chad black 💚
@chadblack.bsky.social
Impostor. Latin America, Theory, Marx, Freud, Lacan, Horror, Monsters. Cycling, trail running, music. RDU, TYS, UIO, ABQ, BAL, SAN
However the rest of the film aged, Harry Connick Jr's soundtrack to When Harry Met Sally is still fantastic.
November 24, 2025 at 1:42 AM
However the rest of the film aged, Harry Connick Jr's soundtrack to When Harry Met Sally is still fantastic.
The new modern workplace: people using AI to "write" email responses to AI summaries of emails their colleagues "wrote" with AI.
November 21, 2025 at 5:08 PM
The new modern workplace: people using AI to "write" email responses to AI summaries of emails their colleagues "wrote" with AI.
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"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 AM
"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."
As an air-road warrior, commuting between California and Tennessee weekly, the selfish part of me wishes we had the reverse— free underseat bag, charge of overhead bin space, free checked bags.
A perfect example of capitalist incentives leading to worse outcomes is checked baggage on planes.
To squeeze more money out of passengers, airlines now charge exorbitant fees for checked bags – so everyone brings carry-on rollers instead, so there’s never enough room in the overhead bins.
To squeeze more money out of passengers, airlines now charge exorbitant fees for checked bags – so everyone brings carry-on rollers instead, so there’s never enough room in the overhead bins.
November 17, 2025 at 8:42 PM
As an air-road warrior, commuting between California and Tennessee weekly, the selfish part of me wishes we had the reverse— free underseat bag, charge of overhead bin space, free checked bags.
The happiness whenever a friend decides to read Stoner.
November 17, 2025 at 8:03 PM
The happiness whenever a friend decides to read Stoner.
On my first flight today, my seatmate spent half the flight writing an email with chatGPT. Prompt, read the result, re-write the prompt, read the result, re-write the prompt, and on and on. Like, dude, just write the email. High level HR manager or some such.
November 17, 2025 at 6:45 PM
On my first flight today, my seatmate spent half the flight writing an email with chatGPT. Prompt, read the result, re-write the prompt, read the result, re-write the prompt, and on and on. Like, dude, just write the email. High level HR manager or some such.
It's interesting to me that del Toro essentially removed the class panic from Frankenstein and replaced it with a thoroughly oedipal interpretation.
November 14, 2025 at 8:46 PM
It's interesting to me that del Toro essentially removed the class panic from Frankenstein and replaced it with a thoroughly oedipal interpretation.
The one thing the new Frankenstein is really missing is a catchy rendition of Putting on the Ritz.
November 14, 2025 at 2:10 AM
The one thing the new Frankenstein is really missing is a catchy rendition of Putting on the Ritz.
I would send separate emails for every single point in every lecture in any way tangentially related to the topics, and when a point doesn’t get cleared, put CENSORED on the slide and show all of them to class.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 14, 2025 at 1:07 AM
I would send separate emails for every single point in every lecture in any way tangentially related to the topics, and when a point doesn’t get cleared, put CENSORED on the slide and show all of them to class.
So much of this is solved by returning to a 90% top marginal tax rate on all types of income. Just remove the wealth that breeds immunity and buys protection.
November 13, 2025 at 3:27 AM
So much of this is solved by returning to a 90% top marginal tax rate on all types of income. Just remove the wealth that breeds immunity and buys protection.
Yes, I did exit a plane at 9:15 at gate B14 in Charlotte and sit down on a plane at 9:21p at gate E15, that pushed back 9min later. Maybe a new personal record run.
November 11, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Yes, I did exit a plane at 9:15 at gate B14 in Charlotte and sit down on a plane at 9:21p at gate E15, that pushed back 9min later. Maybe a new personal record run.
American Airlines is such an operational disaster. When the FAA/shutdown causes cancelations, you can be assured that AA will add its own delays on top of it. Flight canceled this morning for the shutdown, and delayed now because of AA.
November 10, 2025 at 9:04 PM
American Airlines is such an operational disaster. When the FAA/shutdown causes cancelations, you can be assured that AA will add its own delays on top of it. Flight canceled this morning for the shutdown, and delayed now because of AA.
So, so many of our social/political problems could be mitigated if not outright fixed by legitimate progressive taxation on corporate revenues, income, and capital gains.
November 7, 2025 at 9:54 PM
So, so many of our social/political problems could be mitigated if not outright fixed by legitimate progressive taxation on corporate revenues, income, and capital gains.
