                              digest for July 2026

   new on starbreaker.org this month

   published on Friday, 31 July 2026

   This text was dumped from starbreaker.org/news/digest-2026-07.html with lynx.

   Hello, Occasional Reader. If you’ve been here before, please indulge me
   as I introduce myself for the benefit of first-time visitors.

Welcome to starbreaker.org

   I’m Matthew Cambion, the Jungian shadow of a GenX techie from New York.
   Since i only exist in the Wired, my name is a pseudonym. I’m a
   metalhead, a novelist who is out of print, a full-stack thaumaturge,
   and the operator of starbreaker.org.

   This website is my grimoire, a monument to my ego, my personal digital
   samizdat, and a sacrament of defiance. It is a ritual space for a
   Left-Hand Path sysadmin. If you are used to the mainstream, gentrified
   internet you might want to put aside your expectations lest I delight
   in trampling them.

   If you like what I’m doing, keep your money. I would rather you emailed
   me after you’ve built your own website. You deserve better than social
   media. A personal website may be the one place where you can be wholly
   sovereign.

Letter from the Editor

   When I first set about redesigning starbreaker.org I thought I would
   make the latest post the front page. I have a shell script that makes
   doing so easy. However, that might not be so convenient for you.

   So this page is an experiment of sorts. I mean to create a new digest
   at the beginning of each month, link it to the front page, and add to
   it throughout the month. This will let you see what new material I’ve
   added over the course of the month, as well as material I’ve restored
   from my archives.

   While I had mentioned in my Infocide; or, resetting starbreaker.org in
   2026 that I was hitting the reset button, that doesn’t that I’ve
   utterly destroyed my old material. I merely built from zero in a new
   git repository and published from there. So, as time and inclination
   permits, I will restore old material from those repositories here, with
   revisions and markup fixes as needed.

   At the end of the month, the following will happen:
     * I will add the monthly “Operator’s Note”.
     * I will make this digest part of the ‘everything’ and ‘news’ feeds.

   I am also thinking of using this monthly digest as the basis for a
   monthly email newsletter. I will of course host it on Buttondown, and
   not Substack. I would rather pay a flat monthly fee that scales with my
   subscriber count than 10% of my gross. And I refuse to share a platform
   with the likes of Richard Spencer and the other TERFs, neo-Nazis, and
   scientific racists that Substack not only hosts, but monetizes for
   profit.

   Ahem. Sorry about that. I get just a bit stabby when it comes to those
   people. I know I should ask, "What would Jesus do?". But instead I find
   myself asking, "What would Hugo Stiglitz do?"
   preview image for YouTube video ID p2MWW2SpmOs YouTube: Hugo Stiglitz’s
   introduction from Inglourious Basterds (2009)

   At the very least, he’d punch a fucking Nazi.
   preview image for YouTube video ID aFh08JEKDYk YouTube: how to deal
   with neo-Nazis in America when the media mistakes them for people with
   valid opinions

   Yes, I know. Violence is never the answer. It does not prove one’s
   point. It convinces nobody that one’s cause is just. But seeing this
   asshole get decked gives me life, albeit tenebrous life.

   Nevertheless, I have come to think that if the only way to deal with
   Nazis is to kill them, we have failed as a society. Fascism is a
   disease, and I would see it as thoroughly eradicated as smallpox. We
   can’t do that by punching Nazis piecemeal, or stabbing them, or
   clubbing them into the ground, or shooting them. Fascism is a public
   health issue, and if we want to deal with it properly a preventative
   approach is needed. We need to deal with the socioeconomic issues that
   make fascism attractive in the first place. But that doesn’t make good
   television, let alone viral video.

   But aren’t here for policy wonkery from a metalhead who codes for a
   living, right? Here are some albums I’ve been into lately:
     * Art of Life by X Japan
     * My Restless Temple by Alicia Cordisco
     * Ghosts of Europa by Mortiis
     * Steps Into Shadow by GOLD SPIRE
     * Air Not Meant For Us by Fires in the Distance

   Oh, and here’s is your monthly reminder that starbreaker.org is
   inherently NSFW, a summery seaside scene.
   a post-impressionist oil painting of the artist’s wife Jeanne au rocher
   (Cavalière), 1906, oil on canvas by Henri Manguin (public domain) You
   should see what I’m saving up for Halloween... 😺

   And I’ve got some delightful stuff bookmarked for Pride Month next
   year. 🏳️‍🌈

   ⸻

   with love ❤️‍🔥 and defiance 🤘 from Matthew Cambion on Friday, 31 July
   2026

   in nomine meo, amen
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New on starbreaker.org

   CAPTION: grimoire entries for July 2026

   date title text/html text/plain
   2026-07-01 Infocide; or, resetting starbreaker.org in 2026
   /news/reset-2026.html /news/reset-2026.txt
   2026-07-04 An Idea of America /opinions/an-idea-of-america.html
   /opinions/an-idea-of-america.txt
   2026-07-31 digest for July 2026 /news/digest-2026-07.html
   /news/digest-2026-07.txt

   CAPTION: pages added in July 2026

      date           title              text/html           text/plain
   2026-07-01 site news            /news/index.html     /news/index.txt
   2026-07-04 opinions             /opinions/index.html /opinions/index.txt
   2026-07-05 POSSE                /posse.html          /posse.txt
   2026-07-06 personal             /personal/index.html /personal/index.txt
   2026-07-09 testament            /testament.html      /testament.txt
   2026-07-09 why starbreaker.org? /why.html            /why.txt
   2026-07-09 dedication           /dedication.html     /dedication.txt

   CAPTION: restored from the archives in July 2026

      date       title            text/html          text/plain
   2026-01-30 Art of Life /personal/art-of-life.html
   /personal/art-of-life.txt

   starbreaker.org was made with love ❤️‍🔥, defiance 🖕, and Free Software
   in Tanelorn.
   The source code and raw text are publicly available on Sourcehut.
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   Republic of Vinnland. (Vinnland flag designed by Peter Steele of Type O
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   No LLMs were used to create this website. My consent to use this
   website as training data for LLMs is hereby denied.
   starbreaker.org is © 1996-2026 Matthew Thomas Cambion, and is available
   under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0.

   love metal 🤘 — hate fascism 👊
   death to rapists and rape culture 💀
   trans rights are individual rights 🏳️‍⚧️
   antifascist action is not terrorism, but leaderless resistance to state
   terror 🏴
   if a purchase doesn’t confer ownership, then downloading digital media
   isn’t theft 🏴‍☠️
   the United States of America 🇺🇸 was founded in defiance and is thus a
   Satanic nation 😈

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   It is likewise unsuitable for unsupervised children under 13 years of
   age.
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   They are not representative of his exploiters’ viewpoints or those of
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   intertextual violence, crime of literary shock — in nomine meo, amen
