On [insert website], my acting reel as of [insert date] will get two more views and one more like than that awful [insert competitor website]. Damn, who would've known [insert website] would've been so [insert expletive] good to little ol me!
Intro by @adamsmithheadshots
“I’m coming up with so many inventions that have never been thought of before. Polio-Free Ice Cream. AIDs-Free Poppers. Vaccines that will give you a high IQ. Pesticides that won’t make your kids transgender. You call it a phantasm, I call it a market.”
Recent reads from the year so far to fix my algorithms and keep the dreaded dumb dumb industry (big dumb) out of my feed.
Books:
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent - Eduardo Galeano
Snowden's Box: Trust In The Age of Surveillance - Jessica Bruder and Dale Maharidge
Beyond Cop Cities: Dismantling State and Corporate-funded Armies and Prisons - Edited by Joy James
A Philosophy of Shame - Frédéric Gros
Monstrous Anger of the Guns: How The Global Arms Trade Is Ruining The World & What To Do About It - Rhona Mitchie, Andrew Feinstein, & Paul Rodgers with Jeremy Corbyn
Health Communism - Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant
Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal - Mohammed El-Kurd
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade & The Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World - Vincent Bevins
Unusual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Justice System - Alec Karakatsanis
Who's Afraid of Gender? - Judith Butler
The Burnout Society - Byung-Chul Han
Empire of A.I. - Dreams and Nightmares of Sam Altman's OpenAI - Karen Hao
Selling Social Justice: Why The Rich Love Antiracism - Jennifer C. Pan
Immigration Detention Inc.: The Big Business of Locking Up Migrants - Nancy Hiemstra & Deidre Conlon
Revolution In These Times: On Antifascism, Black Liberation, and a Culture of Resistance - Dhoruba Bin-Wahad (Black Panther Party Veteran)
Super Patriotism - Michael Parenti
Everything To Play For: How Videogames Are Changing The World - Marijam Did
The Internet Con: How To Size The Means of Computation - Cory Doctorow
Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (And The Next) - Dean Spade
Psycho-Politics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power - Byung-Chul Han
Book dump from 2025 in no order. No ads to scroll through and you can rent them for free from your library - or ask your library to order them for you if they don't have them.
Titles:
The Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fannon
Misbelief - Dan Ariely
Cannibal Capitalism - Nancy Fraser
Right-Wing Women - Andrea Dworkin
Fascist Yoga - Stewart Home
How To Read Donald Duck - Dorfman & Mattelart
Enshitification - Cory Doctorow
Why Fascists Fear Teachers - Randi Weingarten
Offshore - Brooke Harrington
Are Prisons Obsolete? - Angela Y Davis
Against Technoabelism - Ashley Shew
Stories Are Weapons - Annalee Newitz
Troublemaking: Why You Should Organize Your Workplace - Lydia Hughes and Jamie Woodcock
Blackshirts & Reds - Michael Parenti
Revolting Prostitutes - Molly Smith & Juno Mac
One Day, Everyone Will Have Been Against This - Omar El Akkad
How To ____ __ A Pipeline - Andreas Malm
In Defense of Looting - Vicky Osterweil
Copaganda - Alec Karakatsanis
The View From Somewhere - Lewis Raven Wallace
Feel free to drop any political science or social science recommendations!
Like a pop-up ad from Hell, I had another piece published in Hard Times. However, this post isn't about that.
Since being right is both a blessing and a curse, the @harddrivenews Instagram account was deleted. Being the sister site of @thehardtimesnews , it's important to follow @harddrive32x for hard-hitting game journalism for the time being.
In addition to this, I'm doing another fundraiser for the World Central Kitchen because chaos is abound.