✡️🏳️🌈(🟥🟨🟦)(he/him) fiction writer, journalist, TikTok personality Columbia MFA '21 ✍️: Fatal Flaw, Walkabout, etc 📰: SlashGear, freelance ⌨️: maxashermiller.substack.com 🔗: https://linktr.ee/maxashermiller
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i met anubis in the realm of the underworld, big strong guy by the way, had a dog’s head, i’m not so sure about that. and he said to me, mr president, you’ve got the heaviest soul we’ve ever weighed down here. can you believe it? they’ve never seen a soul that heavy in all of duat
Makes sense. I know just enough about security admin to know I would make horrible rookie mistakes.
While I have you, do you think it's wise to self-host on a local server? Been meaning to build a Ubuntu rig anyway for media streaming and it seems relatively easy with Ghost's tools.
This is exactly what I needed, thank you!
This has some good tips, and Ghost is the platform I plan on moving to. Thanks!
Much obliged!
Can anyone help with this specific q for moving off of substack?
Thanks! I think I found a place to start. Looks like Ghost has some tools for this. But if anyone has actually done it, I'd still love help jumping through any unforeseen hoops.
I have not moved, but I'd like to. Can't find a good guide on how to retain paid subscribers and would appreciate some tips.
And another thing. I'm not mad. Please don't put it on Bluesky that I got mad!
I used to think, "Scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds," was a bit dramatic until I watched center-right liberals start attacking @taylorlorenz.bsky.social using the EXACT same language as Trump Jr., Tucker Carlson, et al. used when she reported on LibsofTikTok.
Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.
This isn't socialism. It's a prime example of fascist corporatism. Capitalists think they can use fascism as a vehicle, and vice versa. Apparently, neither of the above writers have bothered to study this stuff. "Hurr durr socialism is when gub'ment interferes in markets." Neoliberal brain rot.
Made a video last week puzzling over why none of the people who love to crow about "free markets" and "deregulation" were freaking out over Trump's interference with private businesses. Turns out they are now, but they're calling it socialism.
Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
And the woman was of age, they'll have you know!
Official Statement For Immediate Release On the evening of August 30, 2025, in New Hampshire, Mayor Giuliani was flagged down by a woman with beautiful blonde hair and sumptuous red lipstick who had mistakenly missed a left turn at Albuquerque. Upon learning the woman was in fact a cartoon rabbit,
rip to everyone whos become delusional after talking to chatgpt but im built different. like actually different. according to chatgpt im some kind of god. the one who decides
All jokes aside I bet he's in critical condition and they're trying to spin a narrative for his otherwise bleak obits
"My client, Batman, was attacked by the Joker after saving a woman from his schemes"
Well they haven't got a leg to stand on under the Sullivan standard, so they can't retaliate against the Wired piece in court. All they can do is chest-thump to their audiences.
Pretty clear at this point that Zionists largely believe anti-Zionist Jews should be killed alongside Palestinians. thebaffler.com/latest/for-b...
in this scenario the monster is stealing the books in addition to slaughtering the children, which actually isn't too far off from Shelley's version
Every Star Trek alum posts the most mush-brained resistance-cringe on here and I have had to mute all of them
Whenever I have the necessary grit to speak with my MAGA addled mom, it's shocking how much stuff she's unaware of or has heard some bizarre justification for
frankenstein unleashing his monster into a scholastic book fair: look at him go! pretty sweet, huh?
I am clenching so hard as we stare down the barrel of Trek media under Skydance bc I don't reckon it's going to get better
I just looked it up and I have terrible news. The term was allegedly coined in 2008 by... Barstool Sports.
Legacy media tore its hair out agonizing over how to communicate Trump's lies in his first term. This time around, they seem to be calmly applying Rogaine.
Legacy media tore its hair out agonizing over how to communicate Trump's lies in his first term. This time around, they seem to be calmly applying Rogaine.
I'm an hour and 15 into this thing and it's maybe your magnum opus. The prophecy has come true, our video essay messiah returns, and all who believe in her are destined for the kingdom of Patreon. The end is near!
Cannot convey how incredible it is to have you back on YouTube, @lindsayellis.bsky.social! The Nebula stuff has been some of your best work but have you ever tried to convince a friend to start a new subscription to watch a video essay? It's a hard sell.
Not even hard to predict as an outcome either which in any other case would have you locked underneath the prison It was one of many predictions I made a couple years ago and I'm just an obscure tech news writer www.slashgear.com/1252745/10-n...
Not even the first child it's done this to btw
I never disliked blue books. Why are they "dreaded" lol
Donald Trump is waging a fascist takeover of the United States. Democrats are responding the only way they know how: by heeding the advice of the wonks who helped get them into this situation — and whose advice is to avoid discussing what Trump is doing. More: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
It's darkly ironic that the Israeli government thought Biden was too firm when he was in fact the most ideologically dedicated Zionist ever to hold the presidency and staffed his administration with people just as zealous as himself.
this is depraved and disgusting.
