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Dr. Sean Munger

@seanmunger.com
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Historian, YouTuber, teacher, author, citizen of the world. New book "Faraway Star" (science fiction) is out now in the usual places.

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AC Cross @aaronccross.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There's a phrase in Italian: i bastardi del tostapane moriranno. It means, roughly, 'when the AI bubble bursts, an entire generation of scumbags are going to lose their asses' and I think that's beautiful.
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Dr. Sean Munger @seanmunger.com · 29/09/2026
Thanks, glad you enjoyed the videos! No, I did not encounter that specific story about Roddenberry.
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Dr. Sean Munger @seanmunger.com · 28/09/2026
Please add lekanlanreyinka@gmail.com to the list.
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Dr. Sean Munger @seanmunger.com · 28/09/2026
That sounds trashy and fun.
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Dr. Sean Munger @seanmunger.com · 25/09/2026
I teach middle schoolers who I’d assume are the main demographic for this, and I have to say I haven’t witnessed a pantsing in the 8 years I’ve been there.
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Dr. Sean Munger @seanmunger.com · 22/09/2026
Back in the ‘90s, in Writer’s Marketplace or something, a literary agent said they wanted “writing that makes us weep without knowing why.” 30 years later I still want to hunt this person down and demand to know A) what this even means, and B) if they ever found a single book that qualified.
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Dr. Sean Munger @seanmunger.com · 21/09/2026
Last night Darth Vader came down from planet Vulcan and told me if I didn’t ask my future husband to the dance, he’d melt my brain.
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Eddie Smith @eddsmitty.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
🧵 Today, we're going to delve into the remarkable story of James Forten—a Revolutionary War veteran and former P.O.W. He became one of the most influential Black abolitionists in early American history. Pull up a seat🪑, my friends. (cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
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Xero Reynolds 41/100 on Patreon @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.
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Dr. Sean Munger @seanmunger.com · 20/09/2026
I wrote another thing! About a good movie based on one of my favorite books. For subscribers, but not paywalled. www.gardenofmemory.net/a-film-about...
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A film about knowledge and wonder: “The Name of the Rose” at 40.
The film based on one of my all time favorite novels was a slow burn, but I've come to love it.
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
there's nothing stopping the US from putting a ton of money into new libraries and opening them across the country.
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Dr. Sean Munger @seanmunger.com · 17/09/2026
LHOTP kids, recognize!
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Lindsay Sidney Greenbush Falls in Little House
Alt: Lindsay Sidney Greenbush falls in the grass in Little House on the Prairie opening sequence
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Dr. Sean Munger @seanmunger.com · 16/09/2026
20 year old me would report the me of today to the FBI as a dangerous radical.
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Dr. Sean Munger @seanmunger.com · 16/09/2026
Certainly he’d be like, “Dude. That beard!”
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Dr. Sean Munger @seanmunger.com · 16/09/2026
OMG, I was targeted last week by bots from this sick garbage site. Not even as an author. They wanted me to let them run my YouTube channel. This company must be stopped.
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Dr. Sean Munger @seanmunger.com · 16/09/2026
Email: "Hi! I'm a complete stranger! Don't you want to argue with me about a sentence you said in a video you made 3 years ago? I didn't see it until today because algorithm, but if you don't respond urgently, I will treat it as total endorsement of my opinion, and thus, victory."
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Dr. Sean Munger @seanmunger.com · 15/09/2026
I wrote a blog on fraudulent pseudo-shaman, cult leader and literary hoaxer Carlos Castañeda, mainly because a video I made about his missing "witches" 8 years ago is suddenly popular again. A bizarre and fascinating case. www.gardenofmemory.net/the-new-age-...
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The New Age hoax that won’t die: Carlos Castañeda’s long deadly legacy.
There's still much to say about the toxic cult leader whose fraudulent writings still maintain a large following today.
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Dr. Sean Munger @seanmunger.com · 14/09/2026
And to add insult to injury, it’s AI slop.
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Dr. Sean Munger @seanmunger.com · 14/09/2026
Last night I dreamed I was trapped in an airport waiting on a long delayed flight. One of the airport concessions was Patrick Stewart sitting at a table who would tell you a story from his London theatre days for $35 a pop. Absolutely delightful!
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Patrick Stewart's Hilarious Reaction
Alt: Patrick Stewart's Hilarious Reaction
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Dr. Sean Munger @seanmunger.com · 13/09/2026
How long you can delay picking up funds sent by Western Union or Money Gram in the 1990s. (Answer is 90 days, BTW).
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Daniel Woods @danwoodswriter.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Reminder that this also applies to the Russian Revolution
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Dr. Sean Munger @seanmunger.com · 13/09/2026
My offer still stands: come over to my house to cook dinner, and give a lecture on the Emperor Julian. I'll supply some good wine.
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Dr. Sean Munger @seanmunger.com · 12/09/2026
Name a non-LOTR character who could resist the One Ring.
Anthony Hopkins as Stevens in "Remains of the Day"
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Dr. Sean Munger @seanmunger.com · 11/09/2026
I chose to stop using Substack going forward, but there are reasons why I left up at least a part of my old Substack blog. Don't know if this is of interest to you.
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Dr. Sean Munger @seanmunger.com · 11/09/2026
I wrote something about today's anniversary. Until 9/11 means more to us than posting memes of crying bald eagles and lionizing firefighters, there is nothing that we as a society can learn from it. www.gardenofmemory.net/25-years-on-...
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25 years on, we’ve forgotten 9/11, or at least what it could teach us.
