Mars Review of Books is offering a swimsuit edition. All hot, all neoreactionary! (archive.ph)
from dgerard@awful.systems to sneerclub@awful.systems on 27 Mar 2024 18:25
https://awful.systems/post/1245341

Mars Review of Books is a literary magazine featuring the sort of writer who thinks Moldbug is the greatest stylist to assault the written word and lists their Urbit address. Yeah, it’s a group substack.

“With the sudden death of Sports Illustrated, they decided to take on the responsibility of offering yearly swimsuit editions.”

is Thiel running out of places to spend his money or something

#sneerclub

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AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space on 27 Mar 2024 22:07 next collapse

I’m surprised Aella isn’t in it.

blakestacey@awful.systems on 28 Mar 2024 00:12 collapse

Being photographed in a hot tub is too much like showering.

jonhendry@awful.systems on 29 Mar 2024 00:17 collapse

Depends on what liquid is in the hot tub.

blakestacey@awful.systems on 28 Mar 2024 00:10 next collapse

It would be legit funny to have a “swimsuit edition” that just provided old-school consumer reviews of swimsuits, evaluating them for comfort, durability, etc. No models, only graphs.

self@awful.systems on 28 Mar 2024 05:51 next collapse

Models:

Bronze Age Shawty

Bimbo Ubermensch

fucking excuse me?

of course the cover of their first issue is what appears to be an incorrect drawing of the inside of an AR-15. cause there’s nothing more technofuturist than guns and extreme incompetence

dgerard@awful.systems on 28 Mar 2024 07:57 next collapse

I almost want to read Justin Murphy on The Network State, but not enough to lift a finger

I mean,

self@awful.systems on 28 Mar 2024 08:09 next collapse

it is fucking chef’s kiss that the only reply to whatever the fuck I just read (unauthorized Illuminatus! fan fiction?) is some LinkedIn realtor begging Justin to buy condos from them to use as cult compounds

blakestacey@awful.systems on 28 Mar 2024 22:40 collapse

When the AOE enters the Texas compound, there’s nothing there.

Just cryptographically locked black boxes. They can take them, but they can’t access or use or analyze them, and we just reboot from backups later.

relevant xkcd

dgerard@awful.systems on 28 Mar 2024 23:10 next collapse

“Urbit? Better check the HD”

Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems on 29 Mar 2024 16:33 collapse

can’t get tortured if your in the cloud

Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems on 29 Mar 2024 16:33 collapse

wait that might not be in line with the Sequences

sinedpick@awful.systems on 28 Mar 2024 22:20 next collapse

who the FUCK is John Galt?

Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems on 29 Mar 2024 11:54 next collapse

ultra-hermetic metamasonic brotherhood

the neoreactionary movement is a contest about who’ll come up with the most new ways to say “jews”

[deleted] on 29 Mar 2024 12:01 next collapse

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Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems on 29 Mar 2024 12:06 collapse

it’s the “meta” part that as far as i can tell is a ccru innovation? (which in typical fashion doesn’t seem to mean anything but looks cool and new)

[deleted] on 29 Mar 2024 12:09 collapse

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dgerard@awful.systems on 29 Mar 2024 12:42 collapse

particularly when quite a lot of them (incl Yarvin) are also Jews

[deleted] on 29 Mar 2024 13:49 collapse

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dgerard@awful.systems on 29 Mar 2024 13:51 collapse

he’s said he’s bringing up his kid with a pile of Jewish culture, so I’d say close enough

[deleted] on 29 Mar 2024 13:54 collapse

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dgerard@awful.systems on 29 Mar 2024 14:00 collapse

I know from people who know him personally that he quite definitely thinks of himself as Jewish, though how he does that is a different question, yes.

jonhendry@iosdev.space on 29 Mar 2024 14:16 next collapse

@dgerard

Probably thinks he's God's Chosen Person.

[deleted] on 29 Mar 2024 14:18 collapse

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gerikson@awful.systems on 30 Mar 2024 17:50 collapse

We descend to an underground tunnel system we built without permits using profits from the apparatus.

