max asher miller
@maxashermiller.bsky.social
✡️🏳️🌈(🟥🟨🟦)(he/him)
fiction writer, journalist, TikTok personality
Columbia MFA '21
✍️: Fatal Flaw, Walkabout, etc
⌨️: maxashermiller.substack.com
🔗: https://linktr.ee/maxashermiller
fiction writer, journalist, TikTok personality
Columbia MFA '21
✍️: Fatal Flaw, Walkabout, etc
⌨️: maxashermiller.substack.com
🔗: https://linktr.ee/maxashermiller
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Reintroducing myself as more people fly the friendly skies.
My name is Max Asher Miller. I'm a writer and journalist with an MFA from Columbia University, where I multiclassed in the Journalism School and studied populism/fascism.
You can also find me on TikTok @m0stlysapien
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My name is Max Asher Miller. I'm a writer and journalist with an MFA from Columbia University, where I multiclassed in the Journalism School and studied populism/fascism.
You can also find me on TikTok @m0stlysapien
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Very disappointed in the new Nebula Award eligibility information from SFWA that allows partially-generated works to be on the ballot. See 9.11.2.
www.sfwa.org/complete-neb...
This shouldn't be difficult. #noAI
www.sfwa.org/complete-neb...
This shouldn't be difficult. #noAI
December 19, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Very disappointed in the new Nebula Award eligibility information from SFWA that allows partially-generated works to be on the ballot. See 9.11.2.
www.sfwa.org/complete-neb...
This shouldn't be difficult. #noAI
www.sfwa.org/complete-neb...
This shouldn't be difficult. #noAI
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Zohran Mamdani scares the ADL more than these guys and I think it's fair to ask why
December 19, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Zohran Mamdani scares the ADL more than these guys and I think it's fair to ask why
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I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
December 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
Everyone thinks Trump is pushing us towards civil war but I think without him we would have had one already. He has become our collective sin-eater toward whom all our rage at the state of the world can be directed.
December 19, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Everyone thinks Trump is pushing us towards civil war but I think without him we would have had one already. He has become our collective sin-eater toward whom all our rage at the state of the world can be directed.
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Things are going great over at X, The Everything App
December 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Things are going great over at X, The Everything App
After MTG introduced the bill to gut children's affirming care, I don't want to hear anyone acting like she's reformed.
December 19, 2025 at 12:35 AM
After MTG introduced the bill to gut children's affirming care, I don't want to hear anyone acting like she's reformed.
"Cloud" is one of the most devilish euphemisms the tech industry has managed to get away with.
It completely abstracts away the reality of a big, ugly data center belching fumes into the sky.
It completely abstracts away the reality of a big, ugly data center belching fumes into the sky.
December 18, 2025 at 10:30 PM
"Cloud" is one of the most devilish euphemisms the tech industry has managed to get away with.
It completely abstracts away the reality of a big, ugly data center belching fumes into the sky.
It completely abstracts away the reality of a big, ugly data center belching fumes into the sky.
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I agree. Either he didn't disclose it to his editors either and this is a colossal violation of conflict-of-interest rules, or he did, in which case someone has a monumental amount of explaining to do.
David Brooks, who wrote in the NYT last month, "The Epstein Story? Count Me Out" is... in the latest Epstein photo dump published by @oversightdemocrats.house.gov.
He should absolutely be fired by NYT for this. Major conflict of interest that he didn't disclose.
He should absolutely be fired by NYT for this. Major conflict of interest that he didn't disclose.
December 18, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I agree. Either he didn't disclose it to his editors either and this is a colossal violation of conflict-of-interest rules, or he did, in which case someone has a monumental amount of explaining to do.
Reminder that filings in court cases showed Google executives explicitly plotting to degrade the search experience in order to keep users on the platform longer and show them more ads
we don't talk enough about how google searches are basically non-functional at this point. It no longer recognizes excluded words, it forces location searches, ignores words put in quotes, you can do a "verbatim" search or a timestamped search but not both together. And it prioritizes VIDEO RESULTS.
