Easton Smith
@easton-smith.bsky.social
Writer - Always Carry A Banjo
https://eastonsmith.net/
https://eastonsmith.net/
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Building data centers to execute pre-crime surveillance against people opposed to data centers — the logic of AI dystopia has reached its apotheosis.
September 9, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Building data centers to execute pre-crime surveillance against people opposed to data centers — the logic of AI dystopia has reached its apotheosis.
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Again it is insane that we have accepted masked secret police.
Video of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday.
Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.
Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.
August 11, 2026 at 8:21 PM
Again it is insane that we have accepted masked secret police.
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We're getting there! Please support if you can 🙏
August 11, 2026 at 2:45 PM
We're getting there! Please support if you can 🙏
This week, we learned of yet another person who died in ICE custody: Prisciliano Trejo Ricano, a 29-year-old man from Durham, North Carolina, who came to the U.S. from Mexico when he was three years old.
Deaths Out of Custody
Prisciliano Trejo Ricano died after being 'released' from an ICE concentration camp—in a coma. His case illustrates how the agency disappears the true human toll of detention.
maxgranger.substack.com
August 1, 2026 at 1:55 PM
This week, we learned of yet another person who died in ICE custody: Prisciliano Trejo Ricano, a 29-year-old man from Durham, North Carolina, who came to the U.S. from Mexico when he was three years old.
July 20, 2026 at 2:39 PM
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Today, ICE murdered Joan Sebastian Guerrero in Maine. Once again, a family, friends, and community are left carrying the unimaginable weight of a life taken. There are no words that can fully honor the gravity of this moment or the profound loss.
July 14, 2026 at 3:13 AM
Today, ICE murdered Joan Sebastian Guerrero in Maine. Once again, a family, friends, and community are left carrying the unimaginable weight of a life taken. There are no words that can fully honor the gravity of this moment or the profound loss.
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This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days.
ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.
ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.
July 14, 2026 at 12:11 AM
This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days.
ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.
ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.
One of the best essays I've read in a long time. "Among the many humiliations of AI is that it seems to invite us to sentimentalize impulses and values that we would ordinarily interrogate, complicate, half accept on wary, provisional terms."
Think for Yourself | Dan Chiasson
One of the most dehumanizing effects of AI is the short cuts it offers through the gaps and impasses intrinsic to the act of writing.
www.nybooks.com
June 9, 2026 at 10:02 PM
One of the best essays I've read in a long time. "Among the many humiliations of AI is that it seems to invite us to sentimentalize impulses and values that we would ordinarily interrogate, complicate, half accept on wary, provisional terms."
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Up in the Spread, Brother Dad and Dippy eke out a spartan life prospecting for gold—but all that changes one morning. In new fiction from Easton Smith, Dippy has to strike out on his own.
Goldboys | Easton Smith
Can’t a sovereign man live a goddamned second in his own house without a cunty bureaucrat knocking at his door?
thebaffler.com
June 5, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Up in the Spread, Brother Dad and Dippy eke out a spartan life prospecting for gold—but all that changes one morning. In new fiction from Easton Smith, Dippy has to strike out on his own.
New story up on The Baffler! I'm in love with this illustration from Andrea Ihl.
Goldboys | Easton Smith
Can’t a sovereign man live a goddamned second in his own house without a cunty bureaucrat knocking at his door?
thebaffler.com
June 5, 2026 at 1:50 PM
New story up on The Baffler! I'm in love with this illustration from Andrea Ihl.
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Thanks, Vonnegut. 💜
May 25, 2026 at 5:47 PM
Thanks, Vonnegut. 💜
I shouldn’t be surprised but I am. Who knew there were so few heroes and so many goddamn losers in this world. I know it might seem small, but I just so desperately want to see these good famous writers taking a stand—any stand at all—rather than these pathetic admissions and apologies.
Nobel prize winner Olga Tokarczuk admits using AI in the creative process
Polish Nobel literature prize winner Olga Tokarczuk has attracted harsh criticism for admitting that she uses AI in her creative process and calls the chatbot “beloved.”
cybernews.com
May 23, 2026 at 1:11 PM
I shouldn’t be surprised but I am. Who knew there were so few heroes and so many goddamn losers in this world. I know it might seem small, but I just so desperately want to see these good famous writers taking a stand—any stand at all—rather than these pathetic admissions and apologies.
Wild that we could have a government that, idk, built roads and gave us healthcare, but instead we just have a gigantic money laundering scheme/death machine that does fugly renovations of national monuments and creates slush funds for fascist loser pedophiles. Almost makes ya' mad as hell.
May 19, 2026 at 9:10 PM
Wild that we could have a government that, idk, built roads and gave us healthcare, but instead we just have a gigantic money laundering scheme/death machine that does fugly renovations of national monuments and creates slush funds for fascist loser pedophiles. Almost makes ya' mad as hell.
A deportation is never just a deportation. The "downstream" effects are enormous and tragic for so many families and communities. This one is being reported on, but so many other horrible effects are going totally unacknowledged. The trauma won't be undone for generations.
ICE is still killing.
“After U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained his mother, 2-year-old Orlin Hernandez Reyes moved into a shed.”
“After U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained his mother, 2-year-old Orlin Hernandez Reyes moved into a shed.”
She was deported without her toddler. Then ICE blamed her for his killing.
ICE accused Wendy Hernandez Reyes of leaving her child with a violent uncle, but she says her son would still be alive if officers hadn’t detained and deported her.
wapo.st
May 16, 2026 at 3:13 PM
A deportation is never just a deportation. The "downstream" effects are enormous and tragic for so many families and communities. This one is being reported on, but so many other horrible effects are going totally unacknowledged. The trauma won't be undone for generations.
