Embrace the Void

My book officially has a cover! I'm so excited to watch it materialize. Next stop, pre-orders!

“Popular NYC Mayor fucks with NYPD to play some pick up games”. I’m begging you, we cannot like him anymore please stop.

Literally in the middle of writing a piece about the problem with AI disclosure in the current climate.

Once again, Peter Thiel doesn’t want anyone else immanentizing the eschaton because that’s his job.

I’ve been saying this for years now. The problem is the meritocracy illusion. AI is just exposing it on a massive scale.

The meritocracy illusion is bad and we would be better off without it.

Galton figured it out?! Galton? This is a low point. This one hurts. 😅

Automated prayer wheels!

They really had me in the first half there.

By this same logic isn’t Jesse a leader amongst the anti-woke activist class, the class that he thinks are the real problem?

I’m also terrified about the next two years no matter how well the election goes.

Horrifying how dominant incel culture is in these spaces.

The wildest part is both men are such absolute cowards and venal narcissists that neither can even manage to take credit for their absurd abuses of power. Just the worst class of Nazis imaginable.

Fielder: Would you deceive your Sultan? Scheming Eunuchs: Of coursssse not. Why would we do that? There’s no reason to. Fielder: … Scheming Eunuchs: …here, some tea will sooth your concerns sire.

Me, shaking and crying: Please sir, I’m begging you, stop… Trump, pointing at a seagull: America

Saw Resident Evil and You Can See Everything this weekend. Real golden age of horror comedy.

Combining the week’s top cursed news events by announcing that Elon’s failbot that disappeared shortly after roll-out will be taking over as press secretary.

It never occurred to me that you could speedrun the Peter Principle (every employee rises to their level of incompetence), but here we are.

We've hit Scaramucci epicycles people.

“Meritocracy is really just a way [to support] the status quo of a dominant white, male envrnmnt…”

Please make this happen. One boxers of the world, let us rise up and infuriate the two boxers! Rationality is for nerds! The truly rational choice is watching the world burn.

This is like the scenes at the end of WW2 movies where they’re taking Berlin and all the Nazi soldiers are 14.

New ETV out for everyone! I'm joined by @profstorm.bsky.social to discuss his excellent new book The Genealogy of Genealogy. Great dive into a concept that gets thrown around a lot with not enough clarity on the baggage it carries. Enjoy!

From the folks who brought you “they’re promoting cannibalism in schools”

AI rapidly making meritocracy illusion based systems untenable.

This is art.

Deservingness is bad and makes people think badly.

These sorts of stories feel like they’re grown in a lab to give the impression these folks are the dumbest possible incarnation of the adeptus mechanicus. Not saying that they’re inaccurate, just that Poe’s law remains undefeated.

Trying to fathom the individual who is still trying to defend Gamergate in the year 2026 but does it via a Bluesky account. Is this the centrism of which I’ve heard so much?

I had a great time on The Ideal with Shawn Edwards for my first (of hopefully many) upcoming interviews about my rapidly approaching new book Luckpilled: Compassion, Justice and Hope in a World Nobody Deserves! Preorders start January 12th! www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/luckpilled/9...

My ban on reading anything from Brooks remains undefeated.

Having friends tell me they’re being forced to shift from Artificial Intelligence to Superintelligence in their work docs is gonna make me the Joker. The amount of confusion and fuckery we must all suffer cause of one deeply cooked brain. I cannot.

Gonna be my most evergreen article:

This is a pretty decent summary tbh.

raise revenue and undercut right-populism with One Weird Trick (capitalists HATE this)

Checking out the new Carrie show on Amazon. I'm not sure what I think of the show overall yet, but casting Samantha Sloyan from Midnight Mass as Carrie's mom is an extremely strong opening move. She has amazing resting fanatic face.

As both a virtue ethicist and as a hard problem mysterian I think this is pretty neet!

I’m surprised they’re not doing it on the WH lawn and selling tickets.