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				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 26, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The US Department of Education just posted Malfoid slop:

"There's Magic in Learning"


https://x.com/usedgov/status/2115069815505203483


Or rather, there is Magic in Yearning, Make Romance Great Again, am I right? …


Two weeks ago @KingOfTheBailey had an excellent post about the trend:


https://www.themotte.org/post/3960/culture-war-roundup-for-the-week/486219




The result has been a lot of chaotic glee that Harry Potter is up for recapture and reinterpretation.  … The chuds are rediscovering fanfiction from first principles, using it to poke sticks in eyes or roll back some of the idiocy of the past few years, and they're doing a lot of it with AI. … It is extremely interesting to me that there seems to be very little goonbait in the Malfoid stuff I've seen,




I want to note three things two weeks later:


    

  1. The lack of explicit sex seems to hold
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  2. I don't see explicitly an agenda pushed (the US government co-opting the meme and make it unpalatable for leftist demographics could change that), instead I see a collaborative goal to change as few things in the canon as possible and the pieces just kind of fall neatly into place. It is a male-brained analysis of a system (the HP canon) and what little screw to exchange in a running motor; for example if the plot point is still happening that Harry Potter is badly hurting Dracina with the Sectumsempra curse (plus the question if she keeps scars from that) is argued about emotional impact and character motivation, but not from making a larger point in the gender war.
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Original:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=L5g-17uLO90


AI Anime versions:

Kind of sloppy but neat:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=g6jjXAASi_Q
Better animated, but very Korean:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=4mkZ8jEYySo


    

  1. It is very visual. My stereotype is that teenage nerd girls write/read tons of fanfiction (literature), but teenage nerd boys watch lots of anime, so that makes sense? Beside written scenes there is a pipeline of (Asian) illustrations -> (Asian/Western) AI cinematics
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For example this illustration of Dracina casting a peacock as patronum is just visually impressive:


https://x.com/CaboVT/status/2106491934818853274


And was then canonized in this AI Battle of Hogwarts scene:


https://youtube.com/watch?v=Y6tAajsc9PY


And then discussed how a (male) peacock can sort of make sense as a representation of Harry for Dracina.


Then there was first an illustration of Harry/Dracina fighting Voldemort together with the same wand:


https://x.com/Aurondarklord/status/2106975585507418609




My favorite thing about Malfoid is watching the internet collectively decide on, and then stick to, the canon of her alternate universe. Like at this point EVERYONE agrees that this "both of them holding one wand" visual is how they kill Voldemort.  EVERY version of the final battle in her timeline uses it. It's a genuinely heartwarming exercise in organic, viral cooperation.




Which sparked this AI scene:


https://youtube.com/watch?v=VgfNf79t3oo




I don't care it's AI, this shit is like finding diamonds in a coal mine.






What I love about this trend is that regardless of which path the story takes, the fandom unilaterally agrees that the final battle ends with Potter and Malfoid holding the wand together.




I don't care how cheesy or juvenile or klischee it is; narratively it just makes sense: Draco is the rightful owner of the Elder Wand, we have the redemption arc of Slytherin and Voldemort is defeated (again) by the power of love. Could this not be done with a male Draco? Why not a good old fashioned friendship? One argument I read was that women often see rivalry as sexual dominance (e.g. the gay romance in Heated Rivalry) and so Rowling couldn't work out an honorable defeat/submission of Draco to Harry. So a Harrys + Dracos male friendship would actually need a more extensive rewrite than a female tsundere Dracina being in love.


Anyway, now that the US government involved (Hello fellow kids!), doesn't that mean the ship is sailed and the trend run its course into being old and uncool?


Not necessary, I want to officially register my prediction that with the start of the HBO series (December 25, 2026 (Christmas Day)) AI is good enough (or will be good enough in coming years) to replace Draco scenes with reimagined Dracina scenes. There will be alternative Malfoid-episodes which can be torrented.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for October 25, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


woman doing manly industrial work while still looking pretty and feminine enough to be worth defending, but the Nazis don't.




I found this:


https://old.reddit.com/r/PropagandaPosters/comments/141j58h/women_working_for_you_nazi_germany_1943_these_are/


And this:


https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O120963/wir-frauen-kennen-unsere-pflicht-poster-morocutti-ottokar/


Pretty similar women worker propaganda.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 19, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
What is Mother of Learning and what makes it good? I skimmed the internet and it is about a young wizard on a wizard school (inspired by HP?)


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 19, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Though in real life women talk with women more about other women than about men


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for October 16, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Slavoj Zizek on receiving his N-Word Pass and solving the Israel-Palestinian conflict:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=zkvw6BUgU0I


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Yudkowsky is not impressed though:


https://x.com/alltheyud/status/2110853001749594363?s=46




This stage of progress is like:  "We're gonna pry the panel off this machine and look inside.  Whoops, our screwdriver just broke off in our hand.  (Years later.)  AWESOME NEWS THE SCREWDRIVER IS REPAIRED NOW."




