Thomas Arnold

Taking in Helene damage down in NC I see some of the second and third order breakdowns the media will not have the time/resources to report, e.g. increasing plumbing and pipe trouble under pressure of water flooding space left by uprooted trees.

Bezos and MAHA are turning Jonah Goldberg's "You know Whole Foods and obsession with healthy eating is fascist" from laughable NR cruise banter to grounded analysis.

Mr. Murdoch said he would take care of the flowers himself.

I don't remember the exact words of his risotto video but every five seconds he seemed to drop a cooking bar with clear objective correlates to life, leaving me bereft for not having already learned all of them.

It is a theater movie, almost self-referentially so in one immersive scene.

When Big Fun Broke

The Gritts

Reviewers keep asking how well @lioneltrolling.bsky.social's "When The Clock Broke" explains Trumpism. They almost all miss how deftly it denudes H. Ross Perot's corrupt, conspiracy-addled, balcony-seeking fraudulence, revealing a Musk avant la twittre.

Excellent!

In the same spirit, here's a piece on AI hype I wrote in....1985 🤯

melaniemitchell.me/EssaysConten...

Helen exemplified so much of what philosophy (or living well together) desperately needs: honesty, vulnerability, integrity, wonder-sharing, courage, determination, decency.

Tönnies-y read on Seinfeld/Curb = the semi-public is a set of comically arbitrary norms that allow for society but dissolve community.

April is a real bummer of a month

New England and Boston writers-friends: Join us at 2 p.m. tomorrow in Concord, MA at the Concord Free Public Library for a writing event featuring the wonderful @cindyhouse.bsky.social @demisty.bsky.social & Alysia Abbott. Come say hi! Come write! (& pass the word along!)

see Ohler (2016)

April is a real bummer of a month

That's also the name of the feature Musk is promising Tesla robots will have by 2028.

I do like the idea of non-monotonic heat maps to turn my uncertainty into Tufte level sophistication. Slop and protein-folds share a world.

MJ Slenderman

Alasdair MacIntyre (1929-2025) - Daily Nous Alasdair MacIntyre, professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame and Duke University, well-known for his work on moral and political philosophy, has died. Professor MacIntyre wrote...

Philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre has died.

Folk might want to read my @dallasnews.com op-ed related to Hegseth & Wilson: www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...

Percival Everett would find satirical ways to send up data servers using water as precious commodity, including attributing fake novels to the narrator-- tokens of irony...

Really looking forward to this book.

If I were a Spartan intelligence agent I would teach youth new gods and show impiety toward the Athenian pantheon.

My very dear Wife:
Indications are very strong that our justified true beliefs will move toward Ft. Gettier in a few days-- perhaps tomorrow...

Straining the bounds of seriousness

Amazing, thank you. It was a leap beyond the Jabbar/Worthy goggles of the early/mid 80's.

In the midst of Boston spring I found there was, within me, still another Boston spring.

Fluttering Codes: A Cultural History of the Split Flap Words in Space is the work of Shannon Mattern.

Since this has prompted a few references to the split-flap, here are my talk and article about that most charismatic and functional of technologies :)

wordsinspace.net/2020/12/03/f...

wordsinspace.net/fluttering-c...

Oh yeah that’s a good one (reminds me to check back in with western esotericism podcast). Now I’m thinking who other than Heraclitus is philosophy’s dril.

Gorgias, Malebranche, in terms of form Aquinas, have to think more… : )