral conundrums. Good luck! www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHJ0...
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January 15, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Amazon going full Vault-Tec is exactly what the people expected, just a few decades before schedule ☢️
📽: Winter Light (1963)
January 13, 2026 at 11:34 PM
📽: Winter Light (1963)
Happy birthday, Elvis
January 8, 2026 at 5:33 PM
Happy birthday, Elvis
The worst assumption you can make in strategic forecasting is consistency (unless you're only interested in narrow forecast windows). Change is inevitable, ceteris paribus is a fantasy of convenient models.
January 6, 2026 at 6:38 PM
The worst assumption you can make in strategic forecasting is consistency (unless you're only interested in narrow forecast windows). Change is inevitable, ceteris paribus is a fantasy of convenient models.
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I had a really fun time working on the code that was used to make these fallout visualizations for this USA Today article. I will soon be incorporating some of it into the NUKEMAP and probably making a version of this "mass attack fallout mapper" for public use. www.usatoday.com/graphics/int...
Fallout maps show how an attack on nuclear silos would impact US cities
USA TODAY mapped the far-reaching potential consequences of a nuclear strike against America's 450 nuclear missile silos.
www.usatoday.com
January 6, 2026 at 5:11 PM
I had a really fun time working on the code that was used to make these fallout visualizations for this USA Today article. I will soon be incorporating some of it into the NUKEMAP and probably making a version of this "mass attack fallout mapper" for public use. www.usatoday.com/graphics/int...
Some folks out there are *this* close to getting it but their focus is too narrow. Trumpism is bigger than oil and deportations, it's bigger than climate change denial.
It's the systematic response to overshoot.
It's the systematic response to overshoot.
January 5, 2026 at 12:29 PM
Some folks out there are *this* close to getting it but their focus is too narrow. Trumpism is bigger than oil and deportations, it's bigger than climate change denial.
It's the systematic response to overshoot.
It's the systematic response to overshoot.
🧵 Friendly reminder... overshoot begets totalitarianism. Today's U.S. military action in Venezuela has deeper strategic impact beyond oil reserves and short-term regime change
🧵 Friendly reminder... no matter how stupid the current batch of fascists appear to be, they are equally as dangerous to human lives. Hyperindividualized society just makes you easier to marginalize by a system of oppression.
Friendly reminder... the technology to implement an entirely totalitarian surveillance state exists and is very much in use already
January 3, 2026 at 5:31 PM
🧵 Friendly reminder... overshoot begets totalitarianism. Today's U.S. military action in Venezuela has deeper strategic impact beyond oil reserves and short-term regime change
At this point all you can do is laugh along with the boring dystopia
Trump just posted this photo of Maduro with the caption, "Nicolas Maduro on board the USS Iwo Jima." truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
January 3, 2026 at 4:56 PM
At this point all you can do is laugh along with the boring dystopia
My last movie of 2025, finally halfway through my AFI Top 100 chronological watch-thru, #50 - Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) - my 3rd time watching, already planning a rewatch for tomorrow. It's so bitter, so good. We'll meet again...
AFI watch #49/100 - To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) - a massive influence on culture, race politics, high school curriculum, and yes of course Hollywood courtroom dramas. Last watch Lawrence of Arabia is often assumed to be a white savior film, TKAM viewed in a modern perspective clearly is one
AFI watch #48/100 - Lawrence of Arabia (1962). There are a lot of war films on the AFI Top 100, 16 to be exact, David Lean is responsible for 2 of them. Brutally long, meticulously shot, well characterized, and deeply contemplative... could be talking about Lawrence or Bridge of the River Kwai there
December 30, 2025 at 6:20 AM
My last movie of 2025, finally halfway through my AFI Top 100 chronological watch-thru, #50 - Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) - my 3rd time watching, already planning a rewatch for tomorrow. It's so bitter, so good. We'll meet again...
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It's the most wonderful time of the year...when the @breakingviews.reuters.com team unwraps its predictions for the 12 months ahead. The 13 Days of Predictions kicks off with @gaberubin.bsky.social looking who will hold real power at the Federal Reserve. #BVPredicts
www.reuters.com/commentary/b...
www.reuters.com/commentary/b...
Breakingviews - Scott Bessent will be the real next Fed chair
The US Treasury Secretary’s tight grip on picking Jerome Powell’s replacement previews a new era for the central bank. A Bessent-led review of the Fed’s $6.6 trln balance sheet and bank regulations me...
www.reuters.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:08 PM
It's the most wonderful time of the year...when the @breakingviews.reuters.com team unwraps its predictions for the 12 months ahead. The 13 Days of Predictions kicks off with @gaberubin.bsky.social looking who will hold real power at the Federal Reserve. #BVPredicts
www.reuters.com/commentary/b...
www.reuters.com/commentary/b...
