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Sam Kriss
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Sam Kriss writes Idiot Joy Showland, a personal blog at samkriss.com about philosophy, politics and culture. Since 2017, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Neil deGrasse Tyson: pedantry in space (2016)”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Sam Kriss's essays and stories on politics, culture, science communication on social media and tech, often as a point of reference for their own arguments.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
This is why I hate intellectuals
Most-linked posts?
- Neil deGrasse Tyson: pedantry in space (2016)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-05-28
What Hacker News says?
My feelings have been similar to yours, but I've ended up in the same place as Sam Kriss: https://samkriss.com/2017/04/24/corbynism-or-barbarism-part-...
Comment linking /2017/04/24/corbynism-or-barbarism-part-ii/
on “UK government irate at Twitter’s surveillance API crackdown”Submitted Philosophy for the Weak as a story · 2 points
HN discussionA bit of a tangent, but this excerpt from a Sam Kriss rant about science content on social media always stuck with me: Those multicoloured nebulae are not real objects, they exist only in fantastic pictures overlaid with Neil deGrasse Tyson’s face and some vague sentiments about how wonderful the universe is when it’s very far away from human life. The images are digitally stitched together, the colours are fake, th…
Comment linking /2016/03/14/neil-degrasse-tyson-pedantry-in-space/
on “Are the Colors in Astronomical Images 'Real'?”Submitted Neil deGrasse Tyson: pedantry in space (2016) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionWhy would you want to write fiction with language models? Serious question. What you would become, in effect, is the fictional Soviet 'writer' from Sam Kriss' 2011 short story 'The Machine'. https://samkriss.com/2011/10/01/the-machine/ I do not think there is anything to aspire to in that.
Comment linking /2011/10/01/the-machine/
on “Show HN: 1667, a terminal UI for writing fiction with language models”One of the best writers of our generation. There’s no better deconstruction of UK lad culture than this: https://samkriss.com/2015/05/20/cheeky-nandos-or-what-wet-wr... .
Comment linking /2015/05/20/cheeky-nandos-or-what-wet-wrong/
on “Child's Play: Tech's new generation and the end of thinking”