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Russian Bill to Block Western Social Media
•�December 13, 2020
•�600 Words •�40 Comments
Russian Duma to consider law on blocking foreign social media that censor the free speech of Russian citizens: Blogging about this a bit late - it was introduced three weeks ago - but this is partially Even though I have long conclusively confirmed that PUTLER reads my blog, he is still a boomer at heart,... Read More
Putin Reads Blog? Russia to Rein In Jack & Zuck?
•�October 2, 2020
•�400 Words •�143 Comments
RT: Could they be blocked? Russia refuses to grant extension to Facebook & Twitter over demand to store citizens’ data inside country In related news: (1) Twitter has gone from labeling Russian (and Chinese) state news channels "state affiliated media" (while failing to extend the same standards to Western state-owned outlets such as RFERL, or... Read More
Russia Needs to Block Western Subversion Networks
•�June 24, 2020
•�400 Words •�77 Comments
Soon after my shadowbanning on Twitter, I made some comments on this issue to Artyom Alexandrov, a journalist for a Russian news website: As I also told the journalist, Russia doesn't have any principled position on Internet freedom of speech - Roskomnadzor already blocks bookmakers (including predictions markets like PredictIt), some political websites (mostly nationalist),... Read More
Dream of the Civic Chamber
•�March 15, 2019
•�400 Words •�11 Comments
A couple of weeks ago I was invited to the Civic Chamber of Russia in my capacity as a blogger person to give my Very Important Opinions on a draft law being considered by some United Russia deputies to create "cyber militia" tasked with identifying and reporting illegal/extremist content on the Internet. I obviously consider... Read More
Open Thread: Snowcrash (Expanded Edition)
•�October 29, 2017
•�300 Words •�5 Comments
Spanish Occupation Government strikes back! So as you're probably aware, The Unz Review had a prolonged server crash. The data was unrecoverable, so Ron had to revert to an earlier backup, losing about a day's worth of comments. Apologies about that, but really, it's GoDaddy's fault. None of us are very happy with them. One... Read More
Top 23 HBD Sites of 2015
•�September 28, 2015
•�100 Words •�13 Comments
Via Pumpkin Person, a rising star in the HBDsphere: (1) Unz has overtaken Taki. (2) The author (Pumpkin Person) would be in the top 23 if his current blog and old blog Brain Size were to be put together. (3) I am very surprised that my old blog continues to get a lot of hits,... Read More
The Social Thaw: Change in Facebook Policy
•�July 14, 2013
•�200 Words
My response to Snowdengate, the new Graph Search, its inevitable integration with Google Glass? I will be minimizing my privacy settings and for all intents and purposes making my Facebook public. So good ahead, look up my profile. Friend me. Whatever. I don't mind. Sounds counter-intuitive, huh? There's a logic behind the madness. It's now... Read More
Russia Is Now an Internet Society
•�May 21, 2013
•�300 Words
The Russian Spectrum presents the results of Levada, FOM, and VCIOM polls over the past dozen years showing the rapid digitization of Russian society. The three questions used were all similar: "Do you use the Internet, and if so how frequently?" Also in the latest Levada poll: "Do you use the Internet, and if so... Read More
Delving Into Bitcoins and the Deep Web
•�April 19, 2013
•�2,100 Words •�1 Comment
Several days ago, the USD/BTC exchange rate soared to dizzying heights, reaching almost $250 for one unit of the virtual, decentralized currency. Then it crashed to $55. But since then, it has gone back up to $100. I'd heard of them before, but I had assumed it was some sort of pyramid, and that the... Read More
Why de-Russification Isn't On the Cards
•�April 3, 2013
•�1,100 Words •�37 Comments
My post last week on the increasing visibility of the Russian language on the Internet provoked a heated counter-attack from commentator Ildar Adi, who asserted (without much in the way of proof) that it is actually in significant retreat in Europe, the Near Abroad, and even Russia itself. He believes that whereas there were almost... Read More
Russian Is the Internet's Second Most Popular Language
•�March 27, 2013
•�200 Words •�43 Comments
In the wake of Russia's Internet penetration breaking the 50% mark (now - 55%) and overtaking Germany in total number of users last year, we now have news that Russian overtook German as its second most popular language. It is used on 5.9% of all the world's websites. It is projected that Russia will maintain... Read More
US-Russia.Org, New Site for Russia Watchers
•�September 22, 2012
•�200 Words •�1 Comment
It's been a few months in the building, since the decision to launch it at the WRF 2012, and I feel it is now developed enough to make it more widely known. I hope it will become as prominent as the current best specialized English-language Russian politics resource on the Internet, Russia: Other Points of... Read More
What Is the Point of Articles Like These?
•�September 5, 2012
•�300 Words •�3 Comments
Mashable tells students about 12 things they should never do in social media. By now this doesn't apply to me, as between my non-anonymous Russophilia, HBD-ing, gaming, and AGW-ing I've long ostracized myself from both liberals and conservatives and torpedoed myself any hopes of "respectable" employment anyway. I do however wonder about the point of... Read More
Russia Is Now An Internet Society
•�September 3, 2012
•�300 Words •�3 Comments
One of the most common arguments made to explain why Russians don't finally overthrow the evil Putin in a bloody bunt is that they are brainwashed by the regime's TV propaganda stations. This isn't actually very accurate at all. Russian TV isn't any more propagandistic than in the West, and on some issues, less so;... Read More
Measuring Churov's Beard: the Mathematics of Russian Election Fraud
•�December 26, 2011
•�6,100 Words •�29 Comments
In the aftermath of the 2011 Duma elections, the Russian blogosphere was abuzz with allegations of electoral fraud. Many of these were anecdotal or purely rhetorical in nature; some were more concrete, but variegated or ambiguous. A prime example of these were opinion polls and exit polls, which variably supported and contradicted the Kremlin's claims... Read More
The Top 10 Russia Blogs In 2011
•�April 15, 2011
•�2,100 Words •�16 Comments
So it's that time of year again... when I update the list of awesomest Russia blogs. But first, let's have your voice. Let it never be said that S/O doesn't support democracy! [AK Edit: Regrettably, all opinion polls didn't survive the transition] Now on to the real rankings. ;) As before, inclusion depends on the... Read More
A Short Guide to Lifestyle Design (LSD): the 7 Core Skills of the Cyberpunk Survivalist
•�February 26, 2011
•�2,000 Words •�11 Comments
If we want to optimize life, we must first start from our projections of what the world is going to look in the years ahead. Generally speaking, it is coming to resemble something out of a cyberpunk sci-fi setting, i.e. "low life, high tech"; a world of instant communications, global markets, fewer resources and growing... Read More
Trolling the Liberasts About Khodorkovsky
•�November 3, 2010
•�2,300 Words •�19 Comments
I can't be bothered writing a serious post on the recent Khodorkovsky news (prosecution seeks 14 year sentence, he makes a speech that would be awe-inspiring if it had any truth to it, etc). (Not as if I have anything more to add anyway). I think an account of how I trolled the liberasts would... Read More
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Anatoly Karlin
About Anatoly Karlin

I am a blogger, thinker, and businessman in the SF Bay Area. I’m originally from Russia, spent many years in Britain, and studied at U.C. Berkeley.

One of my tenets is that ideologies tend to suck. As such, I hesitate about attaching labels to myself. That said, if it’s really necessary, I suppose “liberal-conservative neoreactionary” would be close enough.

Though I consider myself part of the Orthodox Church, my philosophy and spiritual views are more influenced by digital physics, Gnosticism, and Russian cosmism than anything specifically Judeo-Christian.