Mike Brock 🇺🇸
@brockm.bsky.social
Ex-tech exec. Deeply unfashionable. Penning dispatches from democracy's peril at notesfromthecircus.com. Unmasking the unholy alliance of Silicon Valley and aspiring despots. 2+2=4, even when power insists otherwise. For Frodo.
Pinned
Revenge of the Technocrats Could Be the End of Democracy
A Response to Ruy Teixeira
www.notesfromthecircus.com
A return to technocratic liberal centrism would be the death knell of democracy.
We must not mistake spiritual fatigue within ourselves with the ethics of attention. We must give way, with grace, to each other's capacities. It is a dance. To find the center. Gentle.
December 12, 2025 at 12:27 AM
We must not mistake spiritual fatigue within ourselves with the ethics of attention. We must give way, with grace, to each other's capacities. It is a dance. To find the center. Gentle.
In these dark ages, the knights of the light, deserve some modicum of recognition. I hand out my first three awards, from under the tent. To those who persist in walking the wire, even as the flood rises!
The NFTC Awards for Epistemic Excellence
As voted on by me.
www.notesfromthecircus.com
December 11, 2025 at 11:27 PM
In these dark ages, the knights of the light, deserve some modicum of recognition. I hand out my first three awards, from under the tent. To those who persist in walking the wire, even as the flood rises!
Emotions guide the conductor's baton, reason builds the instruments, such that we may make music.
December 11, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Emotions guide the conductor's baton, reason builds the instruments, such that we may make music.
History's judgement on us will be quite harsh, I'm afraid.
"Among these dangerous criminals the Trump administration is deporting were a mother arrested on her way to pick up her special-needs child, a mother separated from her two-month-old, the mother of a 5-year-old whose husband is a citizen, and hundreds of others." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
Trump’s Deportations Are Ripping Mothers from Their Babies
The president’s immigration policy is “beyond inhumane.”
open.substack.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:33 PM
History's judgement on us will be quite harsh, I'm afraid.
Data, statistics, optimization... this shall not be our fate. For we are free, and no tool, no notion, no idea supervenes on that. Not bitcoin, not AI, not social media ...
December 11, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Data, statistics, optimization... this shall not be our fate. For we are free, and no tool, no notion, no idea supervenes on that. Not bitcoin, not AI, not social media ...
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My thoughts on the corruption of "conservative legal theory".
The Unitary Executive Theory
Thoughts on constitutional history
www.notesfromthecircus.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:33 AM
My thoughts on the corruption of "conservative legal theory".
NEWS: Trump officials are worried the ICC may try to prosecute them for war crimes once Trump's term ends, and are threatening sanctions against the ICC to change its founding document to grant them immunity. (via Reuters / link in reply)
December 11, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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"The United States international reputation is now destroyed. It now operates with the character of a crime syndicate on the world stage. Demands for protection money. Abandonment of any values-based policy, and a regression to crude economic transactionalism."
My thoughts on the corruption of "conservative legal theory".
The Unitary Executive Theory
Thoughts on constitutional history
www.notesfromthecircus.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:51 AM
"The United States international reputation is now destroyed. It now operates with the character of a crime syndicate on the world stage. Demands for protection money. Abandonment of any values-based policy, and a regression to crude economic transactionalism."
My thoughts on the corruption of "conservative legal theory".
The Unitary Executive Theory
Thoughts on constitutional history
www.notesfromthecircus.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:33 AM
My thoughts on the corruption of "conservative legal theory".
Living through the total moral collapse of the society in which you live is quite something. It's also something when others think you're insane for mentioning the obvious.
December 11, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Living through the total moral collapse of the society in which you live is quite something. It's also something when others think you're insane for mentioning the obvious.
I would prefer not to occupy the territory of our nation having the character of thieves. Yet it does. And I turn to my fellow Americans, concerned, that they allow such crimes to persist.
Whole of the American economy is now piracy.
WATCH: U.S. forces seize oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela
December 11, 2025 at 12:26 AM
I would prefer not to occupy the territory of our nation having the character of thieves. Yet it does. And I turn to my fellow Americans, concerned, that they allow such crimes to persist.
Time marches on. It never skips a beat. Not even for a minute.
December 10, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Time marches on. It never skips a beat. Not even for a minute.
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2/ @brockm.bsky.social has a terrific deep dive into Bari's false equivalence play. I encourage you to read it & to push back every time you hear Weiss or any other MAGA types play the phony both sides, fairness card. www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/bari-weiss...
