@VanityFair contributor, confirmed lounger & proud infidel. Appears annually in @NYMag’s Christmas Issue matrix. Co-host of Quality Lit Game podcast.

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Did you know Cormac McCarthy stopped reading new novels after Infinite Jest and referred to @JoyceCarolOates as "the goggle lady?" My definitive takedown of Jest, MFAs, and the coinage of a new term "publishing-inudstrial complex" to explain it all :) unherd.com/2026/03/why-corma…
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Replying to @stevebyrnelive
No, this is the difference between basketball and hockey. Hockey is a beautiful catharsis of masculine of violence. In basketball it is against the rules to be masculine. The catharsis is so great in hockey that the spectators often join in.
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Imagine telling the atheist founders that in 250 years we’d have a permanent standing army ruled by an illegal fourth branch of government permanently forced to merge armies and intel with Israel — a new state whose geographical expansion cites Biblical mandates.
BREAKING: Senator Tom Cotton has officially proposed a law that could merge Mossad and the CIA forever, with Section 622 of the Intelligence Authorization Bill making it illegal to suspend intelligence sharing with Israel.
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JUST IN: Bryan Johnson reveals jet lag from a flight to Australia spiked his biological age by 13 years.
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.@hasanthehun I DEFEATED YOU.
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Infinite Jest should be treated the same way David Foster Wallace treated Mary Karr: thrown from cars, kicked, threatened. Tables should be hurled at it, firearms should be sought to shoot it.
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Tucker Carlson’s grandfather was Henry Miller. Look it up.
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Specifically: I’d first look at what promising approaches to post-Einsteinian science were we induced to abandon by Quantum Gravity/StringTheorists. I’d spend the first 1/2 million dollars simply destringifying the last 42 lost years. Then I would look at all the major ideas without ANY refereeing input from string theory/m-theory: Chern Simons Asymptotic safety GU Einstein Cartan McDowell Mansouri Spin connections Strings Gravitational Amplitudes Etc. Then based on that assessment, I would allocate grants to push for the spacetime successor. But the first allocation is to destringification. We need to stop being brainwashed by 5 people and their misinterpretation of Ken Wilson. We need to realize that the real physics that we would need to travel the cosmos got nerfed. By string theory. The first task is undoing the murderous anti-scientific lie and culture of TOGIT as spread by Witten, Susskind, Greene, Kaku, Gross and company. Just undoing that and making it viable to do theoretical physics without their fingers around our throats would bring us far closer to post Einsteinian engineering. Gravitational physics has become a lie under quantum gravity.
How exactly do we ‘allocate’ it? It’s not like saying yes when asked “do you want guac with your Chipotle bowl?” If you were Elon, how would you do it? Specifics please.
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Huh. I’d be happy to discuss this in light of the secret internal 1986 NSF study. In public. And on camera. I believe I’m fully awake, @neiltyson. This has ZERO to do with xenophobia. Zero. It’s about labor markets.
“It’s time to wake the fuck up” Neil deGrasse Tyson: “Half of my fellow graduate students when I was getting my PhD were foreign nationals. Do you realize one third of all the Nobel Prizes in sciences won by Americans were won by immigrants to America? If you’re gonna trail the world in practically everything, including your economy, it’s time to wake the fuck up”
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Steven Spielberg’s done it again. He’s notched another stinker under his belt. If you’re curious at all about UAPs and NHI do not go see Disclosure Day. Will set the whole discourse and public interest back decades.
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remarkable how people are discovering what mid century media theorists showed 75 years ago, and think it’s novel.
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My friend Jack is launching an excellent new podcast, give it a listen!
🎧 FIRST EPISODE IS UP! @jackaldane’s first guest to set down his torch on The Lit Path is TV writer, producer and author @johnyorke123. They discuss how Gulliver’s Travels changed fiction forever in John’s mind, and why, 300 years after it was published, Swift remains humanity’s greatest heckler. 📺 🔗 in replies.
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I’ve spoken to David Grusch many times. There is nothing obviously wrong with him. At all. Stop using the ‘argument’ that everything for which you are not ready miraculously only comes from dismissible people. It’s just not working all that well anymore: Something is going on.
The correct processing for David Grusch is that he is nuts. Although watching intelligent people fall for this con is enough to leave the uninfected unhinged.
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Nordics as proto-Aryans. This is some of the occult Nazism of Operation Paperclip at work. The narrative about there being a war of aliens is also Scientology.
This is SO simplistic compared to my thesis in CLOSER ENCOUNTERS, and also just WRONG. Convergent evolution is a thing (and also involves morphic resonance), but the Nordics are literally proto-Aryans with a 5-D relation to history. They ruled the planet overtly until 12,000 BP.
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GET A WARRANT
FISA 702 is the authority for surveillance on foreign soil—the core of all US security. A libertarian demand to make SecWar get approval from liberal DC judges (the ones who targeted Trump) is madness. No conservative aim is ever served through subservience to leftist DC judges.
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Of the 11 FISC judges, only 2 are from the D.C. district and 8 were appointed to their district courts by Republican presidents. fisc.uscourts.gov/current-member… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_St…
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We take an oath to uphold the Constitution. FISA violates that. I voted no.
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Trying out new hyperbolic similes. “That rumor spread like trench foot at a foot fetish convention.” Any good?
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Dark Journalist Exposes The Dangers Of CIA False UFO Disclosure While They Suppress The Real UFO File With The Help Of Congress...! youtube.com/watch?v=Z1ehAz1K…
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🚨 DAVID GRUSCH : THE US GOVERNMENT IS AWARE OF BIPEDAL TYPE LIFE AND SENTIENT PLASMOID LIFE In a bombshell moment today at the Capitol steps press conference with the House Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, UAP whistleblower David Grusch dropped major new details on non-human intelligence. Grusch stated “It’s a continuum from corporeal, bipedal-type life to what I would consider like sentient plasma life... there are several [species] that the US Government is aware of.”
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We Should Not ‘Integrate’ Our Military with Any Foreign Nation!
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The notorious Section 224 of the National Defense Authorization Act has survived the first attempt to strike it from the legislation. The provision, which "integrates" the Israeli military into our own national security apparatus, will remain in the bill as it moves out of the House Armed Services Committee. Will Americans be forced to mortgage their sovereignty on behalf of a foreign country - one that cannot stop spying on us? Watch @RonPaul & @DanielLMcAdams:
NDAA Sec. 224 Puts America Last! x.com/i/broadcasts/1yKAPPloe…
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