December 18, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Reminder that filings in court cases showed Google executives explicitly plotting to degrade the search experience in order to keep users on the platform longer and show them more ads
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If the situation was hopeless the propaganda wouldn’t be necessary.
January 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM
If the situation was hopeless the propaganda wouldn’t be necessary.
"How many genders are there?" is the most infuriating gotcha question fascists ask because the answer is that gender is a population number, not an inventory of static objects. There are as many ways to express gender as there are people who express it differently.
December 17, 2025 at 10:30 AM
"How many genders are there?" is the most infuriating gotcha question fascists ask because the answer is that gender is a population number, not an inventory of static objects. There are as many ways to express gender as there are people who express it differently.
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This is my cyclical reminder that there's really only one consistently reliable source of info in the public record that isn't owned by right wing billionaires, who really want to put an end to it.
Please give at least the $2.75 minimum they request if you can.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Please give at least the $2.75 minimum they request if you can.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 17, 2025 at 5:05 AM
This is my cyclical reminder that there's really only one consistently reliable source of info in the public record that isn't owned by right wing billionaires, who really want to put an end to it.
Please give at least the $2.75 minimum they request if you can.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Please give at least the $2.75 minimum they request if you can.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
This administration's primary objective at this point appears to be diddling kids. They've got masked goons snatching kids at schools, sports organizations checking kids genitals, now they're going to let Border Agent McFingers do full penetration on children.
December 17, 2025 at 12:42 AM
This administration's primary objective at this point appears to be diddling kids. They've got masked goons snatching kids at schools, sports organizations checking kids genitals, now they're going to let Border Agent McFingers do full penetration on children.
Pretty clear at this point that the Brown shooter will not be caught by this FBI. Remember, the only reason they caught Tyler Robinson is that he confessed to his father.
We know that the Patel FBI has shifted its priorities toward targeting leftists. Violent criminals, no longer on the menu.
We know that the Patel FBI has shifted its priorities toward targeting leftists. Violent criminals, no longer on the menu.
December 17, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Pretty clear at this point that the Brown shooter will not be caught by this FBI. Remember, the only reason they caught Tyler Robinson is that he confessed to his father.
We know that the Patel FBI has shifted its priorities toward targeting leftists. Violent criminals, no longer on the menu.
We know that the Patel FBI has shifted its priorities toward targeting leftists. Violent criminals, no longer on the menu.
This is a very good choice but they also listed "touch grass" as one of the words of the year and that's TWO WORDS.
YOU ARE LITERALLY THE DICTIONARY
YOU ARE LITERALLY THE DICTIONARY
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 16, 2025 at 1:13 AM
This is a very good choice but they also listed "touch grass" as one of the words of the year and that's TWO WORDS.
YOU ARE LITERALLY THE DICTIONARY
YOU ARE LITERALLY THE DICTIONARY
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Who wants to pay for cloud storage?
Multiple reports today that next year's phones and laptops are going to come with about half the RAM. 8GB laptops and 4GB phones lmao. They're not dropping prices of course.
Is this that capitalist innovation I've heard about?
Is this that capitalist innovation I've heard about?
December 16, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Who wants to pay for cloud storage?
it's a rule of the enshittified capitalist universe that no website is slower than your ISP's.
December 15, 2025 at 7:27 AM
it's a rule of the enshittified capitalist universe that no website is slower than your ISP's.
Can confirm I have read the reporting on this.
As an aside, we are starting to see a massive proliferation of threats like this, both because the American government has directed resources away from fighting cyber attacks and because of AI code getting shipped to major platforms.
As an aside, we are starting to see a massive proliferation of threats like this, both because the American government has directed resources away from fighting cyber attacks and because of AI code getting shipped to major platforms.
PSA: there’s been an exploit for Signal and WhatsApp released that can be used to silently track you.
Temp fixes for both can be done in your settings:
For WhatsApp: Settings>Privacy>Advanced>Block unknown messages.
