Ian

The work sprint I'm on for the next two weeks, folks. Shew.

Gallup Poll (3/5/26):

Do you approve of $8 gas

No: 99%
Yes: 1%

Do you approve of Donald Trump's $8 gas policy

No: 46.6%
Yes: 38.9%
Unsure: 14.5%

That's the one!

The kid wants to read The King in Yellow and Pale Fire. Who am I to argue?

I don't have any idea, honestly.

The best day of the year. I feel so alive.

I'm currently mad about this, maybe on your behalf but also very likely not because it hits several of my annoyances.

I'm mad about this. The core of the article, with the interviews and journalistic analysis, is exactly as good if the reporter picks up the book in question, MERELY THUMBS THROUGH IT, and drops a cite and link. That's it, that's all that's needed.

But, well, we don't read. We don't read.

The book's been out for two years!

It takes literally 10 minutes to get an idea. Google Scholar is free, Google the search engine is mostly broken but you can cobble something together between a couple few search engines. This is barely work.

Yes, but I don't want to tag her because I imagine she's having a day.

Because nobody reads, people are debating the merits of an article which is essentially plagiarism (not bothering to check then duplicating can get you in trouble too) because they're also not bothering to read. Becuase they're special, singular people, too.

I don't think we're cooked because we just need to read. I think we're cooked because we're all such special, singular people that it never occurs to us that we should read at all.

When I'm upset that people don't read, I don't mean that in the liberal educator "if we just read we'd solve our problems" sort of way. I mean "there's a book which is in part about the death of 3rd person perspective, out for 2 years, and someone didn't read it before writing it as an article"

As the song goes "I don't see an ending at all, only the end"

The core problem isn't that there's no win condition, it's that there's no lose condition. Real nihilism in the halls of power. Win and impose an autocratic ethnostate? Lose and oversee the fracture of the country into network states? Crash the economy but make a mint? Simply no repercussions?

Your Data Will Be Used Against You (and not just by ICE/CPB). All these technologies will make their way to ordinary law enforcement.

Damn straight.

Not for nothing, found out last night a guy I was friends with 25 years ago is starting an anarchist commune farm sex cult

Dear god

"I sure hate those bankers foreclosing on everything around me. Don't know much about capital, but I do know something..."

It definitely is. Cities as centers of capital and the distrust of cosmpolitanism is of a piece with Postone's work on antisemitism as a means of anthropomorphizing the commodity form.

And that those aren't immutable categories. The town I grew up in was a factory town, not recognizably part of Winston or Greensboro. With urban growth and sprawl, it's become more of a bedroom community. It'll be an exurb or suburb within 15-20 years. It'll still think of itself as that small town

It's Her Conference

Kid just ran across DuBois in her history class and she was like this is awesome, why didn't I read anything about him before high school? And I was like, well...

cultural observations: why everyone’s busy now #foryou TikTok video by Meditations for the anxious

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Picard: It's a computer simulation of thoroughbred horse racing called Umamusume Pretty Derby. The program was quite popular in the 21st century.
Riker: Mm. 'Pretty' is accurate. That Goldship is quite something.
Picard: I hadn't noticed. I enjoy the simulation's tactical qualities.
Riker: Yes, sir.

He loves screams

Tomorrow is the best day of all: spring forward time

YouTube video by Abstructure Miss Nicky Trax - Acid In The House (Full Version) (Official Video)

Man, RIP

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