Youngjae Lee

Inglourious Basterds, bar scene

cool. still making snow.

wow i agree with richard brody on something

French sociologist Alexis Spire has a book out called "Legitimate distrust" (Légitime Défiance in French) where he documents the loss of trust in state institutions over the last decades. Amazingly the French equivalent of the IRS is one of the only state institutions whose rate of approval goes up upon interacting with it, unlike the police or the justice system. They go out of their way to be nice apparently.

Reworking the plot of LATE SPRING, Yasujiro Ozu’s masterpiece LATE AUTUMN stars Setsuko Hara—no longer the ebullient ingénue—as serene and composed widow Akiko whose daughter Ayako becomes the unwitting subject of an orchestrated matchmaking. Screens next Fri 3/6 on 35mm.

NBC ran a piece where Mary Carrillo went to Norway to see why they're so good at the Winter Olympics & i was yelling BC IT'S COLD THERE then she went to a little ski jump for kids & was like "it's free, equipment is provided, & they don't emphasize results" and i was like. oh!

This book is now available online (academic.oup.com/book/61861), and, by the way, it has a discussion of IEEPA, at issue in the tariffs case. See index (IEEPA (International Emergency Economic Powers Act (US)), 178, 179–80, 241).

Writing forces your brain to coordinate memory, reasoning, and meaning-making simultaneously. Every time you write, you rewire toward clearer thinking. Every time you let an LLM do it, you rewire toward consumption.

What Mounk says is plausible - AI can do political theory. What follows? All those undergrads are told to read these texts not to become political theorists but to become smarter. Maybe AI can replace political theorists, but people still need to study to become smarter.

1) a well designed constitution for the modern times + 2) amendability (with a truly representative process) + 3) originalism seem to me to be a pretty good combination. If we don't have the first two? To quote Ralph Fiennes in Skyfall, "Then we're all buggered. Carry on."

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"You never have ideas, only feelings." "That's not true. There are ideas inside feelings."

"[Bezos] refuses to see that, although the Post is valued less in financial terms than his yacht, he is responsible for a priceless commodity." newyorker.com/newsletter/the…

why do these exist

"Abolition Then and Now"—our winter 2025 issue—is now available! Read it on @ProjectMUSE: 🔗 muse.jhu.edu/issue/56302 1/2

not sure why hamnet tries to appeal to modern audiences with “grief” when shakespeare’s play centers on an issue much more relevant today: a dispute over land belonging to denmark

I don't write about politics, but as a Minnesotan, I endorse this message from @chkbal 100%. Conditions here are grim, folks. Whatever your views on immigration policy, what ICE & CPB are doing to this community is unAmerican.

One of my favorite Godard