one of the strangest phenomenons in political commentary over the last decade is people treating trump purely as an epiphenomenon of liberal discourse norms they don't like foreignpolicy.com/2025/05/09/p...
How Progressives Are Unwittingly Aiding the Rise of Autocracy
Dictators get an unlikely boost from the left’s identity politics.
foreignpolicy.com
May 21, 2025 at 12:59 PM
one of the strangest phenomenons in political commentary over the last decade is people treating trump purely as an epiphenomenon of liberal discourse norms they don't like foreignpolicy.com/2025/05/09/p...
I am increasingly coming to the view that the primary sociopolitical problem in America is a (deliberately created) illiteracy crisis, of which fascism is an epiphenomenon.
No books. No teachers. Just a centralized AI that serves as intercessor between each child and the world's knowledge.
It's literally a pre-reformation view, with Grok in the place of Yahweh.
It's literally a pre-reformation view, with Grok in the place of Yahweh.
March 24, 2025 at 12:38 AM
I am increasingly coming to the view that the primary sociopolitical problem in America is a (deliberately created) illiteracy crisis, of which fascism is an epiphenomenon.
software engineers as a professional class are on average deeply reactionary and being able to pretend this isn't the case is another dead ZIRP epiphenomenon
September 6, 2026 at 7:21 AM
software engineers as a professional class are on average deeply reactionary and being able to pretend this isn't the case is another dead ZIRP epiphenomenon
blaming Biden for running again is just an epiphenomenon of the party's legislative leadership's total aversion to ever taking responsibility for fucking anything, incuding their own failures. this is multiplied by the fact that the New York-based media is also looking for a scapegoat.
"Denouncing Biden’s run now that he’s a political nonentity—out of office and perhaps very near death—isn’t taking a brave stand against the internal culture of the Democratic Party. It’s a reflection of it"
May 24, 2025 at 12:46 AM
blaming Biden for running again is just an epiphenomenon of the party's legislative leadership's total aversion to ever taking responsibility for fucking anything, incuding their own failures. this is multiplied by the fact that the New York-based media is also looking for a scapegoat.
The virgin consciousness as epiphenomenon of matter vs the Chad divine spark of mind
October 1, 2023 at 3:42 PM
The virgin consciousness as epiphenomenon of matter vs the Chad divine spark of mind
Dirtbagism is an epiphenomenon of today's digital mediation
I wrote about the continued appeal of dirtbag politics, from the left to liberals, and how only a politics of grace and edification can save our liberal democracy
Dirtbagism delenda est
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-dirtbags...
Dirtbagism delenda est
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-dirtbags...
The Dirtbags Won’t Save Us
There is no path out of our present crisis offered by the exultation of callousness.
www.liberalcurrents.com
June 28, 2026 at 11:55 PM
Dirtbagism is an epiphenomenon of today's digital mediation
From a Christian perspective Pokémon presents a deeply anti-anthropic world where humanity is nothing more than an evolutionary epiphenomenon of the eternal circulation of souls of talking birds and vegetables and rocks and shit
March 12, 2025 at 2:04 PM
From a Christian perspective Pokémon presents a deeply anti-anthropic world where humanity is nothing more than an evolutionary epiphenomenon of the eternal circulation of souls of talking birds and vegetables and rocks and shit
anyway the fact that crypto is the canonical solution to this problem is an epiphenomenon of trans folks being overrepresented in software. i think every cryptographer i know except one is trans.
September 27, 2025 at 2:14 AM
anyway the fact that crypto is the canonical solution to this problem is an epiphenomenon of trans folks being overrepresented in software. i think every cryptographer i know except one is trans.
The siloing of "idpol" from "real class struggle" is an enactment of racism, misogyny and queerphobia by white dudes who believe their oppression by capital is real and our oppression by them is either fake or an unimportant epiphenomenon.
June 23, 2025 at 2:27 PM
The siloing of "idpol" from "real class struggle" is an enactment of racism, misogyny and queerphobia by white dudes who believe their oppression by capital is real and our oppression by them is either fake or an unimportant epiphenomenon.
if you think about it, all of this [gestures widely] is just an epiphenomenon of ZIRP ending, which means it's an epiphenomenon of the 2007 financial crisis
May 18, 2026 at 2:50 PM
if you think about it, all of this [gestures widely] is just an epiphenomenon of ZIRP ending, which means it's an epiphenomenon of the 2007 financial crisis
Corruption is the most important story in the world. From a Douglass North perspective, authoritarian rule is an epiphenomenon of personalistic control over resources, ie corruption
March 29, 2024 at 2:58 PM
Corruption is the most important story in the world. From a Douglass North perspective, authoritarian rule is an epiphenomenon of personalistic control over resources, ie corruption
Our ingrained idea that popular culture primarily means youth culture is a weird epiphenomenon of the fact that young people are the demographic most easily manipulated by advertising and is bad for almost everyone
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 19, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Our ingrained idea that popular culture primarily means youth culture is a weird epiphenomenon of the fact that young people are the demographic most easily manipulated by advertising and is bad for almost everyone
Every time they try to theorize bigotry out of existence as just an epiphenomenon of class difference, they wind up defining it anew.
April 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Every time they try to theorize bigotry out of existence as just an epiphenomenon of class difference, they wind up defining it anew.
Gamergate was an epiphenomenon.
August 22, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Gamergate was an epiphenomenon.
But Your Honor, my consciousness is a merely co-occurring epiphenomenon with no causal ability to influence my actions!
August 17, 2023 at 2:05 PM
But Your Honor, my consciousness is a merely co-occurring epiphenomenon with no causal ability to influence my actions!
𝗢𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗡𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀;
𝗔𝗻 𝗘𝗽𝗶𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝗙𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗺?
What's the answer???
