Bryn
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More precisely I think it was playing on repetition-compulsion and (psychological) displacement and the return of the repressed and something about how the original and most meaningful ur-hyperstition is that violence ever confers any meaning to us at all.
February 11, 2026 at 4:51 AM
More precisely I think it was playing on repetition-compulsion and (psychological) displacement and the return of the repressed and something about how the original and most meaningful ur-hyperstition is that violence ever confers any meaning to us at all.
But I feel like I could come off as a rube reading it that way when there are more generous readings about how the ending just punctuates some thesis about cycles of violence and their role in ordering belief and configuring behavior. Everyone returns to the scene of the crime, every violence echoes
February 11, 2026 at 4:46 AM
But I feel like I could come off as a rube reading it that way when there are more generous readings about how the ending just punctuates some thesis about cycles of violence and their role in ordering belief and configuring behavior. Everyone returns to the scene of the crime, every violence echoes
Finally watched Bugonia and still trying to make my mind up about whether it was a good movie or not. The ending makes it all just feel misanthropic and, by extension, ultimately caught up in the very proto-fascism of online extraterrestrial-race-science conspiracy shit I thought it was critiquing
February 11, 2026 at 4:43 AM
Finally watched Bugonia and still trying to make my mind up about whether it was a good movie or not. The ending makes it all just feel misanthropic and, by extension, ultimately caught up in the very proto-fascism of online extraterrestrial-race-science conspiracy shit I thought it was critiquing
I know there was a tv show I watched in the past few months where this same meta-trope jumped out at me but I can’t think of what it was rn
February 11, 2026 at 4:39 AM
I know there was a tv show I watched in the past few months where this same meta-trope jumped out at me but I can’t think of what it was rn
The Bizarre and kind of mid 2023 Night of the Hunted is the next one that comes to mind—literally a white female marketing exec being held captive at long range by a guy with a sniper rifle who claims to have done tours in Afghanistan or something and keeps going on borderline-nonsense rants
February 11, 2026 at 4:38 AM
The Bizarre and kind of mid 2023 Night of the Hunted is the next one that comes to mind—literally a white female marketing exec being held captive at long range by a guy with a sniper rifle who claims to have done tours in Afghanistan or something and keeps going on borderline-nonsense rants
Bugonia was the most overt and on-the-nose iteration of this but I’ve seen others in the past year, some that I can recall rn and others that I can’t. Every time it feels weird and forced and also fetishy—like do they actually believe these are the two avatars of the “National Divorce” or whatever?
I feel like there’s this weird 2020’s Hollywood meta-trope where movies keep staging a confrontation between 2 characters: one who represents girlboss c-suite PB/PMC narcissism and one who represents the Alex-Jones-listening conspiracy theorist paranoid white male murder-suicidaire
February 11, 2026 at 4:32 AM
Bugonia was the most overt and on-the-nose iteration of this but I’ve seen others in the past year, some that I can recall rn and others that I can’t. Every time it feels weird and forced and also fetishy—like do they actually believe these are the two avatars of the “National Divorce” or whatever?
I feel like there’s this weird 2020’s Hollywood meta-trope where movies keep staging a confrontation between 2 characters: one who represents girlboss c-suite PB/PMC narcissism and one who represents the Alex-Jones-listening conspiracy theorist paranoid white male murder-suicidaire
February 11, 2026 at 4:30 AM
I feel like there’s this weird 2020’s Hollywood meta-trope where movies keep staging a confrontation between 2 characters: one who represents girlboss c-suite PB/PMC narcissism and one who represents the Alex-Jones-listening conspiracy theorist paranoid white male murder-suicidaire
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We stand on two legs because four legged things have hearts that beat in time with their running. We don't have to be fast. We don't even need to catch. Just surround. Our food's heart races until it gives out. We are odd hunters. Sometimes we don't know that we're hunting.
February 10, 2026 at 10:32 PM
We stand on two legs because four legged things have hearts that beat in time with their running. We don't have to be fast. We don't even need to catch. Just surround. Our food's heart races until it gives out. We are odd hunters. Sometimes we don't know that we're hunting.
Yeah my mind went there too—do you know if any of that tech is known to be in use in the US currently?
