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Peter Frase @peterfrase.com · 09/08/2026
The reactions to this post confirm that Sleeping Dogs has the cult following it deserves, one of my favorite video games of all time.
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Peter Frase @peterfrase.com · 26/06/2026
My health insurance company is now spamming me with texts and calls from an LLM bot, dear god make it all stop
Two text messages reading

"Hi, this is Sophie, your AI Care Advisor from MVP Health Care. Please expect a call in the next few minutes from this number."

And

"Hi this is Sophie from MVP Health Care. Sorry I missed you. I'll try again soon. Feel free to call us back at this number at your earliest convenience. Thank you!"
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Peter Frase @peterfrase.com · 22/06/2026
It's funny to me that there is surely a nonzero number of voters who oppose AIPAC because they think it's the AI lobby
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Peter Frase @peterfrase.com · 18/06/2026
The people of Minneapolis have done so much this decade to demonstrate that they're awesome, but there are still those committed to telling the world that we do, in fact, have people who suck ass there too
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Peter Frase @peterfrase.com · 16/06/2026
Obvious one: "I Can't Get no Satisfaction" by Otis Redding, and "I Can't Get no Satisfaction" by Devo
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Peter Frase @peterfrase.com · 07/06/2026
I actually watched this and Pelley comes off as such an ideologically lobotomized moron. He welcomed Ellison buying the company! Gave Weiss the benefit of the doubt! Did his best to portray Alex Pretti as No Angel! The vibe is "I licked the boot so hard but it still kicked me in the face omg no!!!"
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Peter Frase @peterfrase.com · 06/06/2026
This is why my approach to Kristol and the like is not to hand it to him in any way or welcome him to "our side", but just to point and laugh as he gets the war he always wanted only for it to immediately go wrong in the dumbest way possible
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Peter Frase @peterfrase.com · 03/06/2026
We live in amazing times. Today, the most advanced LLMs could not produce this sentence--but after training on the full archive of the Trump administration, they will.
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Peter Frase @peterfrase.com · 28/05/2026
US leftists of a certain era: Let me guess, Micah White? [click, skim, roll eyes] Confirmed.
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Peter Frase @peterfrase.com · 24/05/2026
The Disney corporation keeps rudely blowing off my proposal for a Maoist-Third Worldist Star Wars movie in which the Ewoks, Wookies, and droids wage people's war against the twin threats of Jedifascism and Palpatinist-imperialism
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Peter Frase @peterfrase.com · 11/05/2026
This is the kind of thing I worry about with politicians like Platner, not the hyperbolic freakouts about him being Fetterman 2.0 or secret Hitler or whatever. Just the run of the mill bad policy you can get from eclectic left candidates without a strong grounding in organization and ideology.
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Peter Frase @peterfrase.com · 07/05/2026
I think a lot of this is downstream of trying to please two constituencies with very different priorities: the voters and the donors. This is a problem for all politicians in a capitalist democracy, but it's particularly intense for mainstream Democrats.
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Sarah Jaffe @sarahljaffe.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
just in time for May Day, my column on what general strikes are, and what they are not, and why it matters to think in terms of power, risk, and strategy. progressive.org/magazine/str...
progressive.org
Strategy and Leverage—Not Vibes—Are What We Need Now
The general strike remains a goal to aspire to. But simply saying the words over and over again will not call the strike into being.
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Bright D Limm 임대중 @bdlimm.myatproto.social · 30/04/2026
Thoughtful piece on questions of co-governance that NYC-DSA is navigating in relation to Z. @peterfrase.com is both candid and charitable about the viewpoints of the competing factions within NYC's chapter. The result is a piece that exemplifies the kind of revolutionary honesty he advocates.
