Watched the Theroux documentary "Inside the Manosphere" yesterday. Kids in their early twenties, drifting, trying everything from Hiphop, gaming, bodybuilding and now turning dangerous right wing trolls - just to get some relevance. I wager most of them have never touched a book in their life, but are now idolized by millions of teens and the only thing that gives them orientation is the desire to "get rich" and the algorithm, obvs. DEPRESSING stuff.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Theroux:_Inside_the_Manosphere#Critical_reception

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OK, completed the three Joe Richardson games now and they were short and sweet - only Procession to Calvary took me a little longer (mainly due to one puzzle). Joe and his team had the courage to create something fresh, weird and different: Based on paintings and chock-full with references and intertextuality, they straddle the border between game and art and are almost like clickable pastiches. Not sure if the formula carries again though. Congrats, in any event, enjoyable stuff.

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Haha, Iran denies there have been "productive talks" with the Trump government. I have no doubt they're right. We're now at a point at which the authoritarian Iranian regime is more credible than the administration of the United States.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/mar/23/middle-east-crisis-live-iea-chief-says-iran-war-energy-crunch-worse-than-1970s-oil-crises-and-ukraine-war-combined

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