Owen
@oalldritt.bsky.social
The zone was not a non-plan at all. It was a plan of its own.
There's something so exquisite about the Ghiblification here. The use of a probability-processing machine to smear a thick layer of cartoon sentimental simplicity over the thought is a one-to-one match of media and content
May 4, 2025 at 11:30 PM
There's something so exquisite about the Ghiblification here. The use of a probability-processing machine to smear a thick layer of cartoon sentimental simplicity over the thought is a one-to-one match of media and content
One day we'll work up the bravery to talk about how Oda has made a massive media property out of imagining a fantastical world where Italian guys menace the high seas unimpeded
May 1, 2025 at 2:19 AM
One day we'll work up the bravery to talk about how Oda has made a massive media property out of imagining a fantastical world where Italian guys menace the high seas unimpeded
Alright I'll be back in the New Year be good
November 29, 2024 at 2:07 PM
Alright I'll be back in the New Year be good
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wrote about the cinema of the portuguese revolution for film comment
November 21, 2024 at 5:46 PM
wrote about the cinema of the portuguese revolution for film comment
This part of what makes Yarvin's view attractive: his finished-out political science dream is just received ideological wisdom inside this center-right consensus paired with the fantasy of cutting loose the biggest stakeholder group, "the people" by garroting their pot-stirrers "the experts"
What makes the Center properly understood as the successful Metternichian Right in the US is the truth they ideologically capture is simple: politics in a rich, institutionalized, pluralistic, post-organized labor society is stakeholder management, all loud ideology is just stakeholder negotiation
November 28, 2024 at 6:19 PM
This part of what makes Yarvin's view attractive: his finished-out political science dream is just received ideological wisdom inside this center-right consensus paired with the fantasy of cutting loose the biggest stakeholder group, "the people" by garroting their pot-stirrers "the experts"
What makes the Center properly understood as the successful Metternichian Right in the US is the truth they ideologically capture is simple: politics in a rich, institutionalized, pluralistic, post-organized labor society is stakeholder management, all loud ideology is just stakeholder negotiation
November 28, 2024 at 6:12 PM
What makes the Center properly understood as the successful Metternichian Right in the US is the truth they ideologically capture is simple: politics in a rich, institutionalized, pluralistic, post-organized labor society is stakeholder management, all loud ideology is just stakeholder negotiation
"No true Scotsman" has gotta be the best fallacy because regardless of how it's supposed to be used most people use it to justify the strangest nominative anarchy imaginable where anything anyone calls anything is taken to constitute appropriate category ID by virtue of someone nominating it
November 28, 2024 at 2:38 PM
"No true Scotsman" has gotta be the best fallacy because regardless of how it's supposed to be used most people use it to justify the strangest nominative anarchy imaginable where anything anyone calls anything is taken to constitute appropriate category ID by virtue of someone nominating it
Ordinary definitional arguments: are they "no-true-Scotsman debates"? More at 10
Nah I just don’t care. I’m tired of the no-true-Scotsman debate around this, in which the “real” left is always some benevolent force hard at work on the ground, separate from the online mob of nihilists. It’s very clear at this point that the latter both outnumbers the former and sets the narrative
you correctly understand the problems of "influencers" and critical, left-wing online accounts, but you don't parse them from a larger body of thought which you can, in fact, support and uphold, and which is actually left-wing. in that way, u become resentful and u compromise yourself.
November 28, 2024 at 2:35 PM
Ordinary definitional arguments: are they "no-true-Scotsman debates"? More at 10
TUCKER: The self-appointed experts on BlueSky are saying you need to read a book in its entirety. What's going on? Who is making these rules? Did you elect them? I know I didn't. Who is paying these people to play jury with your reading habits? And how long are we going to continue tolerating it?
What is going on??? Who is having these arguments? What rules could people possibly be worried about violating here, who is enforcing them, how and why? You can... you can just do things? You don't need the internet's permission to do them or not, to approve of things or not!
You’re not violating a reading rule if you opt not to finish a book that's not resonating with you. Life is finite and we thus have a finite number of books to read. Reading shouldn’t be a chore. You needn’t feel guilty for ensuring that your time reading is spent reading things that you love.
November 28, 2024 at 5:11 AM
TUCKER: The self-appointed experts on BlueSky are saying you need to read a book in its entirety. What's going on? Who is making these rules? Did you elect them? I know I didn't. Who is paying these people to play jury with your reading habits? And how long are we going to continue tolerating it?
