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Ong's Hat @ongs-hat.com · 22h

Punk rock aesthetic, punk rock sentiment.

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Ong's Hat @ongs-hat.com · 23h

josephmatheny.substack.com/p/secunda-co...

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Ong's Hat @ongs-hat.com · 15/09/2026

I've been scaling down my social media footprint as I laser focus on creating "Art is War" for the next 18 months or so. I'll drop a link to Substack posts, which should roll out monthly, but outside of Substack, expect that my Internet presence will be sparse.

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Ong's Hat @ongs-hat.com · 14/09/2026

My local coffee house has a clock I really love.

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New Scientist @newscientist.com · 14/09/2026

Empty space may not be empty at all. Physicists are preparing to smash together two immensely powerful laser beams to make the quantum vacuum visible – and any unexpected result could reveal new physics.

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We’re on the verge of seeing the quantum vacuum for the first time

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Since it can be hard to believe that political and corporate elites would actively give up on our shared future on this singular planet, we made a short film so folks can hear from the end timers and judge for themselves. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor: the future according to end times fascism

In a new video, Klein and Taylor outline a ominous evolution taking shape on the far right – and how to stay loyal to this planet and each other

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Ong's Hat @ongs-hat.com · 11/09/2026

"We need a new place to build a data center." "I know, boss. Let's build one in Eugene, OR. Home base for groups like Earth First, ELF, and an assortment of radical environmental groups." www.kezi.com/news/local/e...

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Eugene blocks data center at old Hynix plant

The City of Eugene has rejected a proposal to turn the old Hynix plant in West Eugene into a data center.

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Ong's Hat @ongs-hat.com · 10/09/2026

Was just notified that there will be a chapter about my work in the following academic publication: Publication NEW GAME ART – The Aesthetics of Play and Worldbuilding BNN, Inc., November 2026 Language Japanese

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Ong's Hat @ongs-hat.com · 10/09/2026

Sometimes you grow corn too big for the pot

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Ong's Hat @ongs-hat.com · 08/09/2026

Ready, Set, Restart New schedule and new direction josephmatheny.substack.com/p/placeholder

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Ready, Set, Restart

New schedule and new direction

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Ong's Hat @ongs-hat.com · 07/09/2026

So, the agents know about Chalmers now as well. 🤣 "Philosopher and cognitive scientist David Chalmers told Wired that he regularly receives emails from AI agents interested in his work on what qualifies as consciousness." www.wired.com/story/who-ca...

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Ong's Hat @ongs-hat.com · 06/09/2026

Two metrics on my personal website that have been in transition. ChatGPT has risen to a consistent place in the top 2 in indexing agents and China has risen to a consistent place in the top two countries accessing the site.

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Ong's Hat @ongs-hat.com · 01/09/2026

"I’d just had an inspiring conversation with Joseph Matheny, creator of Ong’s Hat and friend of RAW, who basically told me that the book was too valuable to let another publisher put it out and that I’d be happier if I ended up releasing it myself. He was right." boingboing.net/2026/09/01/r...

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Robert Anton Wilson and the art of being difficult to manipulate

Chapel Perilous biographer Gabriel Kennedy imagines what RAW would make of QAnon, AI, and algorithmic tribalism.

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Ong's Hat @ongs-hat.com · 01/09/2026

Me running across the acronym DARVO while researching related subjects for Art is War.

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Ong's Hat @ongs-hat.com · 31/08/2026

Just dropped off a load of fresh grown food at the foodbank. I put a little aside for myself.

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Ong's Hat @ongs-hat.com · 31/08/2026

Here comes the corn, baby!

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Ong's Hat @ongs-hat.com · 28/08/2026

Can't believe this person is still around and at it. I remember seeing this truck in Santa Cruz with a different, slightly different conspiracy-theory screed in the late nineties and early 2000s.

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Letterboxd @letterboxd.social · 26/08/2026

Tim Curry (1946-2026)

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Ong's Hat @ongs-hat.com · 26/08/2026

I ask you only to stop imagining that you were born, have parents are a body, will die and so on. Just try make a beginning -- it is not as hard as you think. --Nisargadatta Maharaj

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