Best to go one quote posts to see his replies to Anthropic researchers


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


KillTony (I mean criticized by left media)




I sm bot familiar with it. It is a Podcast/YT show? Why is it criticized?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 5, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Reasoning from fiction about the real world is a fallacy (imaginary map vs real territory?), and science fiction says more about the time it was created as the depicted future. Old scifi imagined any household chores done by robots, but they couldn't imagine that the washing machine freed women from being housewives and the coming waves of feminism. In 60s StarTrek they couldn't get female commanding officers as women in the test viewership hated the bossy actress, in 90s Star Trek there were no gay people (not to mention transgender), and Picard was bald. In a real future with Star Trek like tech everyone will have fantastic hair and some otherkin/wolfkin will use transporter tech to degenerate themselves to furry-hybrids. And the holodeck itself is a can of worms...


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 5, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Someone on hacker news had for the last 20 years a specific problem in graph theory (Barnette's conjecture) and tried to understand the proof (and tried to translate it for non-math people) and was astonished that it used multiple esoteric "symbolic tricks borrowed from theoretical physics". He used Anthropics Fable to understand the OpenAI proof and first thought Fable was hallucinating techno-babble:


https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49988654




Forgive me for posting LLM output but I find this darkly hilarious:






"it's a matrix-tree cancellation wearing Kasteleyn's planar signs, run as a Witten index over Penrose-lineage states, evaluated as a fugacity-zero loop gas in an infinitesimal magnetic field — and the reason it reads like physics is that every one of those tools was built for partition functions"






I thought this was pure slop when I read it but there are some clear analogues in these other areas of physics, really neat computational tricks, and a very interesting paper by Penrose calculating Tait colorings I never knew about previously




So at least this proof (and at least to some guy on hn) this proof were not from the LLM digesting prior art papers on this problem or general graph theory, but from "the entire corpus of neat computational tricks that physicists derived to make their equations spit out something other than zero or infinity". Which makes it very unlikely a human could have thought of it, as few graph theorists are familiar with infinitesimal magnetic fields (and vice versa).


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Healthy Communities Post-"Closure of the Internet"
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


I just found this place on an idle lurk through /r/slatestarcodex. As far as I can tell, it's a surviving remnant of the more iconoclastic elements of the rationalist/postrat/lesswrong sphere




There is also the anagram offshoot datasecretslox:


https://www.datasecretslox.com/index.php


It looms more oldschool in the bboard aesthetic (which I like), but is a bit wider on topics.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 5, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Based on the multiple text messages




Is there a neutral source giving an overview? News articles only summarize it and social media is piece by piece.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 5, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Canada, intentionally exclude those as exculpatory evidence




I wouldn't have guessed that. With what explanation? Was there a recent case around that?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 28, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
For some reason no 8 hours, they will deorbit early, so only another 30 minutes from now to coast in space.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 21, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I don't have strong opinions. But people think Tommy Robinson is a fascist, so DHH going on his march is guilty too.


https://brennan.day/normalized-fascism-in-open-source-12-million-given-to-dhh/


DHH also made a post equating Roma with growing wolve population in Denmark.


"When wolves get out of control, you shoot them. When gypsies take over public spaces, you deport them."


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 21, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Marching with Tommy Robinson:

https://world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-remember-london-e7d38e64


Against DHH:

https://paulbjensen.com/blog/2025/09/17/on-dhhs-as-i-remember-london/


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 21, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Metafilter is still kicking around? I googled the thread and was surprised about the many maskers still around. Though one notices:




Strangely, several of the very covid-cautious places I've frequented relaxed their mask policy because the vibe was that the most assiduous maskers were white middle class people and that requiring masks for all was alienating others.




				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 21, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
At current (though quite high) market value that would be around $20 million per Greenlander.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 21, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Hm. You could argue a similar version about zoonosis.


Not only should the world force China with sanctions to forbid wet markets, the west should move away from poultry to prevent the next bird flu dangerous to humans. In fact to lower (eliminate!) risk of zoonosis we must embrace veganism! Instead I encounter that only as a minor talking point in vegan activism (if at all).


It is true though:


https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8319869/




The production, distribution and consumption of animal-based products (such as meat, dairy and eggs) is a major risk for zoonotic transmission. Therefore, our perspective is that promoting sustainability, particularly by reducing unsustainable animal-based consumption, must be part of the broader response to reduce the risk of future pandemics.




Instead people shrug. Eh, nothing to be done by Asians eating crazy animals. And vegans much rather want to talk about other stuff like ethics.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 21, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Crazy that Yud wrote them almost 20 years ago


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 7, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Wait, this is the active yt channel of the last psychiatrist?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 7, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


The house is literally on Zillow.




I wonder what the discount (premium?) on a murder house is.


But yes, the window to the lawn was her way for suicide? As a nurse she surely could have gotten something to inject or why not some old fashioned hanging.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for September 13, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Suppose demons exist. What is the catholic or orthodox stand regarding legal/moral responsibility for actions done when possessed by a demon? (Of course I am asking because of the current very prominent case of a mother being commanded by a voice for 18 minutes to murder, but the question can be generalized)


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 31, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Btw he has a youtube channel:


https://youtube.com/watch?v=q1UfDHij5R4


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 13, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
And he isnt even the father!


The child is from his good looking trophy husband (who I presume nagged Spahn until he got his child wish fulfilled). „Cuckold“ is not used for homosexual pairings, but by definition this is for what Spahn sacrificed his political career.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 22, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
What a lovely channel!