If you're curious about the impact of staffing shortages on ground delays, the FAA maintains a very useful website on the current state of the national airspace. You'll see numerous airports where departure and arrival delays are described as "other", almost always staffing. nasstatus.faa.gov
National Airspace System
The Federal Aviation Administration's National Airspace System (NAS) dashboard
nasstatus.faa.gov
November 7, 2025 at 5:37 PM
If you're curious about the impact of staffing shortages on ground delays, the FAA maintains a very useful website on the current state of the national airspace. You'll see numerous airports where departure and arrival delays are described as "other", almost always staffing. nasstatus.faa.gov
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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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As much as anything, Andrews' answer betrays enormous ignorance about the discipline of history. But that's fine, I guess, when everything exists as caricature for rhetorical ends. A little truth seeking about historical method and practice might be in order.
I wish Douthat had followed up and asked Andrews what "areas of inquiry" have been "ruled out of bounds in history" because they are "too controversial" and lead historians away from "truth seeking."
November 6, 2025 at 10:58 PM
As much as anything, Andrews' answer betrays enormous ignorance about the discipline of history. But that's fine, I guess, when everything exists as caricature for rhetorical ends. A little truth seeking about historical method and practice might be in order.
What's that, am I even more anxious now that American Airline's operational disasters are to be compounded by FAA-mandated flight cancellations at the airports I fly through and to weekly? Yes, yes I am. Bi-coastal commuting has its problems.
November 6, 2025 at 9:04 PM
What's that, am I even more anxious now that American Airline's operational disasters are to be compounded by FAA-mandated flight cancellations at the airports I fly through and to weekly? Yes, yes I am. Bi-coastal commuting has its problems.
Horror is my favorite film genre to think through the trauma of subjectivation, of becoming the psychoanalytic subject. It engages viscerally the confusions of historical time, of the rift torn asunder by the compulsion of signification, of the sociality and extimacy of the unconscious, etc.
November 4, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Horror is my favorite film genre to think through the trauma of subjectivation, of becoming the psychoanalytic subject. It engages viscerally the confusions of historical time, of the rift torn asunder by the compulsion of signification, of the sociality and extimacy of the unconscious, etc.
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness
So OpenAI is going to make a social network… or a pornbot … or a browser…. Seems like a really focused company with a good sense of its place in the market and not a meme-like bubble stock for sure.
October 21, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness
So OpenAI is going to make a social network… or a pornbot … or a browser…. Seems like a really focused company with a good sense of its place in the market and not a meme-like bubble stock for sure.
October 21, 2025 at 7:30 PM
So OpenAI is going to make a social network… or a pornbot … or a browser…. Seems like a really focused company with a good sense of its place in the market and not a meme-like bubble stock for sure.
This chapter in The Red Years and Nagasaki’s Phenomenology of Politics serve as a good reminder of the importance of collective action in the formation of new political possibilities. The movement is made in the streets.
October 21, 2025 at 3:05 PM
This chapter in The Red Years and Nagasaki’s Phenomenology of Politics serve as a good reminder of the importance of collective action in the formation of new political possibilities. The movement is made in the streets.
Finally, East Tennessee has hit the part of the year with my favorite temperature band -- mid 40s at night, and mid 60s in the day. I'm probably not exaggerating when I say part of the reason I feel in love with and became a historian of Quito is that same set of temperatures.
October 21, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Finally, East Tennessee has hit the part of the year with my favorite temperature band -- mid 40s at night, and mid 60s in the day. I'm probably not exaggerating when I say part of the reason I feel in love with and became a historian of Quito is that same set of temperatures.
If only planes ✈️ were treated by everyone like the quiet car on Amtrak… the world would be a better place.
October 20, 2025 at 8:24 PM
If only planes ✈️ were treated by everyone like the quiet car on Amtrak… the world would be a better place.
The pesky faculty seem to believe they have an obligation to at least try to teach people to think. Always in the way. techcrunch.com/2025/10/20/t...
The man betting everything on AI and Bill Belichick | TechCrunch
UNC Chancellor Lee Roberts is making big bets on AI and Bill Belichick, and he sounds like a Silicon Valley CEO while doing it.
techcrunch.com
October 20, 2025 at 2:12 PM
The pesky faculty seem to believe they have an obligation to at least try to teach people to think. Always in the way. techcrunch.com/2025/10/20/t...
Green Acres, Beverly Hillbillies, and Hooterville Junction…
October 14, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Green Acres, Beverly Hillbillies, and Hooterville Junction…