Don't tell me to "never forget" unless you're really willing to try to understand the meaning of 9/11.
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Zach Bigalke (he/him/his) @zbigalke.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A shared bond only existed in the imaginations of people who need you to believe there was a shared bond. Before dust settled at Ground Zero, Americans of a certain skin color and/or religion were scapegoated and vilified through no fault of their own. There was only a shared bond between bigots.
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Dr. Sean Munger @seanmunger.com · 11/09/2026
“Never forget” is absolutely the worst message on the anniversary of 9/11, but we’ve spent the last 25 years making it politically impossible to say anything else.
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Dr. Sean Munger @seanmunger.com · 11/09/2026
I can see it fine. Use a VPN perhaps?
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Dr. Sean Munger @seanmunger.com · 10/09/2026
This is a classic. One of my favorite films.
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Dr. Sean Munger @seanmunger.com · 10/09/2026
I gave up on agents long ago. Their expectations are totally unrealistic, and with the publishing industry in such turmoil, their function within it seems to me to be less valuable. Unless you’re already a celebrity.
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Dr. Sean Munger @seanmunger.com · 10/09/2026
No, I don’t want to “hop on a call” so you can try to sell me AI. In fact, your message that you hope “finds me well” makes me want to fucking burn down your business, destroy everything you’ve ever built and sow the ground with salt.
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Dr. Sean Munger @seanmunger.com · 08/09/2026
Yes, Star Trek premiered 60 years ago today. People forget that it came out at the height of US involvement in the Vietnam War and the show was heavily influenced by its context. I did a series of videos on my channel recently exploring that. #StarTrek youtu.be/wYeLe38t5rQ
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Star Trek and the Vietnam War (Part I)
YouTube video by Sean Munger
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Dr. Sean Munger @seanmunger.com · 08/09/2026
Wow, does this really work?
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Dr. Sean Munger @seanmunger.com · 06/09/2026
We need more movies/books that are just a character’s name. Klute Bullitt Shane Michael Clayton Dolores Claiborne Jane Eyre Donnie Brasco Elmer Gantry Goldfinger Annie Hall Bugsy Mildred Pierce Donnie Darko Marnie Tom Jones Serpico But not Forrest Gump. That sucked.
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Dr. Sean Munger @seanmunger.com · 04/09/2026
Here’s a person who could benefit from watching my video on how we got to the point where (presumably) formerly rational humans could be so deluded as to say something like this. The Cult of Technology: From Railroads to AI youtu.be/SmhLAaEi6xo
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The Cult of Technology: From Railroads to AI
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Dr. Sean Munger @seanmunger.com · 03/09/2026
When I hear the term “beater” I immediately think of a junky old car.
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Dr. Sean Munger @seanmunger.com · 03/09/2026
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Laugh Mock
Alt: The famous GoodFellas laugh
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Dr. Sean Munger @seanmunger.com · 03/09/2026
Without saying your age, what is your favorite movie that came out when you were 20 years old?
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Clint Eastwood in The Unforgiven
Alt: Clint Eastwood in Unforgiven
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Dr. Sean Munger @seanmunger.com · 01/09/2026
Then I realize this never happens because the boss has replaced all the social media interns with AI bots.
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Dr. Sean Munger @seanmunger.com · 01/09/2026
I sometimes wonder if social media interns, when asked by their bosses to post the thing that announces their company is doing an AI product, ever have the conversation, “Ya know, boss, as soon as this goes up we’ll face a furious backlash and lose a bunch of customers, right?”
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Dr. Sean Munger @seanmunger.com · 01/09/2026
“We use AI to enhance human creativity, not replace it” means “we use AI to replace humans.” When will companies learn that this line is not an acceptable defense of using AI? Fuck this company.
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Dr. Sean Munger @seanmunger.com · 31/08/2026
Got another email in the venerable category of, "Hi! I'm a complete stranger! Don't you want to argue with me?" In this case, about one sentence I said in a video 3 years ago.
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Dr. Sean Munger @seanmunger.com · 31/08/2026
Makes you wonder why the “Hollywood star whackers” he was on about for so many years were evidently so bad at their jobs as to have missed him.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 30/08/2026
re: everyone yelling about Google Maps - Maps just ingests the official data source for each country, which is GNIS in this case, and most other online maps will follow for American users nobody at Google is making an active decision to go in and change names in Maps directly
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Dr. Sean Munger @seanmunger.com · 30/08/2026
That you're listening to Jackyl in 2026 is easily the coolest part of this post.
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Dr. Sean Munger @seanmunger.com · 30/08/2026
An English butler stands around talking to the housekeeper for about 20 years.
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Dr. Sean Munger @seanmunger.com · 30/08/2026
Saw Coyote v. Acme. It was pretty good.
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Dr. Sean Munger @seanmunger.com · 27/08/2026
I started out writing about something that happened during World War I, and then halfway through realized I was actually writing about what AI companies are doing today. Blog here. For members, but not paywalled. www.gardenofmemory.net/killing-book...
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Killing books: The sack of the University of Louvain library and its modern echoes.
In 1914, the Germans torched one of the great libraries of Europe. AI companies are doing something similar today.
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Dr. Sean Munger @seanmunger.com · 26/08/2026
Amen. Goes too for the tinfoil hatters who sometimes wander into the comments of my YouTube videos and want to "debate" me on matters of historical fact like Oswald having acted alone to assassinate JFK, or bin Laden and Al-Qaeda being responsible for 9/11.
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