Chad Denton
@reluctantlychad.bsky.social
Struggling writer, renegade historian, trash culture archaeologist. Check out my work: https://linktr.ee/drownedinink
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Episode 83: The Breakup
Cosimo and Marguerite-Louise’s dysfunctional marriage hits its dramatic crescendo and falls apart. Will Marguerite-Louise escape back to her homeland, or will she remain a prisoner of her des…
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Cosimo and Marguerite-Louise’s dysfunctional marriage hits its dramatic crescendo and falls apart. Will Marguerite-Louise escape back to her homeland, or will she remain a prisoner of her despised husband?
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Thinking again about how the Campbell's soup executive melted down about making "poor people" food, and the broad-ranging disgust rich people now for the very idea that their job might provide a product or service (especially to the poor) and not just siphon up money for no return and no reason.
November 28, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Thinking again about how the Campbell's soup executive melted down about making "poor people" food, and the broad-ranging disgust rich people now for the very idea that their job might provide a product or service (especially to the poor) and not just siphon up money for no return and no reason.
Just in time for Thanksgiving so you can force all your loved ones to listen, we have a new episode of the Medici Podcast! The vultures surround Tuscany as the Medici begin to die out.
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Episode 85: Waiting For The Inevitable
The vultures surround Tuscany as the Medici begin to die out. The only thing left for Cosimo III is to try to guarantee Tuscany’s independence in the future, even though most of the great pow…
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November 27, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Just in time for Thanksgiving so you can force all your loved ones to listen, we have a new episode of the Medici Podcast! The vultures surround Tuscany as the Medici begin to die out.
medicipodcast.com/2025/11/27/e...
medicipodcast.com/2025/11/27/e...
When you're turned on just a little bit by a violent scene in a horror movie.
November 27, 2025 at 1:24 AM
When you're turned on just a little bit by a violent scene in a horror movie.
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The Myth of a Rightward Realignment
Let’s discard some stubborn misconceptions about Trump’s support and what happened in the 2024 election that are obscuring our understanding of a profound de-alignment of the established order.
New piece:
Let’s discard some stubborn misconceptions about Trump’s support and what happened in the 2024 election that are obscuring our understanding of a profound de-alignment of the established order.
New piece:
The Myth of a Rightward Realignment
Let’s discard some stubborn misconceptions about Trump’s support and what happened in the 2024 election that are obscuring our understanding of a profound de-alignment
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November 27, 2025 at 12:04 AM
The Myth of a Rightward Realignment
Let’s discard some stubborn misconceptions about Trump’s support and what happened in the 2024 election that are obscuring our understanding of a profound de-alignment of the established order.
New piece:
Let’s discard some stubborn misconceptions about Trump’s support and what happened in the 2024 election that are obscuring our understanding of a profound de-alignment of the established order.
New piece:
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"y'all still hating on generative AI over here?"
"yep, y'all still paying the world's most powerful racist for clout over there?"
"yep, y'all still paying the world's most powerful racist for clout over there?"
November 26, 2025 at 8:45 PM
"y'all still hating on generative AI over here?"
"yep, y'all still paying the world's most powerful racist for clout over there?"
"yep, y'all still paying the world's most powerful racist for clout over there?"
I argued a bit with an "AI" defender who admittedly sounded somewhat reasonable and then checked out his timeline to find he's still really banging the drum on "Crypto is doing great."
November 26, 2025 at 11:19 PM
I argued a bit with an "AI" defender who admittedly sounded somewhat reasonable and then checked out his timeline to find he's still really banging the drum on "Crypto is doing great."
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This is disgusting.
Ronald Reagan refused to acknowledge the AIDS crisis. Even refused to help his "friend from the Hollywood days" Rock Hudson.
George W. Bush waited 7 years to recognize World AIDS Day.
And now we are back to a POS GOP POTUS who will ignore it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
Ronald Reagan refused to acknowledge the AIDS crisis. Even refused to help his "friend from the Hollywood days" Rock Hudson.
George W. Bush waited 7 years to recognize World AIDS Day.
And now we are back to a POS GOP POTUS who will ignore it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
Trump Administration Will No Longer Commemorate World AIDS Day
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:37 PM
This is disgusting.
Ronald Reagan refused to acknowledge the AIDS crisis. Even refused to help his "friend from the Hollywood days" Rock Hudson.
George W. Bush waited 7 years to recognize World AIDS Day.
And now we are back to a POS GOP POTUS who will ignore it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
Ronald Reagan refused to acknowledge the AIDS crisis. Even refused to help his "friend from the Hollywood days" Rock Hudson.
George W. Bush waited 7 years to recognize World AIDS Day.
And now we are back to a POS GOP POTUS who will ignore it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
I started following this guy on Facebook for the thirst traps but honestly now I just want to know what his deal is (non-derogatory). First there's all the erudite quotations of ancient philosophers and now he's posting a video of himself eating a raw onion covered with honey.
November 26, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I started following this guy on Facebook for the thirst traps but honestly now I just want to know what his deal is (non-derogatory). First there's all the erudite quotations of ancient philosophers and now he's posting a video of himself eating a raw onion covered with honey.
You can find art anywhere, even at work.
November 25, 2025 at 6:18 PM
You can find art anywhere, even at work.
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
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When I think "where the vast majority of Americans actually are," I think about the millionaire lawyer for Jeffrey Epstein & Harvey Weinstein & Donald Trump who was recently in the news for threatening to sue a pierogi seller in Martha's Vineyard, where he has one of his homes.
"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"
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November 25, 2025 at 3:57 AM
When I think "where the vast majority of Americans actually are," I think about the millionaire lawyer for Jeffrey Epstein & Harvey Weinstein & Donald Trump who was recently in the news for threatening to sue a pierogi seller in Martha's Vineyard, where he has one of his homes.
