June 13, 2026 - Week in Review

I was a day last last week on this, but this week, I was deathly ill from the Summer cold I brought back from Las Vegas. That shit sucks.

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Saturday, June 6th (D-Day) - We had the latest episode of the Glorious Garbage series of B and below cinema. This one was the raw gore of the era:

Blood Simple: Herschell Gordon Lewis and the Cinema of Pure Visceral Fact

A branch of the glorious garbage that I am not so much a fan of, but you can’t deny that it is influential. The Gore Merchants really pushed the boundaries of propriety

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Monday, June 8 - The fourth installment of the why tech never organized. A long series on why tech workers are probably fucked in the AI era:

Übermensch in a Cubicle Farm Pt 4: The Ticket Queue Is Not a Career

In the 4th installment, we look at the CS/STEM to tech pipeline, but also the fact that not all roles were equal. Puncturing the mythos.

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Tuesday, June 9th - I'd been drafting this for a while, but what bugs the fuck out of me is that the political consultant classes never seem to pay the price when shit goes off the rails. They just keep cashing the checks...

Nobody Got Fired - Democratic Consultants

How the Democratic Consultant Class Ran the Party Into a Wall and Billed Them for It

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Wednesday, June 10th - I finish off the 4 episode on the recurring failures of American Democracy

The Case for Optimism (And Why It’s Probably Wrong)

Series: The Long Arc — American Democracy’s Recurring Failure, Part 4

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Thursday, June 11 - The right wing media ecosystem has broken containment, and there is no easy way to counter it

How the Right Built a Media Machine Nobody Can Turn Off

The audience became the editorial board. And the editorial board only votes for more.

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Friday, June 12th - A two-fer, because SpaceX is now public, I had to do a quick This Fucking Guy on Musk again:

TFG: Elon Musk

In 2010, his first wife published everything you needed to know about Elon Musk in Marie Claire. The world decided the Roadster was too cool to care. We’ve been paying for that choice ever since.

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Then, another I had been working on for a while, the Obama victory in 2008 built a coterie of political consultants that kept the band together. They've helped fuck the Democrats' fortune since, and they seem oblivious

The Original Sin

How Obama turned a movement into a monument, and left the Democratic Party to pay the tab

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Hope you enjoyed these!