For Signal: Settings>Privacy>Phone number>Who can find me by number>Nobody
Temp fixes for both can be done in your settings:
For WhatsApp: Settings>Privacy>Advanced>Block unknown messages.
For Signal: Settings>Privacy>Phone number>Who can find me by number>Nobody
December 15, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Can confirm I have read the reporting on this.
As an aside, we are starting to see a massive proliferation of threats like this, both because the American government has directed resources away from fighting cyber attacks and because of AI code getting shipped to major platforms.
As an aside, we are starting to see a massive proliferation of threats like this, both because the American government has directed resources away from fighting cyber attacks and because of AI code getting shipped to major platforms.
Multiple reports today that next year's phones and laptops are going to come with about half the RAM. 8GB laptops and 4GB phones lmao. They're not dropping prices of course.
Is this that capitalist innovation I've heard about?
Is this that capitalist innovation I've heard about?
December 15, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Multiple reports today that next year's phones and laptops are going to come with about half the RAM. 8GB laptops and 4GB phones lmao. They're not dropping prices of course.
Is this that capitalist innovation I've heard about?
Is this that capitalist innovation I've heard about?
who got the hookup for good jelly donuts?
also is there a word for them other than sufganyot, which I believe is israeli in origin?
also is there a word for them other than sufganyot, which I believe is israeli in origin?
December 15, 2025 at 2:26 AM
who got the hookup for good jelly donuts?
also is there a word for them other than sufganyot, which I believe is israeli in origin?
also is there a word for them other than sufganyot, which I believe is israeli in origin?
BUGONIA was... not what I expected, even from Yorgos.
December 15, 2025 at 1:54 AM
BUGONIA was... not what I expected, even from Yorgos.
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A nuclear-armed U.S. under full totalitarian control is an existential threat to billions of people. To life on this planet.
It's up to us, U.S. citizens living here in the imperial core, to stop it. Nobody is coming to save us. Not the U.N., not the ICJ. It's us or it's nobody.
It's up to us, U.S. citizens living here in the imperial core, to stop it. Nobody is coming to save us. Not the U.N., not the ICJ. It's us or it's nobody.
December 15, 2025 at 1:45 AM
A nuclear-armed U.S. under full totalitarian control is an existential threat to billions of people. To life on this planet.
It's up to us, U.S. citizens living here in the imperial core, to stop it. Nobody is coming to save us. Not the U.N., not the ICJ. It's us or it's nobody.
It's up to us, U.S. citizens living here in the imperial core, to stop it. Nobody is coming to save us. Not the U.N., not the ICJ. It's us or it's nobody.
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Don't mistake incompetence for accident. The degradation of your social media feed, the collapse of your news, the defunding of your school—it is all functional.
They are happy to rule over the ashes, as long as they are the ones holding the match.
They are happy to rule over the ashes, as long as they are the ones holding the match.
December 14, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Don't mistake incompetence for accident. The degradation of your social media feed, the collapse of your news, the defunding of your school—it is all functional.
They are happy to rule over the ashes, as long as they are the ones holding the match.
They are happy to rule over the ashes, as long as they are the ones holding the match.
Decentralized, interoperable social media is a small but important piece of the anti-fascist puzzle. Not a silver bullet without other reforms but I think we have to acknowledge at this point that centralized corporate social media is an accelerant for fascism.
We saw the prototype of the Nero Doctrine with Twitter. The goal wasn't to make it profitable or "free." The goal was to break the one place where news broke faster than the state could spin it.
They bought the town square not to speak in it, but to burn it down so we’d have nowhere else to gather.
They bought the town square not to speak in it, but to burn it down so we’d have nowhere else to gather.
December 15, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Decentralized, interoperable social media is a small but important piece of the anti-fascist puzzle. Not a silver bullet without other reforms but I think we have to acknowledge at this point that centralized corporate social media is an accelerant for fascism.
"There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. I know this already. Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy. Remember this. Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction."
Chanukah sameach
Chanukah sameach
December 15, 2025 at 1:22 AM
"There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. I know this already. Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy. Remember this. Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction."
Chanukah sameach
Chanukah sameach