Owen

The thorns of life

There's something so exquisite about the Ghiblification here. The use of a probability-processing machine to smear a thick layer of cartoon sentimental simplicity over the thought is a one-to-one match of media and content

One day we'll work up the bravery to talk about how Oda has made a massive media property out of imagining a fantastical world where Italian guys menace the high seas unimpeded

Alright I'll be back in the New Year be good

People still have questions. How much money do you make as a mentally ill driver? Well, there's an answer on the way

To be more concrete: to be a organic state theorist you have to have sufficient critical distance from *your* "organic state" to already inhabit a higher view? Higher very intentionally chosen as the adjective here of course

Do you take the latter to be insufficiently appreciative of the modern stance afforded by an appreciation of Spirit such that the "organic state" is too unreflective? Or I should say dependent implicitly on the "view from Spirit" in a "self-deceiving" or imperfectly expressed way?

wrote about the cinema of the portuguese revolution for film comment

Ayo

This part of what makes Yarvin's view attractive: his finished-out political science dream is just received ideological wisdom inside this center-right consensus paired with the fantasy of cutting loose the biggest stakeholder group, "the people" by garroting their pot-stirrers "the experts"

What makes the Center properly understood as the successful Metternichian Right in the US is the truth they ideologically capture is simple: politics in a rich, institutionalized, pluralistic, post-organized labor society is stakeholder management, all loud ideology is just stakeholder negotiation

"morally riotous" is a great play, pretty good

You don't credit the argument that the working class is not an interestingly definable cultural entity and a way of structurally misunderstanding the proletariat (itself the relevant category) eh

"Any time anyone calls something a part of the category that fits with my argument they are right to and when you deny them category membership you're wrong to" is quite the rhetorical gambit

"No true Scotsman" has gotta be the best fallacy because regardless of how it's supposed to be used most people use it to justify the strangest nominative anarchy imaginable where anything anyone calls anything is taken to constitute appropriate category ID by virtue of someone nominating it

Ordinary definitional arguments: are they "no-true-Scotsman debates"? More at 10

Where is the lava hub at

TUCKER: The self-appointed experts on BlueSky are saying you need to read a book in its entirety. What's going on? Who is making these rules? Did you elect them? I know I didn't. Who is paying these people to play jury with your reading habits? And how long are we going to continue tolerating it?

Just joshing of course it is just another big bluff to create room to maneuver and negotiate or so I'm told

Do you all think maybe the first thing everyone will think if Trump decapitates the Cartels will be "Wow look what happened to those guys" or more like "Opportunity knocks baby" or do you think it will be more like a permanent occupation of Mexico as a policing force for a massive ghetto

I did everything right, and they indicted me

I'm not sure why we should imaginize a set of standards for a campaign that hold it to be good if it does not respond to the actual political environment but instead a fantastical set of referee standards for what counts as good

Sounds like her campaign did not appropriately respond to the media environment and was, by dint of that fact, a bad campaign

Getting swept up in events beyond my control

Alice YouTube video by Pogo

Just heard this somewhere and was sent back in time fifteen years
youtu.be/pAwR6w2TgxY?...

Joe Keskold photocopies...

More relevantly I guess they really still have the light in their eyes about doing something on the cutting edge!

I wonder from time to time what life would have been like if I stayed on the cog neuro track! Some of my friends are so happy doing the work there

It is! I was just wondering if there was anywhere you hung your hat in particular