Jordan S. Carroll 🌹

sure, if there's anyone absorbing the full risk of their stupidity, it's US defense contractors. famously accountable for their failures and shortcomings.

cool Romanian cover for Tyll

I finished Tyll by Daniel Kehlmann, and the novel's blend of tragedy and comedy really summed up how I see the world. this is going to be a Tyllposting account from here on out.

when I get to 4000 followers I promise to release the key to all mythologies based on the latest up-to-date anglophone scholarship

Why is it that young people protest human rights violations that our government actively supports but you never see them out in the streets yelling about human rights violations our government actively opposes? 🤔

there's never going to be a Peter Thiel Guide to Saving Your Marriage or Peter Thiel for the Teenage Soul. the tech right don't have the level of influence that any of the televangelists had.

the new right was embedded into the communities and lifeworlds of large segments in the population. the tech right is something people read on their phones.

it's important to contrast the new right of the 20th century with the tech right. the new right emerged as a grassroots movement and flourished amidst an immense evangelical revival with outposts in every town in the nation. on the other hand, the tech right is rich guys tweeting pronouncements.

Does anyone have suggestions for math or logic puzzle books for a third grade audience?

I'm glad we seem to have moved past the moment when simply stipulating what would have to be true for epistemology to cease to be a problem was an exciting move in some fields

"now we all know that our access to objects is mediated through language, culture, and society, but what this monograph presupposes is... maybe it isn't???" — every other book in the humanities from about 2010 to 2015

a crow says "Greta Thunberg, she's the antichrist" and someone yells "Boo! Get better material," but the crow's notecards only say "Katechon...Antichrist... Armageddon"

Peter Thiel right now

he looks like a low-level Spider-Man villain who suits up and throws fireballs

I think there's a leak in my dopamine supply. I really cannot pay attention this week.

I think part of it is that you used to have to read or watch whatever was around, so that meant growing up with movies, books, and TV shows from years before you were born. 24/7 streaming access to everything got rid of that.

everyone in that situation may be a snake, but they're consenting adult snakes whose self-publicized life choices led them to this place

I'm sorry but I'm more worried about babies who are going to catch Hep B than I am about whether Olivia Nuzzi is getting a fair shake right now.

Enter the Casablancaverse

that's fair

there's no way to teach a class that doesn't advocate a set of values or prescribe a way of life. even a course promoting "inquiry" is encouraging students to adopt a scholarly ethos. if a course appears "value-neutral," it is actually preparing students to subject themselves to capitalist ideology.

Allan Bloom would roll over in his grave, as well.

they've created a machine that scans courses to make sure that they serve instrumental reason rather than critical reason. if Horkheimer had predicted this we'd think he was being a little overblown.

In fact, it’s probably true that generalized loathing for great masses of people is incompatible with democracy and egalitarianism

I hope we arrive at a place where people realize that being abrasive and mean-spirited towards ordinary people is bad even if you’re doing it while espousing good politics.

But Who Is the Snake in ‘Zootopia 2’?

what if Pale Fire were about Gary De'Snake from Zootopia 2?

what's being sold with regards to AI is not a product that will help you out but instead an anxiety about falling behind that AI will help alleviate. the market for it will collapse as it becomes clear that people who don't use AI aren't really losing out all that much.

Oscar Isaac makes a good point

Games Workshop Brighton - April 1989 with Guy Carpenter (Manager) and Chris Cooper (Asst Manager) from the John Stallard interview with Filmdeg miniatures

how much would you give for that John Blanche battle banner up at the top?

Schrödinger's protagonist

guys, I'm sorry but we are going to have to bring back Abstract Expressionism until we get rid of all this naive moralizing that assumes a 1:1 relationship between art and reality. please enjoy these nonrepresentational shapes.