Took a break from culture warring to write about human extinction for The Newspaper. Preventing human extinction is the greatest challenge we will face this century. But we’re also in the midst of a decidedly unhelpful panic about human extinction. It’s not the first time. 🧵

But wouldn't it be so much easier if abuser were reducible to a preternatural destiny to abuse, if we mustn't think of any causes that make them that way, if we did not have to consider the things we share in common with them ... wouldn't it just be easier?! Of course it would.

Some people adopt the aesthetics of Marxism solely because they think it gives them an empirical excuse to be joyless scolds

i’ve caught heat every time i’ve been critical of the “covid conscious” crowd but this is exactly the cruel and downright insane mentality i’ve been criticizing for ages. and yet you can’t even draw attention to it without them going “SO YOU WANT TO DO EUGENICS” in bad faith

Newsletter: Based on estimates of their burn rate and historic analyses, I hypothesize that OpenAI will collapse in the next 12-24 months unless it raises more funding than in the history of the valley and creates an entirely new form of AI. wheresyoured.at/to-serve-altma…

The popular ethnonationalist idea of the exile as a nebulous, continuous event incl instances of victimhood from the 8th C BC through at least the Romans & its key claim that most Jews left the region have the same historical status as the plot of Kingdom Hearts.

the idea that people in the global south are homophobic for noble, anti-capitalist reasons is condescending from a really incredible and specific angle

The Israeli-Palestine Conflict as we know it truly starts in 1948, and the occupation specifically fully sprouts in 1967. The idea that this is a conflict that stretches towards the beginning of time is a trope common with nationalist histories; it’s also bullshit

Serbian and Bosnian Serb nationalists assert that their ownership over their lands and of Bosnia stretches to time immemorial, German nationalists argue that their ancestral lands inside Poland are integral to their identity, Indian nationalists say this about Kashmir

My roommate and I have the perfect roommate relationship

These are the names in that Crowley grimoire

“Jumpscared by free 🆓Palestine chants and stalked by humming mobs” sure man

People in the comments deliberately forget that Biden and the Dems are to the right of Ronald Reagan on this issue. Israel can sink one of our naval ships and we will apologize for the inconvenience!

agoraphobia is real and treated with going places and doing things unfortunately

"so I thought of this line from Camus, which everyone has subsequently agreed was correct and virtuous"

Putting "fascism is a tendency with a psychological dimension which is universally immanent" on the list of takes that were mainstream and agreed upon in the mid-century that everyone's too narcissistic to acknowledge now

An actual genocide survivor says "we all have a little fascist in us, even me" & a bunch of very shallow people inadvertently start proving the point by saying "speak for yourself! I'm clean & good!"

Sturgeon's Law one of the worst aspects of Trump era twitter, dull headline engagement farming mixed with even duller moral grandstanding that hinges on being deliberately obtuse. left liberal version of Elonslop