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Spencer Sunshine @transform6789.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My “A Short History of Nazi-Satanism,” the first comprehensive overview of Nazi-Satanism, is finally out! Runs from the 1970s alliances b/t the Church of Satan & neo-Nazi groups thru today’s Order of Nine Angles and NVE. Link for PDF download. (captcha req) escholarship.org/uc/item/1f57...

image of 6 pentagrams around the text "A Short History of Nazi-Satanism - see link above"

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Emily @irmavep.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Here's the last paragraph of the coda, which draws on work by @jordanscarroll.bsky.social and @mattseybold.bsky.social to argue that contemporary "AI" executives use the methods for foreclosing the future forged in eighteenth-century fictions of white masculine power

By building AI systems that function through consuming existing bodies
of text, these systems’ developers also position the future their mechanisms promise to realize as something that has already been written. In his analysis of contemporary right-wing imaginaries, Carroll points out how alt-right activists who cling to white masculinity as the primary site of human possibility “say they want tomorrow to reveal that they have infinite potential to be anything and everything,” but “really want a future that merely confirms who they are as fixed and inevitable.” AI instrumentalizes this deterministic vision by mining past texts to make
a future that is restricted within those texts’ bounds, thereby attempting to turn “what may be” into a recursive reiteration of what was and what is. Rather than AI’s speculative possibilities being endless, then, they are trained on the endless reproduction of systems like white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, and ableism. And, as a story already written, AI’s futures are presented to us as proleptically realized: the new, old world is already here, and we need to catch up. Returning to the historical texts in which (and from which) these forms of possibility are made, however, can remind us that though this story is authored, it is not yet something
that “Shalt be.” There remains the potential to rewrite these eighteenth-century fictions, and so to remake the collective futures that may be.

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Emily @irmavep.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My book REWRITING THE MECHANIC comes out in in a month! Please preorder to read the 18th-century prehistory of the tech bro (aka the way that literary speculations crafted the models of technological power that still shape our horizons of possibility) www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/bucknell/rew...

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Rewriting the Mechanic

Rewriting the Mechanic examines how written descriptions, circulating across genres in eighteenth-century Britain, transformed certain mechanical arts by imagining them as newly innovative, authoritat...

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Jordan S. Carroll 🌹 @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

annoyed that Johnson's Dictionary is offline

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Jordan S. Carroll 🌹 @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

even after an imperial power goes into decline, there's still a period in which it maintain prestiges as a center of learning and culture. people from the rising powers travel there for education. this administration's goal is to cut that short.

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No Cartridge Trev @nocartridge.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

BABY TUCKER CARLSON: And I have to wonder, where did mommy go? I saw her hands go to her face, and she was gone. What’s happening here? What’s the plan? Am I supposed to believe mommy’s not there anymore and that’s ok? Because that’s the plan, that’s the goal

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Hellrazor Ramon @sugarazor.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

How was this legal

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Jordan S. Carroll 🌹 @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Years ago I read a few chapters of The Jealous God by Jodorowsky and Silvio Cadelo, and recently have I discovered that it’s been reprinted in its entirety in a volume of The Jodorowsky Library.

I think we can all agree those are pasties.

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Jordan S. Carroll 🌹 @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Is that Freud with a strategically placed cloud?

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jadehawk "FREE ŁINK" @jadehawk.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

she's right and also this is once again an excellent time to suggest to everyone to read "speculative whiteness" by @jordanscarroll.bsky.social, which really does a deep dive into this shit

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Jordan S. Carroll 🌹 @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I think a lot of people underestimate the role of anti-Muslim racism in the contemporary rise of fascism

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Jordan S. Carroll 🌹 @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

one of the difficulties of being a parent of a young child in 2026 is having to say, "yes, I am playing a really cool video game about D&D in a setting that you love, no you cannot watch or play it too because it's way too sexy."

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Jordan S. Carroll 🌹 @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

future art historians doing the "actually marble sculptures were very colorful" spiel about the Cozy Coupe

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Jordan S. Carroll 🌹 @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

all right, so this season of Earth we're going to have the Houthis take a strategic chokepoint in the Red Sea. what are we going to call it? no bad ideas! what about something like Bab al-Mandab? it's Arabic for Gate of Anguish, Gate of Grief, Gate of Tears maybe a little on the nose but ok...

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Jordan S. Carroll 🌹 @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

look computer, I had enough storage space until you downloaded this update, so really this is your fault.

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Jordan S. Carroll 🌹 @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

”’More union than union‘ is our motto.”