On our underground DIY bullet train, we arrive at the Appalachia compound before the AOE even breaks down the door [in the Texas compound]

so

this “virtual enterprise” has managed to build a fucking train tunnel (trains?! how woke!!!) under thousands of miles of private, state, and federal land, without anyone knowing. And what’s the prevent the dastardly crypto-Jewish law enforcement from simply deducing the path of the fucking tunnel, and breaking down the doors on both ends at the same time??

These people love to imagine themselves as the French resistance, but with the Gestapo being bungling fools, and their every scheme being foiled by techno-deus-exes being pulled from the author’s ass whenever needed.

froztbyte@awful.systems on 28 Mar 2024 08:10 next collapse

I looked up both those names. I shouldn’t have.

You’d think I’d learn by now

sinedpick@awful.systems on 28 Mar 2024 22:19 next collapse

bronze age shawty’s substack really tries to emulate meaningful artistic analysis but falls flat on its face because it’s obviously working backwards from a conclusion. Fascinating.

blakestacey@awful.systems on 28 Mar 2024 22:38 collapse

And now I envy the me of five minutes ago.

froztbyte@awful.systems on 28 Mar 2024 23:00 next collapse

Welcome to the club! Here’s your complimentary shot glass

dgerard@awful.systems on 28 Mar 2024 23:11 collapse

instructions unclear: attempted to shoot self, which way do I hold the glass to do this

dgerard@awful.systems on 28 Mar 2024 23:11 collapse

how long have you been here

blakestacey@awful.systems on 28 Mar 2024 23:34 collapse

Too long? Not long enough? Either way, every day is somehow worse than the one before.

dgerard@awful.systems on 29 Mar 2024 02:21 collapse

Welcome to the abyss! It sucks here!

sc_griffith@awful.systems on 29 Mar 2024 18:19 collapse

he who posts about urbit should beware. for when you post into the abyss, the abyss also posts into you

gerikson@awful.systems on 29 Mar 2024 21:37 collapse

It’s fine, the Abyss only has a comet, easy to filter out.

gerikson@awful.systems on 30 Mar 2024 16:54 collapse

Bronze Age Shawty

This is the person X/Twitter is underwriting a lawsuit for wrongful termination, after she was exceedingly unpleasant on Shitter.

mastodon.social/@taylorlorenz/112181941606882152

Also she was fired from Block which is as neo-reactionary a company as you can find.

Edit here’s more background, via TechDirt

When confronted about the tweets, Happe lied and said she did not make them. She was then fired a few weeks later. […] Block has every right to fire her because of its own rights of association, as well as simply because she lied to them. Your right to free speech means the government can’t punish you for your speech, but others have every right (their own First Amendment association rights) to want nothing to do with you. And that’s all that’s happened here. Hoppe is facing the consequences of her disgusting speech.

blakestacey@awful.systems on 30 Mar 2024 18:11 collapse

oh

i lost my cushy tech job because of twitter. the one i worked so hard for in my youth. the one i was going to pull my family out of poverty with. but instead i am a martyr in the culture wars of based capital versus woke capital. i am gaza.

dgerard@awful.systems on 30 Mar 2024 18:14 next collapse

because of twitter

I understand there was probably some agency on your part chloe

shawty is a Zero HP Lovecraft character

gerikson@awful.systems on 30 Mar 2024 18:42 collapse

why do I never learn and insist on googling names dropped by D. Gerard

dgerard@awful.systems on 30 Mar 2024 18:55 next collapse

you love it, you worm

[deleted] on 30 Mar 2024 20:03 collapse

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self@awful.systems on 30 Mar 2024 21:59 collapse

this is so much worse than I imagined. I assumed these were normal models who didn’t want to use their regular stage names for this particular contract so the mars review made up some names for them

swlabr@awful.systems on 28 Mar 2024 10:40 next collapse

can’t run a print magazine anymore because of woke

gerikson@awful.systems on 29 Mar 2024 17:34 next collapse

Every contributor to the mag has an Urbit handle. Enough said.

dgerard@awful.systems on 31 Mar 2024 00:10 collapse

that’s where the Mars bit came in

maol@awful.systems on 12 Apr 2024 19:31 collapse

Not sexist at all!