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Peter Frase @peterfrase.com · 28/04/2026
It's corn based ethanol fuel, but for tech bros who think science fiction stories are business models
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Peter Frase @peterfrase.com · 27/04/2026
I wrote about Zohran, in the perhaps vain hope that I could add something beyond the tired DSA "left vs. right" debates about how we relate to our elected officials. jacobin.com/2026/04/mamd...
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Zohran Mamdani and the Contradiction of Democratic Socialism
What happens when a DSA politician takes charge of the largest city in the United States? Zohran Mamdani’s early record is filled with successes, but also evidence of the contradictions between social...
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Peter Frase @peterfrase.com · 25/04/2026
This was a great post, and I piggy backed off it by trying to put a more explicitly Marxist spin on Stross www.peterfrase.com/2010/12/marx...
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Marx’s Theory of Alien Nation
Charles Stross hits another one out of the park today. The post attempts to explain the widespread sentiment that the masses are politically powerless: “Voting doesn’t change anything —…
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Peter Frase @peterfrase.com · 25/04/2026
When I started grad school 20 years ago, older faculty would tell us how many jobs there would be when the baby boomers retired. It simply did not occur to most of them that their good jobs would be replaced by shitty precarious temp jobs.
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Peter Frase @peterfrase.com · 17/04/2026
They're calling this dish "fragger's delight"
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Peter Frase @peterfrase.com · 10/04/2026
They say Eric Adams is the Eric Adams of Albania
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Peter Frase @peterfrase.com · 07/04/2026
"Democrats must denounce this Twitch streamer or risk alienating Nancy Reagan's speechwriter" is NY Times Pitchbot level dumb joke and also a thing people are seriously trying to argue
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Peter Frase @peterfrase.com · 31/03/2026
This kind of nonsense creates a paradox for me, because I don't believe in general intelligence as a concept, but whenever someone unironically treats IQ as a measure of it I want to call them stupid
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Peter Frase @peterfrase.com · 29/03/2026
My dad, a legal academic, loves to tell the story of some law & economics goon he saw give a talk about how there can't be systemic racism because it's economically irrational. To which his response as a decent enough white guy who grew up in Virginia in the 1950s was more or less "lol, lmao even".
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Peter Frase @peterfrase.com · 29/03/2026
On the occasion of No Kings Day, three things can be true:
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Peter Frase @peterfrase.com · 25/03/2026
Use petroleum to make fertilizer --> use the fertilizer to grow corn --> turn the corn into an inferior substitute for gasoline. This policy was always a stupid giveaway to big agriculture, but doing it to address a war that's causing a global fertilizer shortage really takes the cake.
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Peter Frase @peterfrase.com · 23/03/2026
My first experience with the Internet, in the early 90s, was playing Multi-User Dungeons, which were multiplayer fantasy games played via a command line, like a text-only precursor to World of Warcraft. Thank you for your attention to this MUDder
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Peter Frase @peterfrase.com · 21/03/2026
Rare inside look at the innovative methods used by horrible sociopathic billionaires to raise even more horrible and sociopathic billionaire children
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Peter Frase @peterfrase.com · 18/03/2026
To be fair to ol' conehead here, he's spent most of his life as what Marxists would call the bearer or personification of the capital relation, the vessel through which money flows and returns back to itself as accumulation, M-C-M'. Easy to lose all sense of one's humanity under such conditions.
Marc Andersen:

You're a 15 second sliding context window with the working memory of a goldfish, your long term memory is mainly fake, and it's a minor miracle you can get out of the door in the morning.

also:
@pmarca •5h
TLDR There is no inner self, you're chasing an imaginary concept, the end.
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Peter Frase @peterfrase.com · 18/03/2026
Let's go Venezuela!
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Peter Frase @peterfrase.com · 15/03/2026
My new vice in these dismal times is enjoying anti-Trump neoconservatives having a bad time. Watching Bill Kristol and Bob Kagan commiserate about the self-immolation of their whole project is a small source of joy and comfort.
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Peter Frase @peterfrase.com · 12/03/2026
When I was spinning up speculations about a post-capitalist rentier economy, I didn't have the vision to think of human consciousness itself being enclosed, commodified and sold back to us as a monthly subscription. Mostly because that doesn't even make sense as a science fiction conceit, but still.
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Peter Frase @peterfrase.com · 07/03/2026
Of course for a lot of Zionists this is a feature rather than a bug. It's a lot easier to equate anti-Zionism with antisemitism if the only anti-Zionists people hear from are in fact antisemites!
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Peter Frase @peterfrase.com · 28/02/2026
Say what you will about the @demsocialists.bsky.social electoral apparatus, I have to commend us for mostly successfully filtering out the weird viral influencer type candidates with like, nazi tattoos or a passion for US military intervention or whatever
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Peter Frase @peterfrase.com · 28/02/2026
At last, AI is allowing governments to achieve their goals of hollowing out public services, while also being extremely racist
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Peter Frase @peterfrase.com · 15/02/2026
This is our Kyle Rittenhouse, and Chuck Schumer needs to start acting like it. Not sure I can vote for the nominee if this kid doesn't speak at the 2028 DNC.
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Peter Frase @peterfrase.com · 11/02/2026
The ham sandwich stays winning
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Peter Frase @peterfrase.com · 08/02/2026
Viewers of Dan Olson know that this is an old scam, and the only "AI" angle is that an LLM has replaced ultra-low-wage ghostwriters: www.youtube.com/watch?v=biYc...
youtube.com
Contrepreneurs: The Mikkelsen Twins
YouTube video by Folding Ideas
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Peter Frase @peterfrase.com · 01/02/2026
I guess maybe the sensibility will be liberal copaganda in the vein of The Wire, but I think (hope) we're past that as a culture
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Peter Frase @peterfrase.com · 30/01/2026
I'm not in Minneapolis and don't pretend to know the whole story here, but misplaced and paranoid "security culture" is a real problem in moments of upsurge, I see it cropping up locally again, after I encountered it during the George Floyd rebellion as well
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Peter Frase @peterfrase.com · 27/01/2026
May this be the first and mildest of many humiliations for all of these fascist ghouls
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Peter Frase @peterfrase.com · 26/01/2026
[ERIC ADAMS VOICE]: Minneapolis is the Gwangju of America
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Peter Frase @peterfrase.com · 26/01/2026
Glad to see this, signed by my dad along with many of his colleagues who I grew up around
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Peter Frase @peterfrase.com · 24/01/2026
OK, but maybe journalists could reconsider the norm of "uncritically repeat government claims, then fact check them later", when faced with a government whose first move in every situation is an immediate barrage of preposterous lies?
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Peter Frase @peterfrase.com · 24/01/2026
Oh you spoke with the white house? I'm sure that was fun for you, you twerp, you worthless piece of shit. Just resign and go away, if this is all you can do as the death squads roam the streets of the state you claim to govern.
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Peter Frase @peterfrase.com · 24/01/2026
Today allowed Minnesotans to do two of the things we do best: coming together in solidarity and smugly acting like it's no big deal to go out in extreme cold
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Peter Frase @peterfrase.com · 20/01/2026
Our most recent shot at prying open policing's cabinet of monstrosities was 2020, and liberal politicians responded by wrapping the whole thing tightly in "training" and consent decrees, and festooning it with body cameras. Time to take another run at it.
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Peter Frase @peterfrase.com · 04/01/2026
The @nytimes.com and @washingtonpost.com knew about this in advance, but chose not to report it in order to ensure the death of large numbers of Venezuelan people
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Peter Frase @peterfrase.com · 22/11/2025
This is our new baseline for how little Zohran is capable of smiling in a photo
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Peter Frase @peterfrase.com · 20/11/2025
"adversarial poetry functions as a universal single-turn jailbreak technique for large language models", now that's the kind of cyberpunk dystopia I'm talking about
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Peter Frase @peterfrase.com · 20/11/2025
So, postliberal in just the same way Boris Yeltsin was postcommunist
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