I’ll tell you one thing, china’s gait recognition would have this mf pegged INSTANTLY, for better or worse, unless he’s doing some Dune walk-without-rhythm shit trying to evade cruder US-based imitations of the same recognition algos (not sure if any exist or are in development rn)
February 10, 2026 at 8:59 PM
Yeah my mind went there too—do you know if any of that tech is known to be in use in the US currently?
I’ll tell you one thing, china’s gait recognition would have this mf pegged INSTANTLY, for better or worse, unless he’s doing some Dune walk-without-rhythm shit trying to evade cruder US-based imitations of the same recognition algos (not sure if any exist or are in development rn)
February 10, 2026 at 8:55 PM
I’ll tell you one thing, china’s gait recognition would have this mf pegged INSTANTLY, for better or worse, unless he’s doing some Dune walk-without-rhythm shit trying to evade cruder US-based imitations of the same recognition algos (not sure if any exist or are in development rn)
It went fine. Remains to be seen if anything actually comes of this. Tired bc I min-maxed to expend several days’ energy reserves on Being Charismatic and Normal for two hours in the middle of what’s probably a low energy/mood slump
Have a Thing tomorrow and I’m feeling either duly or unduly anxious about it. Who can say.
February 10, 2026 at 8:17 PM
It went fine. Remains to be seen if anything actually comes of this. Tired bc I min-maxed to expend several days’ energy reserves on Being Charismatic and Normal for two hours in the middle of what’s probably a low energy/mood slump
Practicing my “not suspicious” walk just in case the neighbors are peeking out their windows 🤪
Also frankly I don’t believe that the feds can’t figure out who this jackass is from anomalous cell phone data and probable IDs on whatever stupid tactical/outdoor gear products he’s wearing
Also frankly I don’t believe that the feds can’t figure out who this jackass is from anomalous cell phone data and probable IDs on whatever stupid tactical/outdoor gear products he’s wearing
February 10, 2026 at 8:04 PM
Practicing my “not suspicious” walk just in case the neighbors are peeking out their windows 🤪
Also frankly I don’t believe that the feds can’t figure out who this jackass is from anomalous cell phone data and probable IDs on whatever stupid tactical/outdoor gear products he’s wearing
Also frankly I don’t believe that the feds can’t figure out who this jackass is from anomalous cell phone data and probable IDs on whatever stupid tactical/outdoor gear products he’s wearing
Beside the point but why does he lumber up to the porch like Quasimodo? I guess he’s probably trying to minimize the amount his face gets on any cameras but then he snaps upright after stepping through the brick arch that he was nowhere near too tall for right into the camera’s cone of vision. Weird
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February 10, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Beside the point but why does he lumber up to the porch like Quasimodo? I guess he’s probably trying to minimize the amount his face gets on any cameras but then he snaps upright after stepping through the brick arch that he was nowhere near too tall for right into the camera’s cone of vision. Weird
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Omg I didn’t realize Ulster had a mural that serves as a spiritual counterpart to the (now removed) Nashville statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest (or was it Forrest’s monster? I can never remember which is which)
February 10, 2026 at 1:47 PM
Omg I didn’t realize Ulster had a mural that serves as a spiritual counterpart to the (now removed) Nashville statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest (or was it Forrest’s monster? I can never remember which is which)
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Holy shit that’s a new one
February 10, 2026 at 1:24 PM
Holy shit that’s a new one
I feel like there’s been such a shift toward a sort of mindless optimization fetish in the past 5-10 years: productivity influencers, side hustle grindset influencers—where meaning and purpose seem scarce, compulsive optimization slop will suffice, or rather what I’m tempted to call Sloptimization
But a lot of that need* for meaning and purpose finds secular avenues: the cultivation of a hyperreal image of the body and self and lifestyle as a form of social capital mediated by capitalist social media
*needs can be both manufactured and very real, for our purposes I don’t think it matters
*needs can be both manufactured and very real, for our purposes I don’t think it matters
February 10, 2026 at 3:40 AM
I feel like there’s been such a shift toward a sort of mindless optimization fetish in the past 5-10 years: productivity influencers, side hustle grindset influencers—where meaning and purpose seem scarce, compulsive optimization slop will suffice, or rather what I’m tempted to call Sloptimization