We can go all the way back to the Confederacy being pardoned if we're looking for what got the ball rolling
People who care about democracy did vote for them and they lost anyway. If they were truly rooted in reality they would not care about following the law anymore than the fascists dismantling it. Their job is to grind this administration to a halt by any means necessary. Polling agrees with me.
Call me nuts but I think the people we elected because they kept talking about how democracy was on the line should maybe be doing a single thing to save democracy, if for no other reason than to save their own lives.
Pattinson does grungy hot roles now, which are distinct from rat man characters in that I desire them carnally
It's been obvious for a long time that the Democratic Party would gladly kill every person in the country as long as they keep getting corporate lobbying checks but I *did* think the threat of being publicly executed on the national mall would spur them to action. Weird to be wrong about that.
It's been obvious for a long time that the Democratic Party would gladly kill every person in the country as long as they keep getting corporate lobbying checks but I *did* think the threat of being publicly executed on the national mall would spur them to action. Weird to be wrong about that.
So it is 😅 I'm not firing on all cylinders since getting COVID earlier in the month I will say his ratio of rat to normal performances is slightly lower but there must be something about starting your career as a beloved fantasy protagonist does to a mf
So much winning! No one is tired of winning yet!
Daniel loves playing a freaky little rat man and the performances are consistently fantastic but I'm getting a little worried about his mental health
I'm too lazy to do it but someone should cut this screenshot in half and put it on top of the domino meme
I've been sick, had surgery, gone to the ER with surgery complications, got COVID as soon as that was almost healed, had my car and computer die, and been fighting my health insurance while taking on debt to keep the lights on. So having one thing be a little better than expected feels nice.
On the bright side of having my PC die and needing to rack up credit card debt getting new parts, I was at least able to get a warranty replacement for the CPU and AMD sent me the newer 9950X3D chip I regretted not waiting for when I built this thing. Nice surprise after an otherwise awful summer.
It almost feels like the humiliation of having to use algospeak is the point or something. The one aspect of this very stupid new strain of fascism no one expected was that the newspeak would be so juvenile.
“I’m sick of these purity tests. NO CANDIDATE is perfect. Newsom may not care about homeless people or trans people but he’s the ONLY ONE hiring social media posters to ask ChatGPT to talk like Trump”
Have you put any thought into developing a way of disincentivizing quote dunks? Telling people to politely refrain is ineffective compared to structural solutions.
Too many of you children are learning queer theory from the internet instead of from the meanest lesbian you’ve ever met like God intended.
you love to see him posting through it
10 years into this and the media still thinks that debunking the lies is effective. When he says crime is high in cities, he's not talking about actual crime. He's talking about criminal PEOPLE. Undesirables. His supporters hear the dog whistle. They know the words themselves are pretextual lies.
10% Intel in 2025 is like 10% of the Hindenburg after it crashed
You know how people today look back on European monarchy as a bunch of inbred lunatics drunk on unchecked power? That's how we'll look back on the ultra wealthy capitalist oligarchs should humanity survive them.
You know how people today look back on European monarchy as a bunch of inbred lunatics drunk on unchecked power? That's how we'll look back on the ultra wealthy capitalist oligarchs should humanity survive them.
After years of open and escalating fascism from so many fellow Jews, especially observant ones, it feels good to see a kid wearing a kippa talking like this.
When the secret police and the fascist police state are starting to surveil and follow members of the press and citizen journalists you are approaching something that is more dark than people understand. It also means that they are a full array of surveillance on people to ascertain who they are.
I'm still saying it to as many people as possible because if the foreseeable future is going to be this dark, I'm going to take small pleasures where I can find them, such as rubbing "I told you so" in as many people's faces as possible
If you say that our govt has been taken over by literal nazi sadists trying to expel every non-white immigrant, imprison all the liberals, push Black people to sharecrop the fields, kill social security, ban birth control & let grown men marry 14 year old girls, no one believes you. But it's true.
Capitalists are about to learn the hard way that labor rights were enshrined to protect them, not workers.
Americans tend to use whatever comes pre-installed on phones because we are by and large fundamentally uncurious people
It is now a difference in color, but up until a year ago anyone with an iPhone got downgraded to SMS when they messaged an Android.
Between what?
And btw Apple finally did give in and add RCS last year which adds 90% of iMessage features so at this point if you dislike green bubbles you're literally getting mad at a color.
I'll never get over the "green bubble" stigma from iPhone users because it's bananas to me that Apple deliberately degraded its own users' messaging experience and they responded by getting mad at Android users for simply existing instead of demanding a fix from Apple.
