oh yeah, whispered the kool aid man

Just a disgusting, inhuman way to talk about war. We must never get used to this

Recent data indicate that for the last decade or so the world’s most inflationary currency has been the take

If this site were a band it would be the tragically hip

Another way to look at all these bedtime stories about LLMs becoming conscious: the point is not to celebrate technological prowess but to further degrade and devalue people

First day on the job and you want respect? Go right up to the most recognizable and respected guy in the newsroom and have him yell at you until you cry. Then it's time to send him a weepy email telling him how disappointed you were that he did all that. Shouldn't have any trouble after that.

With all these RFK animal encounter videos, it’s difficult to avoid thinking you’re watching a Steve Irwin style trajectory

christie's restaurant sign, houston, texas, 1983

Someone should remake Kindergarten Cop with lots of attention to the most insane and glossed-over elements

Looking at actual New Deal murals it’s clear why a16z “American dynamism” slop will never be able to create a convincing mythology. You can’t sanctify the dignity of labor if you don’t believe in the dignity of labor.

I wrote about why it’s important to insist that art & politics are different things, & why conversations about “political art” often make what I think is a fundamental mistake about value. Link to full essay: garthgreenwell.substack.com/p/on-politic...

Somewhere there’s a guy who loves that four minutes of gas pump tv

Well, we can’t say we learned nothing from this. We can now be absolutely certain that not one of these guys, faced with the possibility of danger, will hesitate to ditch his wife right there

The bro must go on, I guess

Watching some of the RFK Jr testimony and listening to his labored breathing and more labored speaking and realizing this guy can teach us a lot about health. Like how you are what you eat. In his case, roadkill

watching the Jersey Mike’s worker make my sandwich

I sure hope they find a nice farm upstate where he can spend his last years in peace and, you know, a gigantic hoodie

Pope: [moral critique of illegal war] President: I am Jesus. Thr pope is gay Media: they are feuding😳

they should invent a goodreads where cool small press books get thousands and thousands of reviews and big dumb mainstream books get dozens

As the South African billionaire eyes a $2 trillion IPO for SpaceX, it’s worth considering how to make sense of a world that rewards ‘Muskism.’

Just want to give a shout out to all the acronyms at today’s meetings. Great job guys

“A whole civilization will die tonight” is the most vile thing a US president has ever said, certainly during the post-1945 era when they’ve had the power to kill civilizations with the dropping of a bomb. I’m staring into the darkness. May this not be one of the most fateful days in human history.

People should actually be very alarmed that while AP's business model is shot to bits, Americans are still very much reliant on the news it delivers. The alternatives in some cases are inferior or non-existent. apnews.com/article/news...

Imagine being behind the Moon and not getting scam calls for half an hour

Reviewing / essaying upon DAYBREAK BIRDSONG ALWAYS WAKES HIM in Socrates on the Beach, Luke Dunne's deep consideration of Pamela Ryder's work is not to be missed: socratesonthebeach.com/luke-dunne-o...

A beaut

By the time my children are grown, Mr Beast will be a real life version of an early Nintendo game final boss

What do we have, like another week before the guys who think Claude or whatever is sentient go back to arguing like college freshmen with nowhere to be on a Friday night?

THREAD: Cherise Doyley was in her 12th hour of contractions at the hospital when a tablet was brought to her bedside. On the screen was a Zoom call with a judge and several lawyers and doctors. She was in court, a nurse told her. The reason? For failing to agree to a C-section.

my lawyer friends speak highly of AI tools for certain purposes (mostly research), but contracts? we don’t need a plagiarism machine for that, we can plagiarize manually

the igloo, toledo, ohio, 1988

it’s beautiful to think One Battle inspired a whole new generation to read Thomas Pynchon’s wikipedia page

Seems undeniable now. We are saying “libidinal” too much

They had to give an Oscar to the racecar movie just to prove they were serious about nominating it

Probably a sign of some form of decline when leading podcasts not only constantly make conscious reference to and unconsciously echo each other but increasingly offer the same rotation of guests

Single issue presidential candidate running on a 48 hour Saturday

Interesting to see so many “experts” on here all of a sudden 🤔. A week ago most of you had never even heard of oil

Still not sure if we need Medicare for All?

remember when that cronenberg movie 'existenz' came out and it seemed like a fun and silly conceit for there to be freedom fighters taking on corporate conglomerates in an attempt to protect consensus reality from an ocean of digital hallucination

Finally, an opportunity to buy the really expensive gasoline

We cannot account for unconscious experience, which not only proceeds from embodiment but from unique histories of embodiment in constantly changing material contexts (both in subject and world). An individual’s history of interpretations, actions, and reactions sometimes yields a transformative

it's actually pretty easy for me to explain why I don't feel the need to extend rights I think humans have to things I don't think are human

These Hegseth pressers are a little like They Live, if everybody had the sunglasses

For years on my old blog I published the names of servicemembers who died in Iraq & Afghanistan. No other outlets were. These are the first 4 Americans to die in the Iran War. Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35 Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42 Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39 Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20

Sometimes I think was a bad idea to give Secretary of Defense to Edward Fortyhands