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🃏 jester’s privilege over here!
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Went back to re-read some of Freud’s Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious. I think you probably had to have been there. Though he did pick out something from Heine I once posted:
August 14, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Went back to re-read some of Freud’s Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious. I think you probably had to have been there. Though he did pick out something from Heine I once posted:
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IMO, American Protestants have always viewed certain forms of aesthetics with suspicion, such as ornate dress and interior decor, favoring instead plain, functional interiors and simple clothing. They believed this signaled Christian ethics and democratic norms.
July 19, 2025 at 11:53 PM
IMO, American Protestants have always viewed certain forms of aesthetics with suspicion, such as ornate dress and interior decor, favoring instead plain, functional interiors and simple clothing. They believed this signaled Christian ethics and democratic norms.
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And this chart suddenly feels particularly relevant.
June 26, 2025 at 8:44 PM
And this chart suddenly feels particularly relevant.
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I used to think it a ridiculous exaggeration when critics claimed that capitalism is based on greed and fear.
June 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
I used to think it a ridiculous exaggeration when critics claimed that capitalism is based on greed and fear.
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"Most of today’s superrich owe their wealth to their ownership stakes in companies that are de facto monopolies thanks to network effects," writes @pkrugman.bsky.social. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/inequality...
Inequality, Part IV: Oligarchs
The rise of mega-fortunes
paulkrugman.substack.com
June 22, 2025 at 7:05 PM
"Most of today’s superrich owe their wealth to their ownership stakes in companies that are de facto monopolies thanks to network effects," writes @pkrugman.bsky.social. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/inequality...
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Of course, Pierre Bourdieu noted this in his 1979 book Distinction, where he observed that our notions of "good taste" are nothing more than the habits and preferences of the ruling class. Georg Simmel said something similar in 1902 when he said fashion is a game of imitation.
June 20, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Of course, Pierre Bourdieu noted this in his 1979 book Distinction, where he observed that our notions of "good taste" are nothing more than the habits and preferences of the ruling class. Georg Simmel said something similar in 1902 when he said fashion is a game of imitation.
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At the end of the 1800s, "gentlemen" wore frock coats and lowly clerks wore suits. But as these broker citizens saw their fortunes rise with industrial capitalism, their clothes took on status. Soon, everyone wore drab and dreary suits. A Bond Street tailor lamented the change in 1912:
June 20, 2025 at 9:24 PM
At the end of the 1800s, "gentlemen" wore frock coats and lowly clerks wore suits. But as these broker citizens saw their fortunes rise with industrial capitalism, their clothes took on status. Soon, everyone wore drab and dreary suits. A Bond Street tailor lamented the change in 1912:
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It wasn't until the end of the century that Eugene Sandow was able to rebrand visible strength. He opened a luxurious fitness club on London's prestigious St. James Street. Suddenly, muscle mass wasn't low-class; it demonstrated self-mastery. The bourgeoise bought into the idea.
June 20, 2025 at 9:24 PM
It wasn't until the end of the century that Eugene Sandow was able to rebrand visible strength. He opened a luxurious fitness club on London's prestigious St. James Street. Suddenly, muscle mass wasn't low-class; it demonstrated self-mastery. The bourgeoise bought into the idea.
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Huh. Looks like Plato was right.
A new paper shows all language models converge on the same "universal geometry" of meaning. Researchers can translate between ANY model's embeddings without seeing the original text.
Implications for philosophy and vector databases alike. arxiv.org/pdf/2505.12540
A new paper shows all language models converge on the same "universal geometry" of meaning. Researchers can translate between ANY model's embeddings without seeing the original text.
Implications for philosophy and vector databases alike. arxiv.org/pdf/2505.12540
May 23, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Huh. Looks like Plato was right.
A new paper shows all language models converge on the same "universal geometry" of meaning. Researchers can translate between ANY model's embeddings without seeing the original text.
Implications for philosophy and vector databases alike. arxiv.org/pdf/2505.12540
A new paper shows all language models converge on the same "universal geometry" of meaning. Researchers can translate between ANY model's embeddings without seeing the original text.
