the rural midwest really makes you think about how much richer than johnny appleseed the guy who planted all the corn must’ve gotten

the issue with nostalgic social democracy (less cash transfers, more going to The Government Office; fresh yalies trying to fix the economy by turning a plastic steering wheel back & forth) is not that it’s not utopian enough, it’s that it’s not even clear it’s better than this

one of the better things marx was a jerk about was incoherently moderate demands. the moderate version of a political demand, as he said time & again, is often the basically unrealistic one because it imagines an aestheticising or moralising tweak to an already coherent system

three principal modes of post: - declamation ('there are only THESE modes of post') - accusation ('you only know how to post THESE ways') - defensive self-(pseudo-)accusation ('i mean, like, i only know how to post THESE ways anyway

so then i says to him, i was wondering if anyone had any thoughts on the future of the democratic party

would you say you personally know anyone who isn’t ‘working class’, in whichever sense you usually mean the term? how do they usually spend their days? [sincere intuition canvassing here]

in my dreams ln they replaced twitter with a site where you floated a topic for conversation & all ur friends discussed (& likewise you only mused on the topics posed for you). i woke up & for a minute thought it was very innovative before i realised it was regular twitter also

the scholar who passes all day reading secondary literature is no better than the child who passes all day watching a twitch stream; yet, the scholar who passes all day reading primary literature is themselves no better than the streamer

whenever i listen to a symphony or opera written in the twentieth century and enjoy it in the kind of way that has me humming one of the motives afterwards i google ‘[work name] adorno critique’ to double check that adorno hated it and so far i’ve been right every time

‘weeding’ is an experiment by librarians to determine how rapidly they can close the gap to their secret utopian ideal of a book-free library before the masses wake up and realise there are only seven books left and they’re all guides to cozy tabletop rpgs

they only let christopher nolan write his own movies as a kind of precautionary tale intended to instill nostalgia for the studio system

it's kind of incredible that, no matter how 'radical' people are willing to cop to being, moral cosmopolitanism consistently seems to find itself past even that line

my friends all love to hear stories about the spooky gym i go to, but the problem is that the gym is just so spooky that unless i have with me a fellow gym-goer i’m totally unable to convince anyone that any of the better stories are true

chicago rappers independently reinvented mmt

i leave my valuables unattended in public places on purpose, to show others how much i trust them :)

great sage comic

basically the only role for compulsory education i can see in the society of the future is in the domain of garment care tags

Really excited to announce that starting in the fall I'll be an assistant professor in the philosophy department at East Tennessee State University! So hit me up if you're ever in Appalachia!

artists making art about the figure of The Artist is sort of like starting a business that starts businesses, or working on those AI models that're supposed to recursively self-improve. yes it's sad you went to harvard but it doesn't make it *this* impossible to develop interests

of junior TT faculty at the top 30 leiter rank philosophy departments: 2% have ever held a vap 0.5% have ever held an adjunct appointment 5% have ever held a renewable teaching position 11% have ever previously held a role at an R2 2% have ever previously held a role at a 4-year

i dreamt last night of NEET-and-greets, which were annual events with lines out the door... you get to look at the NEET cave (if only for a little while) so as to gain precious insight into how to live so well, how to game so much, how to enjoy pizza pockets

right when jürgen habermas died i had just been reading an article from monocle magazine to my friends in eurocrat voice and it left such a discomfiting impression on me that i felt myself lapsing back into eurocracy for days thence

i accidentally set my wikipedia to dark mode & it disturbed me so much i started unconsciously fumbling around with the language selector like my brain couldn't parse the script it was written in

bf’s shared faculty office contains: - totally stopped clock - jar of Natural Molasses with a 2021 expiration date - out of tune Aerosonic piano - 10 volumes of charlie chaplin films on VHS

former punk frontman who just turned 43: 'living in a simulation // food co-op tribulations' drummer who bought his first moog last year: [80s pop melody repeated 8 times] frontman's daughter's oberlin friend: 'i'm like a bug // or is it a dog' frontman's exwife: [angular guitar]

every manufacturer of humidifiers is one thousand times as guilty as your worst SBF or holmes for their production of infinite clouds of baby killing lung fibrosing pm2.5 white dust

‘cool mist’ is basically like toxic gas intended to punish you for believing your life could be better

even after the south korean humidifier disinfectant scandal (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_K..., 20k dead, same products still sold in the US) we have yet to bring one false humidity peddler to justice

if your air is dry your whole life is dry. there’s nothing for you anymore. your epithelial barrier has given up. it’s time for you to do the same