To me, that’s preposterous. Things of that nature.

If I were spending the afternoon running around the house screaming because I refused to take a nap and was tired and fussy as a result, I would simply take a nap

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I always assumed Mind and World was like 800 pages long but apparently it’s only 200. Should probably read it.

Somebody give me a talk show. I will ask guests “The President is an embarrassing idiot. Aren’t you embarrassed to work for him? You should be.”

Fit check

That Congressional Republicans won’t turn on Trump over this Iran thing has me convinced there’s literally nothing they would turn on him over. Not even really sure why at this point. Fear of getting primaried only goes so far when they’re facing midterm apocalypse anyway.

That Congressional Republicans won’t turn on Trump over this Iran thing has me convinced there’s literally nothing they would turn on him over. Not even really sure why at this point. Fear of getting primaried only goes so far when they’re facing midterm apocalypse anyway.

Sometimes, when I look around me, it seems that Idiocracy was not a comedy, but rather, a documentary

I think they’re gonna try to hold the strait open with Marines while pummeling Iran from the air, and just sort of hope they can get the Iranians to the table before that becomes untenable. Wouldn’t wanna be one of those Marines if it goes south!

If a toddler is getting sort of fussy and needy you can just give them any item. Doesn’t really matter what. They will feel proud to have it and come up with stuff to do with it. This principle applies to human psychology more or less generally.

I really have no words www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/h...

I have no problem with Michael B. Jordan winning, he was very good in Sinners. I do sympathize with Chalamet, it was an unfair media environment. With everything going on it was gonna be tough to win for a biopic about the Supreme Leader of Iran.

If you were a 20 month old that stole her father’s computer mouse off his desk when he stepped out of the room for five seconds where would you hide it

I have once again failed to watch all the oscars movies

I genuinely did not think I could any longer be shocked

This short story, recently published in the New Yorker, really struck me. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

This is what Averröists actually believe

When Aristotle said that an infinite regress is impossible in a per se causal series, he hadn’t thought of the counter-example of businesses outsourcing their server hosting to external vendors in an E2E process.

The US will not achieve regime change and will likely have to negotiate on favorable terms for Iran to re-open the strait. This seems like the kind of shocking, humiliating defeat a declining power suffers on the way down in a way that Iraq and Afghanistan did not.

Summer 2026 Catherine Project submission is in. You’ve been hearing a lot of rumors saying it’s gonna be a big one. The people are clamoring to know what it is. They won’t be disappointed.

My company has been having two days of meetings about integrating AI and it’s making me more AI-skeptical. There have been zero specifics about what exactly we are or should be using AI to do

It’s so fucked up that the weather is going to get kind of shitty again

Applying for jobs is fun and not tedious or dehumanizing

I believe the Emperor of Japan should preside ceremonially over all baseball games

I have no sense of what’s going on in the Iran war. Some people say Iran has been fucked up, some people say the US has been embarrassed. People say the war may continue for weeks or months but it’s totally unclear what the goals even are. Most weirdly opaque event.

Even if we don’t know how consciousness works, we know what AI does: predicts the next most likely token in a sequence. We shouldn’t think AI is conscious *unless* we think that’s what consciousness is. If we don’t know how consciousness works, we can’t be confident that’s what it is.

Will I be able to enjoy Slay the Spire 2 if I never slew the first spire

I have a job interview at 12:30. Prayers appreciated it goes well.

The left has been unequivocally on the right side of every war of my lifetime

Ran the Harvard Coop (east coast elitist) Worked in a factory (salt of the earth)

Declining superpowers don’t even pivot to China anymore they just look at you like this

Bars with moulding under them be like “Bar looks great. Just one last touch left to add. We really need something for our customers to painfully smash their knees against.”

I’m downloading Expedition 33. Excited to get to the bottom of this whole “France” thing.

“Troops coming back from Vietnam were called baby killers!”

I’m so tired of innocent blood

I think it’s pretty obvious that what happened here is Israel, and its creatures inside the administration, memed Trump in to bombing Iran. His brains are melting out through his ears so he was susceptible to it but even he doesn’t understand what the reasoning is.

This is one of those books written by an author who seems to know everything there is to know and to be able to effortlessly connect all of it.

I’m soyfacing so hard at this

It seems under-commented on that the “crisis of masculinity” and the decline of guitar-driven rock in popular music go virtually hand in hand

On an IT meeting where we are all being told how we need to be using AI to innovate. Zero mention of what specifically we are supposed to be doing with it

Alysa Liu makes me feel old in a good way. It is nice to see her, a young person, enjoying life. It is nice to be reminded of what it is like when you are young and life is sweet.

Buy buy buy freak the fuck out and panic buy every stock right fucking now www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02...

I’m sorry for mentioning my dogs butthole I’m also sorry for talking about her mental health journey I will continue to discuss it as I need the dog owners relating to make it through it So far no bots and no shaming Thanks dog people

I got a Barnes & Noble gift card so I’m gonna buy a book. Should I get DOCTOR FAUSTUS by Thomas Mann or MASON & DIXON by Thomas Pynchon? Have read of Mann: The Magic Mountain, Death in Venice, various short stories. Of Pynchon: Gravity’s Rainbow, Inherent Vice, Shadow Ticket.

Trump has already induced a kind of antidemocratic rigor mortis on American public life. We are preparing for a war with Iran, apparently. Why? No one knows. Has Congress authorized this? No. Yet is this felt as an issue for us? No. Government is just something that happens to us - we are passive.

Boomers still dominate the electorate and they’re the most breathtakingly selfish people that have ever lived. For many years this effect was masked somewhat by their controlling all wealth, but as they age expect more insane explicit legal privileges like property tax exemption.

For lent this year I’m gonna try to get back in to the habit of praying a daily rosary. It’s not a very good penance but my spiritual life the past year or so has been defined by extreme sloth so hopefully it gets something going.

Reading the Iliad again for a group I’m leading. An unreal work to me. How at the very dawn of western literature could something exist already this complete, beautiful, deeply humane & clear-eyed about what it is to be human. You could easily argue nothing since has surpassed it.