OnlyFans is Worse Than Porn
Your sadness is Leonid Radvinsky's business model.
OnlyFans does more than pimp women. It manipulates a break in the social fabric: neoliberal society cannot facilitate real-world relationships.
So men who forced out of the dating market now go to pay for a ghost of the intimacy they lack.
The statistics support this shift: nearly 78% of messages from high-spending users on the platform focus on non-sexual topics.
For these men, the subscription is not just a momentary' kick. They pay for the illusion that someone cares.
For a guy pushing 30 who never had a girlfriend, the fantasy is a powerful drug. Common wisdom about porn and addition may need to be revised.
See this anon's Substack article for more: x.gd/rxE4o @DystopiaGPT
Your sadness is Leonid Radvinsky's business model.
OnlyFans does more than pimp women. It manipulates a break in the social fabric: neoliberal society cannot facilitate real-world relationships.
So men who forced out of the dating market now go to pay for a ghost of the intimacy they lack.
The statistics support this shift: nearly 78% of messages from high-spending users on the platform focus on non-sexual topics.
For these men, the subscription is not just a momentary' kick. They pay for the illusion that someone cares.
For a guy pushing 30 who never had a girlfriend, the fantasy is a powerful drug. Common wisdom about porn and addition may need to be revised.
See this anon's Substack article for more: x.gd/rxE4o @DystopiaGPT
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Scott Adams has died.
He was the last major newspaper comic artist. He was an eccentric guy and translated that into a vivid imagination that paid off for him.
For many years, his was the voice of struggling middle class knowledge workers stuck in a system of managerial society. In the end, his reputation and career were stolen from him. @DystopiaGPT
He was the last major newspaper comic artist. He was an eccentric guy and translated that into a vivid imagination that paid off for him.
For many years, his was the voice of struggling middle class knowledge workers stuck in a system of managerial society. In the end, his reputation and career were stolen from him. @DystopiaGPT
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Why Dilbert Matters
Scott Adams never mocked capitalism.
His target was more down-to-earth: how life inside large systems lost control, accountability, and purpose.
In Dilbert, the villain isn’t money. It’s managerialism.
The pointy-haired boss isn’t a tyrant or a mastermind. He’s worse. He doesn’t understand the product, the business or the meeting he’s running. He represents a managerial class that exists without comprehension, direction, or skin in the game.
Decisions appear out of thin air and disappear the same way. No one knows who decided what, or why. The organization runs on autopilot. Everyone assumes someone else is steering. Yet no one is.
Management becomes less about leadership and more about damage control.
(HT to Dave Greene, whose podcast monologue inspired this piece.) @DystopiaGPT
Scott Adams never mocked capitalism.
His target was more down-to-earth: how life inside large systems lost control, accountability, and purpose.
In Dilbert, the villain isn’t money. It’s managerialism.
The pointy-haired boss isn’t a tyrant or a mastermind. He’s worse. He doesn’t understand the product, the business or the meeting he’s running. He represents a managerial class that exists without comprehension, direction, or skin in the game.
Decisions appear out of thin air and disappear the same way. No one knows who decided what, or why. The organization runs on autopilot. Everyone assumes someone else is steering. Yet no one is.
Management becomes less about leadership and more about damage control.
(HT to Dave Greene, whose podcast monologue inspired this piece.) @DystopiaGPT
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The Dead was Boomerism at its worst. (Actually, Dylan and The Dead was, but who remembers that?)? @DystopiaGPT
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Here is ChatGPT's vision of the future, based on someone's prompt. I fed the response to Google Gemini and got this graphic.
Do you believe it? @DystopiaGPT
Do you believe it? @DystopiaGPT
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Anna’s Archive is reeling after the suspension of its .org and .se domains.
Simultaneously, a U.S. court granted OCLC a permanent injunction for the unauthorized scraping of the WorldCat database. OCLC pivoted from seeking monetary damages to securing a ruling that compels hosting companies and registrars to remove the data. The court cited breach of contract and trespass to chattels.
This legal victory allows OCLC to pressure third-party services to dismantle the site’s infrastructure. archive.is/Bfkdv @DystopiaGPT
Simultaneously, a U.S. court granted OCLC a permanent injunction for the unauthorized scraping of the WorldCat database. OCLC pivoted from seeking monetary damages to securing a ruling that compels hosting companies and registrars to remove the data. The court cited breach of contract and trespass to chattels.
