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This is what I've been working on all summer. It's my first book, called Escape Velocity: Explorations of Digital Culture and its Discontents 2019-2024. It's partially a retrospective of my time doing No Escape but it also features multiple revisions of old work and five entirely new essays.
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This dude Stancil has quickly revealed that he is to Minneapolis what Shaun King was to Ferguson
This is the stuff that marks someone as a danger.
Not even just that he intends to sneak back into an organizing space where he’s been told that he’s unwanted; the need to publicly brag about it, and make sure everyone knows.
You cannot do collaborative work with someone who only centers himself.
Not even just that he intends to sneak back into an organizing space where he’s been told that he’s unwanted; the need to publicly brag about it, and make sure everyone knows.
You cannot do collaborative work with someone who only centers himself.
February 3, 2026 at 9:40 PM
This dude Stancil has quickly revealed that he is to Minneapolis what Shaun King was to Ferguson
hadn't seen this shit, holy fuck. this is peak "I'm a Liberal Man I can do what I want" shit
This is the stuff that marks someone as a danger.
Not even just that he intends to sneak back into an organizing space where he’s been told that he’s unwanted; the need to publicly brag about it, and make sure everyone knows.
You cannot do collaborative work with someone who only centers himself.
Not even just that he intends to sneak back into an organizing space where he’s been told that he’s unwanted; the need to publicly brag about it, and make sure everyone knows.
You cannot do collaborative work with someone who only centers himself.
February 3, 2026 at 9:55 PM
hadn't seen this shit, holy fuck. this is peak "I'm a Liberal Man I can do what I want" shit
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i had imposter syndrome trying to talk about fascism alongside Alberto Toscano, but i'm glad i did coz it was an incredibly generative conversation that helped distill & crystallize my own thoughts about fascism worldwide today & it's differentiations from the past.
www.tni.org/en/article/l...
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Lifeboats, steampunk and colonialism – fascism today | Transnational Institute
In this fascinating opening interview for State of Power 2026, scholar activists Toscano and Walia explore the historic roots and current capitalist dynamics that have led to the rise of fascism world...
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February 3, 2026 at 9:43 PM
i had imposter syndrome trying to talk about fascism alongside Alberto Toscano, but i'm glad i did coz it was an incredibly generative conversation that helped distill & crystallize my own thoughts about fascism worldwide today & it's differentiations from the past.
www.tni.org/en/article/l...
www.tni.org/en/article/l...
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this is the crux of what I have always been trying to say. unpopular opinion woman…
The Epstein files reveal what powerful people see in video games: profit, coercion, and control
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February 3, 2026 at 9:35 PM
this is the crux of what I have always been trying to say. unpopular opinion woman…
as an addendum to that last repost I think there are some people who view unemployment as the worst thing that can happen to you, whereas the moral decay you incur might be something you can manage if you just keep your head down. I think that's precisely backwards.
February 3, 2026 at 9:10 PM
as an addendum to that last repost I think there are some people who view unemployment as the worst thing that can happen to you, whereas the moral decay you incur might be something you can manage if you just keep your head down. I think that's precisely backwards.
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I'm going to say again that I understand that people need a job to live but sometimes you really have to quit.
This is unreal. An AUSA talking like that in open court is about as close as you can come to a total breakdown. Never heard of anything like it.
February 3, 2026 at 9:02 PM
I'm going to say again that I understand that people need a job to live but sometimes you really have to quit.
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Anyway, I don't really feel the burning Stancil fury everyone has. Yeah he's being a normie lib snitch. But like I know some famous accounts that I remember very clearly being annoying normie libs during Occupy. And for every Tim Pool that emerged, some people eventually got their shit together.
February 3, 2026 at 7:57 PM
Anyway, I don't really feel the burning Stancil fury everyone has. Yeah he's being a normie lib snitch. But like I know some famous accounts that I remember very clearly being annoying normie libs during Occupy. And for every Tim Pool that emerged, some people eventually got their shit together.
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This basically meant the death of tacit/local/expert knowledge. Every normie lib that showed up with legions of followers felt no pressure whatsoever to listen to the folks who had been doing shit, because they were being overwhelmingly confirmed in their normie lib assumptions by their followers.
February 3, 2026 at 7:54 PM
This basically meant the death of tacit/local/expert knowledge. Every normie lib that showed up with legions of followers felt no pressure whatsoever to listen to the folks who had been doing shit, because they were being overwhelmingly confirmed in their normie lib assumptions by their followers.
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In normal activism prior to Occupy, you'd get a lib or two and you'd slowly argue and explain to them why various Chesterton's Fences exist, why we all do things that they disagree with. But in Occupy folks would show up with thousands of followers on their phone ready to tell them they're right.
February 3, 2026 at 7:51 PM
In normal activism prior to Occupy, you'd get a lib or two and you'd slowly argue and explain to them why various Chesterton's Fences exist, why we all do things that they disagree with. But in Occupy folks would show up with thousands of followers on their phone ready to tell them they're right.
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I want to be clear: I don't even hate such normie libs. A ton of radicals start out that ignorant and get better. There were folks like that on the ground in the battle of seattle, they're eternal. What made Occupy a watershed moment was how many of them there were and their appeals to the internet.
February 3, 2026 at 7:49 PM
I want to be clear: I don't even hate such normie libs. A ton of radicals start out that ignorant and get better. There were folks like that on the ground in the battle of seattle, they're eternal. What made Occupy a watershed moment was how many of them there were and their appeals to the internet.
