Nate Wolff

Oh sure everyone wants an unhinged literary opinion until someone simply decodes an elaborate alpha-numeric cypher revealing the true authorship of the so-called Shakespeare plays :(

As revealed to me via a Minnesota populist doing pre-1900 digital humanities

“Shakespeare’s” plays were authored by Sir Francis Bacon, as revealed to me in a complex cypher contained within the plays.

Where I Lived, and What I Lived For At a certain season of our life we are accustomed to consider every spot as the possible site of a house. I have thus surveyed the country on every side within a dozen miles of where I live. In imagination I have bought all the farms in succession, for all were to be bought, and I knew their price. I walked over each farmer’s premises, tasted his wild apples, discoursed on husbandry with him, took his farm at his price, at any price, mortgaging it to him in my mind; even put a higher price on it,—took everything but a deed of it,—took his word for his deed, for I dearly love to talk,—cultivated it, and him too to some extent, I trust, and withdrew when I had enjoyed it long enough, leaving him to carry it on. This experience entitled me to be regarded as a sort of real-estate broker by my friends. Wherever I sat, there I might live, and the landscape radiated from me accordingly.

RIP Thoreau you would've loved zillow

This was such a treat to be with @mattseybold.bsky.social @aprilanson.bsky.social @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social @jlb.bsky.social @natewolff.bsky.social( & others not on here?) to think through the knots of energy, aesthetics, politics & the hell we inhabit. Thanks Matt, Jeff, & Joe for having us.

Lots of options but let's go classic on this one and say that time we shitposted so hard they put it in a peer reviewed journal and then that issue won a prize 🐳

Looking forward to hanging out this weekend where we can keep gassing each other up [note unintentional energy humanities joke]

This project would not have happened were it not for Nate's book.

A real honor to nearly bookend (with a late cameo following earlier more substantive appearances!) this amazing series. The depth and breadth of Matt's work here is truly awe inspiring. (And good morning to my brother in late-alphabetical sorting, Yanis Varoufakis.)

A Tale of Today (2024-2025) Episode 1: The Age of Insecurity (September 9, 2024) A new season of The American Vandal Podcast inspired by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner’s 150-year-old novel, The Gilded Age…

A landing page for the completed “A Tale of Today” series in which (crossing fingers) all the links to episode bibliographies work.

👉 👈 What if we kissed in a bar brawl ☺️ setting in motion a fundamental tension or conflict about cycles of violence and how hard it is to break them 🤭

Who said it, Emily Brontë or Werner Herzog?

"Ok this is exciting. new archival discovery of a young Melville's first art project!"

no disrespect but is your supposedly exciting "archival find" more impressive than this?

Cornell Cut Classes by a Pro-Palestinian Professor After an Israeli Student’s Discrimination Complaint Dr. Eric Cheyfitz, who has taught at Cornell for more than two decades, claims the university is attempting to silence him as part of a broader crackdown on pro-Palestinian activism.

just gonna have to keep saying, in company of so many others:

we are jewish faculty against the astroturf antisemitism persecution of jewish faculty by our own universities, by online hate groups, and by the regime

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

this question/convo is very @annakornbluh.bsky.social coded

💯 🤝 💦

Let me add: Work wife

Nate, this is a poem!

reminder:

I did indeed. Even I couldn't make a Moby-Dick joke out of it -- simply too rad.

Leading to Ahab’s famous reply, “I came here to chew bubblegum and kick one fish’s ass, and I’m all out of bubblegum”

fwiw “taught me a lot about whales” is part of the joke bc Ahab muses extensively on the “meaning” of whales, or rather one specific whale, in a monomaniacal, Manichean, metaphysical framework; Ishmael seems to take up this obsession but translate it into a more rationalistic idiom of taxonomy etc 🐳

The whale is a spouting fish with a horizontal tail! #BelieveScience

crocheted with malice 😍

But he got your crewmates killed? I don't recall the details. He was a very magnetic person. He taught me a lot about whales. I don’t know anyone who showed that level of curiosity. Well, next time someone brings up a terrible anecdote about The Pequod I will definitely drop the "whale facts" thing to show that people have two sides. Yeah.

[new Isaac Chotiner interview]

pretty sad AI flubbed this gimme

Letter to the Massachusetts Special Commission on Combatting Antisemitism - Boston Review Your approach is toxic and threatens core democratic values. You must change course or cease to exist.

"The Commission’s co-chairs seem insistent on becoming the patrons of one particular faction of MA Jews—not only providing a platform for them to dominate a different faction but also empowering them to use their access as “court Jews” to destroy the right to free expression in our state."

The evidence has been right there all along

again just a gentle reminder that Melville intended this to be read in Pee-wee Herman's "I know you are but what am I?" voice

Genuinely great thread. Also this is how Matt Seybold's seductive baritone on the "American Vandal" podcast radicalized me into a Keynesian