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Jordan S. Carroll 🌹 @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

someone needs to drop a really good metal album right now so I can get through my commute today

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Jordan S. Carroll 🌹 @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

doing "man on the street" interviews with millennials, asking them who Pinochet overthrew in a US-backed coup on 9/11

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Jordan S. Carroll 🌹 @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I can't believe someone said this on a panel at the Socialism 2026 conference.

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Jordan S. Carroll 🌹 @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I got an AI generated email asking if I wanted an author spotlight in Prominent Book Club. It’s like the scene in existenZ where the characters in the simulation go to Country Gas Station.

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Jordan S. Carroll 🌹 @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

turning a big dial taht says "Inflation" on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right

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Jordan S. Carroll 🌹 @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

the Dem response should be to promise free healthcare to every single American.

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Jordan S. Carroll 🌹 @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

say what you will about BlueSky, we didn't spend the past week piling onto a speaker at a socialist conference for (checks notes) rejecting eugenicist notions of fitness

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Jordan S. Carroll 🌹 @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

nobody can recreate the experience of reading Get Your War On in the early 2000s when it seemed like everyone in the country had gone mad. we were desperate for any kind of humor that questioned the dominant narrative.

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Jordan S. Carroll 🌹 @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

there's something babyish about how people endlessly complain about the difficulty of language in theory. Judith Butler has maybe two or three books that you must read. drink a lot of coffee, read them, do the work required to get the overall argument, and move on.

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Jordan S. Carroll 🌹 @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I hope Bernard Williams knew that he nailed it when he titled his book "Shame and Necessity."

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dankettercello @danielketter.com · 10/09/2026

I feel like it’s important to make a distinction between “sources that are not appropriate to cite as authoritative reference works in certain academic contexts” and slop

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Jordan S. Carroll 🌹 @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I don’t think any voters are going to be swayed by the promise of investigations that could lead to hearings that could lead to prosecutions that could lead to trials that could lead to convictions if nobody intervenes and mucks up any of those steps.

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Jordan S. Carroll 🌹 @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

You need to return the Necronomicon Ex Mortis but you can’t remember the words. I get it! You’re looking for ”Klaatu Barada Nikachoo!”

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Jordan S. Carroll 🌹 @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

we're not going to get a world-destroying AI superintelligence, but we are probably going to get a plague of AI agents who'll basically try the locks on everything until they eventually get into something and cause a disaster.

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Jordan S. Carroll 🌹 @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I think people don’t seem to recognize there are genuine empirical problems. How much CO2 a forest can remove and store is a question you cannot answer by examining your prior assumptions.

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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Millennium math problem solved by OpenAI may have "regurgitated" competitors unpublished work... also they spent more than $22 million in computing power in one week to scoop them. techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/o...

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OpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem, says NYU mathematician | TechCrunch

There is a $1 million bounty for the first person providing a solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem.

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Jordan S. Carroll 🌹 @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Would you rather be stuck forever doing an over-the-top impression of the Big Bopper or an over-the-top impression of Peter Lorre?

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Jordan S. Carroll 🌹 @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

when Milton describes Jesus driving the fallen angels from Heaven, he says that "about Him rolled a fierce effusion of smoke and bickering flame and dire sparkles," which surely must have hit differently in the 17th century. "dire sparkles."

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Jordan S. Carroll 🌹 @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

why did they even make Gollum a submarine captain?

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Jordan S. Carroll 🌹 @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

One of my favorite details from Games Workshop’s Dark Future alternate history, mainly the work of Kim Newman (who I interviewed once!)

A stronger Argentina won a decisive victory over Britain in the Malvinas War, using GenTec and G-Mek weaponry. Britain, already a more insular and conservative nation at the time, became a depressed and failing state, to the point of selling off the modern London Bridge for cash; Ian Paisley was Prime Minister until he suffered a heart attack after the loss of Port Stanley; Jeffrey Archer has been the leader since, carrying out heavy rationing and implied dictatorial actions, with John Lennon the head of the Labour Party.

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Jordan S. Carroll 🌹 @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

has someone developed a theory of the “humiliation ritual“ meme / conspiracy theory?

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Jordan S. Carroll 🌹 @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

there's a debate about how leftists should communicate, whether they should avoid speaking jargon or scaring the normies. I think the focus on rhetoric is ultimately misplaced. what's missing isn't the correct language — it's the good faith and shared understanding that'd come with a mass movement.

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Jordan S. Carroll 🌹 @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

there aren't enough Marxists on Bluesky.

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