The Vampire Castle

All the info and no power

The internet's life sucking power.

Jul 24 •

10:35

FROM TERROR TO A TECHNOLOGY OF FREEDOM

Been thinking about an internet film — a film about a technology that was developed to wage a war communism and now is being used to wage a war on us.

Jul 20 •

Bugs in the Vampire Castle

A sneak peek at a documentary I want to make. For subscribers only.

Jul 11 •

Matt Taibbi gobbled by the Vampire Squid in the Vampire Castle

Matt’s political “convictions” were always tied to where the opportunity and adulation was coming from.

Jul 2 •

Manufacturing consent? What consent? What manufacturing?

It’s as if the more we’re active online, the more plugged in we are, the less power we have over the real world. And the assholes who run this place…

Jun 22 •

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…

Jun 18 •

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 •

Gaza and the Death of “Information Is Power”

Journalism is dead.

Aug 29, 2024 •

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