Tag: SJW

The Convergence of D&D

Fandom Pulse chronicles the last futile thrashings of the onetime role-playing giant:

RPG Pundit’s assessment of Wizards’ current design team was devastating: “You’ve got like they just hired another chick. Gez, I wish I remembered to have checked her name before starting this video. This woman, who is basically connected to young adult science fiction stuff, like basically the entire industry of publishing has been taken over by feminist women, millennial women who worked on young adult novels.”

He described how this takeover occurred: “They took over the mainstream publishing and then, in turn, went on to only put their people everywhere, right? And now it’s being expanded to other areas. That’s what’s basically happened with fifth edition is that it became it it was taken over by YA publishing people right that were that are that are the same you know the the feminist intersectional trans bloggers right and uh vegans and all that they’re they’re a cabal they’re a sect and now they’ve expanded into here right and those people know nothing about anything right and they ruin everything they touch.”

It always ends the same way. It’s astonishing that no one, from the churches to the game companies, is capable of recognizing the pattern. Especially since it was all laid out back in 2015.

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Karma is a Bitch

Amazon just laid off 16,000 more workers. I would be willing to bet this explains our groundless termination, as well as how quickly it was upheld upon “review”.

Amazon said Wednesday it plans to eliminate about 16,000 corporate jobs, marking its second round of mass job cuts since last October. In a blog post, the company wrote that the layoffs were part of an ongoing effort to “strengthen our organization by reducing layers, increasing ownership, and removing bureaucracy.” That coincides with a push to invest heavily in artificial intelligence.

The job reductions come just a few months after October’s layoffs, when 14,000 employees were let go across Amazon’s corporate workforce. At the time, the company indicated the cuts would continue in 2026 as it found “additional places we can remove layers.”

Beth Galetti, Amazon’s senior vice president of people experience and technology, didn’t rule out more job cuts in the future, but said the company isn’t trying to create “a new rhythm” of broad layoffs every few months.

It also might explain why the executive to whom I appealed the KDP decision was a little too busy to pay any attention to one minor KDP account right away, because apparently, he did us the favor of stepping in again and telling whomever was left at KDP to stop screwing around and reinstate us. I was a little confused this morning to see Castalia’s inbox had been bombarded with email alerts from KDP informing us repeatedly that a new book was available through Amazon and Audible, as well as this one from a different member of the Content Review Team.

I can confirm that your account is now active and you have full access to your Bookshelf. Please let us know if you still cannot access your account, so we can further investigate this issue.

None of this means that the lesson about platforms doesn’t apply. But it does give us more time to build our own correctly.

Being back on Amazon also lets us see that PROBABILITY ZERO received its first one-star review, courtesy of one of Dennis McCarthy’s readers.

Bryan H. Wildenthal
1.0 out of 5 stars This book is pseudoscientific garbage
This books is complete and utter GARBAGE and pseudoscience. The author doesn’t understand basic statistics and blatantly misuses scientific papers he relies on. Dennis McCarthy, author of widely praised articles and a book on evolution and biogeography, has demolished Vox Day’s argument in a short recent blog post. Google “Dennis McCarthy why Probability Zero is wrong evolution.”

Clearly this is some new use of the word “demolished” with which I was hitherto unfamiliar. But it’s an apt demonstration of how midwits operate. They don’t understand any of the words they use, which is why they rely upon others to do their thinking for them, then posture grandly, and confidently, with absolutely no awareness of how ridiculous they look or how insupportable their position is.

Anyhow, I’m pretty sure what happened is that some KDP employees of the “I fucking love Science” variety were informed that they were laid off and decided to strike a blow for Science while they still could. So it was SJW shenanigans after all.

By the way, after all that, 死神と悪魔 is finally available. So, if you’re one of the six people who read fluent Japanese reading this blog, you’re all set now.

