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Magic Bird Peddler @dfeldman.org · 05/06/2026

The art vs the artist

Didn't you sell your scribbles for 500k each? We are retarded to obvious money laundering.
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Hunter Biden
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No I did not and there is an entire 30 hours of sworn testimony you can go read that will tell you that I sold paintings that netted me about $225k per year over 4 years. And a DOJ/ FBI investigation and a Senate investigation. And if you think this a scribble then go fuck yourself. That's 80in x 80in and can be purchased at HunterBiden.com. I will give you a discount if you use the code "crack is whack."

muck @muck.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Students and faculty lampshade this reality all the time. Someone like Caplan is just making explicit what is usually implicit. You have to be so naive to not see it.

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Drunk on Being @yarnnilats.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

You are right that it is libertarian to believe we should not use the boot of the state to stop mildly disruptive behavior that is the average middle class treatler is pathologically sensitive too. It just so happens that being libertarian in this instance is also being a morally serious adult.

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Zak Woodman @zacharywoodman.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

You know, as Emil Cioran and Albert Camus prove, contemplating suicide makes you a better person. I am not saying they should do it, but it is beyond obvious that Kid Rock and his fanboys are too much of pathetic pustules of ressentiment to have ever contemplated suicide. They should.

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muck @muck.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Calling things Reddit is just higher-order Reddit

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muck @muck.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

I was never going to vibe code bc I care too much about every single line, and don't do it professionally, but it's interesting that many people who have been vibing for a while are now repudiating it as fundamentally, if subtly, deceptive or hallucinatory.

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muck @muck.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Fascism is all about throwing temper tantrums because experts know more than you

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muck @muck.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

I think you're an idiot if you invoke "oppositional defiant disorder" in any capacity that isn't criticism of the concept iself

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muck @muck.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

The reason why far-right people largely can't be far-right in public even under an explicitly far-right regime is because far-right ideology is just literally anti-social in a way that makes most people want to assault or berate you. It's a serial killer ideology.

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muck @muck.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

underappreciated reason to oppose mass social media is that more decentralized and localized moderation makes the kind of deeply perverted antisociality you see on "the internet" impossible. it's just too easy to get away with right now. it's unsustainable. no wonder people retreat to their discords

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muck @muck.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

nothing convinces me of the dead internet more than those vaguely right-wing self-help grifter youtubers who are themselves nominally anti-internet and such.

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muck @muck.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Any Democrat or Liberal who comes into power in the next 3 years or so will be Sovereign under a State of Exception.

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muck @muck.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

dead internet theory is, past a certain point, just color revolution theory for the web.

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muck @muck.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Sorry RadFemHitler I was not familiar with your game

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muck @muck.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

wow look at this beautiful Solarpunk visual art. so radical and revolutionary. no one has ever thought of integrating greenspace into the modern city in an ecologically friendly way.

DuckDuckGo image search: "stereotypical utopian city image"

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muck @muck.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

in general however i do think the desire for mass social media is itself a mistake and the internet should be a little more parochial. preferably without the opacity of something like Discord servers.

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muck @muck.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

(note: this does not by transitivity apply to sovereign states. I am not Mencius Moldbug)

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muck @muck.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

I think it's possible but ironically for the technolibertarian dream to be realized u prob need a small group of highly ideologically-motivated and relatively virtuous maintainers. i.e. benevolent dictatorship. to avoid both bureaucratic torpor and capture by a mob of culture war mercenaries.

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muck @muck.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Steam should sharply distinguish between AI-generated code and AI-generated assets if only because anti-AI people don't appear to care much about the former. over-reliance on AI-generated code is presumably still bad craftmanship unless and until we achieve AGI, however.

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muck @muck.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

THE SOCIAL CONTRACT IS ANTISOCIAL

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muck @muck.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

inability to internalize the fact that merely saying something is antisocial (or prosocial!) does not make it so. even when most people believe that it is. fascism of the mind.

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muck @muck.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

The problem with phones is that they allow any semblance of freedom or privacy in what is supposed to be an institution that controls when you can go to the restroom. They're a corner away from the telescreen. Such natural behavior as meetups or gossip is problematized since it's not Studying.