Implications for philosophy and vector databases alike. arxiv.org/pdf/2505.12540
should’ve never accepted free palo santo from aliexpress
April 15, 2025 at 10:02 PM
should’ve never accepted free palo santo from aliexpress
post teeth whitening diet got me microdosing white monster
April 8, 2025 at 3:12 PM
post teeth whitening diet got me microdosing white monster
my sleep schedule is so messed up i’m accidentally observing ramadan
March 18, 2025 at 10:42 PM
my sleep schedule is so messed up i’m accidentally observing ramadan
jordan peterson getting his right leaning griftees into mircea eliade is so funny to me
February 19, 2025 at 12:22 PM
jordan peterson getting his right leaning griftees into mircea eliade is so funny to me
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Astronomers in ancient Assyria were sometimes exempt from performing the “ilku”, or tax in the form of labour, and that wasn’t always a good thing.
Those excused from state-mandated labour to carry on their scholarship in service of the king sometimes faced violence.
Those excused from state-mandated labour to carry on their scholarship in service of the king sometimes faced violence.
February 9, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Astronomers in ancient Assyria were sometimes exempt from performing the “ilku”, or tax in the form of labour, and that wasn’t always a good thing.
Those excused from state-mandated labour to carry on their scholarship in service of the king sometimes faced violence.
Those excused from state-mandated labour to carry on their scholarship in service of the king sometimes faced violence.
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Roger Scruton: Institutions take a long time to build up and can be destroyed very rapidly, so there’s a high burden of justification on anyone who wants to make institutional change.
That’s what Conservatism is. Trump is not a Conservative. Possibly better characterised as a political nihilistic.
That’s what Conservatism is. Trump is not a Conservative. Possibly better characterised as a political nihilistic.
January 21, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Roger Scruton: Institutions take a long time to build up and can be destroyed very rapidly, so there’s a high burden of justification on anyone who wants to make institutional change.
That’s what Conservatism is. Trump is not a Conservative. Possibly better characterised as a political nihilistic.
That’s what Conservatism is. Trump is not a Conservative. Possibly better characterised as a political nihilistic.
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Word of day is ‘unasinous’ (17th century): united in stupidity.
A riff on ‘unanimous’: which comes from the Latin for ‘one mind’. ‘Unasinous’ means ‘one ass’.
A riff on ‘unanimous’: which comes from the Latin for ‘one mind’. ‘Unasinous’ means ‘one ass’.
January 22, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Word of day is ‘unasinous’ (17th century): united in stupidity.
A riff on ‘unanimous’: which comes from the Latin for ‘one mind’. ‘Unasinous’ means ‘one ass’.
A riff on ‘unanimous’: which comes from the Latin for ‘one mind’. ‘Unasinous’ means ‘one ass’.
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Perhaps the most dangerous hunting accidents in the Middle Ages weren't accidents at all: they were actually instances of killer rabbits hunting humans. All people from emperor to lowly peasants feared these rabbits, especially the killer Rabbit of Caerbannog (from Monty Python😊).🧵7/7
January 21, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Perhaps the most dangerous hunting accidents in the Middle Ages weren't accidents at all: they were actually instances of killer rabbits hunting humans. All people from emperor to lowly peasants feared these rabbits, especially the killer Rabbit of Caerbannog (from Monty Python😊).🧵7/7
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Piano roll of “Laura Palmer’s Theme” from Twin Peaks. The visual representation of two mountain peaks in the music was a “cosmic” coincidence which shocked both Lynch and Badalamenti when they discovered it
January 16, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Piano roll of “Laura Palmer’s Theme” from Twin Peaks. The visual representation of two mountain peaks in the music was a “cosmic” coincidence which shocked both Lynch and Badalamenti when they discovered it
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Twin Peaks: The Return was the last time we were unified in anything and I will forever be grateful for that experience. RIP
January 16, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Twin Peaks: The Return was the last time we were unified in anything and I will forever be grateful for that experience. RIP