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The Academy Unleashes The Gay

That certainly didn’t take long. It’s not as if they actually fooled anyone:

Fans have been wondering when the woke shoe will drop even further with Starfleet Academy, but now it’s revealed that the characters played by Gina Yashere and Tig Notaro are going to be lesbian in a new interview with the cast members.

I haven’t seen it. I’m entirely confident that I will never see it. But when someone told me that at least Starfleet Academy wasn’t pushing Pride, I told them, “yeah, give it a week or two”.

Every. Single. Time.

No worries. JDA and I have something very, very cool in the works that will be coming much, much sooner than anyone imagined.

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@voxday on X

Which classification does my @voxday account have within the X system?

@voxday account on X (formerly Twitter) appears to be suspended (or permanently banned) within the X system.This conclusion comes from historical records and references:

  • In late 2017, the account was explicitly reported as suspended by its owner (Vox Day), with X showing the message: “Your account (@voxday) is currently suspended.” No specific violating tweets were cited at the time, and appeals didn’t resolve it with explanation.
  • Recent searches for the exact handle @voxday yield no active user profile matching the well-known blogger/author Vox Day (associated with Vox Popoli blog, Castalia House, etc.). Instead, unrelated or parody/low-follower accounts with similar names/variations appear (e.g., @VoxdayItaly, @voxday1144), none of which match the prominent figure.
  • Keyword searches for recent posts from:@voxday return no results, indicating the account cannot post or is not visible/indexed.
  • Mentions of @voxday in recent posts (from late 2025 into 2026) treat it as a historical/inactive reference—e.g., people nostalgically recalling it alongside other deplatformed conservative figures like Stefan Molyneux, or noting its past “calling out” of individuals. No evidence shows it posting or being active now.

X doesn’t publicly expose detailed “classifications” for all accounts beyond visible states like:

  • Active/normal
  • Suspended (temporary or permanent ban, often for repeated rules violations like harassment, hate speech, spam, or platform manipulation under past or current policies)
  • Limited/restricted (read-only, reduced visibility, or “Twitter jail”)
  • Deboosted/shadowbanned (reduced reach, but still technically active)
  • Verified/Premium-labeled

Given the lack of any retrievable profile or posts from

@voxday itself, combined with the owner’s past reports and ongoing references to it as gone, the classification is suspended/permanently banned. This aligns with many pre-2022/Elon Musk era suspensions of controversial right-wing or alt-media accounts that weren’t reinstated.If this is your account and you’re seeing something different when logged in (e.g., limited access vs. full ban), feel free to provide more details like error messages or screenshots for further checking. Otherwise, no current public activity or profile exists under that exact handle.

Details on Vox Day’s 2017 suspension

@voxday) Twitter suspension in 2017 occurred on or around November 9, 2017 (with some references pointing to early November events). Key details from contemporary sources:

  • Announcement by Vox Day himself: On his blog (Vox Popoli), he posted titled “Another Twitter suspension” on November 9, 2017. He quoted the exact suspension notice from Twitter:
    “Your account (@voxday) is currently suspended. For more information, please visit Suspended Accounts.”
    He noted that he could still log in, view notifications, and access the account, but was unable to tweet or post anything. No specific violating tweets were identified, and Twitter’s Trust & Safety team provided no explanation or request to delete content during his appeal process.
  • Nature of the suspension: It appeared to be a temporary or read-only restriction initially (common in that era for rule violations like harassment, abuse, or spam), but it effectively became permanent or long-term, as the account never returned to active posting. No public reinstatement occurred, and the handle remains inactive/suspended to this day (as confirmed in prior checks and Wikidata records noting the end cause as “account suspension”).
  • Context and timing: This happened amid broader Twitter enforcement waves in late 2017:
    • Twitter was cracking down on abusive behavior, hate speech, and coordinated harassment.
    • In December 2017 (starting around December 18), Twitter implemented a policy update to ban accounts affiliated with hate groups or promoting violence, leading to what some on the right called the “#TwitterPurge” (suspending various far-right, alt-right, or nationalist figures/accounts).
    • While Vox Day’s suspension predates that exact December rollout by about a month, it aligned with increased scrutiny of controversial right-wing voices. Contemporary X posts from users in November/December 2017 referenced his ban as part of ongoing deplatforming of conservatives/nationalists, with some speculating mass reports or targeted complaints led to it (e.g., one user claimed a specific person “reported” him, though unverified).
  • No official detailed reason from Twitter: Twitter (pre-Musk) rarely provided public specifics for individual suspensions beyond generic policy links. Vox Day described the process as unhelpful, with no cited violations or remediation steps offered.
  • Aftermath: The suspension contributed to his shift away from Twitter as a primary platform. He continued activity via his blog, YouTube (Darkstream), and other channels. The account has stayed suspended/permanently restricted ever since, with no evidence of reinstatement even after policy changes under Elon Musk (unlike some other high-profile cases).

