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@cyberb.space
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writer & reader &c. (he/him)

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josh @cyberb.space · 4h
I wish I knew how to quit you, Moloch, the incomprehensible prison.
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josh @cyberb.space · 4h
Nobody puts Moloch, whose blood is running money, in the corner.
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josh @cyberb.space · 9h
the truth is that it’s always going to be too late. the secret is that you can join the struggle anytime.
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josh @cyberb.space · 21h
O Moloch! Moloch (whose love is endless oil and stone)! Wherefore art thou Moloch?
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josh @cyberb.space · 21h
I'm just a boy, standing in front of a modern Moloch, horrid king, besmirched in blood, asking him to love me.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 28/09/2026
"Words do not blast stim at the rate we enjoy today. Words are old, older than TikTok. Back then, a human would read, 'Fireworks exploded above two (or more) trad-attractive nudes copulating on a sandy beach,' and the reader would have to imagine that in their mind." buff.ly/oZe8zx4
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How to Read Good or Maybe Great
“First, accept how fun reading isn’t. Words do not blast stim at the rate we enjoy today. Words are old, older than TikTok. Back then, a human would read, ‘F...
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josh @cyberb.space · 28/09/2026
Continuing to firm up my opinion that Dostoevsky is not a good writer. This fact shines through with different translators. He’s also sloppy with plot and narrative structure. So why do I keep picking up his books? cyberb.space/shelf/fyodor...
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The Idiot
Thoughts on Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Idiot
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josh @cyberb.space · 24/09/2026
this would be an instant classic on @mcsweeneys.net
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Gabriel Flynn @gabrielflynn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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josh @cyberb.space · 24/09/2026
Really cool watching the game come together bit by bit!
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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 22/09/2026
fantastic event, buy the book againsttecholigarchy.com
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josh @cyberb.space · 20/09/2026
Disney, if you’re listening, I’ll work on spec if you agree to cover research expenses.
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josh @cyberb.space · 20/09/2026
So the clear angle here is a voodoo doll that yearns for the sweet relief of death but grapples with the moral implications of the suffering this would inflict on its human.
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josh @cyberb.space · 20/09/2026
Furthermore since being stabbed or burned necessarily happens in the presence of a human, does the doll experience that pain? Inquiring minds want to know.
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josh @cyberb.space · 20/09/2026
I would like a Toy Story movie that explores the nature of voodoo dolls in that universe. Like if you’re a voodoo doll and your human gets hurt, do you feel it?
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josh @cyberb.space · 18/09/2026
keep it up! post-scarcity utopia is only a few reposts away
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josh @cyberb.space · 17/09/2026
just confirmed our tickets back to the motherland AND a new Ana Lua Caiano record announced. pretty good day. analuacaiano.bandcamp.com/album/devaga...
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Devagar Que A Vida É Curta, by Ana Lua Caiano
15 track album
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josh @cyberb.space · 16/09/2026
jealous b/c my 3 year old doesn’t have the refined taste that would justify me buying these tickets
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josh @cyberb.space · 12/09/2026
paging @rusty.todayintabs.com
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 08/09/2026
We evolved these incredible brains and you don’t want to use yours? Weak
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josh @cyberb.space · 08/09/2026
quite probably the best one yet from @strange.website strange.website/2026-09-07/
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2026-09-07
a website which whispers to you. it sidles close in your later evenings with the computer, murmuring streams of words that are angular and dislocated — twisted, wrongly-begotten sentences that churn your stomach and make you think of how it might feel to swallow without chewing. it is mere novelty, you think, shivering the whispers off like a brisk wind. but as the days, distended and indolent, crawl on their belly into months, the sentences reorder themselves, and the whispering whines deeper into your thoughts. you find the website’s words stewing in your stomach acid, or lodged behind your molars. it’s as though you can actually feel the website spreading its many-jointed fingers, lasciviously, between the tortuous folds of your brain. not a day passes that you do not visit the website, and the whispering that began as mere passing annoyance becomes obsession. you find yourself scooping up the website’s words in desperate fervor, shoveling handfuls into your mouth. you’re so preoccupied with what the website that has to say, you barely notice as your friends drift from you like low tides, as your room becomes fetid and mephitic, as your body rots and curves; lone ancient basswood, leafless in the marsh. this cormorant devouring of broken, backwards phrases and paragraphs, of stowing them in every spare corner of your mind, serves as such a perfect distraction that you hardly realize that as you begin to find more and more meaning in the words of the website, the world is no longer able to find meaning in your own.
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josh @cyberb.space · 08/09/2026
truly movie’s worth of meaning and implication in just: shot, counter shot, wide shot.
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kara @ainulindale.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
So grateful for JS and Clarissa, go get Against Tech Oligarchy! againsttecholigarchy.com
A photo of a book on a desk, the cover reads “Against Tech Oligarchy, Worker Resistance in the World’s Most Powerful Industry” written by JS Tan and Clarissa Redwine.