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muck @muck.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Particularly revealing passage from the WSJ: > Students were using their phones to plan bathroom vaping meetups, gossip sessions and fights. “When behaviors escalate in an invisible space, we can’t prevent them or react as fast,” said Moore, who presides over a district of about 5,000 students.

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muck @muck.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

The data on classroom phone bans "working" shows that it makes students more well-behaved and well-disciplined prisoners. I.e. taking away even more autonomy from someone in a total institution makes them even more impotent. This is framed as a novel or unexpected insight because of ideology.

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muck @muck.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

eternal warfare against growing the landfill

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muck @muck.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

there should be fewer and larger transistors, computers should be "worse," and this is the most consistent "anti-Luddite" view.

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muck @muck.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

as a general rule the modern world should be a deadlier place. not for vitalistic reactionary reasons but for common sense reasons of tradeoffs existing.

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muck @muck.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

so true we should waste even more resources making things "safer" in ways that are absurd and inefficient. the middle class should live in the padded cell of slop forever as the landfill grows and the homeless suffer as their encampments are raided for not being up to code.

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muck @muck.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

you are a progressive technocrat who posts all day. your opposition to cultural novelty and new media is more fear of impermanence and neurotic risk-aversion than any sort of principled stance. you have formed a cargo cult around public libraries. you're psychically indistinguishable from a fascist.

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muck @muck.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

me when an anonymous person sends me a letter threatening my life written in blood: "we must ban mail"

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muck @muck.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

me when the fastest growing technology of the 21st century that most people use pervades every sphere of life, sometimes in ways that are less than ideal.

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muck @muck.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

furry inflation porn is also disgusting. it's more immediately repulsive than this. and maybe furry inflation porn, or porn in general, has had a negative impact on society. you should still bracket out your mere disgust and fear of novelty when considering that.

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muck @muck.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

this is not meaningfully different from pornography. in fact it just is pornography. it's disgusting, yes, but so is pornography. and its influence on society will be negligible, since it's just more pornography.

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muck @muck.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

It's so much easier to engage in moral panics about this stuff instead of making the--at this point "creepy"--claim that this stuff won't have much of a measurable effect, like so many other things across history.

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Zak Woodman @zacharywoodman.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Right, because all consumers are just automotons with no agency or reasoning abilities and will just kill themselves the minute suicide is brought up with scary computer.

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muck @muck.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

...alienation and anomie resulting from the iron cage, fascist reactionarism, and, in some cases, extreme material deprivation in forms like homelessness that are downstream of all of the above. But some common, general poverty is not *the issue* anymore and it's strange when people pretend it is.

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muck @muck.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

The problems of the 21st century first world have more to do with, IMO, politicized interventions into the economy subsidizing waste and terrible infrastructure (cars, drugs, farmers, IP, microprocessors, suburbs), the evil of total institutions (school, prison, psych ward)...

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muck @muck.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

This is true but this kind of deprivation is markedly different from literal starvation. It is the result of overabundance along certain axes and not others, and deranged resource allocation. It's not indicative of some common and global destitution as imagined by some. It's not the 19th century.

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muck @muck.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

It is hysterical to be concerned with starvation in the first world, and to frame your leftism as especially concerned with and a solution to this. Just completely detached from the reality of the postwar world. Starvation and most forms of material deprivation are solved problems. Oversolved even.

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muck @muck.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

See a man's ChatGPT prompts, pass judgement on a man's soul.

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muck @muck.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

they're always driven to a peculiar form of madness and evil that just makes me want to log off forever lest I become similar.

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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 27/12/2025

"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—" You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.

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muck @muck.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

The sort-of thought-terminating cliche that compassion and virtue are the only ways to attain lasting happiness and that the wicked are miserable is just obviously true. A lot of people even seem upset that such a manicheanism is built into human psychology.

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muck @muck.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Obviously virtue is the only consistent way to live a good life. It's amazing that anyone tacitly believes that mere material wealth and status can bring them any kind of contentment.

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