Do you all think maybe the first thing everyone will think if Trump decapitates the Cartels will be "Wow look what happened to those guys" or more like "Opportunity knocks baby" or do you think it will be more like a permanent occupation of Mexico as a policing force for a massive ghetto
November 27, 2024 at 6:52 PM
Do you all think maybe the first thing everyone will think if Trump decapitates the Cartels will be "Wow look what happened to those guys" or more like "Opportunity knocks baby" or do you think it will be more like a permanent occupation of Mexico as a policing force for a massive ghetto
Sounds like her campaign did not appropriately respond to the media environment and was, by dint of that fact, a bad campaign
Harris ran a great campaign with very few mistakes. The problem is that she was running against a wave of public anger created by the public’s channels of information all prioritizing outrage as much as possible: over immigration, over crime, over inflation
Yes it seems like a classic case of great depth of support but not great breadth. And even there, in the states where she most intensely campaigned, there was both high turnout and very close margins. I really don't think she made any obvious tactical mistakes!
November 27, 2024 at 6:39 PM
Sounds like her campaign did not appropriately respond to the media environment and was, by dint of that fact, a bad campaign
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Getting swept up in events beyond my control
November 27, 2024 at 6:31 PM
Getting swept up in events beyond my control
Just heard this somewhere and was sent back in time fifteen years
youtu.be/pAwR6w2TgxY?...
youtu.be/pAwR6w2TgxY?...
Alice
YouTube video by Pogo
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November 27, 2024 at 4:38 AM
Just heard this somewhere and was sent back in time fifteen years
youtu.be/pAwR6w2TgxY?...
youtu.be/pAwR6w2TgxY?...
I'd add that, in addition to overstating the size, the overstatement of the influence of the "fringe left" is a constant in American life because people are responding to a void in actual politics where there should be a party, politicians, institutions. But there aren't any. It drives people crazy
there’s a tendency from basically everyone in american politics to overstate the actual size of the fringe left. the type of guy he’s describing is like a hyperpartisan dem 95% of the time
November 26, 2024 at 6:34 PM
I'd add that, in addition to overstating the size, the overstatement of the influence of the "fringe left" is a constant in American life because people are responding to a void in actual politics where there should be a party, politicians, institutions. But there aren't any. It drives people crazy
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Absolutism isn’t what it used to be
November 26, 2024 at 12:00 PM
Absolutism isn’t what it used to be
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Teamsters are posting Batya now lol
November 25, 2024 at 9:53 PM
Teamsters are posting Batya now lol
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WILL CORPORATIONS FALL IN LINE THIS TIME?
In today's newsletter, I wrote about the prospects of a very different corporate reaction to the Trump administration than in 2016. Big biz, tech, much more accepting. Perhaps more eager to jettison ESG-type platitudes.
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
In today's newsletter, I wrote about the prospects of a very different corporate reaction to the Trump administration than in 2016. Big biz, tech, much more accepting. Perhaps more eager to jettison ESG-type platitudes.
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
November 12, 2024 at 7:54 PM
WILL CORPORATIONS FALL IN LINE THIS TIME?
In today's newsletter, I wrote about the prospects of a very different corporate reaction to the Trump administration than in 2016. Big biz, tech, much more accepting. Perhaps more eager to jettison ESG-type platitudes.
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
In today's newsletter, I wrote about the prospects of a very different corporate reaction to the Trump administration than in 2016. Big biz, tech, much more accepting. Perhaps more eager to jettison ESG-type platitudes.
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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My buddy told me you could get kicked out of here for saying "Matt Yglesias has no motion" is that true
November 15, 2024 at 11:25 AM
My buddy told me you could get kicked out of here for saying "Matt Yglesias has no motion" is that true
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i'm getting word that Degrowth Buddy is now in US custody
November 24, 2024 at 9:21 PM
i'm getting word that Degrowth Buddy is now in US custody
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GWF Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit:
my biggest trouble is i love the specific more than the general, but am constantly tasked with making general statements
November 25, 2024 at 10:07 PM
GWF Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit:
This is the disadvantage of having a broader coalition than the opposition.
sometimes parties lose elections but only one of our parties always responds by immediately assuming it must renounce its support for half the things it supposedly believes and start pretending that horrible things are actually good
November 25, 2024 at 8:16 PM
This is the disadvantage of having a broader coalition than the opposition.