we need a philanthropist to pay a bunch of people to log off and move to a village away from AI slop before they've been contaminated. it'll be like the global seed vault but for protecting cognitive diversity from brainrot.

what does it say that "old grandparent figure consoles you with their wisdom" has become a major YouTube genre?

DON’T MAKE NANCY MAD

many such cases...

"He was too clever to be happy, not clever enough to be successful." CV Wedgwood

Why don’t I spend more time on the porch checking out the moon?

I'm happy to announce that Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right received an honorable mention for the SFRA Book Award.

I highly recommend Speculative Whiteness by Jordan S. Carroll. An essential analysis of how the alt-right weaponizes sci-fi to craft a racialized, authoritarian vision of the future. An important read to grasp the cultural strategies of neo-authoritarian rights...

What can belief make us humans do? Join us at Writing the Occult: Belief on 6 Sept where we ask: What’s it like to live in a cult? Why do people get swept away by charismatic leaders? Where do conspiracy theories come from? Let’s ask if the truth really is out there. 🧵⬇️

Thanks — I'm looking forward to this talk!

Before Musk and Thiel, a shadow history throws the often idealistic hopes of progressive science-fiction cultures into stark and unstable relief artreview.com/space-racism-h…

#sciencefiction #scifi #history #politics #CriticalThinking spectrul.ro/2025/08/20/alb… Very happy to have translated an older interview with Jordan S. Carroll about his Speculative Whiteness book, well well earned winner in the Best Related Work category at Seatle Worldcon 2025. 👇🏾

Congratulations to Jordan S. Carroll for winning the Hugo Award for Best Related Work for Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right!