The Vampire Castle

Social media has made us all OCD

Scrolling...refreshing...We're no different than people who can’t stop disinfecting their doorknobs a million times thinking they can control their…

20 hrs ago •

Bari Weiss: Toady Queen of Substack

How one cynical operative married a California princess, sucked up to power, and found fame and fortune and love. And how tech won’t save us.

Jun 13 •

Genocide can be live-streamed because social media has pacified us

They let us watch because it makes us docile.

Jun 10 •

We all live in the Vampire Castle now

Revisiting Mark Fisher's essay.

Jun 9 •

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