This fits the pattern of many 2017 suspensions for figures labeled as alt-right or controversial by critics, often without transparent explanations from the platform at the time. If you’re looking for the original blog post screenshot or more on appeals, the Vox Popoli archive from November 9, 2017, remains the primary firsthand source.

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CPB is Dead

This would have distressed me deeply as a small child. I remember begging my mother to support the local PBS phoneathon a long, long time ago. Now, all I can say is good riddance:

The non-profit charged by Congress with allocating funds to NPR, PBS and other US public radio and television stations announced it is dissolving after massive federal funding cuts under Donald Trump. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced on Monday that its board of directors had voted to dissolve the organization after nearly 60 years in operation.

Patricia Harrison, president and CEO of the CPB, said in a statement on Monday that the organization’s board of directors voted to dissolve the organization as it “faced a profound responsibility”.

She added: “CPB’s final act would be to protect the integrity of the public media system and the democratic values by dissolving, rather than allowing the organization to remain defunded and vulnerable to additional attack.”

These people and their endless self-declared victories. It’s just so tedious and tiresome. But I hope more NGOs and corporations will protect their integrity by ending themselves.

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The Hallmark of Bad Writing

Stranger Things has come to its inevitably ignominious end. But at least it left us with one epic meme.

The writing in Hollywood has never been very good, and it’s always been completely delusional. But we’re definitely reaching a new nadir, when the writers and the directors can’t even pay attention to the context of the current scene in their absolute focus on inserting their insane propaganda into their creations at the most inopportune possible moment.

It’s very much like when the director decides that the best time to go for some really gut-wrenching emotion is right in the middle of a violent combat action. For some reason, the enemy completely fails to take advantage of the fact that everyone has laid down their guns and is standing around the one member of the party who actually got hit so that they can meaningfully emote for a minute or two, before they rejoin the battle, successfully inspired by their grief and rage.

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Too Doggone Funny

One of the most self-righteous SJWs in science fiction is getting cancelled over her use of AI in writing fiction:

Perhaps the biggest possible scandal among the BlueSky crowd is the use of AI. Traditional publishing has worked itself into a frenzy over the technology tool, and people are out looking for, in many cases, literal blood from people who utilize it. Now, Mary Robinette Kowal is under fire after admitting to using the tool in her latest DEI sci-fi screed.

The world first heard of Mary Robinette Kowal as she was brought into Brandon Sanderson’s Writing Excuses podcast as a co-host. The men there wanted to virtue signal by bringing in a female with feminist leanings as a “new perspective” for their audiences. The show’s tone soon changed from fun to something different, but it propelled Mary Robinette Kowal to some prominence in the industry.

Most of Kowal’s work appeared to be romances billed as sci-fi, for which she started winning the award circuit for her outspoken feminism with the John. W Campbell award for best new writer. Her clout in the industry increased, and soon, her award nominations did as well.

Like many writers in the elites, there’s little information on how much she’s sold or what kind of readership she’s cultivated, but a string of award wins and nominations a mile long.

Eventually, she parlayed her awards into a Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) presidency, where she began the decline of the professional organization into the embattled social club it is today.

