Me and the fellas getting the oil around the Hormuz blockade

imagine you lived for a thousand years and Karp was your best work

Big news out of our building today that has nothing to do with the late wars. Sea levels are already much higher than most people realize. The models were wrong. www.wur.nl/en/longread/...

walking dead analogy doesn't really work here. these are not zombie worms, they were never really dead, and they are certainty not dead now, wiggling their ancient, 40.000 year old worm bodies www.popularmechanics.com/science/anim...

Some terrifically titled papers from a discovered collection of NASA research documents found in a skip (with thanks to @juliarez.placid.horse)

turns out no amount of soft and hard genocide denial will count as loyalty when the time comes... what a shock to see this approach fail, I'm shocked.

A girl lifted my wallet in the locker room. Scrolling through her travel and transaction history and honestly? Taste this clean deserves a line of credit…

platform capitalism 2026

An extract from my latest in PSYCHE magazine. psyche.co/ideas/why-be...

a country that siphoned billions from culture and education for defence against russian invasion goes into a full panic mode shutdown on snow day…

Four years before John Constable painted this in 1821, John Keats was writing about 'Negative Capability: 'when man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts without any irritable reaching after fact & reason.' This is what negative capability looks like in paint.

training chat into debate mode.

an insider account of a carastrophic fuck up by Daniel Trilling @trillingual.bsky.social www.equator.org/articles/ins...

"Karl Marx failed to consider brain worms"

there is a rat running around in an exhibition about poverty.this animal’s sense of conceptual belonging and irony compliments if not this completes this otherwise rather predictable work and its lackluster chatgpt captions.

These section titles are kind of perfect. I’m not sure they need any changes, or the 9,000 words that follow them.

Will & Disgrace!

"implicit and explicit complicity" 😮‍💨

It’s strange to be in a position just far enough above the threshold that your income security actually depends on which political party wins the majority. Stakes r stressful, but the odds are slightly better than no political representation at all.

psychoanalysis is learning to live again after philosophy. (vibing with Jung)

"We all chunk. We are all categorizers and users. Life’s conventional elements demand that of us. But we are all also transcendental-fielders. After all, a chunk is only a chunk against the contrasting background of the field as a singular-generic spacetime of experience. "

outrageously scandalous and delicious read about anachronistic mafia, snails, and taxes. “I just do it for devilment. I do it just to get away with it.” www.londoncentric.media/p/terry-ball...

what is perceived as ‘present’ is the “vivid fringe of memory tinged with anticipation”

Apparently it’s very hard for Benjamin Bratton to understand that people resist tech because they *do not want the tech.* People do not embrace the tech he wants just because he once used 3,000 pages to vaguely explain what infrastructure is.

why is this relationship dynamic so enduring...? 😭😭😭

there’s an apple in my fridge I realized was forgotten since July. it didn’t mind that at all. it didn’t rot, a real people pleaser, yet I’m never so out of fruit to actually want to eat it. are we really supposed to believe that paradise was lost over something so aseptic?

" I was looking for someone who was smart enough to condense “Remembrance of Things Past” into a paragraph" 😭 and then what? (kill me now) www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

from today's lecture on cellular meat cultures by Clemens Driessen: the frikandel theory: it's a scandal, but is it really? does anyone knows exactly what's in it? (nope) but does anyone wants to know? (also no) @culturalgeography.bsky.social

paid phd for positions for artists at KASK in Ghent schoolofartsgent.be/en/research/...

My mom’s needlework is about to be the hype now that everyone’s sick of conceptual art’s pretentiousness and watching and precision-based crafts get swallowed up by AI goblins. 🪭🪭🪭

my mom has quietly become a cartographer. she has photographed and mapped all of the manor houses in the country. who knew Estonia had so many estates?

memetic theory and mimetic theory are not the same, but i keep seeing people using them interchangeably (or trying to correct me when i mean Girard, not Dawkins) as if it's a variation on a spelling (there is a meme pun somewhere in here, help) mimetictheory.com/memetic-theo...

reading for a proposal about satellite surveillance of grass and this so far is one of my favorite papers.

where you at, before you got to cut things down to 5-8K?

whenever I photograph at a wedding, I secretly imagine myself working on a project called "divorce": photograph the wedding, wait, photograph the divorce, exhibit is both side by side

David Chickan, killed in battle, was a talented artist, an immortal soul, a friend, a husband, and a new dad 🤍

“lovers need no marker, they know exactly where their soulmate rests because they put them there”

there is little correlation between merit and prestige: every field includes some clunkers and nitwits, even in high positions www.themarginalian.org/2015/01/19/s...

interdisciplinary challenges: teaching the culture of meat to biologists...

The Cat Knows but Says Nothing — Nataliya Bagatskaya, 2025 acrylic on canvas

It's Whitehead day

Cranach mood is the boss of all moods

me to my identity thief: how discerning of you—truly, an acquired taste!

I’d be at the gym a lot more often if they had couches and daybeds. We should really combine them with salons!

would you look at them numbers with serifs! 😱

late stage capitalism so bad financial times proves itself again and again the more progressive and unbiased of legacy media www.ft.com/content/6c74...

the work i made in 2019 about the future in which humans run out of words was meant to be speculative www.scientificamerican.com/article/chat...

Dream job - PioneerWorks is looking for a senior designer. Great Brooklyn based arts org and space. Get it.. pioneerworks.org/jobs/designer

beautiful objects have the impossible task of seducing us back into living—after we've lost faith in gods, people, or our own higher purpose. appreciation of an aesthetic is never shallow; it's a way of enduring disillusionment