Can someone please explain what is the decision process behind such time frames? Either way must be the most wholesome and the most frustrating of jobs. Like, oh here is an context rich KGB document dated March 14th, 1931 .......Nope, not for me! Dec 31st midnight, and that is IT!

knows nothing about football: 0:0 is ok for now! we can handle a bit of mirroring

they call the mouse at our sports club Messi. bet he is here w all of his referee uncles!

Can't care less for any of the eleven men running after one ball, still mad as hell about the World Cup. Sport is so political, there's no sport left in it!

As public awareness and resistance ramp up, I'm regularly reminded that researchers have been addressing the environmental, geopolitical, and political-economic impacts of data centers for *a very long time*; legislators, journalists, et al just haven't noticed!

A lot of this workshop is sitting with something I keep coming back to: we're intelligent enough to know our agency is very limited, but are we intelligent enough to recognize it and work as if we have it anyway? nias.knaw.nl/events/proce...

new selecta course on time. open to everyone with university affiliation. long reading list, but since overwhelm is era, we're allowed to impose no more than 3 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I once introduced a man I was dating to philosophy. At first he didn't think he was smart enough for it, but I told him he was Ok. He's now a multi-millioner defense tech investor in the US and Israel. Don't use dating apps

Things that just happen in my brain on a random Thursday: Does Lola from Run Lola Run and the Red Queen from Alice in Wonderland share the same prehension of time?

Wow, it’s like Christmas came early, in that I’m confused and disoriented because something fundamental has been violated and I’m wondering where all the time went.

absolutely losing my mind over the new found state paper's damning review of my parents' Central Asia tour. apparently they trolled the censorship committee -those lowlife criminals -by promising a professionally trained fly act but performing banned sad songs instead...unhinged 🪰💩🪰

I don't know where exactly the Centre for Luminescence Dating is in our building or what it does, but as someone with considerable experience in the queer dating scene, I know luminescence is a red flag. I spent a lot of time alone in the dark before this glow up

Human: uses AI to avoid limits and knowledge. Snails: merging cells to transcend phylogenetic limits and live exclusively off light. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQDw...

Sunday thought for this legend www.npr.org/2023/08/06/1...

Things that I noticed to be much more commonplace in society than people who exoticise them seems to realize: 1. Queer men that date men and women. 2. Older women with younger men in an ordinary (non-fetishistic) relationships. 3. Zizeks. There's a Balkan pub full of them 200m away from my house

the most obv. move for algorithms, managing society: as soon as humans draw near solving the riddle of immortality, make their lives unbearable

Friendly Federal Assassin sounds like an album reviewed by Pitchfork and an adult fantasy novel with a strong female lead, rated 4.5 stars on Goodreads

All they will find is sand Eyal Weizman on the demolition of Gaza www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Romesco Wants Free Palestine

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

"Against the insistent poisoned passion of dismembering and demystifying, it affirms that which they all require in order not to enslave us: that we are not alone in the world." Isabelle Stengers (I love her) www.e-flux.com/journal/36/6...

Robert Smithson, the only artist "seriously interested" in the landscapes of Netherlands in the last century www.mariangoodman.com/news/529-ope...

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...? 😭😭😭