A tour of incel ideology courtesy of a customized ChatGPT (prompt tailored) implementation

https://www.citationneeded.news/openai-incel-chatbot-subhuman-men/

We need journalists trained in anthropology to explain our world. I’m really curious about the female side of this ideology — I suspect they do exist. I’d also like to learn about the surgeons that do cosmetic orthognathic reconstructions (the real deal is $$$$ and technically hard). Fascinating but disturbing tribe.

Terms I learned of: hardmaxxing (surgery), softmaxxing (gym), mogging (emulating arrogance), mewing (it’s funny, not scary).

“the moral rot at the core of Trumpism, which every day disgraces our country, which we are proud of and love.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/opinion/trump-vance-morality.html

Of all the weird things in my recent life, one of the weirdest was developing a modicum of respect for David Brooks. I didn’t give enough credit to his chronic concerns about community and values (social capital). He was right, I was wrong.

“Mr. Musk has received advance warning of the [drug] tests”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/us/elon-musk-drugs-children-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.LE8.YA7T.1z0vkogrzeCV&smid=url-share

Allegedly he actually go tested. I find that hard to believe. Lots of psychedelics and boatloads of ketamine

“He has denounced traditional therapy and antidepressants.”

He and RFK likely bond over there Scientology-like psych hatred.

Haiti hires Erik (Blackwater) Prince for gang warfare.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/us/haiti-erik-prince-blackwater-gangs.html

“expected to send up to 150 mercenaries to Haiti over the summer.”

“U.N. officials have warned that the capital is in danger of falling under complete criminal control.”

Biden / UN effort failed. So now it’s foreign mercenaries. Prince is said a bad name in the mercenary industry.

Cognitively impaired dependents of boomers living on streets once mothers die.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/us/politics/homelessness-baby-boomers.html

“he reveled in sports and neighborhood friends but mostly felt lost in class.”

“Analyzing census data at 10-year intervals, he found that throughout their lives late baby boomers had been at least 1.5 times as likely to become homeless as people born roughly a decade later.”

As parents of two dependent adults we think of this every day. Our estate planning is the most complex thing we have ever attempted — and we have loads of degrees and expertise and a reasonable estate. Most such dependents live with parents until the parents die.

Shithole country autocrat: Trump family scams and theft grow quickly

https://contrarian.substack.com/p/words-and-phrases-we-can-do-without-41d

“The Trump family and its business partners have collected $320 million in fees from a new cryptocurrency, brokered overseas real estate deals worth billions of dollars and are opening an exclusive club in Washington called the Executive Branch charging $500,000 apiece to join”

Medicaid work requirement: “most people still will be eligible, but will get kicked off because they can’t manage the paperwork”

https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-we-wrote-in-the-new-york-times

Our son is disabled. The paperwork is obscene. It only makes sense as a way to deny services.

Separately, implementing a work requirement in a non-punitive way would greatly *increase* the cost of Medicaid coverage.

Antivaxx and anti-science MAHA report reviewed: “MAHA is basically anti-psychiatry and wants discourage the use of psychiatric medications even when appropriate”

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-maha-report-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-mostly-the-bad-and-ugly/

The claimed authors have minimal to no expertise and are all known crackpots. I suspect anti-psych bias comes from RFK past evaluations for schizophrenia-like features, esp in his 20s. His delusions are remarkable.

“omits some of the most common causes of chronic disease and death among children, notably car crashes and gunfire, the leading causes of death among young Americans.”

Trump’s mission to “save “white South Africans goes the way I expected.

https://theintercept.com/2025/05/21/south-africa-trump-afriforum-white-refugees/

The SA politician who promoted the idea seems appalled by his success: “… With his tail between his legs, Kriel backtracked on his claims of a white genocide. He has gone on to turn down Trump’s offer of asylum, insisting he was a patriotic South African …” Excellent background in this well written article. At first worried and upset SAs now more amused.

“claims of white genocide are a pretext for an administration that is keen to pressure South Africa to withdraw its case against Israel at the International Court of Justice”