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a_real_society’s Substack
Personal blog · arealsociety.substack.compoliticsculture
a_real_society’s Substack is a personal blog at arealsociety.substack.com about politics and culture. Since 2025, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “The Dead Planet Theory”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-22, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
One commenter links a_real_society's Dead Planet Theory post in a Dead Internet Theory thread, saying the idea stuck in their head. The post argues about the planet itself being dead.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
I write firsthand accounts of how institutions work, how people get things done, and what those choices cost.
Most-linked posts?
- The Dead Planet Theory2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-03-05
What Hacker News says?
semi relatedly i stumbled upon Dead Planet Theory a while back and it stasy rent free in my head. https://arealsociety.substack.com/p/the-dead-planet-theory
Comment linking /p/the-dead-planet-theory
on “Dead Internet Theory”Submitted The Dead Planet Theory as a story · 125 points
HN discussionSubmitted Privateers Reborn: Cyber Letters of Marque as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Universities Are Making You Look Stupid as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mediocrity Delenda Est as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Sort as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted You Can Just Take Things: Cyber Letters of Marque as a story · 1 points
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