Gavin Mueller

I often remark about how nice it is to work at a university without sports teams and the culture that follows from that. Recently realized that in many ways this is similar to living in a country without a significant military... was nice while it lasted...

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My approach to being ill yesterday was to do everything I do normally, but with medicine. Didn’t work. Today I’m sleeping all day

Texting each of my friends individually when I confirm that they do not appear in the Epstein files

New merchants of doubt

This guy’s an op. He had me blocked on Twitter before I had any idea who he was. Sketchy

In the Technological Republic, Alex Karp argues that contemporary life is full of meaninglessness. You should believe in something. That something is America. Why? Unclear, a sort of Pascal's wager for nationalism. But to show your belief and to draw upon its power, you need to develop weapons

Kiwi Farms-Occupied Government

Always say yes! almost always better to do things than not do them

I was reading his book yesterday, it’s quite bad!

The Netherlands is back at stage 1 of the cycle:

New populist party created -> gets saturation media coverage implying they’re very fresh and clever -> party wins lots of votes -> it becomes clear that party is not in fact fresh and clever but weird and incompetent -> party implodes

And repeat

I like cumbia and I like Mingus but I’m kinda meh on the Mingus cumbia album

it looks like this part of Alex Karp's Technological Republic might be a hastily revised "autism supremacy" thesis... is this getting big in Silicon Valley?

Ok, I’ll bite… what actually is democracy?

Some people peer review to contribute to their field, or to support other scholars. Not me. I do it for the thrill of half a dozen new email notifications

It will be a question of how much was intentional and how much arose like a symptom in psychoanalysis

Yes, in that the entire ideological motivation behind bitcoin was as a hedge against imminent devaluation of the dollar

Figured out the tripartite structure for my next presentation. A day well spent

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I’m resisting the urge to take notes as I go through the sign up process…

Girl Scout cookies have been platformized

I got a Facebook reminder the other day about an announcement I got from my university that Obama was speaking on campus so we should expect heavily armed protestors

Getting my whole department on creatine… gotta get us all swole for AoIR2026

YouTube video by RamonPang Autechre - Selected 4x4 Works (1990-2020) (mixed by RamonPang)

kids are going wild to this www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S3P...

What are your favorite updates of Adorno & Horkheimer's Culture Industry thesis for digital culture? NOT critiques, people who are more or less totally on board with A&H

They’re doing an American adaptation of the Dutch benefits scandal

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they do recommend linking with pensioners as conversation partners to improve your Dutch...

We can all point to Karl Marx and respect to the big man but he was deported multiple times and had several kids die young, two outcomes I am trying to avoid

I was unprepared for how depoliticizing it feels to be a foreigner