Waiting to start Fallout season 2 until I can find the time to muster a re-watch of s1. Soon! Planning a thread for live skeet reactions and other critical analysis, Atom knows I'll have a lot to say ☢️
December 19, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Waiting to start Fallout season 2 until I can find the time to muster a re-watch of s1. Soon! Planning a thread for live skeet reactions and other critical analysis, Atom knows I'll have a lot to say ☢️
irony is alive and well
yelling that Trump is doing something "against the law" is meaningless if there are no consequences
December 19, 2025 at 6:46 PM
irony is alive and well
In terms of economic tradeoff related to market-correcting mechanisms... there is often a choice between added complexity / higher cost VS. simplicity / lower cost.
The implications of the trade-off scale into the trillions.
The implications of the trade-off scale into the trillions.
December 17, 2025 at 12:53 PM
In terms of economic tradeoff related to market-correcting mechanisms... there is often a choice between added complexity / higher cost VS. simplicity / lower cost.
The implications of the trade-off scale into the trillions.
The implications of the trade-off scale into the trillions.
We all share the same lived-in reality even if we perceive it differently. Huxley said, "from family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes."
December 12, 2025 at 9:50 PM
We all share the same lived-in reality even if we perceive it differently. Huxley said, "from family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes."
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“We are moving into an era of rapid technological change, zero strategic trust, accelerating arms races, and political and social instability in much of the world. Everything in history tells us this looks like a pre-war era” – Walter Russell Mead, 2024
January 15, 2025 at 3:42 PM
“We are moving into an era of rapid technological change, zero strategic trust, accelerating arms races, and political and social instability in much of the world. Everything in history tells us this looks like a pre-war era” – Walter Russell Mead, 2024
To collapse is to fall together... all roads forward lead to resilience, otherwise our path ends here.
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December 10, 2025 at 6:21 PM
To collapse is to fall together... all roads forward lead to resilience, otherwise our path ends here.
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This afternoon in 1953, President Dwight D. Eisenhower announced his “Atoms for Peace” plan at the United Nations General Assembly, which led to the creation of the International Atomic Energy Agency and unwittingly—and paradoxically—made it much easier for states to develop nuclear weapons.
"Atoms for Peace" Was Actually a “Threat to Peace” – AEC Official in 1955
Washington, D.C., July 16, 2019 – The latest addition to the award-winning publications series The Digital National Security Archive provides a trove of important historical documentation on global nu...
nsarchive.gwu.edu
December 8, 2025 at 4:12 PM
This afternoon in 1953, President Dwight D. Eisenhower announced his “Atoms for Peace” plan at the United Nations General Assembly, which led to the creation of the International Atomic Energy Agency and unwittingly—and paradoxically—made it much easier for states to develop nuclear weapons.
That part in the original Flubber when Fred MacMurray maniacally runs his fiancée's new suitor off the road
December 7, 2025 at 8:11 PM
That part in the original Flubber when Fred MacMurray maniacally runs his fiancée's new suitor off the road
December 6, 2025 at 1:28 AM
How do you define yourself and your role on this planet? Are those separate or entwined?
December 5, 2025 at 10:59 PM
How do you define yourself and your role on this planet? Are those separate or entwined?
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Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
October 3, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Panic in Year Zero! (1962)
December 1, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Panic in Year Zero! (1962)
AFI watch #49/100 - To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) - a massive influence on culture, race politics, high school curriculum, and yes of course Hollywood courtroom dramas. Last watch Lawrence of Arabia is often assumed to be a white savior film, TKAM viewed in a modern perspective clearly is one
AFI watch #48/100 - Lawrence of Arabia (1962). There are a lot of war films on the AFI Top 100, 16 to be exact, David Lean is responsible for 2 of them. Brutally long, meticulously shot, well characterized, and deeply contemplative... could be talking about Lawrence or Bridge of the River Kwai there
AFI watch #47/100 - West Side Story (1961) - forgot to log this one. Is it culturally significant? Sure. Is it the best Romeo & Juliet adaptation? No, IMO. Film is best watched if the viewer jumps in completely and stops trying to intellectually digest the weird bits (like Natalie Wood in brownface)
December 1, 2025 at 2:30 AM
AFI watch #49/100 - To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) - a massive influence on culture, race politics, high school curriculum, and yes of course Hollywood courtroom dramas. Last watch Lawrence of Arabia is often assumed to be a white savior film, TKAM viewed in a modern perspective clearly is one