Vampire Valley

Off to Vampire Alley East

I’m headed to Northern Virginia with a couple of my buddies to tour the crazy data center buildout we’ve all been hearing so much about.

Mar 27 • Yasha Levine

The Politics of Ape and Machine w/Joe Costello

Watch now | VAMP VALLEY STREAM #5: Talking about life in a world disorganized by computer technology.

Mar 21 • Yasha Levine and Evgenia

1:25:43

INFORMATION IS PACIFICATION W/DANIEL BESSNER

VAMP VALLEY STREAM #4: Politics from within the Spectacle.

Mar 14 • Yasha Levine and Daniel Bessner

59:19

WE'RE ALL TRAPPED IN THE VAMPIRE CASTLE

Watch now | VAMP VALLEY STREAM #3: MARK FISHER, VAMPIRES, AND THE POLITICS OF THE INTERNET

Mar 6 • Yasha Levine and Varn Vlog

2:02:56

PLATFORMS WANT TO INGEST AND DESTROY

We talk about the failed utopian promises of the internet and how the tech platforms that now dominate our world are concentrators of power and…

Feb 28 • Yasha Levine and Mike Pepi

1:45:09

AI is Average Intelligence...and it will always be

Computers are disembodied. All they can give us is a representation of a representation, a remix of things that we had already processed for them…

Feb 24 • Yasha Levine

WE ARE ALL LUDDITES NOW

Is it time to smash the data centers?

Feb 19 • Yasha Levine and Brian Merchant

1:38:11

The internet is MK-ULTRA, improved

I was doing some background reading for VAMPIRE VALLEY and picked up Acid Dreams, a wonderful book about LSD and how this weird chemical wormed its way…

Feb 18 • Yasha Levine

When the Pentagon hoped Noam Chomsky would help build AI weapons against communists

With this new Jeffrey Epstein Spectacle drop, everyone is once again buzzing about Noam Chomsky and his relationship with The Pimp to Our Unfuckable…

Feb 2 • Yasha Levine

The internet, Venezuela and global power

America could never have carried out the kind of in-and-out kidnapping of the Venezuelan president without the internet.

Jan 3 • Yasha Levine

Enjoy the slop while you still can

Yes, we’re cursed to live in interesting times…and blessed, too.

Dec 30, 2025 • Yasha Levine

EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT: INTERNET JUNKIE ANONYMOUS

NEFARIOUS RUSSIANS LIVE IN SF!

Dec 26, 2025 • Yasha Levine and Evgenia

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