Erikk Geannikis

well well well if it isn't the arm-grab twins

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Phenomenology Friday

Our friends from The Relentless Picnic are back together to wonder about the capricious, the unconscious, the uncomfortable, the vulgar, and the bluntly offensive ways in which we are always already bound up in interpreting our being in the world. Not for the delicate of heart.

el alfa, el rey de dembow

simon le bon, el rey de los lobos

austin powers, el rey de las espías, niño

rob lowe, el rey de brat pack

look upon these world-historical artists. our new episode is the golden thread uniting them

you don't want to be called corrupt? don't take the money.

Americans think everyone is corrupt Voters have weird views about this, and progressive advocacy groups do a lot that's counterproductive. Matthew Yglesias Feb 12

So will the party pay a price for Trump's corruption? They're set to lose the House, which almost always happens to the president's party during a midterm, but remain the odds-on favorites (1) to hold the Senate, in which case Trump will be able to keep MAGAfying the judiciary and getting away with corrupt schemes.

1. Polymarket is sponsoring this post, but the odds are not meaningfully different in other markets.

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let's dive inside the mind of a wolf, explore the possibility that spoken communication is kind of a trick, and ask: what's the source of the overwhelming evil we feel as a component of the truck we're driving?

oh and also — the most unhinged piece of audio we've ever put out

the goofily smiling face I've drawn in sharpie on my toaster is raising hard questions about the nature of selfhood.

but it suggests that we broaden our understanding of happiness. it probably even means it likes toasting things. because of how smiley the face on it is, if you look at it there.

10 years ago they told us AI and self-driving cars were going to wipe out up to half of all jobs. They didn’t.

But while everyone was talking about whether they would, companies rolled out algorithmic management and used digital tech as a pretext to reclassify workers as contractors.

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this episode is about music — how we mishear it, how we can be sure we hear it at all, how a demon can take hold of you and use you to produce it, and how sometimes instead of music there's the mass-market autobiography of a beloved '90s actor.

why do we tolerate ridiculous subject matter illiteracy in technology reporting?

what we can say is that this very question is posed in s7e10, back and forth between don and the realtor charged with selling the place. we know about don that he both adamantly thinks the outside reflects the inside, and also knows intimately how that's all a lie. so.

What’s also great is reading the dialogue with Claude where it stops and says “I need to stop and be honest with you about something important” and reveals it deleted every single photo. Software built for dunces

Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

YouTube video by McDonald's Hot Honey Snack Wrap | McDonald’s

I think it's completely fine for mcdonald's to use the late strains of a 2-year-old charli xcx banger, for no fucking reason at all, underneath a series of ads where brian cox hawks "hot honey sauce". I am not pulled menacingly into the abyss every time I see one. my heart rate is steady and normal

about to? sounds like it's nearly time for a threaded retrospective!

only TWENTY-NINE more hours till you get to see the insane ideas that some assemblage of pharmaceutical employees on something called like "the experiences team" thought would delight the venn diagram intersection of regular people and the media

it's my favorite thing when you post photos of this dog in the immediate vicinity of the painting of this same dog

A "Portland Frog" holding up an inflatable letter it just pulled from a big bag, in front of a message made of the same letters which reads: WE'RE NOT COOKED WE'RE NOT DOOMED WE WERE MADE FOR THIS MOMENT"

the vibe

I'll be checking back tomorrow for updates here

you are being too credulous and anthropomorphic in your thinking abt LLMs probably!!!!!!!!!!!

in that case, it doesn't seem like you need the case made. but if you do, just let me know.

yes brother. and you should watch the sopranos. miss GoT.

one imagines giannis's spot will need to be filled though

now in fairness, I've watched powell destroy a defense more than once in like an improbable NBA jam-level flurry. but o.g. having like a career first half, towns doing something like the opposite

o.g. snubbed

Convicted sex offender: Just following up on our last conversation, how was introducing Bari Weiss to your parents?

Nellie Bowles: Ahahahaha it actually went great, how's being rich going?

with you on deboning but trying to wrap my head around the lacinato spatchcock ("spatchinato")

Google Parent Company Alphabet Drops 'Don't Be Evil' Motto Instead, employees are now expected to "do the right thing."

sadly, we're in the 11th year of their "be evil" era
time.com/4060575/alph...

when today I started getting gemini email summaries in my personal gmail on android, despite having opted out/turned off AI in every which way, I was led to this setting.

my employer has gemini turned on. that bottom option is some absolutely insidious shit. unchecking removed it. fuck off forever