Quite enjoyed this paper by someone called Wolf Singer and Felix Effenberger.
doi.org/10.1007/s420...
#neuroscience
𝗔𝗻 𝗘𝗽𝗶𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝗙𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗺?
What's the answer???
Quite enjoyed this paper by someone called Wolf Singer and Felix Effenberger.
doi.org/10.1007/s420...
#neuroscience
April 13, 2025 at 5:16 PM
𝗢𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗡𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀;
𝗔𝗻 𝗘𝗽𝗶𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝗙𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗺?
What's the answer???
Quite enjoyed this paper by someone called Wolf Singer and Felix Effenberger.
doi.org/10.1007/s420...
#neuroscience
𝗔𝗻 𝗘𝗽𝗶𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝗙𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗺?
What's the answer???
Quite enjoyed this paper by someone called Wolf Singer and Felix Effenberger.
doi.org/10.1007/s420...
#neuroscience
As horrifying as it is, Trump sharing an AI video of himself this weekend without appearing to realize it's fake is just an epiphenomenon of the ongoing conversation he's dragged America into: one only with, about and for himself, whose only participation is submission.
It took Trump 60 minutes to murmur out a wet "that's all, folks!" before the UN Tuesday. Given that he was talking to himself and no one outside the greater Trumpiverse can hear him, it's the only thing he could say.
The Loneliest Guy in the Room - Truthdig
Trump’s incoherent harangue to the family of nations put a spotlight on America’s self-inflicted, abject isolation.
www.truthdig.com
September 29, 2025 at 3:24 PM
As horrifying as it is, Trump sharing an AI video of himself this weekend without appearing to realize it's fake is just an epiphenomenon of the ongoing conversation he's dragged America into: one only with, about and for himself, whose only participation is submission.
entity gf × epiphenomenon gf
March 19, 2026 at 11:01 AM
entity gf × epiphenomenon gf
They conclude the latter, but I object to the question. When someone says "epiphenomenon," I hear "doesn't fit my theory."
Oscillations in Natural Neuronal Networks; An Epiphenomenon or a Fundamental Computational Mechanism?
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#neuroscience
Oscillations in Natural Neuronal Networks; An Epiphenomenon or a Fundamental Computational Mechanism?
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#neuroscience
Oscillations in Natural Neuronal Networks; An Epiphenomenon or a Fundamental Computational Mechanism? - Human Arenas
The first part of the paper is devoted to a comparison between the functional architectures of the cerebral cortex and artificial intelligent systems. While the two systems share numerous features, na...
link.springer.com
March 13, 2025 at 11:29 AM
They conclude the latter, but I object to the question. When someone says "epiphenomenon," I hear "doesn't fit my theory."
Oscillations in Natural Neuronal Networks; An Epiphenomenon or a Fundamental Computational Mechanism?
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#neuroscience
Oscillations in Natural Neuronal Networks; An Epiphenomenon or a Fundamental Computational Mechanism?
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#neuroscience
Men are reading fewer novels than ever.
Is this part of a gendered historical-social dialectic, an epiphenomenon of the male loneliness crisis, or a sign that corporate wokeness has ruined mass culture?
Depends whom you ask!
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/s...
Is this part of a gendered historical-social dialectic, an epiphenomenon of the male loneliness crisis, or a sign that corporate wokeness has ruined mass culture?
Depends whom you ask!
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/s...
Why Did the Novel-Reading Man Disappear?
www.nytimes.com
June 25, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Men are reading fewer novels than ever.
Is this part of a gendered historical-social dialectic, an epiphenomenon of the male loneliness crisis, or a sign that corporate wokeness has ruined mass culture?
Depends whom you ask!
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/s...
Is this part of a gendered historical-social dialectic, an epiphenomenon of the male loneliness crisis, or a sign that corporate wokeness has ruined mass culture?
Depends whom you ask!
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/s...
Again, LLMs are, at their root, just a DDoS attack against the entire concept of "doing things"; any perceived "utility" is essentially a sort of meaningless epiphenomenon happening ahead of the arrival of the full wave of the naturally-occurring DDoS.
August 6, 2026 at 7:20 AM
Again, LLMs are, at their root, just a DDoS attack against the entire concept of "doing things"; any perceived "utility" is essentially a sort of meaningless epiphenomenon happening ahead of the arrival of the full wave of the naturally-occurring DDoS.
The decadent American presidents of the early 21st century were an epiphenomenon of the transition away from fossil fuels - some historian writing 150 years from now
May 27, 2026 at 7:02 PM
The decadent American presidents of the early 21st century were an epiphenomenon of the transition away from fossil fuels - some historian writing 150 years from now
i'd generalize this to the reality that epiphenomenon is what trump is in general because no one likes the idea of him being an active agent that defeated the establishments of two parties to become president twice and changed america into his twisted image
one of the strangest phenomenons in political commentary over the last decade is people treating trump purely as an epiphenomenon of liberal discourse norms they don't like foreignpolicy.com/2025/05/09/p...
How Progressives Are Unwittingly Aiding the Rise of Autocracy
Dictators get an unlikely boost from the left’s identity politics.
foreignpolicy.com
May 21, 2025 at 1:20 PM
i'd generalize this to the reality that epiphenomenon is what trump is in general because no one likes the idea of him being an active agent that defeated the establishments of two parties to become president twice and changed america into his twisted image
A similar situation exists in Germany: dying regions are choosing fascists. This demographic decline is directly linked to support for the AfD. Perhaps the gravitation toward fascism is an epiphenomenon of that dying-out process.
September 26, 2026 at 8:57 AM
A similar situation exists in Germany: dying regions are choosing fascists. This demographic decline is directly linked to support for the AfD. Perhaps the gravitation toward fascism is an epiphenomenon of that dying-out process.