why did pound make great fascist art? because he had a rich relation to the heritage he was working with and a vision of human flourishing toward which he directed it

I'm an immovable doomer about meaningful human life if AI progress hits no limits. Yeah we'll have sports, intimacy, learning, and experience, but imo a world where the development of each and the development of all can't interact is not a world

You can be spiritual without personally engaging with high art, science, pop, avant-garde scenes, Theory, raves, math, posting, history, but we would each be spiritually hobbled if the culture as a whole lost one of these

My favorite thing is how The Odyssey has 50 verses about the Cyclopes being hermit pastoralist with no technology or civic institutions but then the Laestrygonians chapter is like 'this island did have tech and civic institutions but again, man-eating giants'

The problem with the Guardian top 100 novels list is that it's bourgeois garbage -- not a single Walter Scott novel?!?!

It seems to me like the English-language internet has not yet been turned on to the fact that the screenplay for the Bolsonaro biopic (starring Jim Caviezel) has been leaked to the press. It is... a fascinating document, let's say.

My 3 favorite songs rn are Strange by Galaxie 500, Beguiling the Hours by Flaming Tunes and Hit the North by The Fall

don't cry when you see the posts of someone who hasn't followed you back. smile because they haven't blocked you

Christopher Nolan will see heaven due to The Prestige, but it's going to be a close call

London bohemian/hipster life is treating me extremely weird it is the most embraced and most rejected I've felt in my life and every day here teaches me new ways to love and hate myself

My opinion in philosophy of mind re consciousness remains: whatever's the least satisfying thing to learn existentially, whatever just gives us no reason for hope or joy or an experience of the universe as anything other than deceptive, will turn out to be true. I'm just not sure which view that is.

I am a little bit the Vashti Bunyan of being a good hang at afterparties (the 2006 release of my interests and personality was a flop but in 2026 people are into it)

Malcolm Harris is kind of the left's version of a very-online GMU economist, in terms of the art of being annoying

Just learned brutalist architecture was originally painted in bright, garish ('brutal') colors

I can't understand mainstream literary fiction because every time I want something for a long time and then finally get it it's at least as good as I imagined it. Ppl shld just get better at knowing what stuff to want

My job is literally 'be deflationary about AI' and this is the dumbest shit I've ever seen

The thing about Briggitte Fontaine is that you have to be a genius in like five different ways at once to make this youtube.com/watch?v=wp4Clhz0hNA&time_continue=0&source_ve_path=NzY3NTg&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fx.com%2F

My NY housemate Anastasia Coope is, at 23 years old, a fucking beast of a noise-folk artist you all should check her out www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WNy...

stabi potsdamer platz should open a Roy Orbison Lesesaal for "Only The Lonely" to study undisturbed by whispers of disrespectful couples

You can't really get why Clavicular is popular by reading about him, you have to say the name 'Clavicular' out loud and feel how fun it is to say

When Briggite Fontaine dies and everybody rediscovers her you're all gonna be so embarrassed for not thinking about Briggite Fontaine very much

On Thursday I learned that on Wednesday night I was in a room with Alina Astrova (Lolina/Inga Copeland) and I've been a mess ever since

The law, in its majestic equality, acts the queen and knight alike to walk in a straight line

My essay 'After Orthogonality,' the culmination of 4 years of work on virtue-ethics, rationality, AI, decision-theory, and praxis is out on The Gradient

I think 19 year old Peli was right that Grant Morrison's reputation was gonna break through from psychedelia/cult to modernist genius, and GM simply ruined it by writing that shill Supergods book that pissed off the high-culture-amphibian fans who were going to make this happen

Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir. The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell. Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/ www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...

I'm like that '90s "men think about sex every 7 seconds" nonsense but about the paneer methi at Dhamaka

How many photos/videos of yourself do you have to see before how you're hair's inverted relative to mirrors stops making you sick

Insanely good paper by Miroslava Trajkovski and Timothy Williamson arguing (via Peirce) that emotions are *explanatory perceptual representations* of bodily changes, in a sort of Kantianization of the James-Lange theory of emotions www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/files/abduct...

I love Lee Hazlwood Americana version of La Belle Dame sans Merci songs

I love the Fortuna's wheel aspect of sitcoms, where like there's an episode where the cool character is being dorky, an episode where the smart character is being dumb, an episode where the heartbreaker gets heartbroken...

This is maybe the best solo I heard in my life: www.instagram.com/p/DWUHiX0iH9...

Friends sometimes ask me where can you get my old fake novel AMERIKKKKKA. It's still and forever available from GuassPDF Editions for the price of the ink it's printed in

What other artists are like Madeline Kahn, in that they don't come up much but if they come up everyone's like 'of course a genius'?

Strange (Galaxie 500) came up on youtube autoplay and now my soul's on fire

I think The Toe Rag (young lit/art mag everyone in London knows about and no one outside London knows about) is the most fun and good lit/art mag in the world right now

Imagine how fucked California noir would be if Los Angeles was called anything else: 'They call Los Caballos the City of Horses. Neither here nor there when it comes to the sex and murder stuff I guess. Anyway...'

One time my fiancee watched Good Will Hunting and was like 'why did you say it's bad, it's fun and teaches kids good values' and I was like 'it's not actually a kids' film it was an acclaimed serious drama' and she basically didn't believe me

Theory of Vibe core technical hypothesis -- generative model distillation from unconditional sampling -- confirmed in passing in a 2025 paper I just read!!

One reason I left literary studies is the Frankfurt School tradition didn't speak to me but I respected the stakes and didn't want to campaign for like 'let's study Beckett's syntax but then not try drawing transcendental-historical-political conclusions'

Had an amazing time talking to Caroline Busta and @lilinternet.bsky.social in New Models on the state of vibes and theories of which

Call me ChatGPT the way I need to waste water to think (long baths)

'She's fucked up but you gotta understand she had a hard life, her family is extremely rich'

I sometimes get spasms thinking about how lonely I was in Berlin from 2018 to 2023

Me tooooo

The 3 philosophy concepts that have a feverish hold on me are aesthetic Ideas (Kant), eudaimonia (Aristotle), and dialectics (Hegel). I formalized aesthetic Ideas in 2016-2025, formalized eudaimonia in 2022-2026, and dialectics can't be formalized, so I'm pretty much done

New Pynchon character just dropped

The term 'slow cinema' has weird 'if you like making love at midnight' energy

I don't understand how Nuri Bilge Ceylan got the apple to roll in a way that's not reddit youtu.be/SEgkppTEfTc?...

The Snow Man is the first poem I ever liked so I've read it hundreds of times since I was 12, and now is the first time I've noticed it barely has syntax