Bari Weiss and the Tyranny of False Balance
When “Why does the country think you’re biased?” becomes surrender dressed as sophistication
www.notesfromthecircus.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:48 PM
2/ @brockm.bsky.social has a terrific deep dive into Bari's false equivalence play. I encourage you to read it & to push back every time you hear Weiss or any other MAGA types play the phony both sides, fairness card. www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/bari-weiss...
Reposted by Mike Brock 🇺🇸
Every day is an opportunity to change your ways.
www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-thing-...
www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-thing-...
The Thing About Economics and Culture ...
On bitcoin culture, intellectual fraudulence and social responsibility.
www.notesfromthecircus.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Every day is an opportunity to change your ways.
www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-thing-...
www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-thing-...
Every day is an opportunity to change your ways.
www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-thing-...
www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-thing-...
The Thing About Economics and Culture ...
On bitcoin culture, intellectual fraudulence and social responsibility.
www.notesfromthecircus.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Every day is an opportunity to change your ways.
www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-thing-...
www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-thing-...
Marco is obviously mistaken since Trump ended this war. Everyone knows this.
Another war Trump claims he ended where fighting continues.
December 10, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Marco is obviously mistaken since Trump ended this war. Everyone knows this.
I credit @seanmcarroll.bsky.social’s Biggest Ideas in the Universe Book and YouTube series, as well as listening to hours and hours of his AMA episodes for giving me the conceptual infrastructure to propose this interpretation, paired with my computer science and philosophy background.
Sorry. It was shared as private. Link works now.
Folks who’ve been following my project know I’ve been trying to build a coherent framework around complementarity, Humean epistemics, etc.
Here is a pre-publish draft of a new paper that pushes that work into the physics/philosophy boundary. Sharing it publicly and hoping for serious eyes on it.
Here is a pre-publish draft of a new paper that pushes that work into the physics/philosophy boundary. Sharing it publicly and hoping for serious eyes on it.
December 10, 2025 at 1:08 AM
I credit @seanmcarroll.bsky.social’s Biggest Ideas in the Universe Book and YouTube series, as well as listening to hours and hours of his AMA episodes for giving me the conceptual infrastructure to propose this interpretation, paired with my computer science and philosophy background.
Sorry. It was shared as private. Link works now.
Folks who’ve been following my project know I’ve been trying to build a coherent framework around complementarity, Humean epistemics, etc.
Here is a pre-publish draft of a new paper that pushes that work into the physics/philosophy boundary. Sharing it publicly and hoping for serious eyes on it.
Here is a pre-publish draft of a new paper that pushes that work into the physics/philosophy boundary. Sharing it publicly and hoping for serious eyes on it.
drive.google.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Sorry. It was shared as private. Link works now.
Folks who’ve been following my project know I’ve been trying to build a coherent framework around complementarity, Humean epistemics, etc.
Here is a pre-publish draft of a new paper that pushes that work into the physics/philosophy boundary. Sharing it publicly and hoping for serious eyes on it.
Here is a pre-publish draft of a new paper that pushes that work into the physics/philosophy boundary. Sharing it publicly and hoping for serious eyes on it.
drive.google.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Folks who’ve been following my project know I’ve been trying to build a coherent framework around complementarity, Humean epistemics, etc.
Here is a pre-publish draft of a new paper that pushes that work into the physics/philosophy boundary. Sharing it publicly and hoping for serious eyes on it.
Here is a pre-publish draft of a new paper that pushes that work into the physics/philosophy boundary. Sharing it publicly and hoping for serious eyes on it.
I need to talk to somebody in theoretical physics and someone who is an expert in quantum interpretation. If you can help, let me know.
December 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I need to talk to somebody in theoretical physics and someone who is an expert in quantum interpretation. If you can help, let me know.
Hey @seanmcarroll.bsky.social, I have a metaphysical critique of MWI and I would love to talk to you.
December 9, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Hey @seanmcarroll.bsky.social, I have a metaphysical critique of MWI and I would love to talk to you.
Love is possible. That is my faith.
The Beautiful Release
A meditation on humanism
www.notesfromthecircus.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Love is possible. That is my faith.
In other words, it's Monday.
California struck by magnitude 3.7 earthquake
December 8, 2025 at 5:13 PM
In other words, it's Monday.
On intellectual courage.
Humility
A meditation on intellectual courage.
www.notesfromthecircus.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:01 PM
On intellectual courage.
Honestly, at this point, I'd be okay pardoning Trump for all his crimes and letting him ride off into the darkness if he got out of the way and let us prosecute all the cretins around him. He is not long for this world, anyway. If such an offer were possible, I'd make it.
December 8, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Honestly, at this point, I'd be okay pardoning Trump for all his crimes and letting him ride off into the darkness if he got out of the way and let us prosecute all the cretins around him. He is not long for this world, anyway. If such an offer were possible, I'd make it.