Apparently the way to make ppl care about seemingly every dollar going to "ai" investment mythmaking was to red scare it
November 9, 2026 at 12:08 AM
Apparently the way to make ppl care about seemingly every dollar going to "ai" investment mythmaking was to red scare it
I love how its a grab bag of conservative mythmaking and revisionist history, all in such a concise package
November 11, 2026 at 8:49 PM
I love how its a grab bag of conservative mythmaking and revisionist history, all in such a concise package
Nuclear semiotics isn’t going to work without the glowing radioactive cats; there’s no way to overcome this level of willful ignorance and conspiratorial fantasy w/o mythmaking.
“Anytime somebody tells you don’t go there, don’t ask there, it’s because there’s an answer there.”
Tucker: “Of course.”
“Anytime somebody tells you don’t go there, don’t ask there, it’s because there’s an answer there.”
Tucker: “Of course.”
Tucker Carlson: “How were the pyramids built? ... Like, how did that happen? No one even asks. And it's considered wrong to ask.”
“No one's explained any of this stuff”
www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carls...
“No one's explained any of this stuff”
www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carls...
November 10, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Nuclear semiotics isn’t going to work without the glowing radioactive cats; there’s no way to overcome this level of willful ignorance and conspiratorial fantasy w/o mythmaking.
“Anytime somebody tells you don’t go there, don’t ask there, it’s because there’s an answer there.”
Tucker: “Of course.”
“Anytime somebody tells you don’t go there, don’t ask there, it’s because there’s an answer there.”
Tucker: “Of course.”
It's of course a problem for American capital, but their interests are diametrically opposed to working class interests. So it feels like a weird sort of liberal acceptance of the same nationalist narratives and mythmaking we're trying to deconstruct. Open to other perspectives though!
November 9, 2026 at 4:40 PM
It's of course a problem for American capital, but their interests are diametrically opposed to working class interests. So it feels like a weird sort of liberal acceptance of the same nationalist narratives and mythmaking we're trying to deconstruct. Open to other perspectives though!
I mean he sucked but this is Texas mythmaking
also he refused to sign an oath declaring loyalty to the confederacy and was forced out of office?
also he refused to sign an oath declaring loyalty to the confederacy and was forced out of office?
November 10, 2026 at 2:58 PM
I mean he sucked but this is Texas mythmaking
also he refused to sign an oath declaring loyalty to the confederacy and was forced out of office?
also he refused to sign an oath declaring loyalty to the confederacy and was forced out of office?
It's goofy to underline "the NYC media's mythmaking created Trump in the 80's" when the same media - NYC and everywhere else there's media - are still glazing and mythmaking him 4 decades hence
November 7, 2026 at 12:14 AM
It's goofy to underline "the NYC media's mythmaking created Trump in the 80's" when the same media - NYC and everywhere else there's media - are still glazing and mythmaking him 4 decades hence
It is mythmaking, but using overt christian symbolism for casting superman as a mythic figure is still tying him to Christian imagery
November 9, 2026 at 9:38 PM
It is mythmaking, but using overt christian symbolism for casting superman as a mythic figure is still tying him to Christian imagery
As if the current regime is the paragon of meritocratic achievement and not a local maximum of American arch-huckster mythmaking.
November 7, 2026 at 11:40 PM
As if the current regime is the paragon of meritocratic achievement and not a local maximum of American arch-huckster mythmaking.
Not helped is the fact that the common understanding of the war today is so distorted by a combination of hindsight and caricature, that it's all but impossible to talk about while not encountering some wild mythmaking. For and against alike, neither has a good grip on what actually happened.
November 11, 2026 at 10:24 AM
Not helped is the fact that the common understanding of the war today is so distorted by a combination of hindsight and caricature, that it's all but impossible to talk about while not encountering some wild mythmaking. For and against alike, neither has a good grip on what actually happened.
