cozy autumn vibes

for good company only

there’s much right about the resist fascism/no kings radlib horror at the admin’s uses of the state to punish & harm. tough how the stock DSAish lefty message, faulting billionaires/state capture, can assuage the liberals by letting american institutions themselves off the hook

in my dreams last night i was really good at reading early dynastic sumerian because of the time i spent grinding egyptian. but then i woke up and they weren’t mutually intelligible at all

imagine the rival Kirby Laing Chair of New Testament Eisegesis was right across the hall… & they locked eyes ‘but the mysteries!’ ‘i don’t care what it says, by Paul—i care what *i* say’ ‘you make me feel so kenotic… what *do* you say’ ‘i say it’s time to change dispensation’

if i told you guys that the amtrak hold line was an endless and yet surprisingly variegated stream of 30% steely dan songs and 70% lesser steely-dan-alikes would that even potentially register as new information

4 types of papers in dental journals: 1 - we did 'epidemiology' & 'found out' that poor people had bad teeth. let's moralise 2 - did you know that periodontitis is weakly correlated with this unrelated condition? neither did we but we kept looking til we found a 1.02 hazard ratio

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we should have an annual lottery to determine which two humanities disciplines we bowdlerise & teach in highly formalistic fashion to middle schoolers. you could tell what cohort people were in by their general vibe, e.g. seeming french indicates it was a philosophy & latin year

my love of dilly-dallying is somewhat at odds with my proclivity for buying perishable goods

i wish i knew what i could do to make the surly men at the butcher shop trust me

just saw a horrifyingly ghoulish, totally still figure holding a bat wearing an ortiz red sox jersey poised in front of a yard to spook child passers-by and realised it was a crazy looking wax statue. so i slowed my run to get a better look at it and it headnodded at me

when ants realised that we didn't want to eat them (even when they were inside other foods we *did* want to eat!) they also realised we had totally blown it as for leverage

pyrrhonism now

under communism my job will be ensuring that every manufacturer of medical devices complies with our strict species counterpoint regulations. the dissonance wing will only be for political dissidents and the uninsured

they should invent the ‘sleepy ER’, where everyone is softly candlelit so the problem doesn’t seem that severe anyway, and triage-waiters are safely ensconced in soothing hammocks that weaken their sense of urgency

somebody asked me who i would bounce out at the door if i ran a club the other day, like if i was trying to go for a certain kind of vibe/keep it diverse, and it took me a full two minutes to think of a demographic besides men with wire rimmed glasses

i’m introducing to committee the STOP WASP Act (Struggling To Operate Post Wasp Antagonism Saturday, Poignantly) declaring my apartment an official ‘Wasp-Free Zone’

what lateness tells you about someone: optimistic; a lover of life attempting to delight as many relations & squeeze in as many good deeds as possible; clement in their dealings with others, unconsciously attributing real grace to all

every time the uchicagoan a floor below me smokes indoors i take one more work out of the canon

the struggle against port authority bus terminal is the struggle against beauty itself

penn station is the port authority bus terminal of fools

attempting to depict events has almost never served a writer of fiction well

no joke i’ve been keeping count and eight of the last nine times i washed my hair it rained later that day. ordinarily i try to keep this close to my chest lest the government send me to the cali central valley or something but today i just wanted to register complaint

squat central park really clinched me against the new subway map

it’s so awesome that love is real

i really think the heat day-of + the boneheaded total unwillingness to develop any gotv effort is going to be a real hill for cuomo to climb. and honestly the heat is just karma so i would probably expect locusts too

for whatever reason i naively hoped this would take a few more years to hit the discipline

embarrassing for him what a poor campaign cuomo has run. no matter which way it shakes out there will be a lot of over-reading from a weird off-cycle primary in an exceptional city but you have to be pretty stupid to think you can count on name id in an election with ~20% turnout

imagine a really big goat. okay imagine a bigger goat. that’s like the environmental impact of the rest of the world, if it was america. and we ate more goat meat than we did, bc we got over the whole thing about not liking meat to taste like something

Today is Tridi the 3rd of Messidor in the year 233. Messidor is the month of harvest. Today we celebrate onions.#JacobinDay More information on onions

helen de cruz was fully who she was. her genuineness & humaneness was abundant in everything she did, including in dying, something we will all do, but few of us as honestly. in that she exemplified what you would hope a philosopher could be. i’m glad to have known her a little.

no, no, not at all. ikea is social *democracy*, *costco* is social fascism

i wish i could sell political positions inside a costco. something very appealing in a really big bin with a lot of explanatory text and very few on-shelf competitors. four hundred dollars and it has a great pedigree

high water mark of recent polling from pro-zohran ie

my main thought here is that israel, iran & the states all have compelling reasons to exaggerate iranian military capacity. domestic politics for iran & licensing aggression for israel/us. who had a reason to play them down? arguably leftists, but this was less fun than wargaming

it’s honestly baffling how the pervasive overestimation of iran’s military capacity by marxist types has carried through like the past half dozen failures of iran to even retaliate. the best argument against it was always iran’s obvious unease with a broader conflict!

trump economic advisor on odd lots is very funny because it’s otherwise indistinguishable from regular odd lots

i don’t know if it’s the zohran effect or what but vampire weekend have been oddly intrusive in my stream of consciousness lately considering the preceding decade-ish absence

i think it’s cool apple made windows vista. i always wanted windows vista when i was a kid

low key most evil part of the budget bill you may not have heard of is a new tax on remittances. which will raise like literally functionally no money for the states but will somehow at the same time manage to help starve several hundred thousand kids to death

you live in full socialism. you clock out from your AM shift picking microherbs for the mise at the small plates natural wine bar. $26 gained. you spend $38.51 on a cheese box at the corner apéro-bodega to steel yourself for roommate contestation at the dispute resolution centre

we all have that one mutual of many years whom we can’t help but conceptualise as one of the members of vampire weekend

i don’t want to be kitty corner from *anything*. get me away from cat corner. i want to breathe free

sometimes i like to think one good heresy would fix it

i gave myself the kind of stupid monk disease where i feel morally obliged to draw up a table in fifteen minute increments of a day spent replying to emails and fucking around

last night i had a (prophetic?) dream where they reached a sort of bipartisan accord on police abolition where they kept the funding levels and all the gun stuff the same but replaced the decals on cars that said ‘protect and serve’ with ‘punish and enslave’

they put pickleball in my peace garden :<

i think another example of the intellectual parochialism of ai security types is that, even as their #1 desideratum rn is a coordination mechanism that prevents bad actors from developing runaway ai, they still usually implicitly frame *china* as the threat to this coming about