CIA

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CIA is a recurring organization in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 23 times across 23 issues between April 30, 2021 and September 19, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “Clapp’s CIA file, on the other hand, is an unfortunate victim of the Cold War mania”; “The woke stranglehold on corporations, governments, and now the CIA is stronger than ever”; “the CIA has decided that the C stands for Cringe”. It most often appears alongside Twitter, US, America.

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Category: Organizations
Mention count: 23
Issue count: 23
First seen: April 30, 2021
Last seen: September 19, 2025

Appears In

- Twitter (9 shared issues)
- US (9 shared issues)
- America (8 shared issues)
- Trump (8 shared issues)
- Ukraine (8 shared issues)
- United States (8 shared issues)
- Russia (7 shared issues)
- Obama (6 shared issues)
- Putin (6 shared issues)
- Elon Musk (5 shared issues)
- facebook (5 shared issues)
- FBI (5 shared issues)

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

Your Book Review: Double Fold

April 30, 2021 · Original source

All Clapp’s notes are on paper, easily read today. Clapp’s CIA file, on the other hand, is an unfortunate victim of the Cold War mania for micro-preservation: it looks to have been inexpertly filmed at some point, and it has undergone a severe fading, as microfilm does when technicians don’t take care to rinse off the hypo fixative. The copy that the CIA sent me is poignantly stamped with the words BEST COPY AVAILABLE on almost every undecipherable page. Some of these pages are, though uncensored, completely unreadable.

The Rise And Fall Of Online Culture Wars

May 10, 2021 · Original source

...e less obvious. After the George Floyd protests, all Google Trends about race shot up, and haven’t fully returned back to their pre-protest trend even now, a year later. The woke stranglehold on corporations, governments, and now the CIA is stronger than ever. And also, New Socialism is looking less and less like an up-and-coming dragon-slayer. It’s hard to track the Google Trend because of the bumps from the Bernie campaign,...

Highlights From The Comments On Culture Wars

May 18, 2021 · Original source

As an academic, I'm worried about campus in particular, and things like this are making me sit on suitcases. It's not like academia is otherwise in good shape: what is the last innovation you can attribute to a university? (My previous one recently got into the news for pushing badly concealed security holes into Linux, for science of course.) No one believes in journalism any more (the opinion columns have moved to Substack, but that's the easy part); the FDA and the CDC have become laughing stocks; the CIA has decided that the C stands for Cringe (I know, a lot of you never trusted it in the first place, but quite a few people in the Russian intelligentsia were hoping for some institutional support); the kayfabe of American elections has been shattered (arguably a bipartisan success). If 10 years from now, the cool kids decide that black lives don't actually matter lol, the damage from years of authoritarian praxis won't magically disappear. The based right wing winning the conversation won't automatically fix our democratic institutions either, at least not by intention.

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The Unbearable Semiheaviness Of Being

September 09, 2021 · Original source

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The Passage Of Polymarket

February 07, 2022 · Original source

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Book Review: Sadly, Porn

February 16, 2022 · Original source

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Ukraine Thoughts And Links

March 08, 2022 · Original source