Anthony Ha

“A Brief History of the Afterlife,” in the March/April issue of Asimov’s. Embarrassingly proud of this one.

not sure “ah well this is an old version of chatgpt” is going to cut it here www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/w...

Reading: not actually dead www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

I’m sure folks know this but you don’t need to know about dual cooling systems to know that you don’t want or need a data center in your community. Additionally, no, we don’t need a Black-owned data center in the name of a “seat at the table.” just to get out ahead on that foolishness.

“everyone shut up and let your neighbors be kidnapped and murdered in the street. a substack guy thinks that might slightly increase Democrats’ odds of winning the next election”

“I have come to believe, at least in the U.S., that those who can't, buy.”

Inside the humanities we’re slowly losing our minds as we shout this til we’re hoarse—of course education in the name of ROI is an ideological project! Of course, treating knowledge as a content strategy results in bullshit! Still bracing to read this eloquent call to close the business schools

wanted to test this out so i made my @anthonyha.bsky.social fever dream into a game, idk man bubbling-gleeful-dell.attie.site

well well well

colin farrell erasure?? defector.com/its-normal-t...

"It's already here, what do you mean you think you can refuse?" is just another variation of the agency-stealing inevitability narrative. The future is not yet written, and we can shape it, starting with rejecting inevitability and claiming our agency. /fin

Green Lantern hates AI (Green Lantern #66, script by john broome, pencils by mike sekowsky)

"If more books were published by men with explicitly masculine themes, would there actually be a wider male readership?" This is very much in the Platnerian mode that presumes all men are only attracted to content by, for, and possibly about Tim "The Tool Man" Taylor. jacobin.com/2026/10/lone...

“X, a semi-reliable indicator of where the billionaire’s mind is” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...

Something I will never understand as long as I live is phony intellectual Republicans giving free advice to Democrats. The only advice I have for Republican politicians I'd care to share with them can't be posted on here

Defund and abolish ICE. Melt down their weapons and shift its budget to social services and affordable housing. Ban everyone who led or worked for ICE from any government job. Corporate death penalty for the companies that aided them. Citizenship to all of its victims, should they want it.

An ICE agent on the scene of a shooting in upper Manhattan on Thursday has repeatedly been accused in federal court of unlawful arrests and using force during arrests in New York and Minneapolis, a WIRED investigation finds.

same thing as the plastic lock boxes everything is behind in drug stores now. hugely inconvenient security theater built to manage a practically nonexistent issue for a completely disconnected executive class

This sucks, absolutely braindead to look at traffic jams of people lining up to leave the station and think “oooh nice let’s build more of these” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/n...

"Librarians are defenders of democracy. We’re defenders of the freedom to read. We’re protectors of patron privacy. Libraries are one of the few places in this surveillance economy that are not trying to collect and sell your data." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I worry in the next few years we're all going to have to have some patient, complicated conversations with older or less media-engaged relatives who see the le epic trump takedown posts but do not stuff like this about who Gavin Newsom Really Is

End the death penalty. End it now. There is no reason for it, never.

I'm interviewing Bluesky execs on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt in a few weeks, so it's only fitting to ask on Bluesky... what do people want to know?

It's easy - and correct! - to focus on just how ghoulish and profane this view of human creativity is. But even if you're the most cynical capitalist on earth, the evidence that people would enjoy entirely dehumanised content, at anything like a scale that would justify this hype, is extremely thin!

Every billboard in San Francisco looks like it was cut from a Verhoeven movie for being too broad

Imagine looking at the media landscape—music, books, movies—and concluding that it would be better if it were all simply infinite reflections of yourself, if you never had to be exposed to another personality, another experience, another life. Just you, you, you. Sounds fucking horrifying.

A better way to phrase this Variety headline would be "Publicity Seeker Who Invented A Program Continues Long Con"

Probably reflects my weird tech-adjacent "career," but this was also surprising to me since most of my job interviews have either been over the phone or in coffee shops

She’s not subtle about it either!

When will the people who argued in April 2025 that Democrats should stay silent on immigration own up to being frankly just disastrously wrong about the politics of mass deportations? Their punditry basically bordered on enablement