Looks like Pynchon's writing for the NYTimes now
November 18, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Looks like Pynchon's writing for the NYTimes now
Summer's Not Over Yet Blues
September 10, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Summer's Not Over Yet Blues
Cream, in the wh(a)ite room (wah not optional); beautiful late summer eve show on the railroad bridge gazebo
September 3, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Cream, in the wh(a)ite room (wah not optional); beautiful late summer eve show on the railroad bridge gazebo
Maria Spiridonova, easily the most Dostoevskian character in the entire Russian Revolution. Reading her mad Russian life you’re inclined to think FD wasn’t creating so much as transcribing
July 1, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Maria Spiridonova, easily the most Dostoevskian character in the entire Russian Revolution. Reading her mad Russian life you’re inclined to think FD wasn’t creating so much as transcribing
Sly's first masterpiece
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgmv...
Trip to Your Heart
YouTube video by Sly and the Family Stone - Topic
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June 12, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Sly's first masterpiece
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgmv...
From Miles' autobiography it seems only Charlie Parker was more comprehensively influential on Miles' aesthetic than Sly Stone. RIP to one of the greatest to ever do it.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGkW...
Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)
YouTube video by Sly and the Family Stone - Topic
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June 9, 2025 at 10:38 PM
From Miles' autobiography it seems only Charlie Parker was more comprehensively influential on Miles' aesthetic than Sly Stone. RIP to one of the greatest to ever do it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGkW...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGkW...
I didn't recognize the Platonov of Chevengur in this very strange review.
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Novels Without Food | Michael Hofmann
How did a writer as unconventional as Andrey Platonov manage to write so many irresistibly interesting books?
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June 9, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I didn't recognize the Platonov of Chevengur in this very strange review.
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
One of those brief moments of joy; no one's having more fun than Joe's background singers
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JOE COCKER The Letter 1970
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June 4, 2025 at 11:06 PM
One of those brief moments of joy; no one's having more fun than Joe's background singers
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUmX...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUmX...
Spinoza's "On The Improvement of the Understanding" is the 17th century's premier self-help guide.
May 5, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Spinoza's "On The Improvement of the Understanding" is the 17th century's premier self-help guide.
There’s a scene in The Fixer that’s so awful I had to put the book down the first time I read it. To restart I’d reread the beautiful socratic Spinoza discussion (later used epigraphically by Deleuze in his Spinoza book).
April 13, 2025 at 11:14 PM
There’s a scene in The Fixer that’s so awful I had to put the book down the first time I read it. To restart I’d reread the beautiful socratic Spinoza discussion (later used epigraphically by Deleuze in his Spinoza book).
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Trump administration to cut vaccination funds. "The loss of U.S. support may mean 75 million children do not receive routine vaccinations in the next five years, with more than 1.2 million children dying as a result," reports @stephanienolen.bsky.social Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h...
U.S. to End Vaccine Funds for Poor Countries (Gift Article)
A 281-page spreadsheet obtained by The Times lists the Trump administration’s plans for thousands of foreign aid programs.
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March 26, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Trump administration to cut vaccination funds. "The loss of U.S. support may mean 75 million children do not receive routine vaccinations in the next five years, with more than 1.2 million children dying as a result," reports @stephanienolen.bsky.social Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h...
When I was a kid in the late 1960s I sincerely believed that by the time I became an adult people like Mike Johnson, people claiming their actions are dictated by God speaking to them directly, would all be in mental institutions; not running the government.
iF wE pAcK tHe CoUrT tHeY'Ll pAcK iT BaCk!
Speaker Mike Johnson floats the possibility of Congress eliminating federal courts.
This comes as courts have blocked a series of actions taken by the Trump administration, along with Trump and his allies calling for the impeachment of certain district court judges.
This comes as courts have blocked a series of actions taken by the Trump administration, along with Trump and his allies calling for the impeachment of certain district court judges.
