noam chompers

i feel like the one i most commonly get is 'i have a thought that includes some of the same key words as your tweet, so clearly my thought belongs in your replies'

one question i've been thinking about is whether targeting a girls school harms the girls in their capacities as knowers

Markwayne ‘gacy’ mullin

Doctor delivering the bad news "we've given your penis to the cops"

Doctor saying "have a nice life"

These are pictures I took of my television

Smoking on that shit that made Hagar the horrible

Honestly less vague than I would have expected! lol

oh no

extremely up my alley. delillo is, in my estimation, the most prescient american novelist of the 20th century by a lot, and also, evidently (though it's also not hard to notice this in his other works), a real fucking weirdo. shoutout to the big dog donny d

wow truly nobody could have seen this coming

can't think of anyone more appropriate to correct me about Québécois culture than professor francois!

for the record, the noam take is that toronto is a truly incredible city and you should disregard all of the canadians who confidently tell you it sucks

'of course you think that because you lived in TORONTO which is canada's DEMONIC CITY. anyone who has been to REAL CANADA...'

i got it, i got it

[bracing for canadians to yell at me about this claim]

i've mostly just lived in big cosmopolitan cities in each country, which will obviously skew things, but it is interesting to me that the US and canada are so opposite on this metric, because they feel pretty culturally similar day to day

though i do need to clarify (a clarification that is especially important if andrew is right that today's email was in reference to a 2023 search):

bsky.app/profile/noam...

a previous favorite from unc
bsky.app/profile/noam...

unc is the best job market emailer in the game and it's not close

Oh shit if books could kill episode on bullshit jobs. Time to argue about graeber on bluesky again

I’m happy to reassure the residents of Shreveport: you are not in danger of a nuclear strike

Because this city was built on the high ground, it is substantially less vulnerable to nuclear ballistic missile strikes

I suppose this is just my ignorance, but the idea of ranking the ‘most vulnerable’ cities to a nuclear strike is flummoxing me. They all seem roughly equally vulnerable to my untrained eye

Love to live in a representative democracy. I feel so represented. I’m really participating in the democratic process

As I understand it, the big congressional argument is whether congress will insist that trump come ask them about the Iran thing (at which point they will definitely say yes), or not insist that he come ask them at all (which is what they’re actually gonna do)

this does sometimes happen in philosophy talk Q&As too

i think my interview with isaac chotiner about how i support war with iran is going to go great. i'm really excited

Alright time for the ritual. Time to post our favorite part

@mehr.nz has very cool work. maybe also alex kerr's paper on feeling a beat

Converged on the right answer yet again. So impressive