Totally boneless
see the vision?
i just had a prophetic vision that the new buzzword for all the guys currently obsessed with "taste" is gonna be "appetite".
Eg "In the anhedonic post-ozempic era, the only thing that matters is obsessively discerning, high-agency appetite"!!! Sorry for writing that sentence!!
I fear this was my Infinite Jest (now in use as Y2K lamp holder at my parents house)
Awful stuff
yes! the noticer is but a humble windvane (without agency) picking up on some emergent behavior
If someone says they’re “noticing” something these days it is either a dog whistle that they’re a conspiracy theorist/antisemite or indicates they’re a moron about to reinvent an existing field of study.
Sorry to that word
Not sure what answer you want and why you're being so aggressive here - if this is terrain you feel like you have ownership of then you're welcome to it. No more cheeky QTs from me! I cede my ground to the professionals 🫡
still not sure what you mean but that's cool
What do you mean?
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No one is watching the a16z boys as closely as I am and that’s ok
bsky.app/profile/kell...
Been in transition since last Jan but looks like the style transformation is finally complete 🙃 bsky.app/profile/kell...
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TOMORROW NIGHT! Release party for SF Review of Whatever Issue 3. Tragically I won't be there (still deployed in the Antipodes) but everyone else cool will be there.
Go buy a mag and a marg and hang out!
We're doing a TMK live show in San Francisco next week with the wonderful folks at @bayareacurrent.bsky.social and @dsasf.org. Come join us for a night of left-wing tech criticism!
Registration is free, encouraged, but not required: www.eventbrite.com/e/decoding-t...
"The only ones who need to be worried right now is the Iranians who think they're gonna live"
-Pete Hegseth, Very Normal Guy
Their stores have the most disingenuous and cringe deployment of the “Judd Furniture book on display + wafts of limited edition Japanese incense” retail genre I’ve ever seen. BARELY a step up from “curly mustache barber that gives you whisky”
“More like Cuck Mason” (<—me to every “in the age of AI, taste is everything” midwit SF guy I see
I was gonna say 'don't tell the yarvinites about this' but i guess i'd be happy to see moldbug get bonked in the face by an East Bay Rat so
The AI frothers and e/acc fash are constantly writing about their awful parties like they're the only thing happening in the Bay BUT just a few miles away are ACTUAL parties with hot punks who know how to socialize, godbless!!
bayareacurrent.com/party-report-east-bay-rats-valentines-fight-party/
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Great stuff, thank you for writing. I shoulda subscribed to FH ages ago but this really tipped the scales for me!
My own contribution to the discourse (a full year ago - aka ancient history in USA fash slop years) was on the heinous "golden pager" gifted to Trump by Netanyahu (remember that??) - a cruel gag presented as a fugly corporate trophy. Still worth reading imo!!
dilettantearmy.com/articles/gol...
Just subscribed to @flaminghydra.com so I can read this @katewagner.wehwalt.net piece.
Lots of good twt/bsky threads out there on contemp fascist aesthetics & some longer form work, but I'm so stoked for Kate's series bc this shit is RANCID and needs mucho analysis
flaminghydra.com/toward-an-un...
it's the most enjoyable length to write imo - my golden wordcount
Selective Service System (mentioned below) had a huge impact on me when I first watched it.
Made by SF State students, it documents the lengths some young people went to avoid the draft, the violence of those (these) times, and the way wars makes losers of us all.
mubi.com/en/nz/films/...
I pretty much think the semi-apocryphal Truffaut truism that "it is impossible to make an anti-war film" is correct when it comes to hollywood narrative cinema.
However, it is 100% possible to make an anti-war experimental film. Time to tap back in at the cinephile factory, friends.
The Anton Jager Hyperpolitics cover design works and I like it, but that book jacket style cycle is now complete