The quickness with which my cream colored compatriots took to that word told me all I need to know. The white desire to invent new slurs should be studied in a lab.
When I was like 12 I would tell my mom I was running away and then sleep in my treehouse for a single night before coming back to continue being abused. What I'm saying is I find the TX Democrats highly relatable rn.
It would be very funny to watch the UK try to ban VPNs for minors because that's basically the same thing as demanding that a bunch of sensitive businesses get hacked
Every SWer I know has been screaming from rooftops. I've personally been screaming for the last year that the plan is to replace SWers with AI porn so that the manosphere incel portion of the MAGA base doesn't revolt. Right on cue, Elon allows nonconsensual porn deepfakes on Grok.
this dweeb couldn't get laid in college and turned into christopher columbus
The editorial staff at The Verge know this stuff is all bullshit too. They say so all the time on podcasts.
The bastard is currently displacing native Hawaiians and developing his doomsday bunker on top of their ancestral burial sites. It's villain shit straight out of a pulp serial. www.wired.com/story/mark-z...
Rest in piss, James Dobson. I hope there is an afterlife and it's gay as fuck.
This was purposeful, indicating his lack of a heart
Today feels different, in part because the narrative appears to be seeping into the markets, which have been resistant to the dour "are we in a bubble?" vibes. NVIDIA earnings end of month may bring their smiles up, but there's a lot of days of trading between now and then.
It’s not like they weren’t warned. When you make it difficult for adults to look at porn on actual porn sites, they start going to non-porn sites — social media, messaging apps — to look for it. Which creates and incentive for people to share it there. It’s a predictable cycle.
If you're looking to pinpoint the moment we crossed over from "rising fascism" to "okay definitely fascism now," I'd stick that pin in the PATRIOT Act. It's kind of like a silent but deadly fart that took until now to start stinking.
Libs like Brian could be digging their own grave at gunpoint for the crime of criticizing the government and they'd still be like, "Folks, we're inching slowly but surely toward fascism. It's on our doorstep."
So, average cop behavior then? Weird to only single one of them out when every single cop in the country is a murderer, rapist, or pedophile.
I saw Dean Cain at Fan Expo Denver for a panel with other Superman actors (Brandon Routh, Tom Welling, Tyler Hoechlin) and he was incredibly creepy. Kept making remarks about how he wished he could have fucked his costar who played Lois. The other guys were clearly uncomfortable with him.
it certainly seems like the project of the contemporary american jewish establishment is to disempower jews as a collective in order to establish themselves as the sole power in the jewish community with the agency to engage with our ruling powers on our behalf
It's darkly funny that big tech spent several years saber rattling about how their AI was going to take artists' jobs, only for it to kick the legs out from under their own talent pool
This shameful episode👇 set the stage for what Trump is doing today. Cynical Democrats and pundits claimed that D.C. couldn't be trusted to write our own criminal laws, legitimizing Republicans' insistence that we don't deserve home rule. A straight line from there to here. slate.com/news-and-pol...
If you’re in DC and seeing National Guard/Federal agent activity, reach out via Signal at marisakabas.04
EFF joins dozens of organizations in expressing grave concern over the unprecedented decision by the United States government to impose sanctions on Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories 7amleh.org/post/joint-s...
But I'd still rather dip my reproductive organs into a piranha tank than use MacOS. Thinking of familiarizing myself with Linux by installing Arch or Nobara on an old laptop.
Every windows system I've ever owned is like a gyroscope where it runs great until a single thing goes wrong and then the entire computer goes wobbly and falls over
Bitterly ironic that tech companies blustered about AI replacing writers and instead it hit their own talent pipeline hardest.
This is not how corporations respond to an ineffective protest. This is how they respond to a protest that they would like to have go away. So don't let it go away. Keep it going. In fact, Streissand Effect this shit. Call attention to how much they want this to go away.
Just so we're crystal clear, if you're still on X, you are actively okay with: Nazis, the Trump regime, pedophiles, and digital sexual assault with revenge porn deepfakes. You have your name and picture next to all of it. That's a cosign no matter how you justify it otherwise.
Hate to be the buzzkill here but it appears no one read the whole article. These groups are generally anti-AI, so they wouldn't be signing on here without valid concerns. This suit could even do away with valuable internet archival efforts like the Wayback Machine.
"Don't print in the newspaper that I support human rights!"
ChatGPT does not know what medical misinformation *is* and is therefore fundamentally incapable of being programmed against it. They could program it to avoid language that is contextually associated with medicine but there's way too much overlap with a variety of other subjects.
But to be just like 10% less smarmy it's absolutely a terrifying problem that not only are AI companies allowed to lie about the capabilities of their products but so many people believe them