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josh @cyberb.space · 05/09/2026
A friend painted a portrait of my dog and I dare say, she has captured his essence
A painted portrait of a recently groomed Lhasa Apso mix. His underbite might be appropriately described as “severe”
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josh @cyberb.space · 01/09/2026
My desert island books? I’m glad you asked.
The Book of Building Fires by S. CoulthardOff the Grid: Water Harvesting, Treatment, and Storage (2nd Edition) by Michael CushingForaging: The essential guide to free wild food by John Lewis-StempelShelters, Shacks, and Shanties and How to Make Them by D.C. Beard
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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
We already had free art for people who are broke or bad at designing things, it's called the PUBLIC DOMAIN
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josh @cyberb.space · 26/08/2026
“gormless” is a perfectly fine critical word, but too often we neglect its inverse. from today I will go out of my way to describe things as “gormful“ and I hope one day people may describe me as “having an abundance of gorm”
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josh @cyberb.space · 25/08/2026
My intuition tells me its connected to the low value placed on human labor combined with a national desire to be seen as "technologically advanced," but I'm still too much of an outsider to offer a meaningful diagnosis.
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josh @cyberb.space · 25/08/2026
Hard agree. It's especially frustrating because the subcontinent has many rich and varied art traditions & no shortage of people practicing them! Why is everyone clamoring for the empty calories of this homogenuous schlock when there are aesthetic feasts all around?
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josh @cyberb.space · 24/08/2026
Cooked up a meandering assortment of reflections on our time in India now that the end is in view. cyberb.space/notes/2026/t...
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Terra Cognita
A few thoughts at the end of our India post
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josh @cyberb.space · 21/08/2026
Makes absolutely no sense. Personal blogs are the like the most “do it for the love of the game” part of the web. This is like asking if I’d like to automate shooting the shit with my friends.
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josh @cyberb.space · 20/08/2026
This is why writers that move around a bunch have trouble with consistent output. It takes time for the new raccoons to learn your voice.
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JS Tan @js-tan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
My book AGAINST TECH OLIGARCHY, out Sept 15, is available for pre-order at againsttecholigarchy.com. It chronicles the rise of tech workers' activism, how they courageously came together to challenge the industry's most powerful bosses, and how their movement changed Silicon Valley forever. 1/
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josh @cyberb.space · 15/08/2026
New Phoebe Bridgers album is out. My weekend plans:
Matt Damon as Odysseus strapped to the mast of a sailboat and scream crying as he here’s the song of the sirens.
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josh @cyberb.space · 02/08/2026
I’m still waiting for the big budget film adaptation of Jacques the Fatalist over here.
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arcadus @birdapp.rip · 29/07/2026
A scene from The Odyssey where Penelope stands before the suitors, but Tim Robinson has been added in. It’s a reference to I Think You Should Leave. Penelope says “Ronnie, I feel like you’re just here for the zip line” and Tim Robinson says “what?”
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josh @cyberb.space · 28/07/2026
Subscribe to my book review RSS if you want to know what’s good fiction a few months before Booker finally gets around to it. cyberb.space/shelf/makenn...
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Booklog: Helen of Nowhere
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josh @cyberb.space · 28/07/2026
There are few things more embarrassing in a home than a bookshelf full of uncracked spines.
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josh @cyberb.space · 24/07/2026
the ghost of Alasdair MacIntyre:
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josh @cyberb.space · 23/07/2026
consistently the best weekly vertical short form video book recommendation series being made today
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josh @cyberb.space · 17/07/2026
This is a fully artisanal, handcrafted side-project, by the way. 100% natural, non-synthetic code.
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josh @cyberb.space · 17/07/2026
Photopad: Encrypting Text with JPEG Files A picture is worth a thousand pads™
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Photopad: Encrypting Text with JPEG Files
A picture is worth a thousand pads™
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josh @cyberb.space · 16/07/2026
went deeper on Berryman and ended up in a sort of ambivalent malaise cyberb.space/shelf/john-b...
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Booklog: The Dream Songs
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josh @cyberb.space · 16/07/2026
It’s heartening to see these all lined up like this. I planted a similar stake on my own site last year: cyberb.space/notes/2025/a...
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Against the Synthesis of Intellect
Why I won't use 'AI' for any of my writing
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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Born #onthisday in Berlin in 1892, the philosopher, literary critic, and essayist Walter Benjamin. Read an essay by Anca Pusca on the relevance of Benjamin’s oeuvre in a digital age, and the implications of his work entering the public domain. publicdomainreview.org/essay/o... #otd
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josh @cyberb.space · 14/07/2026
Criterion Closet has become a big enough part of the culture that we as a society are obligated to break the format. Who among us is worthy? Who among us will enter the arena to add films rather than take? Who dares tear down these walls that confine the definition of cultivated cinematic taste?
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Jon Schleuss @jschleuss.com · 08/07/2026
Welcome @ucpworkersguild.bsky.social !!!!
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David Aerne @meodai.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
one thing led to an other: rybitten.space
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josh @cyberb.space · 30/06/2026
Might be a bit over-engineered, but I will never stop loving The Monospace Web owickstrom.github.io/the-monospac...
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The Monospace Web
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