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Literate Machine
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Literate Machine is a personal blog at literatemachine.com about politics, culture and economics. Since 2024, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Is Ground News a Psy-Op? (2026)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Literate Machine for a post on who owns Ground News and a transcript of a video on Severance and technofeudalism. One commenter called the ownership post interesting.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Is Ground News a Psy-Op? (2026)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-08-25
What Hacker News says?
Is it tho? Or is it a ploy from mostly republican-connected investors to legitamize less trustworthy right wing news sources? You can decide for yourself, but I did think this post on its ownership was interesting. https://literatemachine.com/2026/08/16/is-ground-news-a-righ...
Comment linking /2026/08/16/is-ground-news-a-right-wing-psy-op/
on “Iran’s precision strikes picked apart Gulf infrastructure, blunting US war plans”Submitted Is Ground News a Psy-Op? (2026) as a story · 6 points
HN discussionA transcript of this video can be found here: https://literatemachine.com/2024/06/25/how-capitalism-become...
Comment linking /2024/06/25/how-capitalism-becomes-feudalism-severance-and-technofuedalism/
on “Severance and Technofeudalism [video]”