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7 Sep, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Am apparently like 20 months late to the party on learning that Gareth Roberts has taken up a columnist position at "UnHerd" being a complete fascist cockwomble, and I'm SO EXCITED to read this terrible shit.
Right off the bat, "trans people are a bigger threat than Clause 28"!

THIS IS A FUCKING GOLDMINE, EXCEPT FOR STUPIDITY INSTED OF GOLD!
An entire article of "Morrissey was right!" Gareth, you absolute fuckwit, and here I was thinking you weren't funny anymore.
"Fandom is terrible" says man who owes his entire career to a fandom.

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7 Sep
Reading Catherine MacKinnon’s latest War on Porn boosting column in the NYT, and it’s genuinely stunning the sort of unsupported and flimsy bullshit that you can get away with publishing as long as your position is “porn bad.”
Like, the amount wrong with this paragraph is mindblowing. Calling the term “sex work” gaslighting, as if it wasn’t coined by someone working in the industry. Acting as though the plural of anecdote is data. Just appalling, C- high school essay writing here.
That’s setup for this astonishing attempt to assert universal experience among sex workers. No citations to speak of. Those that exist elsewhere in the piece are a quarter century old, dating back to pre-Internet sex work.
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6 Sep
Without thinking that assassination is a particularly effective political tactic, I suspect that its presence serves as a decent marker for the degree to which society considers the status quo inevitable.
If it's widely believe that the world can quickly and radically change some number of people will go for the quick fix, overly simplistic approach of just killing the guy at the top.
So, for instance, the rush of assassination attempts against Gerald Ford in September 1975 accurately captures the eschatological, "everything is in terrible flux" feel of the 1970s.
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13 Feb
I’m quoted in this, which does about as good a job overviewing the topic as a New York Times profile can be expected to. nytimes.com/2021/02/13/tec…
Major oversights in it as I see.

First, It does not acknowledge the fact that Yudkowsky is, at heart, a complete crank. This remains, to my mind, crucial to understanding the rationalist community’s influence on the world: they’re sci-fi writers being mistaken for scientists.
You can’t really understand the harmful effects of SSC until you realize that it’s part of a larger movement of bullshit artists serving as cult leaders to the techbros.
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13 Feb
Just had a really good meeting with my editors for the mysterious Project Hecate, and man am I glad sometimes for my ability to treat writing as a technical problem that can be engineered.
(I had a really interesting conversation with Penn along these lines a bit ago. I'd implied that I was treating a piece a particular way because I had a rhetorical need, and he asked for my real take about it.)
(I explained that I didn't have one; I had about a half dozen interesting essays about it that I could imagine writing or reading, and they all had worthwhile and irreconcilable points.)
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12 Feb
I greatly love the fact that I transitioned and was immediately like "and now I will get a bunch of tattoos."
(Huh. I don't actually have a photo of my finished leg piece. Will have to get one of those later along with the one I'll be getting in about ten minutes.)
My wrist piece, however. Designed by @jpennwiggins, executed by Carol Oddy at Medusa Tattoo in Ithaca, added scratches by the Norns.
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11 Feb
Just had someone assert that the heart of sci-fi was white English-speaking men while boasting about a project to cover “all” of SF “from H.G. Wells to the MCU,” and my dude, do not confuse the contours of the ass your head is up with the horizons of the world.
Advice for literally all media critics: if you start from the premise that the stuff you grew up liking is representative of the world you will end up with work that supports white supremacism.
This is, obviously, not to knock writing about the media of your childhood/adolescence. That’s an amazingly fruitful patch of ground to work. But much of why it’s interesting is what you didn’t see at the time, and all the people you could have been instead.
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