At one point in my teenage years, being the unbearable putz that I still am, I began to seek out increasingly stranger and novel music. I am now listening to White Light / White Heat and I'm quite certain that that is what originally radicalized me around age 16.
December 22, 2025 at 3:52 PM
At one point in my teenage years, being the unbearable putz that I still am, I began to seek out increasingly stranger and novel music. I am now listening to White Light / White Heat and I'm quite certain that that is what originally radicalized me around age 16.
Additional Kraftwerk take: Kraftwerk cannot create new materials because their materials can only truly be born in an age where modernist ideas were relevant and in vogue within the discourse. Kraftwerk cannot truly make a new album in this environment.
(tensions and Schneider's passing do not help)
(tensions and Schneider's passing do not help)
December 2, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Additional Kraftwerk take: Kraftwerk cannot create new materials because their materials can only truly be born in an age where modernist ideas were relevant and in vogue within the discourse. Kraftwerk cannot truly make a new album in this environment.
(tensions and Schneider's passing do not help)
(tensions and Schneider's passing do not help)
Another Kraftwerk take: a (German!) colleague described Kraftwerk as "some techno act from many years ago" and that still haunts me. Techno! Kraftwerk predates the idea of techno and also I already expressed my gesamtkunstwerk take (which I stole from Uwe Schütte)
I am going with friends to see Kraftwerk tonight. You know what that means: I get to info dump how Kraftwerk more so than a musical act is in fact a gesamtkunstwerk and groundbreaking in fact in that way
December 2, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Another Kraftwerk take: a (German!) colleague described Kraftwerk as "some techno act from many years ago" and that still haunts me. Techno! Kraftwerk predates the idea of techno and also I already expressed my gesamtkunstwerk take (which I stole from Uwe Schütte)
I am going with friends to see Kraftwerk tonight. You know what that means: I get to info dump how Kraftwerk more so than a musical act is in fact a gesamtkunstwerk and groundbreaking in fact in that way
December 2, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I am going with friends to see Kraftwerk tonight. You know what that means: I get to info dump how Kraftwerk more so than a musical act is in fact a gesamtkunstwerk and groundbreaking in fact in that way
Taking another sick day is all that stands between me and finishing Metroid Prime
November 20, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Taking another sick day is all that stands between me and finishing Metroid Prime
Folk songs about naval disasters go so fucking hard
November 17, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Folk songs about naval disasters go so fucking hard
An acquaintance was telling me that LLMs are saving a ton of work and told me his elaborate CV optimization workflow to send highly tailored CVs to get those interviews by asking two separate LLMs: one writing, one acting as HR to filter him out.
This man was unemployed for close to a year.
This man was unemployed for close to a year.
November 12, 2025 at 11:30 AM
An acquaintance was telling me that LLMs are saving a ton of work and told me his elaborate CV optimization workflow to send highly tailored CVs to get those interviews by asking two separate LLMs: one writing, one acting as HR to filter him out.
This man was unemployed for close to a year.
This man was unemployed for close to a year.
Wild how there are people named after animals like bears and lions and the occasional cat but no child is named after wonderful objects such as Pencil, Computer, or even Cookie
November 12, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Wild how there are people named after animals like bears and lions and the occasional cat but no child is named after wonderful objects such as Pencil, Computer, or even Cookie
til svelte is controlled by a secret cabal of bureaucrats
November 9, 2025 at 6:47 PM
til svelte is controlled by a secret cabal of bureaucrats
Spicy but true: Top Gun is a display of peak military aesthetic and is, really, a recruitment ad. That said it is made great by the homoerotic tension between Maverick and Goose. Parallels can and indeed should be made between their relationship and that of Achilles/Patroclus in the Illiad.
November 7, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Spicy but true: Top Gun is a display of peak military aesthetic and is, really, a recruitment ad. That said it is made great by the homoerotic tension between Maverick and Goose. Parallels can and indeed should be made between their relationship and that of Achilles/Patroclus in the Illiad.
Got some of somebody else's groceries. Supermarket said I should keep them. I did and now I'm living somebody else's high protein lifestyle. Do not recommend
November 2, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Got some of somebody else's groceries. Supermarket said I should keep them. I did and now I'm living somebody else's high protein lifestyle. Do not recommend
Dogs are right: it IS exciting to see someone from the house OUTSIDE
November 1, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Dogs are right: it IS exciting to see someone from the house OUTSIDE
inside every even somewhat creative person is an unquenchable thirst for certain kinds of art supplies and stationary
October 29, 2025 at 5:40 PM
inside every even somewhat creative person is an unquenchable thirst for certain kinds of art supplies and stationary
Pretty sure I heard a young adult man say "that's AI" in the sense of "that's bullshit"
October 24, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Pretty sure I heard a young adult man say "that's AI" in the sense of "that's bullshit"
One thing I love about watching Dutch TV is that there are really about 20 actors in the Netherlands and they are in every single production
October 24, 2025 at 3:51 PM
One thing I love about watching Dutch TV is that there are really about 20 actors in the Netherlands and they are in every single production
Crazy to think that so many of us live in places where one could use witchcraft against you, and you'd have no legal recourse whatsoever
October 15, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Crazy to think that so many of us live in places where one could use witchcraft against you, and you'd have no legal recourse whatsoever
I saw somebody referring to Marjorie Taylor Green as MTG and all I could think of was "damn I'd go for some Magic: The Gathering right about now"
October 13, 2025 at 6:33 AM
I saw somebody referring to Marjorie Taylor Green as MTG and all I could think of was "damn I'd go for some Magic: The Gathering right about now"
To on my energy bill, I have decided to boil water at night and freeze it to use later during peak hours
October 12, 2025 at 2:22 PM
To on my energy bill, I have decided to boil water at night and freeze it to use later during peak hours
One thing I don't understand about antifa is why would you be against Tifa from FFVII?
October 12, 2025 at 6:39 AM
One thing I don't understand about antifa is why would you be against Tifa from FFVII?
Elderly neighbor update: saw him the other day and he carried a new printer which he intends to install on his own
October 11, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Elderly neighbor update: saw him the other day and he carried a new printer which he intends to install on his own
can't stop thinking about that one time more than a decade ago when a colleague gave me a ride in his weird Range Rover and on his radio playing the entire time were pop songs covered by a church choir
October 8, 2025 at 4:46 PM
can't stop thinking about that one time more than a decade ago when a colleague gave me a ride in his weird Range Rover and on his radio playing the entire time were pop songs covered by a church choir
I know more than I should (or want) about Taylor Swift's Life of a Showgirl and I predict that Taylor Swift has begun a villain arc in which we discover she is, in fact, deeply conservative and will start presenting progressively shittier opinions.
October 8, 2025 at 2:20 PM
I know more than I should (or want) about Taylor Swift's Life of a Showgirl and I predict that Taylor Swift has begun a villain arc in which we discover she is, in fact, deeply conservative and will start presenting progressively shittier opinions.
Marriage is between two people who now have to endure each others' family group chats
October 7, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Marriage is between two people who now have to endure each others' family group chats
Pretty Vlaai (for a White Guy)
October 6, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Pretty Vlaai (for a White Guy)