Only the old school readers will remember this, but she’s also the woman that John Scalzi confessed to not-creeping on back in the day before serving as his Vice-President. Anyhow, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with writing with AI – I’ve now completed five books with it already, including two that will be absolutely groundbreaking, plus three very high-quality translations, including from Japanese and into French.

But the SJWs hate it, mostly because even vanilla AI writes better than they do. Like every other tool, AI is going to separate the writing elite capable of mastering it and turbo-charging their work from the slow-witted hacks who wouldn’t know their Murakami from their Murakami or their Kawakami from their Kawakami.

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Banned from Facebook

I’ll admit it, it was a real surprise to discover this in my email today:

Your account has been permanently disabled

Hi Vox,

You can’t use Facebook because your account, or activity on it, didn’t follow our Community Standards.

More than 180 days have passed since your account was disabled, so you can no longer request a review.

Learn more about why we disable accounts by visiting the Community Standards.

Thanks,

The Facebook Team

This was a surprise, mostly because I stopped using Facebook around four or five years ago. I haven’t logged into it and I certainly haven’t engaged in any activity on it. But I suppose when you’re dealing with dark lords, it’s definitely best to be wary and stay well on the safe side by eliminating the very possibility that it might cross a dark lord’s mind to make use of an unsuspecting platform for dark and nefarious purposes.

I can’t blame them for taking precautions.

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Diversity Uber Alles

This is a very clear and cogent example of the way convergence eliminates an organization’s ability to perform its core functions. You might quite reasonably assume that the Python Software Foundation’s prime objective is to produce Python software. And you would be wrong.

It is also a convincing demonstration of the need to keep the SJWs very far away from an organization’s mission statement.

In January 2025, the PSF submitted a proposal to the US government National Science Foundation under the Safety, Security, and Privacy of Open Source Ecosystems program to address structural vulnerabilities in Python and PyPI. It was the PSF’s first time applying for government funding, and navigating the intensive process was a steep learning curve for our small team to climb. Seth Larson, PSF Security Developer in Residence, serving as Principal Investigator (PI) with Loren Crary, PSF Deputy Executive Director, as co-PI, led the multi-round proposal writing process as well as the months-long vetting process. We invested our time and effort because we felt the PSF’s work is a strong fit for the program and that the benefit to the community if our proposal were accepted was considerable.

We were honored when, after many months of work, our proposal was recommended for funding, particularly as only 36% of new NSF grant applicants are successful on their first attempt. We became concerned, however, when we were presented with the terms and conditions we would be required to agree to if we accepted the grant. These terms included affirming the statement that we “do not, and will not during the term of this financial assistance award, operate any programs that advance or promote DEI, or discriminatory equity ideology in violation of Federal anti-discrimination laws.” This restriction would apply not only to the security work directly funded by the grant, but to any and all activity of the PSF as a whole. Further, violation of this term gave the NSF the right to “claw back” previously approved and transferred funds. This would create a situation where money we’d already spent could be taken back, which would be an enormous, open-ended financial risk.

Diversity, equity, and inclusion are core to the PSF’s values, as committed to in our mission statement:

The mission of the Python Software Foundation is to promote, protect, and advance the Python programming language, and to support and facilitate the growth of a diverse and international community of Python programmers.

Given the value of the grant to the community and the PSF, we did our utmost to get clarity on the terms and to find a way to move forward in concert with our values. We consulted our NSF contacts and reviewed decisions made by other organizations in similar circumstances, particularly The Carpentries.

In the end, however, the PSF simply can’t agree to a statement that we won’t operate any programs that “advance or promote” diversity, equity, and inclusion, as it would be a betrayal of our mission and our community.

Note that the need “to address structural vulnerabilities in Python and PyPI” and to “promote, protect, and advance the Python programming language” both take a back seat to facilitating the growth of a diverse community.

Which is why, eventually, the only thing left to the Python Software Foundation will be the diversity and the ruins that are the inevitable consequences of social justice convergence.

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