Kanye West
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Kanye West is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between December 28, 2022 and February 03, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “while continuing to stigmatize … Kanye West acting paranoid and crazy”; “Did you hear about Kanye West’s depressive phases?”; “Kanye West has announced interest in building his own charter city in the Middle East”. It most often appears alongside California, China, City Journal.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 3
- Issue count: 3
- First seen: December 28, 2022
- Last seen: February 03, 2025
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- California (3 shared issues)
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- China (3 shared issues)
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- City Journal (2 shared issues)
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- Devon Zuegel (2 shared issues)
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- Elon (2 shared issues)
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- Mastodon (2 shared issues)
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- SAT (2 shared issues)
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- Scott (2 shared issues)
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- The Silmarillion (2 shared issues)
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- Thiel (2 shared issues)
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- Trump (2 shared issues)
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- Twitter (2 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.
21: Freddie deBoer: The Incoherence And Cruelty Of Mental Illness As Meme. Argues that modern mental illness discourse claims to be “destigmatizing mental illness” by restricting the category only to attractive successful people who do not have serious mental illness, while continuing to stigmatize (and even dialing up the stigmatization) on people with actual mental illness. IE we need to support the tech company employee who says she has mild autism because she doesn’t like loud social situations, but mental illness “can’t be used as an excuse” for Kanye West acting paranoid and crazy, apparently because there are some people with mental illness who do not act paranoid and crazy in that particular way.
Inline links: The Incoherence And Cruelty Of Mental Illness As Meme
Did you hear about Kanye West's depressive phases? I take it you did not, or you would have responded 'yes, I totally knew Kanye was bipolar before he announced his diagnosis, thereby showing I can in fact detect celebrity bipolarity before they are publicly revealed and thus it is meaningful that I don't detect it for Musk'. How would you know?
Unlike the manic phase where Kanye is ranting about world jewry and overruling his PR handlers, during the depressive phase, they do... nothing. That's kinda the point. They have PR handlers and buffers of stuff in the pipeline and the ability to make news by tweeting something dumb which takes 5 seconds and even a depressive can manage that much effort. From the outside, celebrities go dark all the time. They're on vacation, or they're heads down working on a secret project, or they're buffering news, or there's just Poisson clumping in what's going on, or news about them happens to not go viral. Or... they're depressed. Regardless of the cause, 'out of sight, out of mind.' You don't notice what you don't notice.
4: Kanye West has announced interest in building his own charter city in the Middle East. I was about to object “…but didn’t he get cancelled for anti-Semitism?” which would have been the dumbest sentence in ACX history. Really, Scott? You can’t run a vaguely statelike organization in the Middle East if you’re too anti-Semitic? I don’t know why any of you still take me seriously.
Inline links: building his own charter city in the Middle East