@acidic.bsky.social
Writer, editor, guitar player, music obsessive, science fictionist, compassionate productivity advocate, salt-water sojourner, flow-state surfer, finder of lost dogs, compositor of excellent profile bio text. Son of Colin.
musk railing against the doxxing of his teenage hackers shows he either does not understand what is at stake, or he has put them in an extremely dangerous position and does not care about their safety and wellbeing
this may not turn out to be the genius play they think it is by May
making a white supremacist gesture and then denying you made a white supremacist gesture is fkn textbook white supremacist
My very last issue (on ♿️) has now come out with BMJ Medical Humanities: I have stepped down from my role as Editor in Chief. There are a lot of factors—after 17 years editing two consecutive journals, it was time. But there’s more, and I feel we should talk about the climate of #academic publishing
going so power mad that you appoint your horse to the senate is conservatively x10000 better when compared to letting zoomers humiliate you live on twitch as background noise to someone playing fortnite
out on the waters of the muwinina and palawa peoples of nipaluna in southern tasmania — the yellow bluff, north bruny
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i know its sacrilegious but once i started chopping it up, i could not stop myself from reimagining this track soundcloud.app.goo.gl/cSxm9iePpdEM...
sending out love to everyone struggling with Xmas. my fam is bringing out the top-shelf dysfunction for the holidays. it’s like they’ve been saving it for a special occasion
fuck it im taking the boat out tomorrow
crawling towards 2025 like
merry christmas from coco marmalade
reading abt US healthcare from australia is like i couldn’t meet my deductible, so i paid a copay, but since i didn’t have prior authorisation, there was a coverage gap because it was out-of-network. luckily i had a coupon, so i only had to pay $13,699 for my lifesaving meds this month
9/10 posts on my local naturalists page are ppl posting a photo of a dead animal and asking for an ID and it’s a rat
the west coast of lutruwita/Tasmania
vestiges of deep-time gondwanaland
the temperate rainforest is so quiet, you hold your breath to hear its heartbeat
the mountains look on, indifferent to the cataclysms that wrenched them from the earth’s crust
how can life be so simultaneously long and short? like there’s never enough time until you realise fck ive been working on this skill for 20 years and i know a few things now
actually it occurred to me i *dont* want to be around to see it because musk has likely already made some shitty bet like it’s ok to burn all the carbon in the ground as long as it fuels the creation of an AI superintelligence that will solve all our problems.
There’s a quote earlier in the book where Chigurh is about to kill Wells and says to him:
How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
Moss is driven by his own code: protect Carla Jean from retribution for his theft of the drug money.
It’s Moss’ slip with the hitchhiker/pool girl that leads directly to his undoing
This is the last time we see him in the book, too.
So I this theory about the book/story. Chigurh is evil incarnate. He’s figured as this almost supernatural force. And he’s driven by a perverse anti-moral code — the coin toss.
They rent two rooms, but Moss turns up at the girl’s room with beer and they have a final interaction. It’s pretty clear from the book that Moss *doesnt* sleep with the girl, but that he’s drawn to her and even being there with her is an abrogation of his moral code.
In the book, there’s no motel swimming pool.
Moss picks up a 16 yo hitchhiker and they go to a diner and then check in to the motel. It’s clear the married Moss knows he is taking an unnecessary risk.
Up until here, Moss’ motivation is to elude Chigurh and keep his wife Carla Jean safe from retribution. By interacting with the girl by the pool, he wavers in his moral framework, and this allows space for Chigurh’s perverse moral order to triumph.
Everything else is implied, but to me it’s clear that this pivotal moment is where Moss abandons his moral authority in the narrative, and Chigurh (aka the devil) catches up with him. It’s the last time we see Moss before he dies offscreen.
I keep thinking about that Vanity Fair piece on McCarthy’s relationship with Augusta Britt. The article doesn’t mention it, but there’s a scene in the film version of No Country for Old Men where Moss waves to a young girl at the motel swimming pool.
reflecting on what a high-risk strategy it was for musk to back trump. like i know he had his thumb on the scale, but still: the margin for victory was slim. it really could have gone either way. and one day he’s going to make a big bet that goes bad and i really hope im around to see it
what is happening in the US right now is not the revolution i was promised in my cultural marxism classes
some good news amidst a sea of despair
The best way to deal with this issue is simply to abolish the agencies generating this data. Problem solved!
