hey! Former researcher at Cornell on GMOs and pesticides here, now I write fiction instead. all "hard science" departments lose money and most humanities/"soft science" departments make money. it is an open secret in academia that the humanities cover the shortfall for our scientist colleagues

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act will devastate the New york bodega business. The tax cuts are nice, but the cost-push inflation isn't

this is so powerful

rest in peace to the worm in robert f kennedy's brain, you would have loved second novel kanojo no natsu, 15-fun no kioku

"YIMBY mixed-use he/him" bitch you attended a 90k/year private high school and live in a "hipster" part of town that used to be am immigrant community until a highway razed half the land using redlining and now you can walk to whole foods from your 2 million dollar condo with social justice shirts

"Oh nooo, the NYT Opinion pub trivia group and Yale's Endowed Chair of Smug Centrism aren't coming over here, what will we do?" Thank fuck, lock yourselves in the Nazi bar, I hope it burns down with you inside.

you dont know how much this shit means to me

After a long search, uncertain that it even existed, I finally located the CD-ROM TRIPITAKA 玄奘三蔵求法の旅, the elusive sequel to the legendary Cosmology of Kyoto. Here is the ISO for your emulational pleasure. archive.org/details/trip...

writing an alt lit vn parody of tao lin's richard yates called "richard rusczyk" about a trans girl getting groomed on the aops forums

was looking at rice commodity prices and went "thank god I don't live in japan anymore" before remembering I paid 10 dollars for a carton of eggs two months ago

holy shit my japanese language ability has become completely shot, 8 yrs living in america has destroyed my brain

most nimby leftist "death to the anthropocene" types are one francis parker yockey book away from donning a muv luv black sun pfp

a thousand bowls of oatmeal???? sounds delicious

remember when ppl were hating on the ejmr paper

something tells me he probably shouldn't have eaten that seven eleven taco

but i don't think you can have a society filled with valerie solanases without personal experience informing that vitriol again it's something close to gender apartheid, but gender and race are different, i don't know how to explain why, but this isn't generalizable

I want to get better out of programming and math not out of any practical reason but bc I don't want to feel compeltely ostracized when all my friends start talking about it

I want to own a beehive one day

a year into visual novel retirement. been getting into bread lately.

my parents bought 7 of these giant teddy bears for 10 dollars each from target during black friday many years ago and to this day it might be the single best purchasing decision we ever made. they're really cute lol

palantir founder karp = phd, social theory. thiel = ba, philosophy. zuckerberg = classics at elite prep school. altman reads american founders’ writings. many others consume literary science fiction

Was an adjunct for four years, and yes, the proliferation of AI use in college is sudden and bad, but this is simply the culmination of the long-term devaluation of college from a place for great intellectual growth to a transactional punch-ticket accreditation program for "please give job".

Honestly yudkowsky and all of lesswrong/rstionalwiki is just milquetoast elite pedigree neolib shit "b...but don't they believe in race science????" yeah I said what I said and

it’s astounding how twitter has quite possibly the dumbest user base of any social media these days

"light years better at language translation than google translate" 1.) no its not 2.) ai translation is contributing to the englishization of the world and actively killing off indigenous languages, everyone needs to read minae mizumura's the fall of language in the age of english

the solution is universal pass/fail with grades based on weekly in-class exams and small-group discussion sections. no electronics, no textbooks, no notes. lectures and discussion sections should be at least 2 hrs long and 3 times a week, minimum. and cap number of classes at 3 per semester.

in regards to that nymag article I will say I tried to cheat w/ it in freshman fall but quickly stopped after I realized most of the answers it gave were wrong

reminder that george henry shaft is italian which makes his gekkou translation the most culturally accurate way to read the vn

I know absolutely nothing about horse race test but the creator is apparently NYUGC faculty which makes the whole thing both deeply hilarious and 100x more pretentious than I initially imagined

when I first started using social media I thought MDNI meant "men do not interact" because all the people with it in their bios were always women so I changed my twitter pronouns to she/her just so I could follow all of those accounts and kept getting surprised when I got blocked

Sovereignty beating Journalism on World Press Freedom Day is a little much.

currently at Costco business center and checking every single ingredients label I can confirm that subway chicken is 30% water

is it crazy to say I want the tariffs to be higher? I support political accelerationisn

the ideal media consumer is one part vntwt super jop one part backloggd avant-teen one part mastodon tgirl tech bro and one part tumblr fujoshi

The lost scrapbook by Evan Dara has the strongest first 10 pages out of anything I've read in a long, long time.

the duality of man

this ooe needs a hero

there's a bizaare trend of my favorite backloggd reviewers becoming insanely good vn devs woodaba, roxy s., denhop, kakera, riley9, boopus, baxter, poyfuh, etc. probably forgetting a ton as well. multiple ppl from domino club and vextro are on backloggd as well.

trader joe democrat vs costco republican

The past 30 years of neolib led gun control policy has all come down to this

anyone remember this mubi ad campaign

bow down before true kamige....elf bowling 3

boku no natsuyasumi might have had the best advertising campaign of all time

I swallowed an iron moon they called it media consumption

maturing is realizing most of my takes from the akanta twitter account were right and I shouldn't have apologized for any of them

lots of oomfs have been announcing that they're making new vn studios/projects but very few of them have been announcing any hints towards an eventual release looking into this...

toby's nose blew my world apart and eat me smoldered the ashes with black inky residue. chandler groover is the best author in interactive fiction, and I can only stare bewildered at his craft. 10 big booms.

its 2025 and biglaw firms, investment banks, and ivy league universities are praxis. what the fuck is going on

some musings on the other app abt the state of the jop community

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