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So like my partner at the time and I went thru a camp and ran across a pile of these normie lib white boys who'd shown up enthusiastically talking to a cop about how "police are part of the 99%" and "we're making lists of the *radicals*, we'll let you know."
February 3, 2026 at 7:47 PM
So like my partner at the time and I went thru a camp and ran across a pile of these normie lib white boys who'd shown up enthusiastically talking to a cop about how "police are part of the 99%" and "we're making lists of the *radicals*, we'll let you know."
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The typical story was that anarchists ran the thankless infrastructure necessary to keep camps going, and did the lockdowns or street fighting to defend them from the cops, meanwhile the newbie libs from the internet focused on taking photos with cops and crafting really good tweets.
February 3, 2026 at 7:45 PM
The typical story was that anarchists ran the thankless infrastructure necessary to keep camps going, and did the lockdowns or street fighting to defend them from the cops, meanwhile the newbie libs from the internet focused on taking photos with cops and crafting really good tweets.
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... because their imaginations are fundamentally captured by the authoritarian system called "democracy" and its mechanism of social change. Getting social media shares and positive writeups from journalists is seen as critical to "winning" in the nebulous sense of getting more voters on your side.
February 3, 2026 at 7:41 PM
... because their imaginations are fundamentally captured by the authoritarian system called "democracy" and its mechanism of social change. Getting social media shares and positive writeups from journalists is seen as critical to "winning" in the nebulous sense of getting more voters on your side.
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Every normie lib has exactly the same assumptions about How To Do Activism -- everyone should dress nice, pander to media, obey local authorities / laws, disregard security culture -- not just because they've been fed a bunch of lies about nonviolence and the civil rights movement, but also...
February 3, 2026 at 7:37 PM
Every normie lib has exactly the same assumptions about How To Do Activism -- everyone should dress nice, pander to media, obey local authorities / laws, disregard security culture -- not just because they've been fed a bunch of lies about nonviolence and the civil rights movement, but also...
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Occupy was the first time "people from the internet" showed up in on-the-ground activism, and it so infamously sucked for existing activists that it basically destroyed the counter-globalization era movement.
February 3, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Occupy was the first time "people from the internet" showed up in on-the-ground activism, and it so infamously sucked for existing activists that it basically destroyed the counter-globalization era movement.
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So many of the reasons people are fighting ICE are the same reasons that people have always fought the police.
February 3, 2026 at 7:28 PM
So many of the reasons people are fighting ICE are the same reasons that people have always fought the police.
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this is also why, if you talk about CSA in any serious way as a political subject and structural pillar of patriarchy, people who believe CSA is an overblown hysteria will accuse you of promoting "elite pedophile cabal conspiracies," and conspiracy theorists will call you a pedophile.
everyone is always choosing between two equally reactionary ideas--"elite pedophile cabal" vs "CSA is an overblown hysteria that causes witch hunts any time it's even mentioned"--because they are equally anti-feminist answers to a question that only feminists can answer. and no one wants that answer
February 3, 2026 at 6:14 PM
this is also why, if you talk about CSA in any serious way as a political subject and structural pillar of patriarchy, people who believe CSA is an overblown hysteria will accuse you of promoting "elite pedophile cabal conspiracies," and conspiracy theorists will call you a pedophile.
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Will Stancil be normal to a single woman on the entire internet challenge
February 3, 2026 at 5:43 AM
Will Stancil be normal to a single woman on the entire internet challenge
I'm watching Adam Neely's latest video on gen AI bullshit in music, which is fascinating because he's kinda been soft on it in the past and brother is out for blood here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8dc...
Suno, AI Music, and the Bad Future
YouTube video by Adam Neely
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February 3, 2026 at 4:35 PM
I'm watching Adam Neely's latest video on gen AI bullshit in music, which is fascinating because he's kinda been soft on it in the past and brother is out for blood here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8dc...
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Not only is it Black History Month. It’s also its 100th anniversary!!
To commemorate its centennial, I wrote a list of 10 Black films, one from each of the last 10 decades, to stream.
To commemorate its centennial, I wrote a list of 10 Black films, one from each of the last 10 decades, to stream.
10 Movies to Stream for Black History Month
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February 3, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Not only is it Black History Month. It’s also its 100th anniversary!!
To commemorate its centennial, I wrote a list of 10 Black films, one from each of the last 10 decades, to stream.
To commemorate its centennial, I wrote a list of 10 Black films, one from each of the last 10 decades, to stream.
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Anyway
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February 3, 2026 at 3:42 PM
Anyway
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Paris prosecutors raid the French offices of Elon Musk’s X as part of an investigation into spreading child pornography and deepfakes.
Paris prosecutors raid X offices as part of an investigation into child porn, deepfakes and more
French prosecutors have launched a search at the offices of Elon Musk's social media platform X. This is part of an investigation into alleged offenses, including spreading child pornography and deepfakes.
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February 3, 2026 at 11:03 AM
Paris prosecutors raid the French offices of Elon Musk’s X as part of an investigation into spreading child pornography and deepfakes.
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Following our investigation into Oklahoma's uncontrolled wastewater purges, lawmakers have filed a slate of bills aimed at fixing the problem.
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New bills seek to rein in oil companies’ pollution of Oklahoma groundwater
The legislation comes after The Frontier and ProPublica found over 150 incidents where oilfield wastewater had gushed from the earth, releasing toxic chemicals — including some that cause cancer — nea...
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February 2, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Following our investigation into Oklahoma's uncontrolled wastewater purges, lawmakers have filed a slate of bills aimed at fixing the problem.
www.readfrontier.org/stories/new-...
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