Jacobian Menance

the amount of times people say soon man then the preexisting pattern just persists makes me thin perhaps many people don't know what it means. and that you shouldnt start land wars in asia

i was randomly reminded of the time a friend and i drove our mutual friend **to a professor's house** to turn in his assignment so it wouldn't be late (music majors imirite?) and somehow weren't arrested or given a restraining order in the process. i bet those two are quietly super successful now

perhaps you will have to settle for joy

altered carbon, the boys (original comic) and any piece of journalism by andrew callaghan have a surprising number of parallels

did i miss something?

like I know things are bad, but this documentary reminded me that we were promised more of "The Orville" by its creator

i think jubilee is a grift and scam and excremental

Have we been talking about different things this whole time?

Their banter are her crass remarks between tucking her hair behind ears and wry smiles really held this little series together. The grittygrimdarkhyperirony just doesn't have whatever makes this quirky but self-aware little gem such a special little show

that's kind of how it works in the current dystopia. that just happens to be the one thing the theatre crowd knows how to keep on dl

a big part of the work is correct both content and presentation of this narrative

I had access to a library with a really well curated music and visual media collection (underground music, dvd/vhs music video collections, domestic and foreign films; anything a snob could want)

Downside is this is all I can think of when I see the word "wow" in popular media

America's cultural hustle is selling itself a watered-down version of its own cultural legacy every 20 years. But with explosions! and much better-looking people then you're used to seeing

"we need to stop getting into dumb wars and using China as an ATM" which is basically his guiding ideology. its like he's trying to figure out how to screw in a light bulb and Eddison is right there

i'm hunched over my computer in this exact same pose with this exact same color palette at this exact moment.

Path to Open stacked bar chart showing title growth: 100 (2023), 400 (2024), 700 (2025), then 1,000 each year 2026–2028. Light gray = new titles for participants, red = backlist for participants, black = open access; share of open access increases, reaching all 1,000 by 2028.

In January 2026, the first 100 Path to Open books will flip to open access. By the end of 2026, 1,000 titles will be on the path. 📖

Learn how libraries and presses are working with JSTOR to make it happen, and what it means for authors, students, and librarians: https://bit.ly/426cwUA

✨ Proofread translations ✨ by hadley · Pull Request #2926 · r-lib/pkgdown with Claude code cc @jayhesselberth @maelle

Would any fluent speakers of Korean or Chinese have a couple of minutes to review some updated pkgdown translations at github.com/r-lib/pkgdow... ? These were generated by claude code, so they're probably ok, but I'd love a human to double check.

fyi the economist style guide holds that "'yep' is just a stupid version of 'yes'. avoid the former in all cases"

when you totally miss the point of "do the right thing"

when someone says "girl, you ain't got no arms" this is what that literally means. #words matter. so do semantics and pragmatics. this a trivial example of an extremely non-trivial point #iukuk. like a deadly serious one

dude the internet sucks now. i did and do want some water. but then its just some hick lady or a military contractor selling what an alien thinks water is. Anyway water, I’m still trying to piece together what’s you and what’s not

I actually think it’s okay if you enjoyed high school and things generally went well and continue to go well for you. maybe you’re onto something

Think it's time to revive the JB Stan account

Feels like I’m ahead on the reading for the current cultural moment but also way behind. super dark, super cruel irony us summer children have a hard time even registering

funny how it feels like the future is always sending little messages via the past

^

A lucid treatment, even though I’ve come around on Hegel

I'm also a sucker for schmaltzy bromance movies. You take out the politics and it's basically a prequel for "I Love You Man"

Post political politics as a coherent concept. my degree is meaningless. The worst version of me was right all along I should have just been an egoist artist