Michael Burns

If you're seeing this, thank you for being around for our First Year!

We started on St. Patrick's Day

Thanks dude

Wow making fun of me for bad grammar without realizing my brain has been compromised by TWO non-alcoholic beers

Lol

fair game

Holy crap bookkeeping is insane. Accountants are wizards. They should be paid more that doctors.

never accuse me of lying about what i bring to the table

YouTube video by Michael Burns this sh*t is crazy

everyone on the internet is begging for a 41 year old with a cold to try and understand the philosophy of looksmaxxing

youtu.be/q4alSFx38Zg

lololol wow

thanks for that. and same.

fwiw - not meant passive aggressively, i didn't like our interaction as it felt unnecessarily condescending, but also you're a human person who seems to want good things for this world so I do genuinely hope for your happiness and apologies if it seemed like I was wishing that for you sarcastically.

i did not see a joke.

i don't know why guys like you are like this but i hope that you find the sort of happiness and self-love that leaves you in a position to just be normal to other humans on the internet.

then i imagine you're either a) a very big guy, or b) without friends or meaningful relationships.

i truly hope you speak to people with such condescension in your real life as well.

i respectfully do not think Charles Dickens was doing the same thing that Mark Zuckerberg is doing.

but clearly i am an idiot child so who knows?

thanks for that - I had never heard of tv ad breaks until this afternoon because I am a giant idiot with a baby brain incapable of critical thought.

in my small sample size experience i really loved Austin, Texas and the people who live there.

13 DAYS UNTIL THE ELECTION!

We need all hands on deck.

(One class deep into the phenomenology of spirit) I love Hegel. I would die for Hegel

for sure - not an argument in favor of bans - just pointing out that the analogy here isn't as clean as we might want it to be.

Respectfully, isn’t the difference that the content of most books wasn‘t designed using the psychology of casinos to maximize attention and reactivity all while collecting sellable data and integrating sources of monetization?

Public Thinking

This seems like a program some of my undergrad homies might be interested in applying for

www.publicthinking.thepointmag.com

Thanks dude - and that’s for real a helpful note/comment/critique/etc.

show last night was very fun.

CJ is brilliant. @jaredhenderson.bsky.social is brilliant (and wears good shirts).

The audience was so kind and enthusiastic.

And i'm going to have a mild existential crisis figuring out what "my thing is" when it comes to live performance.

viva la austin.

YouTube video by Michael Burns Incels Reinvented Nihilism.

mamas don't let your babies grow up to be looksmaxxers

youtu.be/q4alSFx38Zg

i'm loving this, and michael's videos are hard to title bc they're about ideas -- but in this one, he explains the philosophical split between people who live (and die, or incel) by a template, and people who do not. it's reminding me of kierkegaard's idea of anxiety, too. choice is hard and risky.

For the record we - with about 170 people other people - did kill the Internet last night.

This is a lot more philosophy-heavy than I thought it would be and it's been a long time since I last read philosophy. I'm going to power through. Anyone wanna read it and we can chat about it? @zesmerelda.bsky.social Thanks to @michaelburns.bsky.social for recommending it in videos.

Filming a video about it next week!