But a lot of that need* for meaning and purpose finds secular avenues: the cultivation of a hyperreal image of the body and self and lifestyle as a form of social capital mediated by capitalist social media
*needs can be both manufactured and very real, for our purposes I don’t think it matters
*needs can be both manufactured and very real, for our purposes I don’t think it matters
February 10, 2026 at 3:33 AM
But a lot of that need* for meaning and purpose finds secular avenues: the cultivation of a hyperreal image of the body and self and lifestyle as a form of social capital mediated by capitalist social media
*needs can be both manufactured and very real, for our purposes I don’t think it matters
*needs can be both manufactured and very real, for our purposes I don’t think it matters
I guess this generally at least cast as a crisis of Meaning—the christofascist right loves to prattle on about purpose and meaning, usually with lazy gestures toward whichever set of biodestined teleological roles just so happen to coincide with the ones the regime is having trouble recruiting for
I think there’s some sense in which mid-20th century libidinal economy written by world-weary French intellectuals was completely unprepared for the crisis of desire that seems to manifest in a sort of culture-wide anhedonia and the foreclosure of any real sense of futurity that’s not half-assed
February 10, 2026 at 3:28 AM
I guess this generally at least cast as a crisis of Meaning—the christofascist right loves to prattle on about purpose and meaning, usually with lazy gestures toward whichever set of biodestined teleological roles just so happen to coincide with the ones the regime is having trouble recruiting for
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The Lord Buddha warned us of deprivation and self-mortification as means of attaining quiescence. Only honesty and Truth can set you free. Delusions cannot be coped with by projecting them onto everything but the bitter pill of Truth. Hold the L or become a malignant narcissist, or worse—a hypocrite
What if we combined the asceticism of the monastery with the restless paranoiac neuroticism of capitalist subjectivity? What if we made a big show out of rejecting the fleeting pleasures of the excremental material world so we could work even harder on developing my chatbot named Otis or some shit
February 10, 2026 at 3:06 AM
The Lord Buddha warned us of deprivation and self-mortification as means of attaining quiescence. Only honesty and Truth can set you free. Delusions cannot be coped with by projecting them onto everything but the bitter pill of Truth. Hold the L or become a malignant narcissist, or worse—a hypocrite
I think there’s some sense in which mid-20th century libidinal economy written by world-weary French intellectuals was completely unprepared for the crisis of desire that seems to manifest in a sort of culture-wide anhedonia and the foreclosure of any real sense of futurity that’s not half-assed
February 10, 2026 at 3:00 AM
I think there’s some sense in which mid-20th century libidinal economy written by world-weary French intellectuals was completely unprepared for the crisis of desire that seems to manifest in a sort of culture-wide anhedonia and the foreclosure of any real sense of futurity that’s not half-assed
What if we combined the asceticism of the monastery with the restless paranoiac neuroticism of capitalist subjectivity? What if we made a big show out of rejecting the fleeting pleasures of the excremental material world so we could work even harder on developing my chatbot named Otis or some shit
!["The current vibe is no drinking, no drugs, 9-9-6 [working from gam to 9pm, six days a week], lift heavy, run far, marry early, track sleep, eat steak and eggs," Daksh Gupta, the
23-year-old co-founder of an AI start-up, told the San Francisco Standard recently.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jg3hlyjpcn4n5sbryi3qhyiv/bafkreie3mnljvdgs35wyhbggriqo7zk5djhtfuc4e6kcfbyxg37n2nllva@jpeg)
February 10, 2026 at 2:54 AM
What if we combined the asceticism of the monastery with the restless paranoiac neuroticism of capitalist subjectivity? What if we made a big show out of rejecting the fleeting pleasures of the excremental material world so we could work even harder on developing my chatbot named Otis or some shit
I commend anyone who’s successfully found ways to be kinder to their body. I just think it’s getting fucken weird how much of influencer trendwatch lifestyle culture is becoming a thing that’s defined in so many negative terms, by what one does NOT do
February 10, 2026 at 2:36 AM
I commend anyone who’s successfully found ways to be kinder to their body. I just think it’s getting fucken weird how much of influencer trendwatch lifestyle culture is becoming a thing that’s defined in so many negative terms, by what one does NOT do