Weekend goals but I have to work

100!!!

Been slowly reading David Harvey's "A Companion to Marx's 'Grundrisse'." "Grundriss" is German for "floorplan" or "blueprint" or "architecture." The original is notoriously difficult (Marx laying out and stress-testing all the theory & concepts of capital), and this companion is no easy read either…

Oh my fucking god

WOW! An incredible discovery. The first ever image of a baby exoplanet embedded in the dust rings from which planets are forming around a star. Confirms the developing view of planet formation that we’ve never before seen in action. 🧪🔭 www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...

Seven months.

"Where I'm from we don't even call it 'weird music,' it's just 'music' to me"

NEW: The End of the Line: the centrepiece of Saudi Arabia’s Neom gigaproject - a 500m tall, 170km long wall-like building intended ultimately to house 9 million people - can’t get out of the ground, say more than 20 former Neom architects, engineers and senior executives. ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...

Whoa, “When Prophecy Fails” debunked? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

"May your computer's fan run constantly"

Other zoomers gotta get into R.E.M.

Google: don’t be evil Also Google: adds a Google Meet link by default to calendar events confusing everyone and tricking them into using their products more

Oh it is nighttime nighttime out there at 5:30pm, huh? Nice.

"Gary? Yes... that was what they used to call me. Dark Gary. That was my name. I am Light Gary, and I come back to you now at the turn of the tide."

I really love going for runs on weekday mornings and I hope that I'm able to do it for a long time into the future.

Every time someone has a Gatsby party it’s like announcing they don’t read

Happy Happy!

Gah all of the Nosferatu movies are so good. Watch them in order this season.

Baltimore Mid Atlantic Office Hours. Saturday November 1, 2pm at Blue Pit. The duck will be outside if it’s nice.

Time is an abyss, profound as a thousand nights

Good news everyone! I just invented a device that makes you hear a certain voice whenever you read this post.

The Reptile One God ---> Peter Thiel Gooned

there's this growing part of the possibility space i see forming in America's future. it's still a long-tail, very tiny probability, but choices keep happening to make it creep up and up. Fort Bragg Cartel coup US Narco state 2045

This rain is, once again, so nice.

Has anyone actually written something on the apparently inability of the reactionary mind to grasp the basic themes and even overt text of Tolkien? Like at some point Gandalf turns directly to camera and says “the Men of Gondor sure are insufficient to this task, we need the hobbits to do it”

It just took eighteen tries to plug in my phone and get it to hold the green charging indicator steady

Whelp today’s morning run is canceled I didn’t realize it was pouring rain out

Zohran Mamdani caught lying about having a body with organs, yet when pressed, he admitted that his body is actually without organs, and hence is the inevitable, unconstrained manifestation of desires that may take upon unprecedented forms.

I like doing dishes. Utopia is when all former necessities become recreational options for everyone

“I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Tea shops in uproar off the shoulder of Orion. I watched clotted cream spread in the dark near the Corn Exchange Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time for a pie.”

28: Brom killed Ichabod Crane.

Geometric Shapes / 251028 #p5js #generative #creativecoding

If I'm stuck in traffic there should be a system where I take a number or whatever to go do something else and then come back once things start moving again

I’m just straight up inviting myself over to a friend’s house on Halloween

You have to run lots of meetings You have to tackle lots of tasks You have to answer lots of questions You’ve got to question lots of asks Some days your email inbox Will have you pulling out your hair That’s just the way it always goes Once they’ve made you Chair!

Should I stay in and make dinner or go watch Rocky Horror Picture Show at the bar?

I never want to close the windows!

Vincent's Chimneys has the best yt fireplace videos just in case you were wondering

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'In the Spaces Between — Arts at CERN,' book launch is around the corner! indico.cern.ch/event/1593663/ The first publication dedicated to Arts at CERN reflects on the last decade of dialogue between art and science at the Laboratory If you happen to be in Geneva on Oct 30th, please join!!

drive-in cinema, route 19, pinellas park, florida, 1979

I have a question. It is a value neutral technical question. Assume I said all the rightthink things about AI being bad. No bully please. What hard limits exist on AI advancement? I see this, think back to what was possible ten years ago, and worry we’re whistling past the graveyard when we laugh.

You always get the best sleep in that interval between when you should have gotten up and the moment when it's already way too late

Twin Peaks: Leland and the Horne brothers.

(Whoever designed that one mech that became the VF-1 Valkyrie, the Transformer Jetfire, *and* the Battletech Phoenix Hawk might be one of the most influential designers in the history of science fiction.)

There’s definitely a mini rush hour now when people leave work at 3pm (ask me how I know this) (I’ll be wfh until 7, lol)

Listen to you, "Wahh I don't want another great depression" well too bad, my hands are tied. Weak men have to create hard times or else the meme doesn't work