J.M. Berger

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Senior Research Fellow, @ctecmiis.bsky.social; SFWA member

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► EXTREMISM @mitpress http://amzn.to/2BKXLgU
► OPTIMAL: A novel http://amzn.to/3aKYZ99

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When things are going great

Literally going to be this when Elon starts shouting the n-word to prevent WWIII

I think it’s a fair guess that there will technical difficulties and this doesn’t happen or gets cut if things go too far off the rails. But I hope not

Look, it's not a healthy economy, sector, or society when this is an ad on Politico for god's sake. I expect this from X, not from the publication whose primary audience is DC insiders.

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Behold the political genius at work

Optimal, my dystopian novel about the algorithmic age, is free this weekend! amzn.to/3Ajph30 Please check it out, and if you like it, share it with your friends (and if they just happen to be in charge of adaptations and acquisitions at Netflix, well, so much the better).

Hmmm

For MIT Technology Review, I wrote about how and why some Covid conspiracists pivoted to AIDS denial, reviving ancient debunked arguments (Like “poppers cause AIDS”) and teaching us about patterns of novel disease, distrust and attention-seeking www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/07/1...

How covid conspiracies led to an alarming resurgence in AIDS denialismwww.technologyreview.com Widespread distrust of our public health system is reviving long-debunked ideas on HIV and AIDS—and energizing a broad movement that questions the foundations of disease prevention.

I'm out as of this afternoon as well. Goddammit. So much uglier IRL than I could ever have imagined. Who's left?

I’m out y’all. I saw a cybertruck on the road today. Going the opposite at enough speed that my only reaction was “what the hell is that?” and it was gone

Ladies and gentlemen and others, I give you the New York Times.

Fixed it a lil more!

Hey! @nytimes.com ! I fixed your headline.

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(Before I was a extremism guy, I was a business journalist. But...)

Deleted this b/c it was a reporter who did the tweet.

"We've launched a criminal probe because *that woman* could not possibly have raised more money than Trump." virginiamercury.com/2024/08/05/m...

Aside from the more obvious ways we know he's killed people with vaccine-preventable diseases, by the time this election is over we're totally going to find out RFK, Jr. is an actual serial killer.

This is not a he-said, she-said situation. If the person you claim to have a deal with says you do not have a deal, you do not have a deal. FFS. Just say the guy is lying. Again.

c'mon

/2 Yes, okay, he’s a killer. But I feel like he wouldn’t kill out of bigotry or for political advantage. He’d only kill people who irritated him for aesthetically legitimate reasons. Like Hannibal Lecter would DEFINITELY have killed Boris Johnson ….

Finally we get an answer: The Yakuza show will not be funny www.thegamer.com/yakuza-tv-se...

frame from a non musical movie with a great sound track

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I kinda love the OG costume, but Andy Helfer's batshit 1988 run has you covered

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Dynamite Comics, 2017!

Look at this AI crap, served up to me by the Google algorithm

Badass

Come for the discussion of extremism, stay for Godzilla in the background and my Twin Peaks "Live Laugh Log" mug

I spoke with the Offline podcast about Extremism (the book) and extremism (the thing), its roots, and the prospects of political violence in the coming months. I also managed to sneak in an Optimal plug. Check it out! youtu.be/Eu8MSMhcH9w?...

How Kamala Harris Is Winning Over The Left On Social Mediayoutu.be We still don’t know why a 20-year-old from Pennsylvania opened fire on Trump last weekend. Lone shooters whose paths from normalcy to vigilantism seem esoter...

🎼 Hey you over there on the chaise lounge in your underwear 🎵

#beardsagainstvance why not

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Users in the replies begging Elon Musk to bail VDARE out

Looks like I am going to have to update this book chapter lol