Break Down

The Break Down

Reader Rudolph Harrier comments on a previous post: What makes things worse is that Zoomers have only learned how to deal with existing services. Music sites everywhere are littered with comments of “I heard a song I liked but it’s not on Spotify so how can I listen to it…
Digital Infrastructure Crisis

The Competency Crisis

Admit it. You've noticed. Once-straightforward routines are now frustrating ordeals. What used to be quick errands now stretch into weeks-long hassles. Formerly simple interactions have become convoluted, too often ineffective, exercises in hoop-jumping. Just yesterday, you could take it for granted that the software your job depends on would work…
Twitter X Ban

Burned Book Banned?

A year ago, I went on record speculating that Elon Musk may have bought Twitter to destroy it. If the latest wave of censorship on the embattled platform - including dissident account ban waves and the apparent implementation of a subtler "social credit" style policy are any indication, Twitter's demise…
pornographer

Utah, Louisiana Give Pornhub the Boot

With Satanists congregating in major cities and schools pushing to mutilate kids, it's refreshing to see Conservative lawmakers catching up to private organizations on the smut front. The adult content website Pornhub blocked access in Utah on Monday due to new state laws requiring websites with adult content to verify users' ages…
Civilizational Decay

Civilizational Decay

In the midst of this civilizational decay, it's easy to forget that the gradual but snowballing affronts to human nature that brought us here were billed as steps toward a sexy, gleaming utopia. The myth of progress is as central to the Death Cult as salvation is to Christianity. Which…
Nick Fuentes Is Back

Promise Kept

The whole Elon Musk - Twitter saga elicited a lot of comment. From the beginning you had people saying it was all a grift or a publicity stunt. I said last year that Musk's purchase of Twitter would be completed in the fall, and it would take until early in…
A.I. Art 4

Anti-A.I. Astroturf

As I mentioned last time, the upsurge in anti-A.I. art sentiment doesn't seem entirely organic to me. People had been talking about art algorithms like Midjourney and Stable Diffusion for a while. My friend, author David V. Stewart, even did some videos on A.I. book cover design. Sure, these algos…
A.I. 2001

The Great A.I. Art Debate

As you read this post, a debate is raging on author Twitter about A.I.-generated book covers. Some are hailing these art algorithms as the best publishing innovation since Gutenberg. Others are ... denouncing A.I. as demonic? Or something. To be honest, I can't get a read on the most emphatic…
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…
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…