Judging by past history and some of the replies here, you have it quite right.
Here’s another example: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4025211/posts
It would be amusing were it not causing unfounded distress to people, frightening them unnecessarily.
Yeah I saw that piece earlier. Kirsch is a Silicon Valley money guy and like many of the clowns from SV imagines that wealth has magically granted him expertise in unrelated fields. There’s a few writers at Substack posting good work, he’s not one of them.