I hope everyone is enjoying Superego: Fathom. I envy you, getting to experience my writing for the first time. That is a memory you will cherish until the day you die.
Man, I hate marketing. I also hate giving things away for free. But you can profit from my pain.
I should post pictures of my kids. "Here's who you're stealing food from the mouths of by getting it for free. I hope you're happy."
It wouldn't be honest, though. My kids love beans and rice. They're super cheap to feed.
Nah, I’m going to do it.
This is Winchester. He is unable to walk because of a rare condition called “being a baby.” I hope you enjoy your free copy of Superego: Fathom, the money from which could have gone toward buying him tiny Air Jordans.
So some of you will get a free copy, but you're going to feel bad.
TANSTAAFL.
The five free copies of Superego: Fathom on Audible were handed out. If I didn't DM you, that means you now have to buy one at full price (1 Audible credit -- they're like those gold coins from John Wick: everything costs one).
Look on the bright side: When you pay full price, you know a portion of that money will go toward buying Winchester toys with flashing lights so he’s not always yelling at me to play with him.
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Everyone jumps on you if you question the narrative, but why are people resistant to new information? If you’re so sure, you should welcome this questioning. I’m going to talk about something you won’t hear in the history books: You should press your face against a hot stove /1
I can hear all the NPCs now: “No! Stove will burn your face!” That’s all you’ve been taught to say. You never think for yourself. You never actually put your face on a hot stove. You just know what you’ve been told to parrot /2
In the real world, things are not that simple as “hot stove burn face.” It’s more complex than that. Now, I’m not saying no one has been burned by a stove — I’m just saying the idea that you should never put your face on a hot stove is rather simplistic /3
New game: Try to get Google Gemini to make an image of a Caucasian male. I have not been successful so far.
I’ve tried to trick it by giving it negative prompts — asking it to make a prison inmate, a gang member, and a dictator — but it won’t make any negative prompts. These AIs are such wet blankets.
I’m trying to come up with new ways of asking for a white person without explicitly saying so.
When a blood test said our daughter had Trisomy 13 -- a condition where something like 80% don't live through the first year -- we never thought about dismembering her in the womb. Are we weird?
Killing someone you decided is inconvenient, I guess, is a solution to a lot of problems, but -- and this may be my religious extremism talking -- it's wrong.
I mentally prepared for the idea I'd have a child who would need a lot of care and most likely wouldn't live long. Would that get in the way of more important things? No. What in the world is more important than your child's life.
What I hate about the calls for ceasefire is how infuriatingly mindless they are. Israel isn’t going to just roll over and let Hamas murder them because some over-privileged college students in the U.S. disapprove of them. If you think Israel is doing it wrong, explain how you would destroy Hamas and make sure another October 7th never occurs or shut up, you useless turd.
“I just care about the Palestinians so much!”
Sorry, I don’t believe you. If you cared, you’d take things seriously enough to know how pointless your protesting is. You’re not going to protest people into accepting getting murdered.
And don’t just say the Jews have to be nicer and then people will want to murder them less. They’ve heard that before; it doesn’t work.
As you may have seen, I've lost my Twitter verification badge. I desperately want it back, and am hoping to raise funds to do so. By my wife's accounting, if I get 50 more paid subscribers to my Substack, I'll be able to afford Twitter Blue.
Winchester's monocle will have to wait, though. So please subscribe to my Substack and help me get my blue check.
I always thought the checks were useful even before I ever had a chance of obtaining one because it's nice to know at a glance a tweet is from an actual public figure. The removing of verification marks of people already verified just hurts the Twitter experience for everyone.
Making the verification badge not a status symbol was a good idea. Elon's solution, though, of turning it into a reverse status symbol is worse than the status quo.
If he had just opened up verification to anyone with Twitter Blue (or maybe would pay a one-time fee since it's a one-time thing) and made the badge indistinguishable from legacy verifications. that would fix things. I don't understand how that simple solution eluded him.