Puritanical Captain. Family man. Sunset enjoyer.
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If you've ever wondered what a mental break looks like in real time, you can see it here.
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Just entered Oregon and saw a sign that just said GOP but the O was the hammer and sicle lmao someone's confused
Had to take a last minute flight and the best option was Frontier. Never flown with them before but this is clearly an America B carrier. Oof.
Huge shout out to @altcap Brad Gerstner who just gave all three of my kids $100 through their Trump account. Incredible generosity. Thank you Brad from all three of them.
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We moved out of Texas and I came back after a month. It was like visiting a different country and I never realized it while living in it, but it was clear as day after a little separation. "Texas" may as well be an idea these days.
If you like good books, good dudes and good boobs, I highly recommend you buy this good book by this good dude who appreciates good boobs.
It’s election day. I probably won’t vote. I hate cynicism, but it’s hard not to be blackpilled after what I’ve seen.
The last few years have been a strange fucking journey, mang.
Like a lot of men, I wondered what the fuck had gone wrong in the world. I saw it at work, where we were discouraged from hiring attractive actors and straight white men like me were no longer welcome in behind the scenes roles. I saw insane things in my community, in my personal relationships, everywhere. Everything was falling apart.
And the worst part was that you couldn’t talk about it. You couldn’t even mention it in public. You were expected to ignore it.
But you could discuss it online. You had to do it surreptitiously, but you could do it. And there was a conversation taking place. People--mostly other men--were seeing the same things. And they had ideas. Some ideas were batshit crazy, some were perfectly sane and quite dangerous, but it was all fascinating.
I was a lurker. Didn’t think I had anything to contribute to the greater conversation. But then I started posting my writing and discussing these crazy/dangerous ideas thru anecdotes about my personal and professional life. And to my great surprise it took off.
Sadly that online conversation died. It got killed by business, political, and (yes) foreign interests. They wanted to control it and keep it from spreading.
For the most part they succeeded. And if you’re wondering why “the discourse” has gotten stale, that’s because it’s no longer organic. Ironically enough, it’s become another thing that we’re supposed to ignore.
But I’m still doing my thing--and I’m not planning on stopping anytime soon.
So I’ve got a new book out today. It’s called A Capable Man and Other Stories. It’s a collection of 26 interconnected stories about fathers and sons, love and loss, the limits of competence, and what it means to be a man in a world that’s increasingly hostile to masculinity.
It’s not exactly a sequel to Hollywood Samizdat, but it shares a lot of the same themes. And just like in my first book, I’m the central character--and while I change details to hide identities, all the stories are true.
Someday I’ll explore these themes thru fiction. But for now I’m still exploring them through the lens of my own life--and I’ve still got a lot of material to work with.
And yeah, I’m still smuggling crazy/dangerous ideas in my writing. But like good propaganda it’s camouflaged, so you might have to squint to see it.
There’s a few funny anecdotes from the movie business, but this book gets dark--so you might want to buckle the fuck up before reading.
So why did I write this book? Well, as I like to tell my friends: it’s cheaper than therapy. But mostly it’s because I’m compelled to write and I feel I’m obligated to share it with the world.
And no, I’m not proud. I’m proud of the work I put in, but I’m not proud of the contents. Sometimes it was fun. Sometimes it wasn’t. But the things I write about aren’t anything to be proud about.
That being said, I’m not ashamed either.
Because I have no shame about speaking the truth. And honestly, I’ve stopped giving any fucks.
Anyhow, I hope you enjoy the book. And I hope the conversation never ends.
-Rambo Van Halen
(Link in the NEXT POST for book...)
My wife told me when I get home from offshore tomorrow my first chore is getting the Christmas tree out of storage.
Here’s the thing about spotting the horrendous, soulless AI-generated writing infecting every corner of the internet now: it’s not just about the words — it’s about the patterns.
And once you start noticing them, you can’t unsee them.
The unnecessary em dashes. The polished transitions. The examples given in groups of three.
The weird metaphors that kind of make sense but kind of don’t — like a parachute opening inside a submarine.
The load-bearing use of the term “load-bearing.”
The random one sentence paragraphs.
The way a bunch of bland gibberish is quietly reframed as a profound insight.
The on-going and un-necessary hyphenation of every-day words that really don’t need it.
The cliches.
Read that again.
Cliches.
Louder for people in the back.
Tons of cliches.
That’s not a typo.
Sit with that for a moment.
And the biggest red flag? Asking yourself a question and answering it.
Because honestly? No sentient human writes like this.
And truthfully? If you can’t identify these red flags, you might not actually be sentient yourself.
Because really? If this formatting doesn’t immediately strike you as awkward and artificial, it means you don’t read books.
Ever.
Seriously.
But here’s where it gets interesting:
It doesn’t.
The point has been made but I’ll keep going. That’s what AI writing is all about.
Let’s delve into real problem. It isn’t the technology. It’s the people using it because they’re too retarded to generate an original thought of their own.
That’s not thoughtfulness. It’s intellectual laziness wearing digital makeup.
It doesn’t make the internet more fun. It makes me want to throw my phone in the river and forsake all of humanity and live as a hermit in the woods for the rest of my life.
Seriously this shit fills me with despair. I’m not kidding.
And the distinction matters.
Especially when you’re saying the distinction matters without actually drawing a distinction.
But here’s what nobody tells you.
When you ask a machine to manufacture your personality, you’re not just automating your writing. You’re quietly announcing that you’re a boring, insipid dork with nothing interesting to say.
Let that sink in.
The uncomfortable truth?
AI didn’t turn these people into tedious midwits.
It quietly revealed what they already were.
And perhaps — just perhaps — that’s quietly the most important takeaway of all.
But what do you think? Let's unpack this together in the comments. 👇
Well there go my tutorials on how to fix things they haven't made in decades from threads that haven't been posted on since 2015.
Reddit is announcing a huge shift: It’s going to start requiring users to log in. Reddit is becoming a ‘logged-in-only experience,’ says CEO Steve Huffman theverge.com/tech/1022571/re…
Something like 90% of the replies on X are a great avenue for training yourself to recognize ai slop.
Why exactly is it so obvious when someone is trying to pass off AI writing as their own? There are clear red flags like “quietly” and “load bearing” but there’s also something less tangible in the rhythm and construction that screams AI but is hard to precisely describe. I can tell when something is AI slop but I can’t always tell how I can tell.