Like if Rauru serves different thematic purposes in different games, why is that evidence of mythmaking rather than just two different characters serving two different stories? What does their shared name contribute that's more interesting than just comparing two separate characters? Idk! Lol
November 10, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Like if Rauru serves different thematic purposes in different games, why is that evidence of mythmaking rather than just two different characters serving two different stories? What does their shared name contribute that's more interesting than just comparing two separate characters? Idk! Lol
Mythmaking in action. Did Schumer and Jeffries also engineer the wins by the progressive candidates they opposed and the huge statehouse victories?
November 7, 2026 at 9:49 PM
Mythmaking in action. Did Schumer and Jeffries also engineer the wins by the progressive candidates they opposed and the huge statehouse victories?
The distancing--and the mythmaking--begin.
November 4, 2026 at 5:13 PM
The distancing--and the mythmaking--begin.
Some of it’s intentional mythmaking too, like Elon talking about working weekends being a superpower. There’s an implicit recognition that people get less angry about unearned wealth if the wealthy person outwardly performs industry & sacrifice
November 10, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Some of it’s intentional mythmaking too, like Elon talking about working weekends being a superpower. There’s an implicit recognition that people get less angry about unearned wealth if the wealthy person outwardly performs industry & sacrifice
no, there was some confusion and mythmaking around that. paul hanley’s book on hex covers it very well, a good read in general.
November 5, 2026 at 9:09 PM
no, there was some confusion and mythmaking around that. paul hanley’s book on hex covers it very well, a good read in general.
I actually agree that Nvidia as constructed is not manageable by anyone other than Jensen, but ascribing such a status to anyone is absurd mythmaking. (It’s a very natural thing to do but be a little more self-aware about it.)
stratechery.com/2026/jensen-...
stratechery.com/2026/jensen-...
Jensen Huang’s Affair, The Culper Report, Huang’s Righteousness
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang admitted to an affair with a Chinese spy, and that might not be the end of his troubles. I hope he survives, but his influence will never be the same.
stratechery.com
November 9, 2026 at 4:56 PM
I actually agree that Nvidia as constructed is not manageable by anyone other than Jensen, but ascribing such a status to anyone is absurd mythmaking. (It’s a very natural thing to do but be a little more self-aware about it.)
stratechery.com/2026/jensen-...
stratechery.com/2026/jensen-...
Explore racial justice, faith, mythmaking and more with @maddyfryabides.bsky.social and "White Lies" author Greg Garrett on the Why I Write Substack: oxford.ly/48EKlPi
November 8, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Explore racial justice, faith, mythmaking and more with @maddyfryabides.bsky.social and "White Lies" author Greg Garrett on the Why I Write Substack: oxford.ly/48EKlPi
something i find heartening is the mythmaking anti-AI kids are doing around human-made art, which of course has always varied in quality, with crap alongside excellence -- but if they yearn hard enough for a lost golden age, then they can create a new one. that's how renaissances happen.
November 5, 2026 at 3:29 PM
something i find heartening is the mythmaking anti-AI kids are doing around human-made art, which of course has always varied in quality, with crap alongside excellence -- but if they yearn hard enough for a lost golden age, then they can create a new one. that's how renaissances happen.
No, thank you, Adobe, I would not like to read an AI summary of an article about the need for nuanced critical debates about AI because "the article seems to be long"......
November 9, 2026 at 10:43 PM
No, thank you, Adobe, I would not like to read an AI summary of an article about the need for nuanced critical debates about AI because "the article seems to be long"......
Odo being the neutral dispassionate force of law is clearly a bit of mutual mythmaking between the Bajorans and the Cardassians, who both wanted to have that to appeal to rather than pure might. Not that Odo didn’t do his best, and do well, but he filled a need for them. A collaboration, if you like
November 9, 2026 at 3:24 PM
Odo being the neutral dispassionate force of law is clearly a bit of mutual mythmaking between the Bajorans and the Cardassians, who both wanted to have that to appeal to rather than pure might. Not that Odo didn’t do his best, and do well, but he filled a need for them. A collaboration, if you like
It sucks because it is Texas mythmaking. Texas doesn't even have America's vague justification of legitimacy. It is a product of twice treason, for slavery's cause both times, and that stain is indelible.
