Twitter Grave

Greatly Exaggerated?

Back near the beginning of fall, I predicted that Elon Musk's Twitter buyout would make for popcorn-munching entertainment. Twitter may be the runty junior member of Big Social, but it's the main pipeline through which the regime issues firmware updates to Millennial NPCs. So Musk used Twitter's own subpar track…
November 18, 20228 Comments
NotMadMaxYet

Not Mad Max Yet

If you frequent online dissident circles, you'll soon encounter the idea of the collapse. Though devised by history scholars a century ago, the idea that civilization now faces a great decline is popular with ex-Trump supporters alienated by the MAGA movement's failure. Embracing the collapse, they say, is the final…
November 17, 20223 Comments
Trump 2024 Announcement

Daddy’s Not Coming Back

For the past year, right-wing social  media has been rife with pseudo-messianism surrounding Donald Trump's expected 2024 presidential bid. His supporters' fervor has devolved to infighting with backers of Florida governor Ron DeSantis. What everybody missed among the political theater is that national elections no longer matter. They haven't for…
November 16, 202215 Comments
Trump DeSantis

Political Theater

Whatever your opinion of the midterm election results, the one conclusion no sane, intelligent person can draw from this public farce is that the system works. With a brain trauma patient going to the senate, the only explanations are that the process is rigged, so the people's will doesn't matter;…
November 15, 20228 Comments
Gen Y Swag

Swag Rich, Spirit Poor

On the occasion of a visit to the US, Mother Teresa was heard to marvel at the poverty of New York compared to Calcutta. She wasn't talking about material poverty. The US has some of the richest poor in the world, as the Mammon Mob loves to point out. Instead,…
November 14, 202215 Comments
Afterglow Gen Y

Afterglow: Generation Y

The latest collection from author David V. Stewart is out now! Who was Generation Y? Not even they themselves seem to remember. Perched between the cynical Generation X and the activist Millennials, Generation Y was a cohort that lived on both sides of the divide. They had an analogue childhood…
November 11, 20225 Comments
Metaverse

Betaverse

In tech news, the internet is still dead. And its much-hyped replacement looks to be stillborn. Meta Platforms Inc (META.O) said on Wednesday it would cut more than 11,000 jobs, or 13% of its workforce, in one of the year's biggest layoffs as the Facebook parent battles soaring costs from…
November 10, 20223 Comments
Senate Horse

Caligula’s Horse

In the Before-fore Times, this post would open with "The results are in ..." But this is the now-now in Clown World. So we won't have the exact vote count from last night's midterms for weeks - if ever. People hate prognosticators who make rosy predictions that turn out wrong.…
November 9, 20229 Comments
Funko Stock

Funko Bounces Back

People with taste celebrated on Friday, when Funko stock plummeted almost 60 percent. But like the antagonist in the last minutes of an 80s slasher flick, Funko has bounced back. Left for dead by a great many investors late last week, Funko (FNKO 0.59%) stock experienced quite the revival on…
November 8, 20228 Comments
Biden MAGA

The MAGA Paradox

The first midterm elections since the establishment honeypot setup that ended Trump's presidency are upon us. Now the MAGA movement faces a crisis - in the original sense of a trial or a test. Can it survive the shift from two-party presidential politics to put up effective dissent against the…
November 7, 202217 Comments