The Modern Hermit: Roasts and Sense Checks
RM, author and modern hermit
A quiet corner of the web for film roasts, streaming nonsense, tech hype, and reality checks on modern life.
Latest Roasts
- Can You Read? Workplace Racism In The Manager’s Sunday Suit
A sharp sense check on workplace racism, management silence and the company handbook that smiles while dignity gets kicked under the office desk today. - Britain: Old Empire, New Chaos and Integrity on Life SupportBritain keeps the crown polished while politics drops integrity in the gutter: a roast of Starmer, Mandelson, empire nostalgia and Westminster fogginess.
- The Feed Is Filling Up With People Who Were Never There
AI impersonation accounts are flooding feeds faster than rules can catch up, leaving real creators to compete with synthetic charm and industrial-scale fakery. - AI Is Not the Villain. The Profit Model Behind It Is BrokenPeople do not hate AI for existing. They hate a profit model that automates work, hoards the gains, and leaves workers holding the economic grenade alone.
- Super Mario Galaxy and Cinema’s Premium-Format Fossil ClubA roast of Super Mario Galaxy that really targets cinemas still fencing IMAX off as a luxury while thin spectacle cashes in on premium screens today.
- Fifty Years of Towels, Still Dry on Pay, Respect and Dignity
A fact-led roast of anniversary theatre: towels, slogans and “people first” talk, while pay, dignity and working conditions do the real work. - Democracy for the Passport, Strongmen for the HeadspaceA roast of the absurd habit of taking the wages and freedoms of democracy while still making excuses for the strongmen, censorship and fear left behind.
- When Certainty Hunts the Vulnerable and Calls It WisdomA fact-led roast of how religion, ideology and even science theatre sell certainty to insecure people while power launders inequality as holy destiny.
- Algorithmic AI Wants a Soul, Quantum Wants a Fair ChanceA dry roast of AI hype: scale and inference time sharpen algorithmic performance, but natural intelligence may still need a different substrate entirely.
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