November 10, 2026 at 3:08 PM
It sucks because it is Texas mythmaking. Texas doesn't even have America's vague justification of legitimacy. It is a product of twice treason, for slavery's cause both times, and that stain is indelible.
Superstitions... but of outsized historical importance.
If we are to reconstruct the 1st century we need to not try to force it to be what we want it to be.
The mythmaking came out of legends, and the legends likely originated from ordinary political turmoil (of the times.)
If we are to reconstruct the 1st century we need to not try to force it to be what we want it to be.
The mythmaking came out of legends, and the legends likely originated from ordinary political turmoil (of the times.)
November 8, 2026 at 9:27 AM
Superstitions... but of outsized historical importance.
If we are to reconstruct the 1st century we need to not try to force it to be what we want it to be.
The mythmaking came out of legends, and the legends likely originated from ordinary political turmoil (of the times.)
If we are to reconstruct the 1st century we need to not try to force it to be what we want it to be.
The mythmaking came out of legends, and the legends likely originated from ordinary political turmoil (of the times.)
Encyclopedia Of Early Earth and its co-book 100 Nights Of Hero are delectable explorations of mythmaking and the power of not just story but storytelling.
Square Eyes is bombastically illustrated and a wonderful sci-fi concept.
Square Eyes is bombastically illustrated and a wonderful sci-fi concept.
November 11, 2026 at 8:49 PM
Encyclopedia Of Early Earth and its co-book 100 Nights Of Hero are delectable explorations of mythmaking and the power of not just story but storytelling.
Square Eyes is bombastically illustrated and a wonderful sci-fi concept.
Square Eyes is bombastically illustrated and a wonderful sci-fi concept.
oh yeah of course, during the course of winning power in vietnam (which took *30* years) the vietnamese communists took on various allies (eventually discarding all of them) and adopted part of their mythmaking. HCM is and has always been a big nationalist and respects his nationalist precursors.
November 5, 2026 at 5:51 PM
oh yeah of course, during the course of winning power in vietnam (which took *30* years) the vietnamese communists took on various allies (eventually discarding all of them) and adopted part of their mythmaking. HCM is and has always been a big nationalist and respects his nationalist precursors.
I adore Headley's Beowulf and really dig this coupling, especially amid the backdrop of conversations about how remakes work as translations. (I think there's also something to the roguelike form evoking oral mythmaking through repetition, which I got at in my review of Hades II approx. forever ago)
November 6, 2026 at 4:32 PM
I adore Headley's Beowulf and really dig this coupling, especially amid the backdrop of conversations about how remakes work as translations. (I think there's also something to the roguelike form evoking oral mythmaking through repetition, which I got at in my review of Hades II approx. forever ago)
9. Plato controlled the moral ending
Plato leaves the prosecutors’ speeches out of his Apology; his Phaedo ends by praising Socrates as best, wisest and most just.
Read as mythmaking, this is the decisive reversal: the man condemned by his world becomes its moral judge.
Plato leaves the prosecutors’ speeches out of his Apology; his Phaedo ends by praising Socrates as best, wisest and most just.
Read as mythmaking, this is the decisive reversal: the man condemned by his world becomes its moral judge.
November 11, 2026 at 3:34 PM
9. Plato controlled the moral ending
Plato leaves the prosecutors’ speeches out of his Apology; his Phaedo ends by praising Socrates as best, wisest and most just.
Read as mythmaking, this is the decisive reversal: the man condemned by his world becomes its moral judge.
Plato leaves the prosecutors’ speeches out of his Apology; his Phaedo ends by praising Socrates as best, wisest and most just.
Read as mythmaking, this is the decisive reversal: the man condemned by his world becomes its moral judge.