March 25, 2025 at 11:18 PM
When I was a kid in the late 1960s I sincerely believed that by the time I became an adult people like Mike Johnson, people claiming their actions are dictated by God speaking to them directly, would all be in mental institutions; not running the government.
I've always felt there ought to be a deep Chomsky/Friston connection from the standpoint of computational efficiency. Nice paper from Friston, Elliot Murphy, Emma Holmes.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Natural language syntax complies with the free-energy principle - Synthese
Natural language syntax yields an unbounded array of hierarchically structured expressions. We claim that these are used in the service of active inference in accord with the free-energy principle (FE...
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March 13, 2025 at 12:50 AM
I've always felt there ought to be a deep Chomsky/Friston connection from the standpoint of computational efficiency. Nice paper from Friston, Elliot Murphy, Emma Holmes.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Who couldn't love the way Spinoza gently decimates his hero Descartes in Part V of the Ethics.
March 11, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Who couldn't love the way Spinoza gently decimates his hero Descartes in Part V of the Ethics.
No philosopher's metaphysics comes closer to quantum field theory than Spinoza's: substance = unobservable gauge fields; attributes = localized field excitations; modes = differentiable operators: charge, spin, mass, position, momentum, creation, destruction, number, etc.
February 27, 2025 at 10:52 PM
No philosopher's metaphysics comes closer to quantum field theory than Spinoza's: substance = unobservable gauge fields; attributes = localized field excitations; modes = differentiable operators: charge, spin, mass, position, momentum, creation, destruction, number, etc.
American "big-character poster"
February 15, 2025 at 10:41 PM
American "big-character poster"
Mao, like Stalin, was a delusional blank-slateist.
February 8, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Mao, like Stalin, was a delusional blank-slateist.
Musk belongs to Mao’s “beat the dog that’s fallen in the water” school of creature empathy.
February 7, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Musk belongs to Mao’s “beat the dog that’s fallen in the water” school of creature empathy.
A modest hope for acts of resistance comes from the story of Yang Jisheng's revelatory work on the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution stemming from a kind of head-cleansing horror witnessing the brave Tiananmen Sq. 1989 resistance.
www.nybooks.com/articles/201...
www.nybooks.com/articles/201...
China: Worse Than You Ever Imagined | Ian Johnson
Yang Jisheng’s Tombstone, an epic account of the worst famine in history, is a legendary book in China. It is hard to find an intellectual in Beijing who has not read it, even though it remains banned...
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February 5, 2025 at 11:20 PM
A modest hope for acts of resistance comes from the story of Yang Jisheng's revelatory work on the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution stemming from a kind of head-cleansing horror witnessing the brave Tiananmen Sq. 1989 resistance.
www.nybooks.com/articles/201...
www.nybooks.com/articles/201...
I like the fraktur "logic" font Duke is using on their jerseys
February 2, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I like the fraktur "logic" font Duke is using on their jerseys
Even when he was completely out of his mind he was the best thing that ever happened to Pink Floyd. Happy bday Syd.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMOy...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMOy...
Pink Floyd - Jugband Blues (London Line Promo Video, 1967 London)
YouTube video by Pink Floyd
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January 7, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Even when he was completely out of his mind he was the best thing that ever happened to Pink Floyd. Happy bday Syd.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMOy...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMOy...
Eric Burdon & War, live 1971. Incredible artifact that feels like the last vapor trail of the hippie universalist dream lol
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=wln_...
Eric Burdon & War - Spirit/Love Is All Around/Mystery Train (Live, 1971)
YouTube video by Eric Burdon Tribute Channel 11
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January 3, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Eric Burdon & War, live 1971. Incredible artifact that feels like the last vapor trail of the hippie universalist dream lol
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wln_...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wln_...
Also satisfying that the 4d Laplacian = ▢
December 23, 2024 at 11:34 PM
Also satisfying that the 4d Laplacian = ▢