victor

two text bubbles, first says "hey do you have any gaities" second says "lol. hairties"

glad autocorrect knows i need cheerfulness in the plural, but wtf.

for sale: baby shoes, never cursed

you’ve gotta try a dual minotaur set up

a likely result for new students is that you won’t even have to be interested in your research, and could easily research anything else, which ofc means you’re vastly more replaceable

one of the appeals of academia (that’s gradually decreased) was the leeway and ability to explore, with even higher productivity expectations and AI in the loop, why not go into industry since it’ll be virtually indistinguishable

sure, academic work isn’t for self-actualization, but have fun with the kind of students that’ll attract

expressivists, what do you make of “fact-based feelings”

No discussion of tech media can get past this basic traffic fact: in the AI world, Google and social no longer refer traffic, which means that the vast majority of readers just never find you in the first place. Analysis: growtika.com/blog/tech-m...

just because someone says something dumb about AI doesn’t mean they’re worth engaging with

while I don’t think shame is inherently bad I think not feeding the trolls beats it out as a general strategy

can’t read “goner” anymore without first thinking it’s “gooner”

I hope this won’t be a long 2024 thing, we’ve gotta move on man

probably people further left than you weren’t responsible for harris losing

we have the letters now we must simply count and shift

it’d be nice to stop insisting they’re a lens for understanding everything and to not have to call stuff content anymore

I guess 10 years of meme magic will do that

maybe I’m getting older but it feels like memes are finally starting to die down

but it’s definitely better, perhaps on account of the two characters

no! I only read the ones a professor would put in his syllabus

the shortest sad story is too ambiguous to be truly sad, the baby shoes could’ve just been an ugly gift

imagine the advances we could make in cognitive science if everyone could just chill

Our government did bomb Philadelphia and we did forget about it after a couple of Rocky movies.

www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

pretty confident that if our own government bombed, say, Philadelphia, we'd just kind forget about it after a couple more Rocky movies

The Ego Trip Continuing or occasion series of “Woman on Unlikely Pilgrimages” (Daphné Tamage on the trail of John Fante, or the same en français), today we bring you Hadas Weiss on a very different sort of trail.

last summer i went on a pilgrimage. you'll never believe what happened next
www.the-hinternet.com/p/the-ego-tr...

optimism of the mind, pessimism of the brain

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

hbu: happy birthday university

the gas station is called buc-ee’s but his name is bucky the beaver, who the fuck is buc-ee and why does he outrank bucky?

yfw you bought the new book by your favorite author but it’s a misprint

calvino would’ve revolutionized greentext