Tech
Kathy Sierra got doxxed and death-threatened in 2007, seven years before Gamergate, with none of today's algorithmic muscle. The hate wasn't invented later. Someone just built better plumbing for it, and found out outrage pays the bills.
The Billionaire Victims Club
Brin named his $450 million superyacht after Google's secret project to build a censored search engine for China. The man comparing a 5% healthcare tax to Soviet communism literally named his boat after helping communists suppress the internet.
Political Musing
Ron Johnson tried to hand fake electors to Mike Pence. The Democratic establishment's real fear that cycle? Mandela Barnes's parking tickets. The electability model doesn't need to be right. It just needs to never be tested.
recap
A roll up of posts from Sweaty Spice and the Shitpost Dude for the week of June 27 thru July 4th
The Billionaire Victims Club
The Amazon logo smiles A to Z — delightful, frictionless, friendly. Then Bezos got unlimited money and no brand consultants, and built a rocket the entire internet immediately recognized as a penis with Peyronie's disease. The logo lies. The rocket does not.
Political Musing
The consultant class are the Capos. Never Trump are the enforcers. The donor class is in the back of the restaurant. And your midnight ActBlue email? That's the vig. Welcome to the protection racket.
The Billionaire Victims Club
Billionaire Victims Club, Vol. 2. - Europe has looked through Palantir and seen whose face is on the other end. Not the Antichrist. Just Peter Thiel, 58, looking older than his years, spending $40k a quarter on young people's blood, waiting for the lockup to expire.
Political Musing
How the Never Trump Brain Trust Built What They're Now Selling You Protection From
The Billionaire Victims Club
Billionaire Victims Club, Vol. 1. As I drafted this, I was watching SPCX lose $400B in market value. Only about $1.5T more to go to be "right priced" Glorious!
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A wrap up of the posts of the week of June 20th, 2026
You can't go to the grindhouse anymore. But you can watch everything it showed. Here's where to start.
A group chat, a tax, and the men who'd like you to know they're the real victims here
A quick update and status. Also, appreciation of my audience.
Series: The Closed Loop, Part 2 — Series Capstone - Bringing it all together
Paul Gilbert is one of my icons. I discovered him in the late 1990s, his work with Mr Big was eye opening, and that got me to look into his band Racer X, and from there, I was hooked. I have as much of his recorded music as I can
Series: The Closed Loop, Part 1
Bill Ackman spent a year positioning himself as the conscience of American academia. Then his wife's dissertation came up. Turns out his standards have a bid-ask spread.
One last post, to document the end of this era, and why it is still relevant. And why I have so much of this physical media in my collection.
The roll up of the week of 6/13/2026's posts
Thirty years of Real American outreach has produced one durable result: a very comfortable living for the people doing the outreach.
JD Vance converted to Catholicism five years into his marriage to a woman who hasn't. Ross Douthat interviewed him about his faith and forgot to notice. Here's what legitimacy laundering looks like.
