I learned the word "theophany" from a Bad Religion song. Wait, no, I still don't know what that word means

For a minute I was like "I've seen this Jandek video so many times I can no longer remember if I was there or not" but then boom, it's the side of my head

"The school's website features a page titled "Statement on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion" that links to the full text of the U.S. Declaration of Independence." Fuckin gold

15. Became Addicted to Novelty Postcard Collecting 16. Walked into a “No Unaccompanied Gentlemen” Speakeasy 17. Had a Fling with a Traveling Picture Show Man 18. Projectionist Accidentally Electrocuted During Show 19. Joined the Foreign Legion 20. Burned Your Celluloid Collar

Fundamental to all of the cultural and philosophical thinking about "art" that I have encountered is the idea of intentional transformation: taking a raw material and applying a process on purpose to turn it into something else.

attention is a finite resource, there is far more content than any human being could consume over multiple lifetimes, so the new gatekeepers become the people who determine attention, distribution, etc

whale loneliness epidemic

animal behavior studies win: we taught wolves to find “67” funny and have received the world’s first negative grant funding. we are currently looking for donations as our lab is now $2 million in debt

If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity

"We have laws not simply to have laws but because the law is the only possible brake on the strong trampling over and exploiting the weak. And if some people become too strong, it becomes impossible for any of us, individually or collectively, to be truly free."

Manic pixie nightmare blunt rotation

hwait

this gets at the question of whether one can close-read a generated text or image; the contingencies in them indicate something about the training data, but there seems to be nothing aesthetic in it www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Pamphlet of poems found in a free library box. This one poem is excellent.

Remind you of anyone

Look at this ad y'all. They literally got a black girl baby on one end and a white boy baby on the other end. Not subtle!

A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:

There's that old line about Antisemitism is "the socialism of fools." One might say that in the US, anti-government conspiracy theories have often functioned as both "the socialism of fools" and "the fascism of fools." They work like cultural a magnet holding a weak red-brown alliance together.

My name is KIIIIIIIIIII-

rock n roll mcdoooonalds, rock n roll mcdoooonalds

The kindest version of Yglesias’ hallucinatory reading of American politics would see a Democratic Party torn between LIBERAL egalitarians and liberal EGALITARIANS but that is not what we see in reality.

I’m howling.

Well at least we finally got rid of this fuckin guy! Don't let the screen door hit you in the ass on the way out Larry. You fuck

Pieces missing from your vintage copy of a mouse-extermination-themed board game and now the mechanism doesn't work right? Problematic cage trap

"If we, as citizens, decide that we want to resurrect our nation’s dead commitment to a politics of anti-corruption, then we can."

my new bit has been pointing to random houses and hotels while on a drive and saying "someone was killed there" after doing this with about ten houses, my sister asked me where I would even get that information. "the almanac. farmer's almanac" i said

A lot of education discourse is at root an inability to decide whether the purpose of our education system is to 1) teach material and measure learning 2) reward students who work hard 3) separate the smart kids (destined for smart guy jobs) from the dumb kids (destined to serve the smart guys)

As someone who was raised with religion but never found much of it believable, I learned a new way to think about religion, that helped me to understand my experience with Catholicism, from Karen Armstrong: as an object of anthropological study

Just can't get a decent Torhrane in this country anymore. Because of Woke

is there some bricks to maybe and my ma and run in house

"The report has no answer to the media ownership problem. It doesn’t even raise it as a question. It includes pages upon pages bemoaning the Democratic Party’s messaging woes, without ever considering that the problem might be that its opponents have access to much larger megaphones."

Old Soviet joke: Why do ICE agents travel in groups of three? One can read, one can write, and the third keeps an eye on the two intellectuals

"Wombats were the most beautiful of God’s creatures"

In honor of the great Drew Struzan’s passing, I picked 15 of his best posters.

"If you want access to [the attention economy], you better get comfortable making lowest-common-denominator bullshit in front of a camera. And, of course, it’s a lot easier to feel good about doing that if you’re an idiot."

Books written in first person present tense are icky

By changing only a single byte in the code of Mario Paint, the music composer will not stop at the end of the song and instead continue to play the entire contents of the console's memory as music.

Almost everyone on here has fantasized about the day when It finally happens but I think we have underrated the possibility of It being a gradual process that is a source of both physical and psychic torment 🙂

"Politics in the second Trump era can be mostly defined as people Posting adversarially in public."

There's only one moon, man! Some people might want Willie Nelson on there.

When I was a freshman Man. . . Or Astroman? was playing the night before my organic chem final. I went to the show, took a take-home exam on the law of war from 1-4AM, studied for the exam from 4-6, slept for two and a half hours, showed up late to the exam and closed out the class with a B+

Imo the correct term would probably be *anti*political

"All of these problems combine to do something very dangerous: they suggest to Americans (and particularly young Americans) that free speech is bullshit. . . “Free speech culture,” as practiced in American, makes this deal seem like a scam."

HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED

This is just straight up accommodationism. Capitulation to authoritarian bullying. Worthless

My 8th grade social studies teacher told us that "in the North they love the race and hate the man; in the South they hate the race and love the man" 😬

Vitamin D huh

I really just cannot stop thinking about this. Imagine describing the "work" of a guy who spent his career profiteering from targeted harassment and advocacy for violence, hatred and disorder as "spirited discourse" and "good faith debate." Foul