T.N. Kayzel

Hyvesvrienden, Goede kerstdagen en een Gelukkig 2008

Nu nog Dijsselbloem en de PvdA is weer een respectabele partij.

In terms of most grievous misspellings of names, I think I found the most funny example. The guy is called Jörn Rüsen. (From Habermas' "the new obscurity")

The fate of Immanuel Kant. From great metaphysician to copywriter of taglines for shoe polish.

I’ve been listening to Aphex Twin while working all dat, and I’m now wondering if that was such a good idea. Perhaps I should’ve listened to Sunn O))) instead

Woke-Aristoteles: the personal is political

Wittgenstein | movie | 1993 | Official Clip Dailymotion video by JustWatch

"THIS IS A VERY PLEASANT PINEAPPLE!"
www.dailymotion.com/video/x8i2h30

It was the morning of 7 September 1303, and Pope Boniface VIII had a vague sense that thing might not go completely his way that day.

A positive example... but this one is done by Rubens so that's almost cheating.

Author portraits in the 17th century... not always a success story.

If the author’s portrait is anything to go by, I have serious doubts about how delightful the "heerlijke konterfeijtsels" (delightful portraits) in this book will actually be.

Billie, de eerste dag op de set:

‘‘Vrede door wapens is als vleeseten voor dierenwelzijn’’’ … ja en je niet bewapenen met Trump en Poetin voor de deur is jezelf in de marinade rollen voor kannibalen

Vandaag precies tien jaar geleden. Drinken we op.

The Darkness at the End of the Tunnel: Artificial Intelligence and Neoreaction - Viewpoint Magazine As the consumer-oriented liberalism of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs gave way to the technological authoritarianism of Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, this strange foundation paved the way for “neoreaction,” o...

Was reading this beautiful piece on the ideology of our Silicon Valley overlords. It forwards the centrality of the notion of "the Singularity", a point at which AI surpasses human intelligence and merges with it. A thread🧵
viewpointmag.com/2017/03/28/t...

The Identity Trap Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 12/14/2023 · 1h 47m

This podcast episode is not only interesting because @michaelhobbes.bsky.social & Peter Shamshiri meticulously lay out how bad Yascha Mounk's "scholarship" is but also because they show how weak the empirical basis for the "anti-woke" movement is.

Same energy:

you can tell a lot about contemporary Thomists by the fact that the Thomistic Institute has a coffee mug about your dog's soul being annihilated upon death as a gift

Question for the economic theologians out there: Is the role of our banking system in pushing "the day of reckoning" into the future rooted in the Christian doctrine of holding back the end times (the kathechon and all that)?

France: Let’s democratize the central bank; it’s only logical.
Bagehot (a true Englishman): Nice idea there, old chap, but we Brits simply don’t care about logic.

布衣中，問英雄。 王圖霸業成何用？ 禾黍高低六代宮。 楸梧遠近千官塚。 一場惡夢。 Standing in humble homespun robes, I question history's men of great esteem: What use were all your kingly plans; How long endured the tyrant's scheme? Palaces from the Six Dynasties Now fertilize the farmer's grain, And scraggly catalpa trees Mark loyal ministers' remains: All history is one bad dream.

Ma Zhiyuan 馬致遠 (ca. 1250 - 1312), "To the tune 'Bo bu duan'"

Switch joycons. They are bodies are fully blue and fully red, with accenting black buttons.

Star Trek TOS uniforms. They're red and blue shirts accented by black pants and undershirts.

Switch 2 Joycons. They're solid black, with a stripe of blue and red accenting them.

Deep Space 9 uniforms. They're mostly black with a stripe of blue and red accenting them.

Surely I'm not the only one getting this vibe from the Switch 2's joycons:

French was according to J.S. Mill not a great language. Yet the French are so good in speculative bullshit that the intellectual mind cannot help but to feel compelled.

Cybernetic Capitalism A Conceptual Interrogation of Capital in a Cybernetic Environment Cybernetic Capitalism presents a groundbreaking synthesis of Niklas Luhmann's systems theor...

Cybernetic Capitalism is out now! It offers a social philosophy for the current age, detailing the cybernetic logic of neoliberal capitalism and radical-right reaction. www.fordhampress.com/978153150893...

Merry Christmas, my dear Bluesky friends!

asking for an image of a professor and asking to make it "more professor", a thread.

Presentations on scarcity and visions of growth by @helmerstoel.bsky.social and @kaijzel.bsky.social respectively. Special thanks to Utrecht University's Critical Pathways and the Descartes Center for funding.