My middle-of-the-night post about Joanna Newsom from a couple weeks ago I now think was paranoid, sexist and worlds too dismissive of a musical and lyrical genius/prophet, but at the same time, exonerating the entire Californian Newsom clan is going to take more work than I believe I’m capable of

Yesterday, I came up with a plot to steal the hyphen from New-York Historical Society to create (as seemed to make more intuitive sense to me) Daylight-Saving Time. I found out today though that as of last October it’s now just New York Historical…!

I don’t really know who needs to hear this but @tedgioia.bsky.social’s writing is so inspiring and frustrating at the same time

I literally cannot find words to adequately express how bad Musk is being. “Sociopath” doesn’t begin to cut it, and is an ableist insult anyway. “Evil” seems to have a baked-in unbelievability to it but at least goes more to the core of the issue. Even this post’s first sentence seems understated.

I want somebody (me?) to come out and say, “One of my favorite philosophers is someone with whom I agree on almost nothing”

“Corsons Inlet” by A.R. Ammons also must be one of my favorite poems by this point:

“I will try
to fasten into order enlarging grasps of disorder, widening
scope, but enjoying the freedom that
Scope eludes my grasp, that there is no finality of vision,
that I have perceived nothing completely…”

Breathe in, breathe out, and repeat after F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function."

This is not doublethink. This is a testament to the universe being unsolved.

Wow, is there any kind of rationalism that isn’t shit

as a Joanna Newsom fan since 2006, what do I do now I’ve discovered the Newsom-Grimes connection? Newsom stated her admiration for Grimes in 2015; they were in a photo shoot together in 2018. can someone please do a deep dive?

I’ve already had to give up my Van Morrison fandom in disgust.

Frank Zappa was a deeply problematic musician, but his “Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, wisdom is not truth, truth is not beauty, beauty is not love” still resonates.

Who would have thought that nowadays it would be prudent to preface it with “Data is not information”?

Inspired by @possibleconnie.bsky.social, a recapitulation of something I posted once somewhere else:

What are you more concerned about?

- things you post on the Internet vanishing
- things you post on the Internet never vanishing

“Rationality is a deeply problematic concept.” From Mathematics Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Mathematics, edited by Helaine Selin.

I was looking at the Google Books preview of this book, about a subject I desperately need to know more about, and just stumbled across this!

@eruditorumpress.com I’m just now reading your and Jack Graham’s Austrian School essay in Neoreaction a Basilisk (forgive me, I’m slow) and HOLY SHIT WOW

@tedgioia.bsky.social I read and liked your essay on Google and the East India Company! I think it even helped inspire my first post here.

But the idea that Pichai’s presence at the inauguration could help confer “a veneer of respectability and legitimacy” to Google… seems kind of laughable to me.

… oh, wait, is this thing on? let’s try this again.

Anagrammatical Concepts Roll Call:

RECLAIM the MIRACLE
PRAISED for DESPAIR
TIDYING with DIGNITY
PUNCHIEST of CHIPTUNES
PURITANS for RASPUTIN…

okay followers, there are a few of you now, here’s my first silly post

If there’s anywhere on the Internet at this point that isn’t a conspiratorial matrix of propaganda, maybe it’ll have been worth it that I came here