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unfortunately can't remember the name of the historian that had a paragraph on southern vs northern architecture that was like "this is clearly just about Aristotle vs Kant." but it stuck with me because I always knew those columns were evil somehow lol

you can see the tendency in a more diffuse way tho in eg southern neoclassical architecture as a rejection of modern European (liberal) aesthetics, and an identification with the ancient slaveholding empires

the chapter on him in Hofstadter's American Political Tradition is really good! he was an honest to god conservative dialectician in a way we're not used to seeing since the cold war apart from the occasional Catholic crank

the more educated slavery apologists like Calhoun did kind of do this tbf. but yeah not on the same scale lol

there should be an episode of the pitt where they have to dig the bullet out with forceps and drop it into a metal dish

children should stay within the lines when filling out coloring books imo

this is what I imagine byung-chul han books are like

I just saw Manhattan Murder Mystery the other day and it had a really delightful homage to this. big rec if you're a woody fan

the problem is it's just a more elaborate way to avoid doing that seriously, which requires a certain tolerance for ambiguity and contradiction

deindustrialization is such a fake problem. just turn the old factories into craft breweries and artisan coffee shops with gluten-free croissants. duh.

if I were Hannibal from Hannibal I would not be going to all that trouble I would be cooking up hearty peasant food style dishes. chili, pot roast, scrapple

IMO the easiest way to get them to 'click' is to look at someone else trying to imitate him. the shortcomings are always really obvious and once you see them u have the key to it in a much more immediate way

it's so important to create images

I read Klan War over the summer and it had me doing this as an adult

nobody told me about frederick wiseman now I'm addicted to 6hr documentaries about the dmv office

I carry a loaded gun with me everywhere I go so I don’t have to practice good security culture

“The First Cause of Stability of Our Currency is the Concentration Camp”: Central Banker Solidarity on the road to Hitler’s Czechoslovakian gold The forgotten story of Nazi Germany's rise, German central bank head Hjalmar Schacht, the BIS & Bank of England head Governor Montagu Norman

Yesterday's reading (I forgot to post and now I'm out of order, but maybe it's also that this one really stuck with me.): www.crisesnotes.com/the-first-ca...

YouTube video by Lowell Denny Cuba An African Odyssey [Parts I and II]

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Between Slavery and Incarceration: an Interview with Christopher Muller An expert on the history of mass incarceration explains why the Black incarceration rate was lower in the South than in the North for much of the 20th century, why recent decades have witnessed rising...

Today, Alex Gourevitch interviews Christopher Muller about the complex relationship between labor exploitation and incarceration, rising class inequality in prison admission rates, and why we should be weary of functionalist explanations for incarceration.

dont PISS me off

How Chicago organizers managed to rid the city of ShotSpotter The police surveillance tech is often inaccurate, according to research that allowed activists to launch a successful campaign

In September, the city of Chicago stopped using ShotSpotter, a sensor system designed to detect gunshots & alert police & first responders, @nberlat.bsky.social reports. Activists launched a fact-based campaign & a potential model for organizers in other cities.
prismreports.org/2024/12/02/h...

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Painting, November 20, 1956 by Pierre Soulages, 1956

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loading up the work slack with Conclave emojis. vaping cardinal tedesco. cardinal lawrence impotently sputtering "but it has taken place!". cardinal aldo snarling "don't be naieve!" cardinal tremblay's "my brothers... it's true". all my coworkers groan at my shit

wrote about socialising nature as a way out of hell

Also in Screen Play, the realest publicity-sanctioned Marlene Dietrich quote

one thing that I like a lot about this piece: it ties the feelings and vibes people have about "the economy" to actual economic data, and shows that people aren't *wrong* or *misled* when they said they were doing better under Trump

Sharing again! Richard gets out in THREE days!

hey! we’d love to promote some of YOU. so quote post (never saying skeet ever sorry) with your favorite piece of film writing-yours or someone else’s—and we’ll spread it far and wide.

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An Outline of the Origins of Money - HAU Books Translated and annotated, with an introduction by Enrique Martino and Mario Schmidt. Foreword by Michael Hudson. "On this subject, I only knew the excellent little book by the late Schurtz" Marcel Mau...

One of my favorite anthropologists Mario Schmidt has published an interesting translation on the origins of money: haubooks.org/schurtz_orig...