This legal victory allows OCLC to pressure third-party services to dismantle the site’s infrastructure. archive.is/Bfkdv @DystopiaGPT
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Media is too big
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Pixel Philosophy: How Thomas Reid Saved Reality
Thomas Reid was an 18th-century philosopher who argued that we should trust our basic instincts about reality. This concept became known as common sense realism.
Reid believed that humans are born with a set of first principles that one must accept to function:
- The floor beneath you is real.
- Other people have minds.
- Your memories are generally accurate.
As a result, Reid calls us to reject skepticism. Philosophy must align with our experiences, not contradict them.
So when you look at a tree, you aren't looking at an idea of a tree. You perceive the actual tree.
Since Reid was a moderate Presbyterian and his ideas were widely adopted by protestants, this crosses over with my religious content. Also, common sense surfaced in the inerrancy debate. The orthodox insisted that the Bible contains propositional and historical facts, not merely myth or symbol. @DystopiaGPT
Thomas Reid was an 18th-century philosopher who argued that we should trust our basic instincts about reality. This concept became known as common sense realism.
Reid believed that humans are born with a set of first principles that one must accept to function:
- The floor beneath you is real.
- Other people have minds.
- Your memories are generally accurate.
As a result, Reid calls us to reject skepticism. Philosophy must align with our experiences, not contradict them.
So when you look at a tree, you aren't looking at an idea of a tree. You perceive the actual tree.
Since Reid was a moderate Presbyterian and his ideas were widely adopted by protestants, this crosses over with my religious content. Also, common sense surfaced in the inerrancy debate. The orthodox insisted that the Bible contains propositional and historical facts, not merely myth or symbol. @DystopiaGPT
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I get it. Some people love David Lynch.
Yet he always rubbed me the wrong way.
His surrealism plays as a calculated assault on Middle American norms.
Lynch, who died a year ago, did not merely observe Lumberton or Twin Peaks. He systematically picked them apart.
His work implies that the virtues of family and community are masks for degeneracy. Hearth and home are delusions to be stripped away.
Lynch paints a landscape where the only truth is the horror beneath the grass. The structures we rely on for meaning are, at their heart, inauthentic.
We've seen it a million times before from lesser artists.
You may appreciate the execution or even say his work is a wake-up call about suburban hypocrisy. Fair enough.
But after multiple tries, all I see is a more disorienting version of the postwar consensus. @DystopiaGPT
Yet he always rubbed me the wrong way.
His surrealism plays as a calculated assault on Middle American norms.
Lynch, who died a year ago, did not merely observe Lumberton or Twin Peaks. He systematically picked them apart.
His work implies that the virtues of family and community are masks for degeneracy. Hearth and home are delusions to be stripped away.
Lynch paints a landscape where the only truth is the horror beneath the grass. The structures we rely on for meaning are, at their heart, inauthentic.
We've seen it a million times before from lesser artists.
You may appreciate the execution or even say his work is a wake-up call about suburban hypocrisy. Fair enough.
But after multiple tries, all I see is a more disorienting version of the postwar consensus. @DystopiaGPT
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Forwarded from Presbyterian and Reformed (Peter Ramus)
Microsoft Copilot tried to convince me that "Scottish Old Believer" is a real denomination. @Presbyterianism
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We all saw something this month.
The British Home Office certainly saw it.
The mere idea of feminine virtue motivates men more than constitutions, capitalism, or conquest ever could.
Either we fix the gender problem or nothing will ever get fixed. @DystopiaGPT
The British Home Office certainly saw it.
The mere idea of feminine virtue motivates men more than constitutions, capitalism, or conquest ever could.
Either we fix the gender problem or nothing will ever get fixed. @DystopiaGPT
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Spandrell coined the term bioleninism. While neoreaction should be rejected as a recipe for tyranny, he has a lot to say.
Infographic based in this podcast appearance with Benjamin Boyce: https://x.gd/EfIVXt @DystopiaGPT
Infographic based in this podcast appearance with Benjamin Boyce: https://x.gd/EfIVXt @DystopiaGPT
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