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A primer on hetconning for new readers: hetconned.substack.com I’m interested in fantasy as a political technology, and the markets the contemporary right are setting up to sell those fantasies to further the wider right-wing project. Hetconning is the frame I’m using to map and examine them.

Shared my closing remarks from an event this week launching landmark research into the gendered harms of AI:

Some news... 1. If We Tolerate This sold just shy of 5,000 copies in its first two months. Thanks to everyone who has read, responded to or shared the book so far. 2. If you haven't yet, it's only 99p on kindle for the whole of October. Get involved! www.amazon.co.uk/If-We-Tolera...

Loved talking about Hetconned on Yeah Nah Pasaran, Andy and Cam are champs and I hope I made sense with my weird little project.

@rothschildmd.bsky.social dug deep into the archives, listening to hours of conspiracy theory radio from 9/11. As he put it, America's collective "descent into paranoia started even as the Towers were still burning." talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/on-9-11...

This is the kind of event that provokes Murdoch’s commentariat & Atlas Network partner people to have several junktanks geared to break the 🇦🇺 law like the Federalist Society broke 🇺🇸. These fossil fuel-linked players want federalism ➡️ free states from federal mandate, for the donors. #Auspol

As of July 1, Vietnam's updated Cybersecurity Law took effect, Khadija Alam reports for Tech Policy Press. What counts as a violation now extends beyond memes and "fake news" to boycott calls, "causing division," and more.

“I should probably get across the literature on nostalgia before going further” nek minnit:

“Straw knighting” 👏👏👏 open.substack.com/pub/counterc...

[sticks finger in toaster] "how did i get burned, i thought it loved me"

the biggest hurdle to me pursuing further postgrad studies is that i’d look like this standing in front of people going “don’t you want THIS as part of your faculty?!”

It's publication day! Mine and @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social's book is now available anywhere books are sold: www.mqup.ca/Books/F/For-...

I still think these two paragraphs from Ganz are the most important contemporary political writing

1/ We keep asking the wrong question about deepfakes. The real question isn't whether voters get fooled into changing their minds. It's whether they get confused enough to stay home. The math is brutal. And in 2026, it's already working at precinct level. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy

I appreciate the military angle here, gives it a certain je ne sais quoi. I also appreciate seeing people use the term fantasy here, as I go about my little project mapping them even though nobody asked: hetconned.substack.com/p/traditiona...

Was in the fortunate position of interviewing some researchers recently and one of my questions was “If we put all your research on a big corkboard, what would be the common threads between it all?” & i’ve been doing amateur Freudian analysis on my own output ever since it doesn’t look good folks!

My latest. America is giving dying mall vibes. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

Always happy to have a constructive conversation about my writing and thinking but I will be a bit of a noodge and insist that such critiques engage with what I actually said and not something you made up ✌️

Milestone reached: a post of mine is doing the rounds with people who have fundamentally misunderstood what I was saying and are calling me a fucker about it

Uh oh, the bat signal