godspeed you! go girl

you’re cleaning everything, it’s apropos! thank you for this opportunity to remember that album exists

mad max it up and get weird with rhythm at the same time with this one

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here is a direct quote from Thiel’s 2023 Catholic University of America lecture "Nihilism is Not Enough" complaining about the average age of NIH grant recipients at ~35 to be too old. he has an axe to grind

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worked at one for a time and it is in fact as dangerous for the workers picking up carts as you’d imagine

i didn’t know this about tiny tim before i read this post and i ended up texting like 3 people about it

god is the president of heaven

a lot of the maker space girlies are into anime, don’t be mean

making my way down town, wonking fast faces pass and i’m a loser baby so why don’t you kill me

hey man, you could always get more alienating. for example i spent the past couple of years getting into ambient space jazz. the Apple Music playlists make terrible track-level suggestions but the artist catalogues are out of this world (figuratively)

in 2015 i only listened to krautrock but i was so cool back then. it’s about the, ahem, affectation, as they say

administrative reforms are grand strategy for HR types

policy wonking is for the girlies

i think if you're entertained by him, you should follow your whims for sure. relying on secondhand interpretations of Kojeve that weave in bio details about how his interpretations played themselves out in his life, you can't go wrong, and every biography of him does it. have fun reading friend

bio pretty revealing for the way his interpretation of Solovyov's work played itself out in the type of person he was. great psychoanalytic reading!

already in the weeds with his references, and he's not a great guy to get your interpretation of anyone else from due to that specificity and the way he fits together against the grain readings with standard interpretations.

i'm in the weeds with all those guys, but not Solovyov, so i found Love's

in the history of dialectics and the philosophy of history, Nietzsche's read of Hegel, Marx's read of the Philosophy of Right), he's really REALLY fun. but honestly he's so in it with so much other work that it can be hard to see how what he's doing is unique and specific to him if you're not

i admittedly have a complex relationship to Kojeve, because he had the same dissertation advisor as Hannah Arendt, whose work i study. i think if you're already familiar with various interpretations of Nietzsche (especially Heidegger's and Jaspers') and various interpretations of Hegel (eg, debates

the Jeff Love biography of Kojeve is really informative too, especially as to where his work is influenced by Solovyov. you may have already read that one though!

she also repeatedly calls him a striver and it’s this point that for her vacates any monstrous tendencies he would have. it’s precisely the fact that he participated in the fascist regime for arbitrary social soft power that he did not know how to leverage that made him a clown rather than a monster

every Jarrett piece to me starts with "ah yes, correct and normal piano sound" but hits "the hell is that, ugh" territory before minute five. do you or your dad have any recs for Jarrett tunes?

i also feel this way about Keith Jarrett on the ivories, except i haven’t found a stand out performance i can appreciate yet. my favorite jazz bassist currently playing even rec’d me his favorite Jarrett performance but i just can’t jibe

of course, if they were voting on something non-economic, that would be an even bigger problem for his framework—in that case the whole wage chart he started with would be irrelevant to the political question altogether. and it is! maybe the stagnation the workers experienced was not in real wages

on Matt’s chart, the people whose wages went up are the same people who voted for Trump. so either the wage gains he describes didn’t translate into felt economic improvement, which is exactly what AOC said that he’s dismissing, or they were voting on something non-economic entirely

so sick of guys confusing political judgements for economic judgements they then go on to define as incorrect.

if the “consumer class going Kalecki” story were true, you’d expect to see middle class guys who lost the evening coffee shops swinging hard toward Trump, but that didn’t happen, did it?

recently i've taken to jotting down a few paragraphs on each individual page of text in a given essay i'm reading in 16 sheet blue books. it's tripled the amount of time it takes me to read them, but things come out on the page i didn't even realize i'd thought. worth it

become ungovernable

why does what foot the sock ends up on suddenly matter just because of some lousy letter?

that’s what i just said! looks like we’re in agreement

as the model reveals: context matters!

it was the implication of your post as a response to another post, not to your post in itself