spring hail storm

don't really do this much. but....he's a friend, he's in a real pickle, and anything helps: gofund.me/c620c4d08

some "in the loop" level abuse of language

a nice belated bday gift

thinking about writing a fable about a man who saves all of the village children from making category mistakes. call it cather in the ryle

merry xmas

haunted target

cat food, philosophically enriched

In Memoriam: Jonathan Lear (1948-2025) leiterreports.com/2025/09/22/i...

it begins

lol

10/10. Chef's kiss. No notes. 💯

here is my band's new song - mixed it myself [and it took me forever lol]. plz enjoy and feel free to share open.spotify.com/track/4fswxY...

here is my band's new song - mixed it myself [and it took me forever lol]. plz enjoy and feel free to share open.spotify.com/track/4fswxY...

jerry fodor - miss him.

@petemandik.bsky.social i think, so far as i understand it, your view of consciousness is the same as [or at least very similar to]....sigmund freud's, oddly enough. anywho - enjoyed ep. 2 of the persuaders

wife found one legit use of chatgpt: making portraits of our doggos

Tyrese Haliburton is really good, and I can see how what I am about to write could read as critical, but there are some subtle but noticeable Jar-Jar Binks Notes to his style that make him extra interesting to watch. He's about as silly-seeming as a player this good can be.

People have been deported from the US on the grounds of evidence far more circumstantial than that supporting the hypothesis: JD Vance killed Pope Francis.

alright popular mechanics, calm down

neologize like no-one’s watchilizing

let’s just calm down

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA WELCOME TO HELL, AI INDUSTRY

thumbass

The one thing I’ve been missing on this site is someone to explain how the things the trump administration is doing are bad, and, ideally, to make clear that they’ve been warning me about this for a long time, but I haven’t listened

God dammit. Timing couldn’t be worse but here goes. Chuck Schumer and I are launching our new podcast “Soul Deep: A Weekly Deep Dive Into the Music of Collective Soul” tomorrow. I do NOT support his latest decision and want to make clear this is strictly a music podcast. Please check it out

Panhandle measles outbreak keeps a growin'. Official count (as of March 11) is 255 cases across 3 states. Oklahoma...welcome to the party. Like I said in the YLE yesterday, I think this is a gross estimation of the true size. Nonetheless, if you're fully vaccinated, you're very well protected.

"Take dead aim on the rich boys. Get them in the crosshairs and take them down. Just remember, they can buy anything but they can't buy backbone. Don't let them forget it."

apple iphone has a new a.i. thing that summarizes text messages. yesterday, a patient i'm with checks his phone for a text from his sister who has cancer. a.i. summary just says "the tumor is much bigger than we thought." he goes white. full text says "but hasn't spread to lymph nodes." 🤦

okay not bad [gulp]

"If the United States feels increasingly like a country ruled by two petulant kings, perhaps it’s because the government is finally being run like a business." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/o...

Breaking: The Federalist Society quickly reboots as the Royalist Society.

looking very brown-shirtish out there

jackson browne last night…flubbing the intro to doctor my eyes (and being a good sport about it)

early bday present

i’m an oklahoma boy, which i’m ambivalent about. but i’m provincial enough that from my dumb point of view, i experienced california as an enchanting and magical place. i fantasize about living there

it is super-funny when a history of philosophy text characterizes 20th century phenomenology as a backlash over-conceptualization of human experience. wut?

oof

[going through the details] oh shit, the devil's in here

merry xmas perverts

Waited too long to do my Christmas shopping and now only Walgreens is open. Fuck it. Everyone’s getting a knee brace.

mavis staples is a national treasure

“how can I make this about me, wait I got it”

Outsourcing your cognition to ChatGPT is better than outsourcing your cognition to Heidegger.

ted kaczynski was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic by a prison psychiatrist. i spent the day reading through a few decades of correspondence with his brother. i don't get schizophrenia vibes at all. he seemed, rather, like a textbook obsessive.