Nick Seaver
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okay Magical Athlete is a tremendous hit, like Mario Kart in board game form and very funny (also very randomness heavy, though not entirely) www.cmyk.games/products/mag...
Magical Athlete
PRE-ORDER – SHIPPING LATE DECEMBER 2025 IF YOU WANT HOLIDAY DELIVERY OF OTHER GAMES, ORDER THIS SEPARATELYMagical Athlete is a chaotic racing game where anything can happen. Recruit a team of absurd r...
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December 26, 2025 at 12:52 AM
okay Magical Athlete is a tremendous hit, like Mario Kart in board game form and very funny (also very randomness heavy, though not entirely) www.cmyk.games/products/mag...
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from the fucked up files of mrs. basil e. freakweiler
July 6, 2025 at 11:34 PM
from the fucked up files of mrs. basil e. freakweiler
ho ho ho folks, structuralism is back
‘Tis the season to read “Father Christmas Executed” by Claude Lévi-Strauss! varenne.tc.columbia.edu/texts/levstc...
December 25, 2025 at 1:39 PM
ho ho ho folks, structuralism is back
this could be an STS book
December 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM
this could be an STS book
Mara Mills, “assistive pretext”!!
I'm sure someone has written more intelligently about this, but it's striking how tech companies use disability as a benevolent rationale for their work. For ex., Neuralink's website describes helping paraplegics as the company's main goal. Meanwhile, Musk is ranting about creating cyborgs.
December 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Mara Mills, “assistive pretext”!!
don’t talk to me or my son ever again
December 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM
don’t talk to me or my son ever again
got two very different kinds of RPG for my two very different kinds of children
December 24, 2025 at 3:03 AM
got two very different kinds of RPG for my two very different kinds of children
not to be mean, but it seems like people who were doomers about congestion pricing should get some kind of demerits
Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
December 23, 2025 at 5:43 PM
not to be mean, but it seems like people who were doomers about congestion pricing should get some kind of demerits
unfortunately a great example of chiasmus
DOJ briefly uploaded this letter from Jeff Epstein to serial child molester Larry Nassar:
"Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."
"Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."
December 23, 2025 at 1:45 PM
unfortunately a great example of chiasmus
thought I heard a christmas version of “Slob on My Knob” at the brewery, was just regular slob on my knob
December 22, 2025 at 11:58 PM
thought I heard a christmas version of “Slob on My Knob” at the brewery, was just regular slob on my knob
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December 22, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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every year we make a commemorative felt ornament for the tree, this year’s is:
December 20, 2025 at 8:27 PM
every year we make a commemorative felt ornament for the tree, this year’s is:
children brought back the gundam kit, I got a FamilyMart one
December 20, 2025 at 5:40 PM
children brought back the gundam kit, I got a FamilyMart one
hate it when there are deans inside of departments, as is so common at real universities
You’ll never guess who else experienced ‘racism’ on the job market despite their unimpeachable academic credentials.
December 19, 2025 at 1:16 AM
hate it when there are deans inside of departments, as is so common at real universities
oh this YHWH Nailgun album is very good
December 18, 2025 at 5:50 AM
oh this YHWH Nailgun album is very good
the gachapon gundam situation is getting out of control here (pictured: gundam number one)
December 17, 2025 at 3:44 AM
the gachapon gundam situation is getting out of control here (pictured: gundam number one)
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episode 4 of ALGOpod is out, featuring @nickseaver.website on the art of mouse-jiggling and other #algorithmicfolklore open.spotify.com/episode/4aYF...
ALGOpod #4: Nick Seaver
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December 15, 2025 at 10:34 AM
episode 4 of ALGOpod is out, featuring @nickseaver.website on the art of mouse-jiggling and other #algorithmicfolklore open.spotify.com/episode/4aYF...
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Oh yes. And if you're interested in the other side of the story - the major record label perspective, discussed here briefly - then my own book might be a good one to pair with Pelly's, maybe.
(Sorry for the self-promotion. The algorithm isn't doing it for me.)
bsky.app/profile/polt...
(Sorry for the self-promotion. The algorithm isn't doing it for me.)
bsky.app/profile/polt...
📻 Sunday listening 📻 Liz Pelly joins PTO to talk all things Spotify. We spoke about the self-serving myths Spotify's founders have peddled about the history of the company, how the platform impacts musicians, and its insidious consequences for music listening:
Spotify unwrapped w/ Liz Pelly
Podcast Episode · Politics Theory Other · 12/03/2025 · 1h 36m
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December 12, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Oh yes. And if you're interested in the other side of the story - the major record label perspective, discussed here briefly - then my own book might be a good one to pair with Pelly's, maybe.
(Sorry for the self-promotion. The algorithm isn't doing it for me.)
bsky.app/profile/polt...
(Sorry for the self-promotion. The algorithm isn't doing it for me.)
bsky.app/profile/polt...
anthropology of kinship take on this requires us to settle whether it’s father’s brother or mother’s brother
December 15, 2025 at 2:50 AM
anthropology of kinship take on this requires us to settle whether it’s father’s brother or mother’s brother
man, we don’t even have a faculty lounge anymore
i am once again asking who the "leftist extremists in the faculty lounge" shaping democratic party priorities are, and what policies it is that they are instituting
December 14, 2025 at 8:16 PM
man, we don’t even have a faculty lounge anymore
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The book that Springer used in a targeted advert to me on Facebook
December 14, 2025 at 7:32 AM
The book that Springer used in a targeted advert to me on Facebook
kids learned to write their names in katakana, only for Gus to discover that they have *volcanic* Gus here (火山ガス)
December 14, 2025 at 5:08 AM
kids learned to write their names in katakana, only for Gus to discover that they have *volcanic* Gus here (火山ガス)
They’re playing Moby in my Tokyo hotel’s lobby bar
December 12, 2025 at 9:45 AM
They’re playing Moby in my Tokyo hotel’s lobby bar
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