open.spotify.com/episode/5Hy4...

I realize Spotify is verboten but it was the first place that popped up.

There's a good Know Your Enemy episode interviewing the author. I believe it came out in 2023 or 2024

It's horrifying because it's going to rewrite your and your kids' memories (or anyone else with a shorter knowledge of the person) of the dead.

Moreover, it'll flatten them to some basic response pattern. We're a species turning against using our own damn brains.

I really think a narrowly partisan perspective on politics turns you into a complete fucking idiot who doesn't actually care about politics.

Not for nothing but the spike in crime, particularly homicide, is massive in their recent history. But paltry by comparison to others in the region (particularly 🇲🇽 and 🇧🇷)

Having studied Chilean history for the better part of a decade, and coming off the heels of El Estallido, I think the only thing Chileans fear more than escalating negative social problems is radical change (right or left).

I first found this song a decade or more ago scrolling through YouTube. I think it's the best of the "slowed songs for emotional emphasis" subgenre.

Which is interesting because it predates the trend popularized in Jordan Peele trailers by years. I got 5 on it is still far more eery.

It would fit ideally as a score of large shots in Dune or some other sci-fi spectacle.

I have told every GP I have had that I get them. But have been told 3x I don't get them frequently enough for it to be a cause of concern. Which...isn't reassuring.

Then again the only time I got them consistently was when I was in academia.

It makes more sense why my tongue went numb during one particularly bad migraine in 2020.