New Right Poast Radio

A bunch of nerds want you to freak out about AI so the government pauses (or takes over) AI development. Machine learning engineer and independent journalist Brian Chau smells something fishy. He went on Will Chamberlain’s podcast to discuss the suspicious nature of this media-driven pseudo-event and the funding flows that predicated it. Dudley wanted to talk to Brian about the cultural/spiritual side of the story: Who are these strange drug-addled perverts who lie for fun? Where does their savior complex come from? All this and more, on NRP Radio.

Also mentioned:

* Brian’s AI-powered news site Effort

* Brian’s Read of the Week-winning essay: The Worst Are Full Of Passionate Intensity: An Anthropology of AI Safety

* Schwab thread on witches

* Forum debate on AI

* Jack Blakely thread on why you should just vote GOP

* Peachy book Supervillains

yeerk is a top-tier poaster and music crit podcaster who wrote one of this week’s top Reads. We were blissfully ignorant of the cult of Count Binface, a political spectacle that distracts polite liberal Brits from acknowledging the hell they’ve created for their lessers. The piece is a searing indictment of the complacency of Britain’s elite and professional classes. Today Yeerk dishes on the received wisdom of the tastemaking classes and then takes Dudley Behind the Bin, revealing the sinister motivations disguised by a facade of silliness.

Also mentioned:

* Yeerk’s Bistro Californium podcast

* Zero HP Lovecraft on American class mobility

* Arctotherium’s “Closure of the Internet” piece

Highly intelligent and agentic people are dropping out of the PMC rat race that keeps the technocratic monoculture machine humming. Why is the loose trad movement has become an object of panic and ridicule?

Alan Schmidt joins us this week to discuss his essay “Reverse Rumspringa,” in which he cuts through the myths and aesthetic trappings around trad life and articulates the genuinely radical philosophy behind the aprons and chicken coops.

Also mentioned:

* Adam Lehrer’s Jim Goad obit

* Copernican’s Femboy Fascism

* Bennett’s The Secret Anguish of the Median Voter

* Michael Perrone’s “Yes, Hi... I’d Like To Order A New Institution Please.”

Real NYers love being born and raised in New York and will tell you if you’re a bandwagoner, poseur, or transplant. The Senegalese umbrella salesman is an American the moment he touches down at JFK. But the Wall Street intern from Iowa? Colonizer. Will never be a real New Yorker. What gives?

Denzel Rust joins us to discuss his essay on “Bodega Nationalism” and how the most important city in the world is breeding a radical jingoism that doesn’t extend outside the Five Boroughs borders.

Also mentioned:

* Coddled Affluent Pro thread on DSA

* Ketura Hickman essay on homeschooling

* Denzel’s Bodega Nationalism essay

50 million people have seen Rupert Lowe’s Rape Gangs Report, and the Left has responded with procedural quibbles and other deflections. More interestingly, some figures on the Right feel that the release is misguided because it’s redundant (not telling us anything we didn’t already know) atrocity porn, full of sensational, lurid detail that doesn’t actually name names in a way that would result in legal action taken against the people who allowed this to happen.

Excellent Substack essayist Jenny Holland is based in Ireland, close enough to have a decent view of how grooming gangs are being discussed in the UK, and whether this report is going to move the needle.

Discussed:

* The Report

* Cristina Rice’s thread on Dwarkesh

* MAMA Mag’s essay on a dead college town

* Librarian of Celaeno defends Downs Syndrome kids from eugenicists on the Right

* Awful woman criticizing the report

Dudley checks in with Isaac Simpson on the mayoral situation in Los Angeles, the week’s best stuff, and Isaac’s new men’s lifestyle magazine MAMA which aims to be an optimistic voice for based guys in a world where all magazines have become women’s magazines.

Also mentioned:

* Spencer Pratt’s Easter essay on the city’s hopelessness

* Joshua Rainer’s threads on homelessness in LA

* Alaric The Barbarian’s Darien Gap doc

* Anna Slatz thread on Indians

* Robert Frost on empathy as narcissism

* Lap Gong fantasy about mass high-skilled immigration

* MAMA Magazine

Inez Stepman infuriated libertarians and libtards alike this week in her First Things essay about how the modern girlboss is artificially propped up by hidden subsidies (taxpayer dollars, cheap immigrant labor) and policies that punish single-income families. The two-income trap didn’t just happen by accident.

Dudley and Inez discuss the piece along with the heated reaction to it and consider reframing the gender war not as women vs. men, but as girlbosses vs. moms.

Also mentioned:

* The Death of the Ford Tradition

* The Dostoevskian Moment

This one’s for the real Poast-heads out there. Dudley dishes with a deep-dive on how he puts the Poast together. What essays make the cut? Which ones get archived immediately? And he shares a bit about where the Poast is at, where he’d like to take it. Intimate details. Candid thoughts.

There is a specter haunting America: the specter of Dinergoth.

Here we have an NRP EXCLUSIVE interview with the mind behind this week’s most powerful meme. Robert Mariani joins Dudley to discuss his viral piece on the latest and last(?) youth subculture. It’s a scene report from nowhere, a distributed, extremely-online aesthetic mishmash that’s what’s left after your suburb got eaten by globohomo. It’s where geek, queer and alt collide and go mainstream, with extremely-online culture filling the gaps left by the decline of regional identity and economic stability.

The dinergoth core is the pierced-up, gender-fluid Amazon warehouse worker who streams on Twitch, writes fanfiction, wears a furry tail to raves, runs an OnlyFans, and dreams of voice acting while working nights at the fulfillment center.

Is it a portrait of dystopia, or is there something admirable and refreshing about the dinergoth’s rejection of millennial prudishness and striving? Are the kids alright?

Also mentioned:

* Kitty’s Church of Graphs essay

* Walt and Dave Status, Epistemics, and Praxis podcast

* Verge Airspace essay from 2016

There you have it, folks. Another week in the bag. If you enjoyed yourself, please smash that like button so the Substack algorithm knows to spread it around.

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What are we going to do about the miserable, mean, misogynist men lurking on the timeline and around conservative conference dinner tables? They call you a w***e when you step out of line, or worse, “non-agentic.” It’s enough to make you want to denounce and renounce the whole thing to an adversarial journalist.

New York Mag published an inflammatory trend piece, “The Women Leaving the New Right,” about our sphere hemorrhaging women who’ve had it with the misogyny. This is based on a few anonymous sources and some ex-righties that once appeared in our own publication’s estimable pages.

In this episode Dudley and Peachy Keenan discuss whether this trend is actually happening, whether the New Right needs to do something about it, what can be done about it, and what it means to air out your grievances in a lefty rag.

Also mentioned:

* BAP thread

* Dave Greene Note (parts one and two)

* Jay’s SSRI essay (parts one and two)

* Bennett’s essay

There you have it, folks. Another week in the bag. If you enjoyed yourself, please smash that like button so the Substack algorithm knows to spread it around.

As always, we are publishing All the S**t that’s Fit to Poast. Follow us on Twitter and Substack Notes for lots of other premium banter between issues that you won’t see here. Also, you can now get a paid subscription for full access to the NRP archives, plus a monthly subscribers-only issue.