The problem of Labour abandoning socialism and now being the Starmer-Party. #Reform
May 8, 2026 at 2:54 PM
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Israel illegally abducted these people *600 miles* away from Gaza. And Greece is accused of cooperating. If it did at all, the implications are huge. Would pin one NATO member against several others in the region – including Italy, Spain, and Turkey – who are slamming the attack.
Think about how little Washington is paying attention to this & then imagine if any other nation did it.
Israel just kidnapped nearly 200 people from around the world in international waters near Greece.
And it did what many are calling "piracy" all to defend its other crime: its blockade of Gaza.
Israel just kidnapped nearly 200 people from around the world in international waters near Greece.
And it did what many are calling "piracy" all to defend its other crime: its blockade of Gaza.
'Piracy': Israel Kidnaps Nearly 200 Peace Activists Aboard Flotilla 600 Miles Away From Gaza
Zeteo contributor Alex Colston is among those Israel abducted, as activists accuse Greece, a NATO member, of complicity after Israeli forces intercepted 22 boats in international waters near Crete.
zeteo.com
April 30, 2026 at 7:52 PM
Israel illegally abducted these people *600 miles* away from Gaza. And Greece is accused of cooperating. If it did at all, the implications are huge. Would pin one NATO member against several others in the region – including Italy, Spain, and Turkey – who are slamming the attack.
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Renowned Iranian composer, Ali Ghamsari and tar virtuoso, announced he will stay at the Damavand Combined Cycle Power Plant.
His plan: Create music there as a symbolic effort to shield Iran's infrastructure from attack. @iranscreenshot
His plan: Create music there as a symbolic effort to shield Iran's infrastructure from attack. @iranscreenshot
April 7, 2026 at 5:28 AM
Renowned Iranian composer, Ali Ghamsari and tar virtuoso, announced he will stay at the Damavand Combined Cycle Power Plant.
His plan: Create music there as a symbolic effort to shield Iran's infrastructure from attack. @iranscreenshot
His plan: Create music there as a symbolic effort to shield Iran's infrastructure from attack. @iranscreenshot
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A Mexican teenager has died “by presumed suicide” in ICE detention in South Florida.
Teenager Dies in ICE Detention in South Florida
He appears to be the youngest person to die in ICE custody since the start of President Trump's second term.
www.miaminewtimes.com
March 19, 2026 at 6:43 PM
A Mexican teenager has died “by presumed suicide” in ICE detention in South Florida.
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Trump regime is arresting journalists at their homes for filming a nonviolent protest (a "coordinated terrorist attack" in DHS parlance).
“Agents are at my door right now”
In addition to Don Lemon the Trump regime also Arrested Georgia Fort👇🏽 for covering the church protest (where an ICE field director is a pastor)
In addition to Don Lemon the Trump regime also Arrested Georgia Fort👇🏽 for covering the church protest (where an ICE field director is a pastor)
January 30, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Trump regime is arresting journalists at their homes for filming a nonviolent protest (a "coordinated terrorist attack" in DHS parlance).
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There are no words.
NEWS: In a heartbreaking video, after ICE shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis, a woman who was in the same SUV cries out: “They killed my wife. I don’t know what to do."
“We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head,” the distraught woman sobs.
www.advocate.com/news/minneso...
“We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head,” the distraught woman sobs.
www.advocate.com/news/minneso...
Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting
“They killed my wife,” the distraught woman says, adding, “They shot her in the head.”
www.advocate.com
January 7, 2026 at 9:08 PM
There are no words.
Been working on some stuff . . .
November 20, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Been working on some stuff . . .
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Meanwhile by far the most newsworthy thing JD Vance did yesterday was post an AI-generated video depicting Trump as a literal king. You can't have a vice president who is a puerile edgelord, you have to treat it as the obscene scandal that it is.
This is quite a hed/subhed.
1) Start with Vance. Use strong action verb. Accept the autocratic premise that the “Marines’ Might” are Vance’s to flex.
2) Mention the protest second and absurdly describe them as in the thousands
3) Treat Trump’s strong man use of the military as a partisan scuffle.
1) Start with Vance. Use strong action verb. Accept the autocratic premise that the “Marines’ Might” are Vance’s to flex.
2) Mention the protest second and absurdly describe them as in the thousands
3) Treat Trump’s strong man use of the military as a partisan scuffle.
October 19, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Meanwhile by far the most newsworthy thing JD Vance did yesterday was post an AI-generated video depicting Trump as a literal king. You can't have a vice president who is a puerile edgelord, you have to treat it as the obscene scandal that it is.
While the politico-industrial-complex pundits and advisors froth at the mouth screaming that Dems must throw trans people under the bus and support Israel, Mamdani is out here doing the exact opposite and thriving. It's a refreshing reminder that a bold politics of hope and inclusion is how we win.
Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...
Until It's Done: Sylvia Rivera
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
www.youtube.com
October 12, 2025 at 2:10 PM
While the politico-industrial-complex pundits and advisors froth at the mouth screaming that Dems must throw trans people under the bus and support Israel, Mamdani is out here doing the exact opposite and thriving. It's a refreshing reminder that a bold politics of hope and inclusion is how we win.
Cheesy ass blatant ugly evil bullshit everywhere.
This Family Made Billions on Trump-Branded Condos. Now Their Private Jet Is Taking Shackled Migrants to a Far-Flung African Prison
Israeli-American billionaires Michael and Gil Dezer’s Gulfstream IV plane flew 10 migrants to the tiny African kingdom of Eswatini, flight data shows.
zeteo.com
October 11, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Cheesy ass blatant ugly evil bullshit everywhere.