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Being seeing more artists, creators, podcasters pick up on this and I love that we are letting the audience know that refusing to use GenAi isn't just an indicator of inherent quality but a demand to have some personal integrity about our work.
I want to see more of it in the future.
I want to see more of it in the future.
November 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Being seeing more artists, creators, podcasters pick up on this and I love that we are letting the audience know that refusing to use GenAi isn't just an indicator of inherent quality but a demand to have some personal integrity about our work.
I want to see more of it in the future.
I want to see more of it in the future.
I would push "Return of the Jedi" further down and "The Last Jedi" much further down. I will go to my grave yelling that TLJ is a badly written film in general and people only love because it did make bold creative choices ("bold" isn't always "good" though!) and pissed off a lot of toxic fans.
i would push rogue one down and bring solo and the last jedi up. i’d also place attack of the clones at the bottom.
haven’t seen ROS or Solo but this seems like a pretty ball-knowing list from Pritzker, particularly if he volunteered the name “Star Wars” rather than “A New Hope”
November 24, 2025 at 8:13 PM
I would push "Return of the Jedi" further down and "The Last Jedi" much further down. I will go to my grave yelling that TLJ is a badly written film in general and people only love because it did make bold creative choices ("bold" isn't always "good" though!) and pissed off a lot of toxic fans.
The eternal struggle: while working should I listen to this podcast or video about a topic I'm very interested in even though the host is someone I'd probably run over with my car if I was sure I could get away with it.
November 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
The eternal struggle: while working should I listen to this podcast or video about a topic I'm very interested in even though the host is someone I'd probably run over with my car if I was sure I could get away with it.
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Media literacy is down, so to be clear, when the WSJ writes “Ultimately, the fact pattern Meta relies on to meet its conflicting objectives strains credibility” about your accounting practices and runs an accompanying flowchart, that is the equivalent of a 500-foot neon sign reading “FRAUD”
This feels like one of those stories you're going to look at a year from now and say to yourself, "Why didn't I move more of my portfolio into cash?" **
** (This post is for informational purposes only and should not be construed as financial or any other advice.)
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** (This post is for informational purposes only and should not be construed as financial or any other advice.)
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www.wsj.com/tech/meta-ai...
AI Meets Aggressive Accounting at Meta’s Gigantic New Data Center
Favorable treatment off the balance sheet hinges on some convenient assumptions.
www.wsj.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Media literacy is down, so to be clear, when the WSJ writes “Ultimately, the fact pattern Meta relies on to meet its conflicting objectives strains credibility” about your accounting practices and runs an accompanying flowchart, that is the equivalent of a 500-foot neon sign reading “FRAUD”
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tech companies continually learning people don't want these things
November 24, 2025 at 12:08 AM
tech companies continually learning people don't want these things
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thinking about how my parents escaped vietnam, where the CIA destabilized my family's home country by spreading misinformation, and they landed in the united states, which is now getting destabilized bc someone in vietnam is spreading misinformation
Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
November 23, 2025 at 5:59 PM
thinking about how my parents escaped vietnam, where the CIA destabilized my family's home country by spreading misinformation, and they landed in the united states, which is now getting destabilized bc someone in vietnam is spreading misinformation
One more post which I found on the Bad Place (not that one, the other Bad Place).
November 22, 2025 at 11:56 PM
One more post which I found on the Bad Place (not that one, the other Bad Place).
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Over on X, they just rolled out the public feature that reveals where accounts are located. I've found several major Elon Musk fan accounts that are run out of Africa and two major MAGA accounts are run out of Europe
November 22, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Over on X, they just rolled out the public feature that reveals where accounts are located. I've found several major Elon Musk fan accounts that are run out of Africa and two major MAGA accounts are run out of Europe
without downloading any new pics what is it like dating you
November 22, 2025 at 8:19 PM
without downloading any new pics what is it like dating you
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After you help your boss convert a doc to PDF
November 22, 2025 at 4:55 PM
After you help your boss convert a doc to PDF
My therapist and I've been talking about my trauma and I mentioned I'm reluctant to talk about it, but then he got me to admit I'm not exactly subtle about it when it shows up in my art (even in the autobiographical playlist I made a few months back). I guess that's what being a creative is about.
November 22, 2025 at 7:23 PM
My therapist and I've been talking about my trauma and I mentioned I'm reluctant to talk about it, but then he got me to admit I'm not exactly subtle about it when it shows up in my art (even in the autobiographical playlist I made a few months back). I guess that's what being a creative is about.
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Weapons (Dir. Zach Cregger, 2025)
November 22, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Weapons (Dir. Zach Cregger, 2025)
James Rolfe recently released a video trying to determine the most accurate-to-the-book adaptation of FRANKENSTEIN. Of course, it just got me thinking about how in the Marvel universe the Creature is *still* running around killing Frankenstein descendants.
Which Frankenstein Film is Most Faithful to the Book?
YouTube video by Cinemassacre
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November 22, 2025 at 5:15 PM
James Rolfe recently released a video trying to determine the most accurate-to-the-book adaptation of FRANKENSTEIN. Of course, it just got me thinking about how in the Marvel universe the Creature is *still* running around killing Frankenstein descendants.
I found out today that transphobic "journalist" Benjamin Ryan also agrees with the conspiracy theory embraced by the far-right that Matthew Shepard was murdered not because he was gay but because he was secretly a meth kingpin. That's one plot twist I should have seen coming.
November 22, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I found out today that transphobic "journalist" Benjamin Ryan also agrees with the conspiracy theory embraced by the far-right that Matthew Shepard was murdered not because he was gay but because he was secretly a meth kingpin. That's one plot twist I should have seen coming.