noam chompers

Maybe that’s what he looked like

pretty funny

in my opinion, all elections are special

i wind up tweeting this basically every time there's an article like this, but the fundamental thing to me: ask yourself whether you earnestly believe there's more social pressure to be trans, or more social pressure to be cis. it's actually a super easy one!

didn't think i'd ever be nostalgic for the level of planning and strategy that characterized the iraq war

i am impervious to this kind of argument because i have actually read newspaper articles from before october 7th, and moreover i remember what they said

i have a lot of disdain for atlantic readers, but evidently not as much as the atlantic itself has for its readers!

there's also the more generic thing of just 'way more people post about the bigger news story'

and i'm usually right, btw

it's sorta remarkable that the political discourse has made it the case that i reflexively roll my eyes when someone says 'antisemitism'. i'm a jew who thinks antisemitism is a real problem, but when i encounter that word my immediate reaction is 'ok here comes some bullshit'

i don't deadlift anymore, but using my old PR, i got sloth bear, which feels pretty good lol

It’s weird (at least compared to the rest of the internet…) but definitely a thing!

Task is maybe the best show I’ve seen in years, but it’s very emotionally intense, which is maybe not the vibe youre looking for. I’ve also been getting back into columbo which is fun and a ton of long episodes and on prime

[sotto voce] it’s really the progress pics I wanna post and feel like I can’t

I mean I sorta just did, but I’d still like to get one of those proper academic jobs and I worry really bragging about gym stuff will read as ‘unprofessional’ lol

Unfortunately you’ll just have to take my word for it: I’m getting kinda jacked

Annoyed I’ve cultivated an online presence where I can brag about my research successes (nothing to report), but not my weightlifting successes (incline db press with the 65s for 5 reps)

lol yep that's right. the point being made in the text is completely correct. i'm just being a knucklehead because i think it's funny

even if you are not capable of inferring the editorial outlook from the content, the former editor of the op-ed section literally said his plan was to solicit op-eds that 'challenged his liberal readers' lol

very funny to go 'a lot of people think that they can discern the editorial outlook of a paper by considering the sort of things they regularly publish and don't publish over many years, and that's a real media literacy problem'

definitely a media literacy problem in the mix; no doubt about that

a lot of people opt for evil neuroscientist, but, to me, you really can't beat a good bonk on the head

one thing i didn't anticipate when i got into the empirically informed philosophy of mind game was how often i would say 'you might get bonked on the head'

reading some psychology

it is apparently too much to ask that the producers of our news media have also read our news media at any point over the last 25–50 years

every mainstream news story about iran gives me a concussion

Seth Rogen accepting Catherine O’Hara’s posthumous award for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series for The Studio #ActorAwards

Weird that ‘Jane “The Rock” Austen’ also works

a cartoon of marge simpson saying that 's true but he shouldn 't say it . ALT: a cartoon of marge simpson saying that 's true but he shouldn 't say it .

hard for me to hear it as anythihng other than this tbh